#GUILD WARS UTOPIA UPDATE#

To me the Mists was always fascinating, as bad the usage of it can be sometimes, it’s still a cool concept within the Guild Wars universe to have this weird plane that connects together timelines, spaces and… almost literally everything. This is probably both fun and cool, and also quite annoying probably in a writing standpoint. Stay and join me on this ride! For real, this ride is going to be a JOURNEY… I warned you!Īlright to give some context, let’s get back to the roots, or not so roots of Guild Wars, no not the second one, but the first game! At the time the Mists was quite a mystery to us in the lore and in the game, giving us questions like… what is it? What does it do? Where is it? How is the Mists? Well to answer shortly, nobody fucking knows truly, but it’s a great tool for Arenanet to explain anything with it. future content after EoD? Mists expansion? Utopia 👀? Maybe not the best journey, maybe with some flaws and empty holes here and there, but ain’t theorizing fun this way?Īlright, almost 99% chance NONE of these will ever happen in the game, but I will present you all a fun lore theory and “connecting the dots together” style of idea regarding the Mists in the GW universe and a possible connection and perhaps a route or two that could give us some possibilities for…. The official story: An NCsoft representative put the rumor to rest for us, saying, 'It actually was used as a project name for an unannounced project, but we do not intend to use it for a product name.Well buckle up my peepos, because I’m about to bring you on a journey. Such a long lead time would only leave more opportunity for someone to stumble upon the game and tip fans off to the game before the company was ready to make an announcement. The Utopia URLs were registered in June of 2006, which would be awfully early if NCsoft didn't plan on actually announcing the game until 2007. Given that Nightfall launched in October, the next add-on is roughly due for release in April, and it seems about time that NCsoft started talking about it. NCsoft has said it wants to put two expansion packs out each year, with Factions and Nightfall being the company's first two releases. While the rumor flew under the radar for the better part of a month, it began spreading more quickly through the Guild Wars fan community earlier this week. org counterparts, suggesting that the fourth chapter in the Guild Wars franchise would in fact be called Utopia. The day after Christmas, he posted on his site news that he had unearthed URLs for a few Guild Wars Web sites registered by NCsoft.

#GUILD WARS UTOPIA UPDATE#

What we heard: With the last Guild Wars expansion released a couple months earlier and nary a whisper from NCsoft on the next semi-annual update to the franchise, Photics Webmaster Michael Garofalo spent some of the holiday season digging for clues. Source: A news post on gaming news site Photics, pointing to a 'WhoIs' search showing that belongs to NCsoft.

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