With little over six months gone by since Guild Wars 2 launched,
community members wonder of ArenaNet’s possible plans to open up additional
tracts of Tyria and beyond. The arrival of more content and more powerful
characters, gear, and monsters is something of an inevitability in the
churn-prone MMORPG genre, but the studio appears content focusing on improving
Guild Wars 2′s current offerings. Speaking to IGN,
Director Colin Johanson states his team “doesn’t have a timetable” for
developing an expansion.
“Expansions are definitely something that we’ll potentially look
at in the future, but we don’t have a timetable on it,” Johanson says. “We’re
open to it, but I think our major focus as a studio is making the living world
concept as strong as possibly can for the players that we’ve got.”
That policy definitely shows through the game’s meaty patch updates typically bringing extra quest types,
mini-games, PVP overhauls, and story arcs. When asked on the possibility of
seeing a far-off Guild Wars 3, Johanson reiterated ArenaNet’s commitment to its
current title.
“We want to be able to have teams developing new, innovative
features that change the way you play our game and grow that experience so it
feels like you don’t leave Guild Wars 2,” he explains. “Guild Wars 2 becomes
Guild Wars 2.5 or Guild Wars 3 and it continues to grow.”
Here’s a couple of quick comparisons: Burning Crusade, World of
Warcraft’s first expansion, appeared after Blizzard spent nearly three years
adding and updating raids and PVP features in the vanilla content. Star Wars:
The Old Republic’s first expansion, Rise of the Hutt Cartel, is now in closed and public testinga few months after the game celebrated its
first anniversary.
Source: PCGamer
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