Guild Wars: Gaile Gray Tries to Squash the Expansion/Sequel Rumors

Gaile Gray is responding to yesterday's rumor about the upcoming expansion and Guild Wars 2. Posting over at GW Online, she said...basically nothing:

Just a quick word to let you know that we haven't made any official announcements about Guild Wars in, oh, a couple of months. Sure, there's a little *ahem* info circulating this week. But you guys know the drill: Until we say it, it's not official. I can tell you that some of what you've read is right, some of it is wrong, and quite a bit of it is misleading. Unfortunately, we can't offer a fact check quite yet.

But wait, there's more...

The good news is that the top game publications in Europe and the U.S. are preparing feature articles with major Guild Wars news -- I wasn't joking when I said a few days ago that I think it'll knock your socks off. In the U.S., PC Gamer will begin delivery of the May issue to subscribers on March 15, and it will be on newsstands on April 3. European magazines, including Joystick in France, PC Zone in the U.K., PC GamePlay in Benelux, Games Machine in Italy, and PC Gamer in Germany, will reach subscribers and newsstands before the end of March.

Knowing you guys, no matter where you're located, you'll be sharing the info from your regional magazines, and that's great. I want to make sure that I let you know, this isn't some small feature -- I would boldly say that any Guild Wars player would want to buy one of these magazines, subscriber or not! In part this is because they'll offer great articles with a lot of cool info. In part it's because the magazines will give you the chance to adopt your very own exclusive new miniature. Check our website for more info tomorrow!

A lot of words that basically, as one of the GWO readers put it, tells everyone to go out and buy a magazine. Apparently being an "official" site doesn't give access to any fore-knowledge like this, sorry to say, GWO. Puts them in the same boat as us independents. *grins*

The fact that GG is out there posting about it lends a lot of credence to the "rumor" even if some of the facts are a bit skewed. Kind of makes you wonder how much booze the Inquirer folks had to consume at the Game Developers' Conference to get someone at NCSoft to relinquish the news since they're a bit...tight...about controlling the dissemination of news. Still, it must gall the publicity engine that a "rag" like the Inquirerer scooped the print media. Bet there has been a lot of feather smoothing between AN and the gaming print media.

Regardless of the outcome, it's fun to speculate.