Good time to go all in?

[Rodrick]

Hi peeps. So.
I heard GW3, got me thinking.
Is this a good time to go all in on GW2 and take max profit from it as I can? I got all the expansions, living worlds and all, but never got too far in. I fear some dropoff will come if they announce GW3.
Is GW2 in its glory days? Is it a good time to start mainlining it and try to go through all the story? Thanks!

[DarkSlayer197]

Gw3 has not been announced by Anet of its development. So it is unlikely it will be made for some time. Especially considering that there is still 1 more update remaining for the current expansion and an another expansion later down the line.

[Flushing]

Originally posted by Rodrick:

Hi peeps. So.
I heard GW3, got me thinking.
Is this a good time to go all in on GW2 and take max profit from it as I can? I got all the expansions, living worlds and all, but never got too far in. I fear some dropoff will come if they announce GW3.
Is GW2 in its glory days? Is it a good time to start mainlining it and try to go through all the story? Thanks!

It's going to be years before we get GW3.

For me, I've had GW2 since 2012, and I always come back to play it because it's fun.

When GW3 comes out, I'll probably move on to it, but it's not going to stop me from playing GW2 now. GW2 has a very casual character progression and gear process, so I won't feel like I'm losing anything if I move onto something else.

[Professor Higglebottom]

Originally posted by Flushing:

When GW3 comes out, I'll probably move on to it, but it's not going to stop me from playing GW2 now. GW2 has a very casual character progression and gear process, so I won't feel like I'm losing anything if I move onto something else.

There's STILL a bunch of people on GW1 to this day as well.

[RotherHans]

GW3 is literally a frikken premature April Fools joke.
That said, yes.
Go full in, take your monies worth for whole different reasons than just a mythical GW3 popping up out of nowhere.

[Flushing]

Originally posted by RotherHans:

GW3 is literally a frikken premature April Fools joke.
That said, yes.
Go full in, take your monies worth for whole different reasons than just a mythical GW3 popping up out of nowhere.

To be fair, GW3 publicity would only have the effect of GW2 losing money because no one new would want to commit after the latest and greatest sequel is announced.

[SinisterSlay]

Originally posted by Flushing:

Originally posted by RotherHans:

GW3 is literally a frikken premature April Fools joke.
That said, yes.
Go full in, take your monies worth for whole different reasons than just a mythical GW3 popping up out of nowhere.

To be fair, GW3 publicity would only have the effect of GW2 losing money because no one new would want to commit after the latest and greatest sequel is announced.

I agree

[Rodrick]

Originally posted by SinisterSlay:

Originally posted by Flushing:

To be fair, GW3 publicity would only have the effect of GW2 losing money because no one new would want to commit after the latest and greatest sequel is announced.

I agree

exactly my thoughts on getting into this now, before it eventually gets announced (seems like there is still a long way to go)
cool. Thanks peeps. Will start getting some more hours in between street fighter and Crosscode/death stranding

[LSD]

Originally posted by Flushing:

Originally posted by RotherHans:

GW3 is literally a frikken premature April Fools joke.
That said, yes.
Go full in, take your monies worth for whole different reasons than just a mythical GW3 popping up out of nowhere.

To be fair, GW3 publicity would only have the effect of GW2 losing money because no one new would want to commit after the latest and greatest sequel is announced.

Which is exactly why ANet has tried to pull the wool and pretend otherwise since NCSoft's meeting was published and GW3 became public knowledge.

[O.K]

if they realease gw3 it wont be in the next 3-4 years

[Hefutoxin]

Originally posted by O.K:

if they realease gw3 it wont be in the next 3-4 years

2030 at the earliest.

[Rodrick]

Originally posted by LSD:

Originally posted by Flushing:

To be fair, GW3 publicity would only have the effect of GW2 losing money because no one new would want to commit after the latest and greatest sequel is announced.

Which is exactly why ANet has tried to pull the wool and pretend otherwise since NCSoft's meeting was published and GW3 became public knowledge.

this is my take, and the reason Im thinking of getting into this one sooner rather than later.
The publisher spoke too early due to needing investor money, without understanding how it impacts an MMO community.
I think they are developing it, early in pre-pro. The publisher needs the cash as far as I understand and GW2 is the one big thing they have. Makes sense
I believe Anet is just trying to damage control.
All gross speculation of course, I don't know squat.

[Q]

Originally posted by Rodrick:

Originally posted by LSD:

Which is exactly why ANet has tried to pull the wool and pretend otherwise since NCSoft's meeting was published and GW3 became public knowledge.

this is my take, and the reason Im thinking of getting into this one sooner rather than later.
The publisher spoke too early due to needing investor money, without understanding how it impacts an MMO community.
I think they are developing it, early in pre-pro. The publisher needs the cash as far as I understand and GW2 is the one big thing they have. Makes sense
I believe Anet is just trying to damage control.
All gross speculation of course, I don't know squat.

ncsoft biggest success and most beloved sons are "Lineage" and "Lineage 2" those games were massive in south korea, eastern europe, south east asia and latin america, not so much in north america and some parts of europe.
Lineage games are one of the most disgusting p2w games ever made, you literally need thousands of dollars worth of lootboxes to get decent, powerful items to be competitive. They have at least 3 lineage mobile games and yes those are even more p2w trash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineage_(series)

arenanet is the gw2 developer, ncsoft the publisher, so no, i wouldn't consider gw2 being the "one big thing" for NCsoft but it is the one big thing they have for western market and their only mmo without the p2w, gear treadmill, vertical progression in ncsoft catalogue.

NCsoft is about to release the next "spiritual" successor of Lineage, a new mmorpg called "Throne and Liberty" which has been a big thing in asia and korea lately and soon closed beta will be available for NA
https://www.playthroneandliberty.com/en-us/sign-up

NCsoft needs few years to get a solid playerbase for a game that was supposed to be "Lineage 3" and they won't allow competition from their own studios or anet by developing, announcing, confirming gw3. imo gw3 wont be a thing for the next 3 years. It's safe to dive into gw2 and enjoy the game, the only thing that ncsoft corpo suits said in such meeting is that gw3 was plausible but that it, the amount of speculation and theories from the past days has been disproportionate and absurd imo, not saying that your comment is absurd dont get me wrong, just saying that corpo suits said the usual thing they say in every big meeting and ppl take it the wrong way.

[~T~D~]

"Throne and Liberty" is worked on for 10 years, why would anyone think they can pump out GW3 in 4 years? There's no way.. Minimum 7 years.

[Rodrick]

that's also true, even if it is in prod, its gonna take a while

[Flushing]

Originally posted by ~T~D~:

"Throne and Liberty" is worked on for 10 years, why would anyone think they can pump out GW3 in 4 years? There's no way.. Minimum 7 years.

Well, it could be churned out like crap. Like, it could definitely go the route of Genshin Impact or some Korean mmos. Anet could just reskin it over ips that they already have.

The reason GW2 has so many issues is that it uses GW1s engine beyond it's limitations.

You're assuming that a development team will start from the ground up. They won't unless they really have to.