Are there plans on releasing a roadmap?

[Spectre.5287]

It would be great to know what content is coming up in the next few months for the game. I've started seeing more companies doing roadmaps and I believe they would be a great addition for Guild Wars 2 and it would really help out with telling players what's coming in the future for the game.

Sincerely Guild Wars Fan :)

[Ashantara.8731]

Everything is too vague, it seems, to release something concrete like a road map. Their last roadmap was already extremely vague: lots of possibilities, nothing tangible.

[Randulf.7614]

Anet do not like doing them because a small portion of the community ruin things for everyone else hold them accountable and because the management seem to believe surprises are better than knowing in advance. They are quite stubborn in not wanting to over communicate with the community.

There is a sort of roadmap from the Spring though that does give you an idea of things to come.

[PseudoNewb.5468]

Next few months is.

LW Season 5 Prologue.Includes new type of content, Strike missions.Maybe build templates, they are on the way.

Further out.Maybe a progress update on alliances, and other PvP stuff.Additional releases, continuing Season 5. Including new world bosses.

A road-map is just a collection of intended content in some sort of chronological order, that they want to announce. It won't look any different than what we already know, because what we know, is already everything that they want to announce.

So we don't simply need a road-map. There are specific questions people have. A road-map doesn't necessarily answer them, and players shouldn't beat around the bush about what they want to know.

What is your intent with additional class specializations?What is your intent with raids/strike missions?How satisfied are you with your progress on WvW/PvP updates?

[Trise.2865]

Unlikely. Roadmaps are for games that release deliberately unfinished, like Fallout 76, so they know exactly what features and systems they have removed and when they can sell them back to you.

Guild Wars 2, believe it or not, is a series of finished products... maybe not as polished or refined as we'd like sometimes, but finished. If it's not finished, it doesn't exist; and if it doesn't exist, there's no way to "roadmap" it.

[gateless gate.8406]

@"Trise.2865" said:Unlikely. Roadmaps are for games that release deliberately unfinished, like Fallout 76, so they know exactly what features and systems they have removed and when they can sell them back to you.

Guild Wars 2, believe it or not, is a series of finished products... maybe not as polished or refined as we'd like sometimes, but finished. If it's not finished, it doesn't exist; and if it doesn't exist, there's no way to "roadmap" it.

Roadmaps are a marketing/communication/hype tool that can be used by any game that continuously releases content. See Warframe, Path of Exile, Destiny 2, etc.

[MokahTGS.7850]

They released the roadmap yesterday...it's called Sagas...the map shows the end of the road.

[JpDelano.2580]

Well you could try using Star Citizen as an example for the road map...... that way people keep saying " are we there yet" "are we there yet"

no way would i ever put a road map anywhere near anything with gamers, just sayin

[Rico.6873]

NoGiving the sheep's too much expectations is destructive so no

[Trise.2865]

@gateless gate.8406 said:

@"Trise.2865" said:Unlikely. Roadmaps are for games that release deliberately unfinished, like Fallout 76, so they know exactly what features and systems they have removed and when they can sell them back to you.

Guild Wars 2, believe it or not, is a series of finished products... maybe not as polished or refined as we'd like sometimes, but finished. If it's not finished, it doesn't exist; and if it doesn't exist, there's no way to "roadmap" it.

Roadmaps are a marketing/communication/hype tool that can be used by any game that continuously releases content. See Warframe, Path of Exile, Destiny 2, etc.

Exactly. As I said.

[ChronosCosmos.9450]

@Spectre.5287 said:It would be great to know what content is coming up in the next few months for the game. I've started seeing more companies doing roadmaps and I believe they would be a great addition for Guild Wars 2 and it would really help out with telling players what's coming in the future for the game.

Sincerely Guild Wars Fan :)

Step 1: LS season 5Step 2: Delete WvWStep 3: Delete sPvPStep 4: Have every team focus on PvEStep 5: Alliances and build templatesStep 6: Expansion

Profit.

[TheBravery.9615]

Anet is incapable of planning and releasing a roadmap will almost certainly set them up for failure because they're incapable of meeting deadlines and expectations.

[InkTide.1908]

@"Trise.2865" said:Guild Wars 2, believe it or not, is a series of finished products... maybe not as polished or refined as we'd like sometimes, but finished. If it's not finished, it doesn't exist; and if it doesn't exist, there's no way to "roadmap" it.

Kourna remains an unfinished product.

[Algreg.3629]

here you go https://google.com/maps/place/Bellevue,+Washington,+USA/@47.5978499,-122.221171,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x54906bcfa3a66041:0xbacf5482ead00765!8m2!3d47.6101497!4d-122.2015159

[PyrateSilly.4710]

The problem with them releasing anything that says what MIGHT be coming up or what they are seeing about adding is people tend to take that too far and just ASSuME that it means that everything in it is coming up very soon.Been there and done that and they don't want a repeat.

[Bast.7253]

Updates in the near future.

Then thinking about possibly adding some other updates in the coming months.

Then announcing the announcement of other possible updates that might be in the works a few months after that.

[gateless gate.8406]

@Trise.2865 said:

@gateless gate.8406 said:

@Trise.2865 said:Unlikely. Roadmaps are for games that release deliberately unfinished, like Fallout 76, so they know exactly what features and systems they have removed and when they can sell them back to you.

Guild Wars 2, believe it or not, is a series of finished products... maybe not as polished or refined as we'd like sometimes, but finished. If it's not finished, it doesn't exist; and if it doesn't exist, there's no way to "roadmap" it.

Roadmaps are a marketing/communication/hype tool that can be used by any game that continuously releases content. See Warframe, Path of Exile, Destiny 2, etc.

Exactly. As I said.

Er, no.

"Roadmaps are for games that release deliberately unfinished" vs. "Roadmaps are for any game [finished or unfinished] that wish to release continuous content."

And before you argue that continuous content implies that the game couldn't have been released in a finished state, well, that would mean GW2 was released in an unfinished state (and it would therefore warrant a roadmap according to your first statement).

[Unknown.3976]

Nope, roadmaps if handled poorly, has a potential to backfire big time...

Here's an example of what happens when a roadmap derails.https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/cxvl0d/star_citizen_roadmap_update_20190830/

Do we need more drama? I think not.

[kharmin.7683]

@TheBravery.9615 said:Anet is incapable of planning and releasing a roadmap will almost certainly set them up for failure because they're incapable of meeting deadlines and expectations.

And you know this how... ? Since their deadlines are internal, do you have some company insight that we don't know about? Or are you just being facetious?

[Trise.2865]

@gateless gate.8406 said:

@Trise.2865 said:

@gateless gate.8406 said:

@Trise.2865 said:Unlikely. Roadmaps are for games that release deliberately unfinished, like Fallout 76, so they know exactly what features and systems they have removed and when they can sell them back to you.

Guild Wars 2, believe it or not, is a series of finished products... maybe not as polished or refined as we'd like sometimes, but finished. If it's not finished, it doesn't exist; and if it doesn't exist, there's no way to "roadmap" it.

Roadmaps are a marketing/communication/hype tool that can be used by any game that continuously releases content. See Warframe, Path of Exile, Destiny 2, etc.

Exactly. As I said.

Er, no.

"Roadmaps are for games that release deliberately unfinished" vs. "Roadmaps are for any game [finished or unfinished] that wish to release continuous content."

And before you argue that continuous content implies that the game couldn't have been released in a finished state, well, that would mean GW2 was released in an unfinished state (and it would therefore warrant a roadmap according to your first statement).

The implication was that those games were also deliberately unfinished products sold piecemeal, and the examples served only to reiterate the point despite the semantic differences being presented. But that point was lost, which means there's no point left in discussing it. "You win", good job.