Week in Review: Humanly possible

Man... GW2. The amount of information on humans in the Guild Wars universe and the way it was delivered this week spoke volumes on the type of company ANet is (and the people who work there). Unparalleled and Top Notch.

Call me crazy if you want, but I think blizzard said we will never make WoW 2.0 at a game conference. So ArenaNet, over hearing this, spoke up and said, "no problem Blizz, we don't mind making it ourselves."

And so Guild Wars 2 was born.

I can't imagine it happening any other way.

Wow, keep your hats on. Why not take WoW 2.0 in the spirit of the next biggest hit to sweep gaming consciousness?

In the meantime... A-Su-Ra! A-Su-Ra! A-Su-Ra!

All you tall people can argue, we will take over ze world because we have ze brains!

(Truth is, I shall be making a Charr first. Asura second though!)

They never said they were never going to make WoW 2, they said they said a while back that they weren't doing it yet but they want to one day. My guess is it will be a very long time from now and by the time we hear anything about it happening there will have been another major mmo or two that swept the industry.

Blizzard figures, why bother now anyways? Why sink all the funding and development to something like that when you can make something new, that might grab another mmo demographic sector. All the while knowing they have another 1.5 years at least of the money dump truck backing into the loading dock every month for WoW. I see many of the players sticking with it that long at least unless Blizz throws out another xpac and then reset the timer. 1.5 years may be reaching a bit though, seems after every xpac the drop off time to some population loss gets ever quicker. Smashing the whole world though in the last one may keep it at that mark however.

*cough* Anyways. More on point with the article...very, very nice GW2 stuff this week. I'll likely check out some RIFT open beta with a specific focus on PvP. The hardcore raider article was interesting as well. Did EQ or UO create the hard-core raider population? I'm just curious and was wondering before stating that was a Blizzard creation, or perhaps some Korean developers.