New Content for Guild Wars 1: Share your ideas

    Hello Community,

    I had today a thought, which still is in my mind and i want to share it with you and hear your opinion. During Corona Virus time many old childhood playables Like e.g. Pokemon Card and LEGO Toys got very expensive and are still super expensive.

    The child from that days are now 30 years old and have Money.

    When i am thinking of Guild Wars 1 its also one of the good old Things from the childhood and i am wondering. "Are the people willing to pay hundreds of €/$ for a bit of more Content in GW1, to have again the old Feeling from the childhood?"

    When ist the Same Like with the old Toys then already just few people would BE enough to pay the Team for some small new Content Updates.

    So the question is: what are people are ready to pay for very small Content.

    Examples for new Content with less Work would BE:

    1: PVP in pre-searing. Its already installed in the end Mission, so Just the Que hast to be installed. Just a bit of coding is neccesary.

    2: New Hardmode: Higher Level, Armor for Chaos DMG, No consumables

    3: Group size increase in all areas and lvl increase of enemies so that the endcontent IS increased to all Maps. (Specially tyria)

    Last Question: How many people would be willing to buy NCSoft Stocks? Maybe Guild Wars 1 Players could buy enough Stocks to have a good argument that they will Work on Guild Wars 1.

    I would pay serious money for new content (not for skins). I figure a lot of folks on this forum would. But I also figure we're a relatively small group and thus not very interesting for Anet to develop new content for.

    I have high hopes for the 20th anniversary though..

    IGN: Vicennium Paragon :dodgy:

    the dev very recently stated that the game is in maintenance mode and will not get new content.

    I'd kinda like to see GW beyond finished, but other than that I'd prefer they leave the game alone regarding new content, since current-year-Anet is not OG-GW-Anet. I would however not mind if they fix (keep fixing) existing issues and maybe even some balancing, although the latter is most likely not going to happen.

    Some anniversary additions every 5 years is fine with me

    Verdammter Choleriker lässt Folgendes fallen: Verfluchter Stab.

    I personally don't think it will ever happen just via the financial/time commitment cost & recent Dev update, and that you are vastly underestimated these being 'small' updates. But regardless of that, I'm interested for for your thoughts on these! Not trying to hate and am genuinely curious.

    1: PVP in pre-searing. Its already installed in the end Mission, so Just the Que has to be installed. Just a bit of coding is necessary.

    - How would you balance against people who have glitched GH items? Or /bonus items? Any level ranges can queue against each other or has to be broken down (such as 1-10, 11-15 etc).

    - Botters...

    Last Question: How many people would be willing to buy NCSoft Stocks? Maybe Guild Wars 1 Players could buy enough Stocks to have a good argument that they will Work on Guild Wars 1.

    • How much do you think would be enough? Let's use GW1 players owning just 1% of their outstanding stock (20,307,439 shares) as of April 2024 from what I could find.
      • 1% of 20,307,439 = 203,074 [rounding]. 203,074 x MKT Price [approx. $124.10] = $25,201,483 USD. And that doesn't factor in logistics or tax implications (at least for American investors) as NCsoft doesn't have an ADR.

    Edited 2 times, last by Drystan4 (April 23, 2024 at 11:09 PM).

    Drystan4 When you leav the pre-searing and if enough ppl. try to leav it at the same time you are entering automatically the PVP area. There is an arena and 4vs4 pvp installed. They just have to make a queue. Maybe this is also possible just by an NPC not even an outpost.

    Then you could make it for lvl 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20. That would be really something! Limited skills pvp would be very nice. A heal monk in this arena would be super fun!

    With the stocks you are right thats probably not possible, BUT when you have stocks you can go to the yearly company event. There it is the question how much you can do....

    The other idea from Looney with a pre-searing HM would be super cool!! With purple drops in every map. New titles for VQ in pre :D
    In general everyone loves pre. They could just make a small addon for the pre for 100$ and everyone would buy it. :D

    Are there any informations that they will do an update 2025?

    No information. It's isn't even sure if they do anything at all. Odds are that they aren't. It's a community wish though

    IGN: Vicennium Paragon :dodgy:

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    Are there any informations that they will do an update 2025?

    No information. It's isn't even sure if they do anything at all. Odds are that they aren't. It's a community wish though

    I would guess it is not unlikely to get a 20th anniversary update, since they did updates for 10th and 15th.

    Verdammter Choleriker lässt Folgendes fallen: Verfluchter Stab.

    Another HM is not likely to make the game any more interesting. Specific builds will be created that work for the exact scenario, probably using already existing builds - build diversity is the great strength of GW. Always playing the same builds is pointless. Forcing these builds is unnecessary.


    If they want to improve the game, I have two wishes:

    1) Some of the collectors have boring text, especially in prophecy. They just say "I'm searching for ***. I can offer you one of these items in exchange. Can you help me?". So many collectors have a hilarious story to tell about motives for collecting. One of my favourites is:

    Jovial Pete

    The corpse of Jovial Pete lies before you. His stiff fingers clutch a worn note that reads, "Hail, traveler! I'd get up and shake your hand, but I'm DEAD TIRED! Oh, I kill me. Actually, 'they' killed me, which brings me to my next point... I want them dead. That's right, destroyed, dismembered, decomposing, and discombobulated...DEAD! Kill those blasted dryders that did this to me. Bring me 5 Dryder Webs and you can have ONE item from my stash. I might be dead, but I swear I'll haunt you if you try to make off with more than what's owed, you measly [indecipherable].

    They could replace the boring texts. I'm sure the community would be happy to provide phrases that just need to be inserted.


    2) Also improving the graphics of the old castles and fortresses that can be found in Kryta. You can only see a few from up close, at best they look very pixelated.

    Alliance Battle does not determine who is right — only who is left.

    Increasing monster levels to make hardmode harder is not how to do hardmode.

    Presearing PvP arena is the most realistic thing on your list but it's balance would be garbage nevermind actually getting a minimum of 2 equal footing players wanting to participate.

  • Retlaw123 May 6, 2024 at 10:58 AM

    Changed the title of the thread from “New Content for Guild Wars 1” to “New Content for Guild Wars 1: Share your ideas”.

    My idea would be rotating builds for the foes just like in the codex arena f.e.

    this would optimaly kill most bots, while providing the players new difficulties to play against etc.

    would need some optimization and cant be fully random so builds will have at least a bit of synergy


    also this could lead to some fun developer - player interaction like back in the days when buildcontests for ha/gvg heroes were a thing

    Thats also a very nice idea to just change drop rates.

    I also like the idea of new builds for mobs.

    Another idea of mine would be the implementation of old maps residuals, to maybe create a new dungeon or a new mission. But just only one, to use all the designing residuals from all campaigns.