If we get GW3 , hopefully they again do a hall of monuments system where we can link GW2 and get something for all the time and effort we've put into our accounts.
I disagree, while the HoM was a fun way to get from EotN to GW2... the skins and titles were, in my opinion, not worth the effort and fell out of use very fast. Just let them focus on making a good standalone game (I do believe they will try to link it in some way like you want)
I'm playing GW1 for the first time, mainly for the Hall of Monuments (HoM) points, achievement points for GW2, and titles. To achieve this, you need to invest a lot of time. What could be interesting, if GW2 and GW3 are connected, is the following: First, you would link your GW2 account with GW3. Then, when creating a GW3 character, you could choose one character from GW2 to be a story-relevant commander from ages past who saved the world. In the GW3 storyline, this chosen GW2 character could be referenced by name (in the text) along with their achieved story interactions.
Maya is just the industry standard for animations. Doesn't mean necessarily they are exporting GuildWars animations, probably more likely that a team, trained on Maya will continue to use Maya for their next project.
Good stuff darens. My preferred would be a 2.5 where everything is ported to UE5, big system overhauls, basically fix what they can't in the current engine. It's a big process I imagine but would free up development time in the long run with how efficient UE5 seems to be. I'm also game for GW3 a completely new experience. Just hoping whatever it is gets announced soon, the excitement is building for me
I think Guild Wars 3 will be port of GW2 to UE5 because it's the only way to fix problems and don't create new ones. If it's standalone MMO they would split community between GW2 and GW3. But with UE5 the game would become attractive to new players and would probably keep most of the old ones. And since it's nit vertical progression, new players will not feel too much behind.
This idea is also supported by the fact they started making so much new content lasst few years. They are surely planning to take that content with them to the REMASTERED version in UE. They wouldn't do that if they plan to kill the game with new release.
Good Video! We really didn't need more than the confirmation of a gw3 project existing from NCsoft and Anet currently having a new MMO in active development to see what's happening. I can't believe people still don't see the writing on the wall. And before anyone tries to claim it's not in active development, alongside all the things in this video they hired a production director back in September to oversee it's development.
MMORPGs are games of heavy investment. if GW3 got confirmed, it wouldn't matter if it was years into the future, GW2 profits would node dive. Few people want to invest into a dying game. Gw2 would cease to draw in new players, which would mean stagnation at best. Shareholders would start a riot. Don't expect anything confirmed about Gw3 until it's basically 90% complete.
@@RyuDouro Most people you call 'whiners' are likely just way more into the game than you. The breadcrumbs we are being fed are more like bread molecules at this point, and it's not enough to sustain anything but the most casual of players.
@alexschlaghecke1559 yeah right the new comers whining that this is not like WoW are surely more into the game than me that plays and enjoys since GW1… but keep whining see where that gets you other than being an annoyance.
It sucks so hard to be a GAME DEV in 2025 Most expensive gaming genre to create is MMORPG Players cry about lower quality of expansions and meme about it that it feels more like some kind of a season pass. But they enjoy the lower prices of expansions compared to games like WoW where you literally get the same amount of content but costs 2x more and have to pay 13€/monthly to be able to play. Players refuse to pay more. But players want the game to be better or completely brand new game. Devs wanna re/make a new game in UE5. Players want them to make their own new engine for it because they hate UE5. How the fuck are they supposed to make their own new engine in 2025 economy when players have problem paying 20 something €/$ for fully voice-acted DLC/expansions with multiple maps and random shit with no subscribtion. Half of those players that are crying are buying battlepasses and random skins for 10€/$ in other games in blink of an eye.
I’d love to see Guild Wars 2.5 built on Unreal Engine. Players deserve a new engine that actually makes use of more than one CPU core and runs more efficiently. If it’s an entirely new game, though, I’m not sure how I’d feel about it. I guess it would depend on how unique it is and whether they try to phase out or abandon GW2 in the process
My main question is why they are trying so hard to keep this quiet? They seem to be going to a reasonable amount of effort to avoid details being leaked to the public. Let's say for a moment that the guild wars 3 shareholder debacle was a falsehood. Couldn't they dispel said falsehood immediately by simply announcing some broad details about what their new project actually is? There just seems to be something about marketing/community engagement priorities there that I can't quite reconcile in thought. Either way though, games take a long time to make and anet hasn't had much luck with recent side projects, probably not worth devoting any more brainpower to it.
Games often die while still in dev. ArenaNet is intimately aware of that, having previously been forced to kill unannounced games. Not announcing is a way to avoid unnecessary hype for a game that might never see the light of days.
While it often happens with crowdfunding for indie game concepts, no experienced company would give information about a game that isn’t at least ready for testing yet. So much can change before a release that anything you say too early could be misleading. Rather than a marketing opportunity, ‘getting people excited’ too early is very dangerous (in many ways) from a development standpoint, often doing more harm than good to final release.
As 3D modeler and level artist myself I confirm that it takes years to develop and create an mmo game. The GW3's mentions was merely about it being a potential project, so pros/cons been studied, ideas been suggested and maybe very rudimentary concepts tested... still years before anything remotely playable if all Anet crew was on it. HOWEVER, all of their side projects (DUNE, card game, mobile apps) didn't been completely scraped after the last layoff... and it seems that Anet went back at these. It mean that with their less than 400 employees and them working again on other things than their main game... we'll get back at worse and worser GW2's maintenances and expansions. A skeleton crew affected to what should be Anet's priority. Anet likes to bite more than what it can chew... reason why NCsoft had to to intervene previously.
Unreal Engine 5 is the worst engine on the market. It doesn't look good. It runs bad. I am worried if they're going to use it. But till GW 3 or anything else is announced officially, i just gonna chill.
@@darensgw2 nah, I am going to stay an Unreal 5 hater. Stalker 2 is the most recent example of why it should not be used. Or why it shouldn't be used by devs that are incompetent with it.
@@F1rstp3rson No lazy devs are the problem. Its open source they can change shit them self if they wanted to. And they can stop using every automated tools. And stopp relying on dlss.
The name of Guild Wars 3 has been leaked. The Triple A game for PC and major consoles will be released as "Unannounced Project". It will be a simulation game where the player takes the role of CEO of a major game studio and has to balance keeping their current audience happy, creating revenue, managing a healthy working environment, hiring personnel and conforming to targets set by their parent company.
Dropping support for GW2 for another title can be pretty risky. My hope is that GW3 is more of an office buzzword or project name for what the developers were alluding to with the DirectX updates a few years ago. This being that by moving to DirectX 11 they could start to hook into newer systems like Unreal 5. I can't find the post, but I swear I remember reading about this during the run up to the DirectX 11 switch.
Aint getting a gw3 lmao. Why would anet spend millions making a new game from the ground up when they have all the infrastructure already built for gw2 to keep adding to it for far less dev costs.
I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but you and I, gw2 players, mean absolutely nothing next to the ocean of potential future gw3 players
They have stagnated with no new races or classes. Hell not even a level increase. GW 2 is already failing as a game that is innovating. It's more just keeping people around. Unless they start adding actual new good content I welcome a change, even if that change is GW3
1. Gw2 has voice acted races and Racial stories with it, it ain't like wow that you can just slap whatever different antlers on tauren and call it a day(new race) 2. Level increase equals > gear threadmill or some kind of constantly going back and grind your power back which is totally garbage game model Horizontal progress is the most fair and balanced way to run MMO period 3. "As a game that is inovating" this MMO already came out with features like no other MMO so inovating on it ain't that easy.. especially the mount system is like a different game
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If we get GW3 , hopefully they again do a hall of monuments system where we can link GW2 and get something for all the time and effort we've put into our accounts.
I disagree, while the HoM was a fun way to get from EotN to GW2... the skins and titles were, in my opinion, not worth the effort and fell out of use very fast.
Just let them focus on making a good standalone game (I do believe they will try to link it in some way like you want)
@@Dawn2DuskAdventure pls no more achievement points related to previous games. Titles and skins ok.
I'm playing GW1 for the first time, mainly for the Hall of Monuments (HoM) points, achievement points for GW2, and titles. To achieve this, you need to invest a lot of time.
What could be interesting, if GW2 and GW3 are connected, is the following: First, you would link your GW2 account with GW3. Then, when creating a GW3 character, you could choose one character from GW2 to be a story-relevant commander from ages past who saved the world. In the GW3 storyline, this chosen GW2 character could be referenced by name (in the text) along with their achieved story interactions.
Maya is just the industry standard for animations. Doesn't mean necessarily they are exporting GuildWars animations, probably more likely that a team, trained on Maya will continue to use Maya for their next project.
Good stuff darens. My preferred would be a 2.5 where everything is ported to UE5, big system overhauls, basically fix what they can't in the current engine. It's a big process I imagine but would free up development time in the long run with how efficient UE5 seems to be. I'm also game for GW3 a completely new experience. Just hoping whatever it is gets announced soon, the excitement is building for me
UE5 💀
UE 5 is crap, it runs like crap, and it looks like crap. Everything just plastic looking.
Yeah, i don't like UE5. Every UE5 game looks so generic and liveless to me... 🥲 I do agree though, that gw3 needs better graphics
UE5 is not good for a game like GW2. Are you on crack?
ue5 and efficient might not be the best combination
I think Guild Wars 3 will be port of GW2 to UE5 because it's the only way to fix problems and don't create new ones. If it's standalone MMO they would split community between GW2 and GW3. But with UE5 the game would become attractive to new players and would probably keep most of the old ones. And since it's nit vertical progression, new players will not feel too much behind.
This idea is also supported by the fact they started making so much new content lasst few years. They are surely planning to take that content with them to the REMASTERED version in UE. They wouldn't do that if they plan to kill the game with new release.
Good Video! We really didn't need more than the confirmation of a gw3 project existing from NCsoft and Anet currently having a new MMO in active development to see what's happening. I can't believe people still don't see the writing on the wall.
And before anyone tries to claim it's not in active development, alongside all the things in this video they hired a production director back in September to oversee it's development.
MMORPGs are games of heavy investment.
if GW3 got confirmed, it wouldn't matter if it was years into the future, GW2 profits would node dive. Few people want to invest into a dying game.
Gw2 would cease to draw in new players, which would mean stagnation at best. Shareholders would start a riot. Don't expect anything confirmed about Gw3 until it's basically 90% complete.
It is funny that Ice Brood Saga looks more like a expac than SoTO
well soto more of an expansion than janthir (3 months just to get raid and convergenece smh) all i see is downward spiral
the new whiners looking like WoW players and should go back there.
@@RyuDouro Most people you call 'whiners' are likely just way more into the game than you. The breadcrumbs we are being fed are more like bread molecules at this point, and it's not enough to sustain anything but the most casual of players.
@alexschlaghecke1559 yeah right the new comers whining that this is not like WoW are surely more into the game than me that plays and enjoys since GW1… but keep whining see where that gets you other than being an annoyance.
I would be very sad if Gw2 is abandoned. And I think if Gw3 is the new Gw MMO that would definetly be the case (not if it is a Gw 2.5 of course).
I so hope its not just GW2 but newer unless it fixes *every* problem and lets us carry over. I really want a singleplayer/Multiplayer RPG
You know what would be truly wild? They literally just make "Gw3" a spinoff PvP game.
There needs to be open pvp where you lose loot if you decide to skull and attack others. Lineage 2 revolution had a good concept
happy new year! guild wars 2 2.0 or gw2 remastered or such :P
I hope it’s gw3 and not some other shite lol
u forgot to take out the blur overlay from 13:53 xD
It sucks so hard to be a GAME DEV in 2025
Most expensive gaming genre to create is MMORPG
Players cry about lower quality of expansions and meme about it that it feels more like some kind of a season pass.
But they enjoy the lower prices of expansions compared to games like WoW where you literally get the same amount of content but costs 2x more and have to pay 13€/monthly to be able to play.
Players refuse to pay more.
But players want the game to be better or completely brand new game.
Devs wanna re/make a new game in UE5.
Players want them to make their own new engine for it because they hate UE5.
How the fuck are they supposed to make their own new engine in 2025 economy
when players have problem paying 20 something €/$ for fully voice-acted DLC/expansions with multiple maps and random shit with no subscribtion.
Half of those players that are crying are buying battlepasses and random skins for 10€/$ in other games in blink of an eye.
I’d love to see Guild Wars 2.5 built on Unreal Engine. Players deserve a new engine that actually makes use of more than one CPU core and runs more efficiently. If it’s an entirely new game, though, I’m not sure how I’d feel about it. I guess it would depend on how unique it is and whether they try to phase out or abandon GW2 in the process
My main question is why they are trying so hard to keep this quiet? They seem to be going to a reasonable amount of effort to avoid details being leaked to the public.
Let's say for a moment that the guild wars 3 shareholder debacle was a falsehood. Couldn't they dispel said falsehood immediately by simply announcing some broad details about what their new project actually is?
There just seems to be something about marketing/community engagement priorities there that I can't quite reconcile in thought.
Either way though, games take a long time to make and anet hasn't had much luck with recent side projects, probably not worth devoting any more brainpower to it.
Games often die while still in dev. ArenaNet is intimately aware of that, having previously been forced to kill unannounced games. Not announcing is a way to avoid unnecessary hype for a game that might never see the light of days.
While it often happens with crowdfunding for indie game concepts, no experienced company would give information about a game that isn’t at least ready for testing yet. So much can change before a release that anything you say too early could be misleading. Rather than a marketing opportunity, ‘getting people excited’ too early is very dangerous (in many ways) from a development standpoint, often doing more harm than good to final release.
As 3D modeler and level artist myself I confirm that it takes years to develop and create an mmo game. The GW3's mentions was merely about it being a potential project, so pros/cons been studied, ideas been suggested and maybe very rudimentary concepts tested... still years before anything remotely playable if all Anet crew was on it. HOWEVER, all of their side projects (DUNE, card game, mobile apps) didn't been completely scraped after the last layoff... and it seems that Anet went back at these. It mean that with their less than 400 employees and them working again on other things than their main game... we'll get back at worse and worser GW2's maintenances and expansions. A skeleton crew affected to what should be Anet's priority. Anet likes to bite more than what it can chew... reason why NCsoft had to to intervene previously.
Honestly i would like a new game. I have kinda done everything i want in gw2 so an entirely new fame seems fun.
Unreal Engine 5 is the worst engine on the market. It doesn't look good. It runs bad. I am worried if they're going to use it. But till GW 3 or anything else is announced officially, i just gonna chill.
@@F1rstp3rson unreal engine is good, the execution of most dev on unreal engine is whats bad imo
Game Engine is a Steel
Game studio is a Blacksmith
Game is a Sword
@@darensgw2 nah, I am going to stay an Unreal 5 hater. Stalker 2 is the most recent example of why it should not be used. Or why it shouldn't be used by devs that are incompetent with it.
UE5 is good. Some devs use it like a crutch though.
@@F1rstp3rson No lazy devs are the problem. Its open source they can change shit them self if they wanted to. And they can stop using every automated tools. And stopp relying on dlss.
The name of Guild Wars 3 has been leaked. The Triple A game for PC and major consoles will be released as "Unannounced Project". It will be a simulation game where the player takes the role of CEO of a major game studio and has to balance keeping their current audience happy, creating revenue, managing a healthy working environment, hiring personnel and conforming to targets set by their parent company.
GW2 on UE5 would be so much better than GW3 for me... this amount of grind lost would be a disaster
GW3!!?? OH SHIT ngl I might be down depending on how the trailer/gameplay look
Dropping support for GW2 for another title can be pretty risky. My hope is that GW3 is more of an office buzzword or project name for what the developers were alluding to with the DirectX updates a few years ago. This being that by moving to DirectX 11 they could start to hook into newer systems like Unreal 5. I can't find the post, but I swear I remember reading about this during the run up to the DirectX 11 switch.
Aint getting a gw3 lmao. Why would anet spend millions making a new game from the ground up when they have all the infrastructure already built for gw2 to keep adding to it for far less dev costs.
Gw2 with an upgraded engine and new content will be better than a gw3…. To much grind went into gw2 to abandoned it
if they make Gacha Wars 3, that would be wild....
whatever it is, i hope they wont abandon gw2
I feel like there's a really strong chance not a lot of people would play gw3. They certainly wouldn't reach the numbers that gw2 did in its prime.
gw2 had and has bad marketing, the hiring could be for gw2
I really do not want gw3 at all
i do
I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but you and I, gw2 players, mean absolutely nothing next to the ocean of potential future gw3 players
@MagicBot.1570 terrible attitude for an ai to have
They have stagnated with no new races or classes. Hell not even a level increase. GW 2 is already failing as a game that is innovating. It's more just keeping people around. Unless they start adding actual new good content I welcome a change, even if that change is GW3
Their whole ‘thing’ is that they will never have a level increase, so that’s an odd complaint tbh.
increasing level cap is not ''innovating'' go back to your wow or whatever korean life invader you play.
1. Gw2 has voice acted races and Racial stories with it, it ain't like wow that you can just slap whatever different antlers on tauren and call it a day(new race)
2. Level increase equals > gear threadmill or some kind of constantly going back and grind your power back which is totally garbage game model
Horizontal progress is the most fair and balanced way to run MMO period
3. "As a game that is inovating" this MMO already came out with features like no other MMO so inovating on it ain't that easy.. especially the mount system is like a different game
Damn all those people obsessing over achievements and items and titles in the end it meant nothing 😮
Every video game ever says hello.😔
GW3 will release in few years and it will be shit.
I still refuse to play GW2 until they cancel gw3