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How ArenaNet juiced up the original Guild Wars 20 years later | interview

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How ArenaNet juiced up the original Guild Wars 20 years later | interview

ArenaNet today announced the release date for the first new premium DLC for Guild Wars in almost two decades. This DLC, called Afterlife, launches on January 13, 2027 for PC via Steam, iOS and Android. It introduces the land of Xotecha, with the intention to challenge Guild Wars players who may have gotten complacent in the last twenty years.

According to ArenaNet, it created Afterlife in partnership with co-dev studio 2weeks (which, GamesBeat is given to understand, is staffed by several ArenaNet alumni), all while supporting Guild Wars 2 and working on Guild Wars 3. It also continues the work that the studio did to revamp the original game through Guild Wars Reforged.

I caught up with Colin Johanson, studio head at ArenaNet, at GamesBeat Next to ask him some questions about the new expansion, and how it came about. According to him, the idea for an expansion to the original game came about while they were working on ways to tie Guild Wars 2 to the third game.

”Quietly, in the background, while we were working on Reforged, we also decided to take a chance and see what would happen if we took a chance on something bigger… It takes place in a different location, with new characters and themes, but there are some story pieces that tie back to the stories of 2005-2007 that our Guild Wars fans are going to be really excited about.”

Johanson also told me the that some of the ideas for Afterlife are from Utopia, an expansion for Guild Wars that was planned and then never made after the team turned its attention to the Eyes of the North expansion.


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