In a video blog published today, ArenaNet said that Guild Wars 3 won't mean the end of development for Guild Wars 2. It and even GW1 will be getting new updates "for the foreseeable future."
"We are not replacing your favorite games. We'll be supporting them," said ArenaNet head Colin Johanson in the video. "We know this is not the norm, but it's something our studio has been preparing for."
Johanson pointed back to Guild Wars 2's release, when the final Guild Wars expansion, Eye of the North, set up the sequel's events and the game was essentially replaced, at least in terms of active support in the form of new patches.
He explained that if the studio were going that route a second time, "we would have stopped development on Guild Wars 2 over a year ago." Not only is the current expansion not quite wrapped up yet, but the original Guild Wars has started to get new dungeons after years of relative silence, so it's clear this approach has been in motion for some time now.
In the short-term, this will mean that Guild...
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