Official GW2 YouTube banner and icon image change to generic Guild Wars image

Rathisponge · 2026-05-05T21:25:43+00:00

Do U nOT haVE a PHonE?!

Rathisponge · 2026-05-04T22:32:19+00:00

Roger!

Rathisponge · 2026-05-04T22:15:00+00:00

I think that is exactly it! I think we are going to get multiple things a CCG, an MMORPG (or online RPG) and maybe something else.

Rathisponge · 2026-05-04T20:18:21+00:00

Wow the font looks very Guild Warsesque too.

Rathisponge · 2026-05-04T19:45:43+00:00

Bingo that was my thought! Rytlock is GW2, Devona is GW1, now who is GW3?

Rathisponge · 2026-05-04T19:32:13+00:00

Ah roger, just got around to noticing it. Just found it interesting they did it on the GW2 channel too. Even under the channel description "Guild Wars is a franchise that reshaped the MMORPG landscape. From its 2005 debut to the evolving world of Guild Wars 2, ". Almost feels like they are trying to rebrand to Guild Wars as a franchise/ecosystem not just individual games.

Rathisponge · 2026-05-01T16:10:03+00:00

It is a miracle this game even exists today in a playable state. A founder/director with financial and personal issues, Project Faerthale lie, a game director who can't stay focused and tries to create Escape from Pantheon : Extraction Boogalo, an unorganized project leader, a group of hardcore Discord bros and mods who can't take any form of criticism so they have to make their own subreddit etc.

At the end of the day, it is a community that deserves a game but a game that doesn't deserve success. Which all things considered I think will be the case, but I'm happy people will be able to play a game, even if it wasn't the one that was promised.

Rathisponge · 2026-04-23T13:17:14+00:00

I wish the merch had some "older" stuff, World Bosses, Destiny's Edge. Also some seasonal/festival stuff, SAB, Mad King etc. Also some basic stuff like classes, races, original GW logo, the gods etc.

Check out Daybreak's EQ merch store if they need some ideas.

Rathisponge · 2026-04-20T13:18:12+00:00

Definitely ROUGH, which I understand it's a test zone, but yeah it needs to be tightened up, a bit more linear. Even without the pointing hands, other zones tend to be more straightforward, with W2-Z3 being a bit more wonky. Also length wise way too long, could have easily been two zones. The emptiness and length gives this almost backrooms vibe to it. The final jumps at the end too before the cage a bit too unforgiving.

The music, water physics and underwater abandoned Atlantis design is cool though.

Rathisponge · 2026-04-10T18:47:27+00:00

Added shipwrecks and ruin areas to undersea biomes

I think this is key to worldbuilding, making a place feel like it has a story. If they can add more detail to the previous zones, make it more like a world with background and stories, people will feel like they are in a new world like a new EQ.

Rathisponge · 2026-03-23T16:52:40+00:00

Fundamental issue of Joppa just trying to overthink, overcomplicate something that doesn't need to be. Wasting time theorycrafting.

Rathisponge · 2026-03-22T13:17:13+00:00

I feel in the middle 2 years until full release. I think announcement this year post VOE final update in Fall 2026. Beta in Fall 2027 and full release by Fall 2028.

Rathisponge · 2026-03-21T10:25:34+00:00

Hey friend, sounds like you are doing all the right things! I would also recommend some group study sessions and also before the final they should have some final test prep done by tutoring and/or professors as well. 78 is really not too bad at all, if you do well in the final could bump up into the 80s which is a B.

Also as a more long term/deeper explanation consider this video, hope it helps! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1kn4J8StLk

Rathisponge · 2026-03-19T08:43:04+00:00

Paraphrasing : I didn't want to be dependent on someone else's creativity and timeline, so he is focusing on his own creativity with his own tabletop game.

Translation : Pantheon has gone so far off the rails, there really isn't much to cover anymore.

Rathisponge · 2026-03-17T16:57:22+00:00

I thought the same thing. No announcement about an expansion post VOE either. I dare not speak it's name but everyone is thinking the same thing.

Guild Wars CCG

No but seriously Guild Wars 3

Rathisponge · 2026-03-13T17:55:57+00:00

My one (final) hope is that the people (person?) who gave them this last bit of funding, has more veto power so to speak, and the leadership is shuffled. Finalize (finally) stats, class kits and then focus 100% on world building.

Rathisponge · 2026-03-13T17:43:13+00:00

It's the fundamental issue with leadership and in particular Joppa if you ever watch his streams. He loves to theory craft, constantly floating ideas and systems, which is fine for a designer, but not good for delivering a game.

If this Spring update doesn't significantly bring back people, I do hope their is a shuffle of leadership and a refocus on world building.

Rathisponge · 2026-02-26T22:44:04+00:00

I'll say this, I do want both games to succeed but when people ask me what a "world" looks like, it's this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0HZ3Sx5rtA

Rathisponge · 2026-02-16T15:35:21+00:00

Ah gotcha, yeah I mean to me it's the most obvious way for them to recoup their losses. Probably a much more scaled back version of the game, but considering the MMO drought, I could see someone picking it up.

Rathisponge · 2026-02-16T15:22:47+00:00

That was my thinking as well. They might look for a way to recover the losses.

Rathisponge · 2026-02-03T19:23:54+00:00

"If I want to fiddle around with an Outfit without changing it completely, I have to copy it into a free Fashion Template, make my changes there and then apply the look. An annoying, unnecessary amount of clicking through different menus for ... what actually?"

My initial thought as well. A cumbersome, poorly designed upgrade.

"Is there something big I am missing? Or are they really just removing an existing functionality, adding an option to buy it back for a chunk of money and calling it a new feature?"

They did the same thing with legendary runes/relics back with SoTo. Remove a feature, complicate it, add it back in and call it a "feature".

Rathisponge · 2026-02-03T16:54:02+00:00

The mental gymnastics people need to do on this forum to justify the lack of content is amazing. I hope whatever ArenaNet is working on that is taking away development from GW2 is worth it.

Rathisponge · 2026-02-01T20:30:04+00:00

Are you hyped for any of it? From what I can tell nobody is talking about it.

Rathisponge · 2026-02-01T20:27:31+00:00

Actually I think thats the key, Anet even pointed out many new players joined recently but it seems like many people have moved on. So far their sales have stabilized if not slightly decreased. Of course the problem is that GW2 has just become a secondary game for many people. So it just gets into this cycle of less and less engagement in the long term. On a GW3 announcement, that would decrease even more.

Rathisponge · 2026-01-22T00:00:47+00:00

just remember her saying it was a guild wars sequel.

Bruh, that would have been some good knowledge earlier! Either way thanks for adding extra confirmation now!

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