Guild Wars 2 will Not Release Any Standalone Expansions

ArenaNet confirmed that there will be no standalone expansions for Guild Wars 2 like it’s predecessor.

What this mean is that ArenaNet will not release a future expansion for Guildwars 2 as a box retail version. Expansions for Guild Wars 2 will be purchase through the in-game store.

Guild Wars 2’s lead designer, Eric Flannum said in an interview with Gamerzines:

“At this time we don’t plan to continue with the standalone expansion model”

“We felt that this model split our player base unnecessarily and also caused us to focus development effort on things that were redundant with the original release of the game such as tutorial areas and duplicates of already existing skills.”

Most likely ArenaNet will gradually put new contents in the in-game store and let users purchase them, either separately or as a whole DLC package.

Guild Wars 2 will go into Beta soon and will be released next year.

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