It’s been over a decade since ArenaNet’s fantasy MMO Guild Wars 2 launched. Within the years since its 2021 PC debut, the crew has launched a number of expansions and updates for it, with the most recent being 2023’s Secrets and techniques of the Obscure. With two extra expansions nonetheless within the works set to launch this yr and in 2025, respectively, Guild Wars 2 gamers aren’t hurting for brand spanking new content material. That’s why the information that ArenaNet is engaged on a correct third recreation within the collection got here as such a shock.
Information of this comes from an NCSoft shareholder assembly (as reported by Korean outlet Inven and translated by Reddit consumer Sydius), during which the writer’s co-CEO Park Byung-moo casually name-dropped Guild Wars 3 whereas discussing the franchise. He confirmed the sport is in growth, however didn’t supply every other data past that. The fast response from the neighborhood has been combined. A brand new recreation is often an thrilling prospect, however within the period of stay service video games that obtain periodic updates, a sequel can generally imply the lack of years of funding because the neighborhood strikes on to the subsequent huge factor.
Followers on Reddit that they’re fearful about how lengthy Guild Wars 2 will stay energetic if if ArenaNet strikes on to Guild Wars 3. Will the 2 proceed to get periodic updates or will the studio ultimately shift over to Guild Wars 3 full-time? These are the uncertainties of stay service video games, and in addition dwelling in a digital period during which the video games individuals make investments money and time into can simply vanish as a result of firms don’t think about them definitely worth the maintenance. Guild Wars 2 has lasted this lengthy and remains to be getting expansions as a result of it has a devoted neighborhood, so it’s comprehensible some may view the mere suggestion of a brand new recreation as an indication that one chapter is closing. However regardless of the case could also be, the discharge of Guild Wars 3 appears far off.
Whispers of a Guild Wars 3 have been circulating for a couple of years now, with Kotaku reporting that ArenaNet was within the early levels of engaged on a sequel again in 2019. Nevertheless, it wasn’t greenlit on the time, so one thing has clearly modified within the years since.
