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[Kotaku] Guild Wars 2 Developer ArenaNet Plans For Mass Layoffs
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I mean I guess, but it felt like they've been building to the next big release. Seems preemptive.
The separation between Arenanet and other NCSoft subsidiaries in this respect was always a bit weird to me.
I still play Guild Wars 2 weekly, so this is a big bummer.
I'm still disappointed with GW2. Should have just carbon copied GW1 and brought it into a modern game engine. Talk of GW2 success always seemed like hardcore fanboys and not enough to float the franchise, because you never see much buzz for the game.
I mean this is just wrong. It's still one of the most played of the big MMOs.
The expansions never seemed to generate much attention, either, but that's hard to really judge. I don't know how big the current userbase is, but for me they just failed to capture a lot of what I enjoyed about the first Guild Wars.
Maybe GW2 has been doing really well, but I never hear about it.
Well this is a shame, I've been waiting to see what ANet is gonna do for their next expansion :/
Yeah this is wrong, it's one of the higher populated MMO's currently, ANet just isn't good at marketing.
Yeah this is wrong, it's one of the higher populated MMO's currently, ANet just isn't good at marketing.
It's probably the smallest of the big 4 at the moment, and MMOs on the whole are getting their lunch eaten by GaaS games/soft-MMOs likes Destiny and the Division
EDIT: found some revenue numbers
(It's in millions of Korean won)
Nah. GW3 isn't being developed. NCSoft has been focusing pretty exclusively on eastern MMO's for years.
This might be me retroactively looking too deep into things, but it did always feel odd that season 4 (the current season that's almost over) would lead directly into season 5 instead of having the usual expansion in between.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/9b0j7x/season_5_will_follow_season_4_not_an_expansion/
Weird that the whole season 5 announcement was made in a youtube vid about 6 year milestone instead of its own thing as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/9b0j7x/season_5_will_follow_season_4_not_an_expansion/
Weird that the whole season 5 announcement was made in a youtube vid about 6 year milestone instead of its own thing as well.
Oh no, not ArenaNet...
Hopefully they can proceed with Guild Wars 3, this game has became stale indeed.
Hopefully they can proceed with Guild Wars 3, this game has became stale indeed.
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That's sort of where I'm at with the franchise now too. I love GW1 and 2, and played each for a ridiculous number of hours... But I stopped playing almost immediately after finishing Path of Fire(which is the same thing I did with Heart of Thorns), and have struggled to get back into it. I don't see it happening though, even if they weren't doing layoffs. New MMOs are just not happening(baring a few niche exceptions).
I played a ton of gw1 and about 15 hours of gw2.
I honestly hope they go back to the holy Trinity honestly.
I love love love being a monk. Too bad that was taken away.
I honestly hope they go back to the holy Trinity honestly.
I love love love being a monk. Too bad that was taken away.
The responses to me saying that I'm somehow wrong but the company are reporting trouble with revenue is just comical. They must have really high operating costs to outweigh the potential revenues of whales spending on cosmetics.
Look, I wanted to love GW2. I pre-ordered it and played pretty hardcore up until The Lost Shores update, but the game just didn't have the same catch as GW1. The content updates came too slow and never really addressed the main problems they had with removing the trinity from an MMO. The story was really lacklustre and their focus on Sylvari was grating. The end-game content was really bad because there was no balance to it, no real semblance of teamwork because trying to fulfill a role was impossible with the attempt to saddle everyone with every role.
I can see why the game is giving ArenaNet trouble. Its just a shame because they had magic with GW1.
Look, I wanted to love GW2. I pre-ordered it and played pretty hardcore up until The Lost Shores update, but the game just didn't have the same catch as GW1. The content updates came too slow and never really addressed the main problems they had with removing the trinity from an MMO. The story was really lacklustre and their focus on Sylvari was grating. The end-game content was really bad because there was no balance to it, no real semblance of teamwork because trying to fulfill a role was impossible with the attempt to saddle everyone with every role.
I can see why the game is giving ArenaNet trouble. Its just a shame because they had magic with GW1.
I mean the problem with your post is that you're using your knowledge of the game as it was back in 2012...
Like Season 1 of Living Story and Season 2 of the Living Story were massive change in quality. Updates began coming every 3 months of so (pretty standard for an MMO) unless an Expansion as on the horizon. In which case there would be slower in updates.
GW2 has honestly been incredibly generous in terms of free updates for a non-sub game. I can't recall how many games release new zones every single big content update. Most save that for expansions.
Plus also there has been raids in the end game which have been well received as well.
Edit: One other thing is that the playerbase doesn't need to spend much money at all. Since there's no sub fee, players can play for years without dropping a dime unless an expansion comes out. And since players can easily get all cosmetics in the game through gold there isn't that much reason to actually spend money.
Bet their execs will still get some nice fat payouts while the employees lives are destroyed. Hooray.
I really wish I had been able to get into GW2, I have such fond memories of the first. Something about the sequel just didn't click with me, sadly.
Good luck to those affected. I hope everyone is able to find new opportunities.
Good luck to those affected. I hope everyone is able to find new opportunities.
Social media people generally don't know about upcoming layoffs, unless the news leaks beforehand like it did for Blizz.
You mean Telltale yeah? Was Blizzard hiring for all positions before the layoffs last week?
Well, sad to hear, but it might just be me, but it seems like classic MMOs are kinda dying over the last couple of years. They might still work in Asia, same goes for mobile games in Asia and India, etc. but not in the west. I loved DAoC, WoW and even SWTOR back in the day, also enjoyed City of Heroes, Guild Wars (1 mostly) and some others, but maybe it's due to age and time limits, but I'm not at all interested in any new MMO anymore. I even played SWTOR only for new story chapters and that's it.
Nah, the problem with his post is that he's using his personal opinion of the game to extrapolate about its success. About as much sense as me saying RDR2 flopped because I'm not interested in it.
GW2 did end up having somewhat of a trinity, especially with the more difficult content