At today's Summer Game Fest, one reveal in particular had me leaning forward with great interest: a follow-up to Guild Wars 2, a game I have well over a thousand hours in.
It's where I experienced one of my most treasured MMO thrills ever: completing the mapwide boss encounter Dragon's Stand for the first time. It's also where I sat through an equally unforgettable disappointment: the conclusion to the Icebrood Saga, which sped through a lore event that had been hyped up for years beforehand only to deliver a notoriously flat anticlimax.
Being a Guild Wars 2 player has always meant putting up with inconsistency only occasionally matched by the MMO's contemporaries. This is best embodied by its update and expansion schedule, which has seen overhaul after overhaul from year to year.
Developer ArenaNet switched focus frequently between seasonal "living world" updates, big exp...
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