Guild Wars 2's First Expansion Heart of Thorns Announced

It's been out since August 2012 and it's only now getting its first expansion? That's as slow as WoW or even slower and I've heard several people of the internet complain about the slow release of expansions for that game. Not that expansions are the only bit of new content you get in MMO's, but still, I'm surprised GW 2 hasn't got an expansion until now.

Without telling us more this just seems like a living story update

Just picked this up for £8.75 which was a steal good job I waited because I was going to buy it at £19 last month downloaded installed going to playing it in a few mins looking forward to it, I've watched my friend play and it's massive

I wish I had more time to play this awesome game. I have not touched it in months. Everyone must be max level by now which makes me less eager to play this. What chances my new mage would have? Probably none.

Seriously cannot wait for this. I absolutely love GW2.

One of my favourite games of all time. Don't care what the haters say, it's a brilliant game, even if you just play one char to 80 its well worth the purchase price.

I'm always jumping back in and instantly become hooked again.

Don't know if I'll get it right away, need to get a new CPU, and I haven't played GW2 in years. I'll have to start a new character, as well, since my file was hacked...
Only way I'd buy it right away would be if they released it on PS4, but since that probably won't happen, it'll have to wait until 2016. I'm wanting to get a CPU by Xmas this year so that I can run Win10 and play some Rise of the Tomb Raider (since Win10 will be able to play XBONE games). I miss playing this game, but my PS3 and PS4 have been my priority lately.

Oh we love F2P and B2P....first expansion will come 3-4 years after release? Oh that sounds like a great model. What have people been doing for 3 years? Playing other games. The B2P model sucks cause content updates are not a priority.

New Skills Please !!!!!

soooo Guild Wars 2 didn't come with guild halls? Did ANet forget that they even made GW1 when making this game?

Nice, been waiting for the expansion. Don't know if I'll get it right away though, Kind of busy with other games.

I still got alot of questions, but so far it sounds like they're trying to tackle everything the players have been asking for.

Of course, you can't please every spoiled dork and nerd, but I'm looking forward to the new content.

"The expansion will add the Mastery system, an endgame, account-based PvP progression system. Players will earn mastery points as they explore the map, complete missions, and other activities, which they'll be able to spend them on abilities available across characters for your PVP account. For example, players will be able to buy the hand gliding ability, and improve it to reach hard to reach locations"

I think you mean PvE - Mastery System is PvE only, not PvP...

I dislike GW2 and what's taken so long for the first expansion anyway?

I'm pumped for this!

Too little, too late.

Yawn.

On to more Warlords of Draenor.

Kinda excited now. I capped out on several characters and after maining my necro for 400+ hours I finally got bored. Fractals and WvW just aren't enough at the lvl cap. Here is hoping they release some fun PvE end-game content. I will probably get it regardless, I really enjoyed the game.

wish it had mounts and 2 opposing factions instead of the wvw, I'll be picking this up though regardless.

Just got the base game in the deal. £12 for the deluxe version. HELL YEAH!

As a Gw2 player i'm not excited yet they need to release more info

Wow, this game has been out for a while and it's just getting it's first expansion?