Is "no news" really "good news"?

[MiatheHierophant]

We have all been having a lot of fun speculating and debating what will or won't be part of GW2.

The thing that worries me is that other than a few articles along the way, there hasn't been any "official" news about GW2 in quite some time. It worries me that the devs haven't even really said "We've got (X) thing accomplished and now we are working on (Y)..." To my knowlege, there hasn't even been any recent press releases.

Has anyone got any links to any recent information? I haven't been living under a rock, but I haven't been searching the web either.:scratch:

[Inchino]

I like it when they don't release loads of info, leaves for a better surprise when it opens ^^

[Balan Makki]

I'm going to guess--speculate--some more. An article was released last December, Arena Net responded to it by saying and I paraphrase, "That was an early article from many months back that was not publish until now. Much has changed since those early interviews."

So all we know has likely changed since those early interviews. Best bet is to go to Guildwars.com, then to the GW2 page, read the last article on that page. There is a very clearly written "Mission Statement". Reading between the lines indicates to me that Arena Net has some rather unique features that they don't want to let out of the bag too soon.

It's a very competitive industry, revealing inovative genre changes would only benefit their competitors, and as well, they don't want to make any promises they can't keep.

I'm kinda glad they've not said anything, else we'd just get a bunch of whining on the forums(edit: not this forum). And it allows for imaginative possibilities, oh and SpecuLAtion.

[Akirai Annuvil]

Yes .

[Avatin]

I am confident. ArenaNet will do what is best for the community and for the success of their game.

I agree that the whole commercial success of GW2 is at stake here. While they remain silent, they remain uncopied by the "dreadfull" competition.

[tommynj]

Mixed feelings ofcourse but when Arenanet is ready I am positive they will do their best to keep us informed. Though you can't blame people for wanting to know. It has been a long time since the official announcement of Guild Wars 2.

[katherinetheblood]

As some one who wants to get into this industry, I understand why they want to keep their mouths shut but I also understand as a player why we want them to give us something. It really boils down to keeping new features secret. I will attempt to amuse with an example of why they must keep quiet.

Say GW2 has this awesome 3D headset feature (complete BS but lets just go along with it) and they tell us NOW that they are working on it. The good people at Blizzard hear this and go "Oh snap! Lets get our own going now before they have a chance to finish!". All of a sudden, you got 4-5 different companies working on the same technology, looking over each others shoulders trying to figure out how the other guy is trying to get it to work. In the meantime, everyone does a rush job and it turns out looking like a knock off of the Virtual Boy (if you don't know what that is, google is your friend). Everyone, including the players, lose.

This is HIGHLY exaggerated btw, but game companies like keeping everything till the last minute so their competetors don't go trying to do the same thing. Sony tried this with the PS3 when the Wii was announced by making a motion sensitive controller that (from what I have heard) is not so good. So really, its kinda to our benefit that Anet is quiet as a mouse, because if they told EVERYTHING, we might end up losing badly.

Just be patient, besides, Dragon Festival is coming and that will be loads of fun. ^^

[Lamuness]

Trying to get into the industry? As what? :)

You can't really say that it would happen. Suppose GW2 came out with a slider that Aion has for body customization. It would be a HUGE overhaul for WoW to do something like that, so they're not even going to dabble in it. They know they have their customers by the proverbial balls so they're not even going to bother with it. Although I DO agree that there are a lot of new things that have made it into WoW that came from GW1.

As the game that I'm working on is coming out, we're releasing limited to no information, partially because it's for marketting purposes, and partially because we're just plain not ready to show something. So be patient. :) ANet knows what they're doing.

Although at the same time, when interest starts dropping, they will have to show something, otherwise it will be lost like SC:Ghost.

[MiatheHierophant]

I don't wish to hear their plans for the newest technology or what the specific thing is that they are working on now. I would just like to hear how far along they are in their timeline...but that's just the impatient little girl in me. :smile:

I do understand the need for secrecy, and I do understand the need to focus all of their energy on the task at hand rather than spend any time and effort informing us. I just think it's about time for them to release a statement saying that they're doing something.

[sorudo]

when i was working with creative ppl making mods, we only gave 1 thing public, the x% that's done.
that way, instead of ppl speculate things, they know we couldn't say much.

[burningmice]

I think its best that they dont reveal too much or the ideas may get stolen, and it makes me feel like theyre still doing lots for gw1, which they are.

[zetsuei]

I just hate when someone make a thread about news of GW2 and the moderator close it, saying "News will come, when Arenane release it"

Like i said, it doesnt hurt make a thread about questions and answers and send them to NCsoft ou Arenanet, asking them one or two things,so they could talk to the community STILL interested in GW2, trying IS FREE, but hell no, the moderator said if they want to answer us, nothing is stopping them to get the questions here. Nice thinking.

Well, this whole "no news" time and also no hype for GW2 made me buy Age of Conan and now i'm really really asking myself if i will ever buy GW2.No drama at all.:huh:

[sorudo]

in a degree i agree with you, if Anet wants ppl to stay intrested for GW2, one or two things like a screenshot or low important clip wouldn't hurt.

[DutchSmurf]

in a degree i agree with you, if Anet wants ppl to stay intrested for GW2, one or two things like a screenshot or low important clip wouldn't hurt.

But neither would it help at the moment. It would only help if they keep releasing new ones every x weeks. A screenshot now won't have any effect on the sales of GW2 when it comes out next year (or further away).

[sorudo]

it doesn't say much, but as i followed the progress of spore, what ever they showed, it was enough to know what to expect.(and only one game has stolen one of the idea's of that game, flOw has stolen the idea of the cell stage)

[Saury]

My feeling is that until the Beta comes out we won't be hearing/reading too much about GW2. That will again feed our curiosity until the release...

[tegororn]

Actually i'm not very enthusiastic about GW2 anymore.

[captain lucky]

I'm happy that there not releasing any news keeps more of a suprise going, lets take E3 for example ask me what I'm more intrested in and I'll probably say Nintendo as I simply have no idea what there going to announce. As for other developers I know mostly what there going to say and announce.

[Noa Brightington]

I don't want or need info on specifics. I personally would just like to know how far they are along with the game in general
Let us know how far they are in game mechanics,
or quests,
or missions, environment, what have you.
Give us percentages, and maybe a general estimate on when they hope to have something available for a public looksee.

Anything to let us know that there's life going on behind the scenes, and that we're not dealing with the Wonka factory here

[Akirai Annuvil]

Anything to let us know that there's life going on behind the scenes, and that we're not dealing with the Wonka factory here
What do you care as long as you still like the chocolate I always suspected you of hating tiny little immigrant african chocalate slaves! ?

[krattos]

I don't want or need info on specifics. I personally would just like to know how far they are along with the game in general
Let us know how far they are in game mechanics,
or quests,
or missions, environment, what have you.
Give us percentages, and maybe a general estimate on when they hope to have something available for a public looksee.

Anything to let us know that there's life going on behind the scenes, and that we're not dealing with the Wonka factory here

I agree, it'd be nice if we knew that the game was well on it's way, it'd also probably make me log on to GW more lol :grin:

[Akaraxle]

"No news" means the smell of project cancellation gets stronger as time goes by.

[DarkWasp]

Well... They did mention GW2 again in the HoM Changes article.

I guesss that's something.

[Windw]

Not really directly to GW2 more like more weapons to put in (only torment though) and it is account wide so if you failed survivor or legendary defender and don't want to start ALL over you can just make new ones

[Alexia of Durham]

I don'think it's a problem not to release a lot of info on GW 2 . What's more of a problem is that absolutely nothing is in between GW EOTN and GW 2 added to the " no information-issue " . Even highly succesful games will have to offer an occasional update to keep folks interested .

If they don't do that they need to make more info avaialble as to progress of what they are working on. Using the "competition-argument " isn't valid either. Aion-devs are releasing loads of info and noone sofar has attempted to copy what's shown in those previews . I think folks using that argument are underestimating the amount of coding these features require.

No news isn't the issue : No nothing is.