One of the pieces showed a combat arena with a cheering crowd surrounding strange pillars. From the gorgeous concept art that was shown, it's clear that Aztec themes ran rampant throughout this campaign. The Guild Wars world tour, starting with Europe ( Prophecies) and going to Asia ( Factions) and Africa ( Nightfall), was set to visit South American themes with Utopia. "We kept changing the scope of what we were doing, until it became Guild Wars 2," Game Designer Eric Flannum said. These ideas quickly morphed into something larger and more breathtaking than a new campaign.
On top of that, many of the ideas that the devs wanted to implement simply weren't doable within the framework of the game itself. To sum it up, the team was starting to realize that by churning out campaign after campaign, the game was quickly becoming insanely complex and difficult to balance.
#Guild wars utopia Pc
However, from this 2007 issue of PC Gamer, we did learn a lot about why Utopia was canned. Unlike some other canceled-before-their-time titles, ArenaNet never showed Utopia to the public, and apart from a mention in a single publication and some concept art, the studio's never seemed overly eager to talk about it. The truth is that what we do know is patchy and fairly incomplete. As you well know, the possibilities of "what if?" always torment and tease me so, which is why I've been dying to do an article on this aborted fourth campaign. I was never as deep into the Guild Wars scene as some, so while this may have been common knowledge for many, it was news to me. I've always been fascinated with Guild Wars Utopia ever since hearing about it a year or so back. Following that, ArenaNet announced Guild Wars 2 and the cessation of any new Guild Wars campaigns. Then the news came out that the campaign was not going to happen but that the franchise's first expansion was to be released instead. Rumors and information slightly stronger than rumors floated that ArenaNet was deep into development on its fourth campaign for 2007. By then, players were assured that the ArenaNet content factory was up and running strong, and if you consider the millions of copies sold, making serious bank.īut then the process stuttered and halted. Exactly a year later, Guild Wars Factions came out followed by Guild Wars Nightfall in October 2006. The initial title, Guild Wars Prophecies, released in April of 2005. The idea was that players would be paying for new content, not the time it took to play it. To make a profit and stay afloat, the studio created a platform that was cheaper to run than traditional MMOs and then vowed to release a new "campaign" - a stand-alone Guild Wars title that was integrated with the rest - on a regular basis.
#Guild wars utopia free
In a time when most every game was subscription-based, ArenaNet decided to go a different way by making its cooperative RPGs subscription free - charging the player only the sticker price of the box. From the get-go, Guild Wars had a much different business model from anything else in the MMO field.
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