"The Sylvari are a race of lichens and barks and leafy creations, and for a while that bothered me. They had been, in a previous incarnation, a sort of dryad-meets-elf-thing, and I knew what to expect with that. The world of fantasy has done dryad-meets-elf-things before, and that was the safe option. I’d be happy to play something that mildly resembled an elf (albeit a very young race of elves, considering that the Sylvari are only 250 years old). Then ArenaNet changed their look and all hell broke loose with my emotions." - Daniel Mahdavi
Wccftech talked to Guild Wars 2 Game Director Josh Davis about the learnings from the Secrets of the Obscure expansion and what's coming to the MMORPG.
The "slippery slope" debate has started, now we wait to see what ArenaNet does.
"ArenaNet and NCSOFT are today very happy and excited to announce that they have just released the "Secrets of the Obscure" expansion for their award-winning and critically acclaimed MMORPG "Guild Wars 2"." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Anet also announced the 5th expansion. "We’ve already started applying lessons from the development of Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure to our fifth expansion, which we expect to be released next year." From their site, been with this game since 1st beta, and announcing the 5th expansion so soon, the game is doing very well, plus the graphics are improved a bit now that it's on DX11🙃