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Stradden  7/12/07 8:56:09 AM
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MMORPG.com Writer Carolyn Koh is attending this year's, modified, E3. Yesterday, Carolyn attended a session with NCsoft that saw her make her way through all of the games that they were displaying. In this article, Carolyn tells us about Guild Wars: Eyes of the North and even a little bit about the upcoming Guild Wars 2.

Publisher NCSoft holds a meeting session each year at E3, moving media through all the games they are showing in twenty minute sessions. Not a whole lot of time for developers to show a game preview as well as answer questions. This year was no different. Jeff Strain, Co-Founder and Programmer did the presentation while Elijah Miller of Quality Assurance drove the playable preview.

"Eyes of the North is the first true expansion of Guild Wars and will require one of the stand alone products such as the original Guild Wars Prophecies, Factions, or Nightfall," said Strain.

Jeff told us that the reason is that building an expansion rather than a stand alone game freed up developers from having to create new starting areas and new low-level content. Instead, they could concentrate all of their resources toward making content for existing players. Is it all level 20 content then? No, Jeff was quick to point out. The expansion is geared towards existing players who have broad experience with Guild Wars, not newbies, but it's not all level 20 content.

Read the whole preview here.

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m240gulf  7/12/07 9:12:13 AM
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Did they just make this decision at E3?  This whole time I thought they were making GW2   Not sure if this is good news or not, I was hoping for an entirely new game seperated from GW original.

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Goldknyght  7/12/07 9:15:29 AM
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Originally posted by m240gulf

Did they just make this decision at E3?  This whole time I thought they were making GW2   Not sure if this is good news or not, I was hoping for an entirely new game seperated from GW original.


they are making GW2. Eyes of the north was announced awhile back as another expansion to the GW game.


Joffi  7/12/07 9:21:58 AM
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ANet stated in their March 27, 2007 press release (here) the GW:EN expansion and GW2 target release date; both were mentioned in that missive.
 
WhereAmI1965  7/12/07 11:05:50 AM
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The Asura are little gremlin-like critters, with strong intellect and superior magical skills, and they know it. They come complete with a chip on their shoulder and we were told that we would have to work through that character quirk if we chose to adopt them as heroes. Jeff wasn't telling more, but it surely brought to mind a random, "I'm not helping you," behavior possibility.

 

Oh, oh. Having flashbacks of Zhedd running into the desolation committing suicide.
 
eksperts  7/12/07 12:08:42 PM
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Jeff promises us a total of 18 multi-level dungeons with traps, puzzles and hidden rooms, and a public beta slated for the 2nd quarter of 2008.

No, no ,no!

will be released to the public on August 31, 2007

http://www.guildwars.com/press/releases/pressrelease-2007-07-02.php

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Thor79  7/12/07 12:15:42 PM
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Originally posted by eksperts
Jeff promises us a total of 18 multi-level dungeons with traps, puzzles and hidden rooms, and a public beta slated for the 2nd quarter of 2008.

No, no ,no!

will be released to the public on August 31, 2007


http://www.guildwars.com/press/releases/pressrelease-2007-07-02.php

Cheers!

Yeah...the preview sounds like the preview of GW:EN but that 2nd quarter of 2008 doesn't fit the existing facts at all...that sounds more like a public beta for GW2....though that seems a bit early for that.
 
erandur  7/12/07 1:02:18 PM
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Originally posted by Thor79

 

Originally posted by eksperts
Jeff promises us a total of 18 multi-level dungeons with traps, puzzles and hidden rooms, and a public beta slated for the 2nd quarter of 2008.

 

No, no ,no!

will be released to the public on August 31, 2007


http://www.guildwars.com/press/releases/pressrelease-2007-07-02.php

 

Cheers!

 

Yeah...the preview sounds like the preview of GW:EN but that 2nd quarter of 2008 doesn't fit the existing facts at all...that sounds more like a public beta for GW2....though that seems a bit early for that.

there's nothing early about that, that was about the date they said ;)  can't wait to Q2 2008 ^^

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judgebeo  7/12/07 1:03:58 PM
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so, nothing new in gw?
 
mar1k  7/12/07 2:14:02 PM
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Those Asura-guys somehow look like pokemon to me :D

I hope GW:EN will be great so I can spend amount of time with it^^
 
WhereAmI1965  7/12/07 8:15:52 PM
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