Welcome to my Bullshit

Guild Wars: Reforged AND Guild Wars 2 are not being abandoned for Guild Wars 3.

They are committing to releasing content for all 3 games moving forward.

Guild Wars: Reforged recently added new dungeons and heroes that were big successes, so they have said they are confident in moving forward with even more new content. They even teased a 'new type' of content (Guild Wars 1 Raids?!)

Guild Wars 2 will continue getting major releases, they even acknowledged that when GW2 was announced they completely stopped work on GW1, but that this time around they aren't making the same decision

After VoE the GW2 team will be spending about a year working on improving the game both outside and in.

As an example, they specifically mentioned that the Zhaitan fight at the end of the base game will be getting a rework. They will also be updating some of the engine (but that's too technical for me to explain/understand)

There is a Hall of Monuments 2.0 to link GW2 to GW3, it will release in phases, with the first phase launching this year.

To also tie into GW3 there will be a new open world map added to Orr that will be part of the base game, so everyone will be able to explore the area.

The 'caveat' that they did mention is that after VoE they are pausing expansions for GW2 temporarily till after GW3 releases. After GW3 comes out, GW2 will return to big yearly releases. I will admit on this point, I'm hyper aware that they said they'd pause 'expansions', but then said 'big yearly releases' instead of saying expansions again. I could just be looking too much into it, but I did notice the wording, and it could just be they don't wanna commit to the word 'expansion' if they decide to title the releases something else.

Now all of the above, to me, sounds great, that means if people truly don't care for GW3, they can keep playing any of the old games and still get to look forward to new content. Best case scenario (which I personally belive we are in) will be that GW2 keep getting the yearly expansions that keep the story moving into the future.

Now, we can't fully dismiss the idea that all of this could fail, and a year from now anet announces 'sorry we couldn't make it work, we are just focusing on GW3' and that could happen and I'd be really disappointed and upset. I mean for all of us playing during HoT, that dry period after the expansion launched was not a good time and it really questioned if Anet could step it up to produce regular content. But then I'd have to say that as time has gone on, they've been pretty good about it. Expansions came out on a regular schedule, sure sometimes the story in the yearly expacs have been... lacking, but they still were full of content that was fun and engaging I'd argue. They even said that if they were going to do the same thing as launching GW2, they would have stopped content over a year ago.

To me, the fact we have already had new Guild Wars: Reforged content, new GW 2 expansions, and now learning they've been secretly building GW3 all at the same time, feels like some proof of yes, they can actually do this. And it isn't without precedent, I saw someone on YouTube bring up the fact that EverQuest 1 kept getting expansions after EverQuest 2 released, which also got regular expansions at the same time.