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Guild Wars 2 may one day produce expansions like its popular precursor, but ArenaNet has no concrete plans right now.

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Guild Wars 2 game director Colin Johanson reflects on the game’s shaky launch, and tells Dave Cook about ArenaNet’s big plans for Tyria throughout the year ahead.

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ArenaNet has delayed the Guild Wars 2 World vs World changes to next month, according to game director Colin Johanson. Originally planned for release this month, the changes will now be applied in March. Other updates planned for the MMO include “continual optimization of game models and data compression” to reduce performance issues, reports
Massivley. This will also allow more players to be included in the WvW feature. You can read the entire blog entry through the Guild Wars 2 website.

Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet saw the launch of its MMO hit by a string of server crashes, trading loopholes and security issues, and gamers – as are wont to do – gave them hell for it. ArenaNet’s game director Colin Johanson has shared his thoughts looking back at the game’s launch, and has discussed how it has learned from what happened to increase the game’s stability moving onward.

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ArenaNet believes when a subscription MMO is more focused on making money by keeping players “chasing something in the game,” as long as possible, it not only ruins the experience but the fun as well.

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Going hands-on at Eurogamer Expo 2011, a level 80 Stace Harman tackled Guild Wars 2′s PVP and chatted with ArenaNet’s lead content designer.

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ArenaNet has reiterated it’ll “for sure” have a closed beta of Guild Wars 2 by the end of the year at least.

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ArenaNet isn’t interested in taking money from you month after month, it just asks for one payment at retail and in return, it’s offering a game that it hopes will challenge your preconceptions of MMOs. More »

Over on the Guild Wars 2 site, ArenaNet has revealed some of the dynamic events its toying with for the MMO.

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