{"id":14772,"date":"2012-04-24T10:42:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14772"},"modified":"2012-04-24T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:42:42","slug":"arenanet-founder-says-were-in-it-to-win-with-guild-wars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/arenanet-founder-says-were-in-it-to-win-with-guild-wars-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ArenaNet founder says &#8220;We&#8217;re in it to win&#8221; with <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Guild_Wars_2_icon.png\" title=\"Guild_Wars_2_icon\" width=\"73\" height=\"73\" align=\"top\" \/>A recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johngaudiosi\/2012\/04\/23\/arenanet-founder-mike-obrien-will-be-satisfied-when-guild-wars-2-is-the-most-successful-mmo-period\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike O&#8217;Brien<\/a>, founder of ArenaNet, in <em>Forbes<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Guild Wars<\/em> beat all of our expectations and our company grew as we put out four expansions and we came together as a team and learned how to build content,&#8221; said O\u2019Brien. &#8220;We got to a point where we wanted to see what we could accomplish next, so in 2007 we announced to our fans that we were going to start working on <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> and we\u2019d be quiet for a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That long wait is finally coming to a close with an open beta test this coming weekend, where fans will get their first tour of the new Tyria, set 250 years after the events of the first game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re in it to win it this time,&#8221; said O\u2019Brien. &#8220;We were number two to <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> with <em>Guild Wars<\/em>, now we want to beat them. We\u2019ll be satisfied when the <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> is the most successful MMO. I think we have something unique here and players are going to see it and understand why dynamic events are a way better content model than people have experienced before in online worlds. Word-of-mouth will get people to understand that we really are doing something new and different. The sky\u2019s the limit once this game is out. Online worlds have a networking effect. People will bring friends to <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em>. We hope all the people who play the beta weekend will tell their friends about it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent interview with Mike O&#8217;Brien, founder of ArenaNet, in Forbes: &#8220;Guild Wars beat all of our expectations and our company grew as we put out four expansions and we came together as a team and learned how to build content,&#8221; said O\u2019Brien. &#8220;We got to a point where we wanted to see what we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28],"tags":[191,192],"class_list":["post-14772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-media","tag-guildwars","tag-mmorpg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Qg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14774,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14772\/revisions\/14774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}