How can people not be excited for GW2?

[Elixor]

I view it as the opposite. It gives them incentive to provide top notch quality in order keep people and have them buy their products. A sub based game sometimes seem like it promotes lazy practices (looking at you Blizz with your rehash content).

Yes, that is true, (fatcat Blizz). Tho, it could also become opposite:

- Should we make this & that feature for the game?
- Nah, trim it by 90%, cut the bill. It´s a free game, we can insert valuable things in our Expansion.

They could lose motivation somewhere in the "future". And just keep people paying for their Expansion & Micro´s, since it´s B2P. It even feels like they don´t "want" to be top, or in the top MMORPG list. More like it´s a game where you go to when you don´t feel like playing your main game atm.

It´s interesting, it can go bad or good. Only thing "we/I" can do, is to wait for release.

[Fencers]

I don't doubt Anet will provide content pre-expansion. What I am curious about is the speed and breathe of added content pre-expansion. Just gotta wait and see.

[Deleted]

They were providing content patches between expansions before (including large instances) so I see no reason for them to not follow this path. This is just my speculation, but I foresee:
- expansions every 7-8 months
- expansions will include major content addition. New zones, few elite DEs, possibly new PVP mode, expanding WvWvW, new skills/traits and maybe even more races
- small in between patches. Including dungeons, recipes, traits and of course some vanity/flair stuff

One thing is sure, they will NOT add more powerful items/gear in expansions - that's official. They are thinking about rising the level cap, but that is still being discussed.

[nysha]

I think people are just skeptical considering how many other mmos have been flopped...I see a lot of well 'if they actually do that, it will be awesome..but only if'.

[sacrypheyes]

level cap won't change that much things (nothing?) anyway.
i'll be more interested in new zones/weapons (thus skills)/armor skins/classes in xpacs.

[Fernling306]

Quite the contrary, GW1 revenue has been funding the entire development of GW2 and has been keeping NCSoft afloat all by itself.

Sorry, this sounds a bit far fetched. Where did you hear this from?

[Primal Zed]

Sorry, this sounds a bit far fetched. Where did you hear this from?

I can tell you one thing: he certainly did not get it from NCSoft's financial reports.

I was perusing them the other day, and in any given year the GW1 revenue was a very small portion of NCSoft's incoming money. It was dwarfed by what they collected from Lineage 1 and 2 while Guild Wars was still pretty young, and later was still very minor compared to Aion. I'm think it also made less money than City of Heroes/Villains.