This article is poorly research. Most guild wars 2 players were expecting a guild wars 3 announcement.  The game had been confirmed a while ago.  Major guild wars 2 content creators have been speculating on a gw3 announcement all week.  Also, 5000 concurrent players is just on Steam, which is a relatively new platform for gw2 and a small fraction of the player base.  I hope you enjoyed my ad impression for this article, you will not get another.  After I post this I am blocking this website.  I do have have time for people who want to be reporters but do not want to put in the time and effort to accurately report.

FFXIV literally did overtake WoW . . . You act like GW2 was the only MMO that came close.

Please! Please! Please! Don't make our characters into special snowflakes ("chosen ones to save the world"). It is much more immersive (and freeform) to generate an ordinary character new in the world who has to explore, fight, and extablish their own formidability. I'm just tired of scripted linear storyline nonsense. Even retail WOW more or less frees players from the storyline (after a while) to wander about and adventure freely. And the players like that.

the art style looks like the typical mass appeal least common denominator for all age groups mainstream approved disney UE5 slop... big turn off