20th Year Update Announcement

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    look at the date of the announcement...

    maybe it was an April Fool post, like they used to do back in the days :D and they posted late because they were on vacation or just overslept and forgot

    Anyways, I'm super hyped and grateful :)

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    Stephen made a comment about having to wait until April 2nd to announce it assuming folks would think it’s an April fools joke if it was announced on the 1st.

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    i wonder if this will shake up the high end economy? imagine if gold os crystalines started dropping again, what that would do to their current value. Maybe unconditionals?


    i wouldnt like to be in a position of sitting on wealth in OS stuff/minis right now lol

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    look at the date of the announcement...

    maybe it was an April Fool post, like they used to do back in the days :D and they posted late because they were on vacation or just overslept and forgot

    Anyways, I'm super hyped and grateful :)

    Nope:

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    ArenaNet

    We had to wait until April 2nd to announce ...


    What's more, they altered the image of the post and then reposted it on the networks well after april fool.

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    IF they do in fact bring back q7, q8, DR, etc to the global drop table, it would only be fair to bring back the key less chests too. Personally I'd like a coupon to make an item of my choice unconditional. xD

    Side note, I would absolutely LOVE to see Team Arena's make a return. That was some wonderful content right there that should have never been changed. It'd be a huge trip down memory lane, and something everyone would get excited about. Hoping that was a teaser, and not just someone slapping a random image up. Please PvP updates for the 20th!!!!

    Edited once, last by Arena (April 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM).

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    Quote from Bluey

    look at the date of the announcement...

    maybe it was an April Fool post, like they used to do back in the days :D and they posted late because they were on vacation or just overslept and forgot

    maybe they hype us up and then the actual update will be the shutdown of the servers. and all those years of anet saying they want to keep gw running were just part of an elaborate cruel joke

    will be a nice tittle in news, ''Crazy people around the world kidnap the CEO of ArenaNet and take over its headquarters. claim the legal rights of the servers'' for sure all of us armed with tower shields goth swords etc :D

    ill carry my scythe

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    Quote from Bluey

    look at the date of the announcement...

    maybe it was an April Fool post, like they used to do back in the days :D and they posted late because they were on vacation or just overslept and forgot

    Anyways, I'm super hyped and grateful :)

    No I don´t think so, Stephen commented on a Reddit post that ´´...we had to wait until April 2 to make the announcement´´. This is clearly indicating that they didn´t want us to think it´s a joke :p

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    New areas, titles, skills, or game modes would’ve hyped me way more tbh. Bringing back old stuff just seems low-effort to me.

    We know from years ago that they don't like to mess with title tracks since it's all interlinked with GW2 and changing it is probably quite complex and it would also mess up the Hall of Monuments Calculator (which is by now so ancient that it still uses Flash which has been completely dead for over 4 years now. Changing that is véry unlikely to happen as it requires vastly different skills than those required for making changes in the game itself.

    Adding new areas is something that you also shouldn't expect to happen: that requires quite a large team to do. I could entirely be wrong here, but I think the last new area that was added in the game was The Mausoleum and that is rough at a few points (for example it has no map texture). That map was also made from existing assets and back in the day when there was an actual live team for the game.
    Creating a new area is simply out of scope... you need map artists, creatures need to be spawned, designers, quest designers (otherwise there's not a lot to do in the map) and finally you'd need the QA team to test the new area. That's a lot of work.

    Making new skills, like with the previous anniversary, was something that was done by the person who did almost all of the coding of the skills and balance patches for the last few years of GW1's Live Team (Joe Kimmes - who is still at ANet as far as I know), but adding new skills still takes a lot of time and effort since these need to be tested and to be honest, it is quite hard to create well balanced and cool skills.

    Adding a new game mode also takes a TON of effort. It's not as simple as just adding a toggle. For example, when they created Hard Mode, that required ALL areas of the game to be revisited by the developers and they modified quite a bit (monster skill bars, AI behaviour etc). It would require a TON of development time and money, money that they probably will not be able to recuperate (because let's be honest here).

    The changes that have been announced are sane changes that the current game team can handle and will have a positive impact. It can give incentive to play content that isn't played as much anymore and can revitalize content.

    However, what they do mention is very interesting. I would love for more variants of for example the Soulbreaker Scythe to drop. I would even love it if they took that skin and created some variants of it, for example a black or fire version.

    I like the tease of "new loot". I'm curious what that could be!

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