Thoughts on players of the community.

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@Iromi

They mentioned it fairly late in development with comments like how Yoshida said he enjoyed Guild Wars 2. They also said they had their developers playing current MMORPGs to gain insights into how to design the game. The only reason they'd make comments like that is if they were going to copy paste the living hell out of what they were playing, which was most likely WoW. I don't have a date for when they said those things. However, I do know it was some time after the servers for 1.0 were shut down, possibly half way through development of 2.0.

I can sympathize with how 1.0 players feel, since I lived through the Star Wars Galaxies redesign era and saw how that effected a lot of people. "Hey, I know you really like the game you are playing now, but here is a brand new game! Oh, and you can't play the old one ever again. K, bye~!" Bait and switch on a whole other scale.