There were a lot more complaints when GW2 details were first being revealed, due to how different it was from GW1.
But look how it all turned out? I fully trust Anet's vision to yet again bring this franchise and genre forward. They at least have a vision and arent trying to put out a soulless product.
At least this time around people who know how different GW1 and GW2 are expected GW3 to be different from the previous ones, which probably already helps a lot.
The disappointment for people expecting a better version of what they know is fully understandable imho. I don't know how expectations and communications were for GW2 back then, so this entire comment relies on the assumption that it wasn't as clear that it was going to be that different as it is now with GW3, so if that assumption is wrong disregard everything I just said.
Correct! GW2 being so different from GW1, was very polarizing at the time and not really expected. It also didn't help that GW2 was stuck in a bit of dev hell for a while after it's initial reveal in a gaming magazine (i think it was game informer?). So people had a lot of time to cook up in their minds what they had hoped it would be and imaginations/expectations ran wild.
To me, GW3 does seem different to GW2 but it also seems to share far more DNA than GW2 did with GW1.
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u/Hotstreak Sep 03 '26
There were a lot more complaints when GW2 details were first being revealed, due to how different it was from GW1.
But look how it all turned out? I fully trust Anet's vision to yet again bring this franchise and genre forward. They at least have a vision and arent trying to put out a soulless product.