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The first beta for Guild Wars 3 will be in fall 2027, but there's no release window announced yet. For reference, the first closed beta tests for Guild Wars 2 began less than a year before it launched. It's hard to say if we should expect the same timeline for Guild Wars 3, but in its breakdown on what to expect for the future of Guild Wars 2 (more on that below), ArenaNet mentioned a time frame of "the next 18 months," referring to improvements it would be making to GW2 before GW3. That would put us in December 2027, which is still pretty soon after the first beta tests are supposed to begin

Guild Wars 3 will lean into playing as an "action-adventure MMORPG," ArenaNet says, with combat designed to play on both gamepad and keyboard & mouse. Anet has emphasized GW3's "one-of-a-kind movement system that transfers your momentum between modes of travel" which include gliding, riding, jumping, and wall-running. It also said: "As players seamlessly transition between various movement modes, they can harness their speed and turn it into bigger damage and impact when fighting their foes." Guild Wars 2 already has so much interesting use of movement with its mounts, dodging, and flying, and

The Future of Guild Wars: Our Commitment to Tyria - YouTube Watch On After announcing GW3, ArenaNet posted an entire video talking about the future of Guild Wars Reforged and GW2—basically, that there is a future for both. Guild Wars 2 is planning a period of quality-of-life updates prior to the launch of GW3 and will be pausing expansion development during that time. After the launch of GW3, it will "return to shipping annual major content updates." Here's what's coming in those game updates to Guild Wars 2: A Hall of Monuments system similar to the one in the original Guild Wars for logging

Nope, the Guild Wars series has always been a buy-to-play model and ArenaNet has confirmed that there won't be a subscription this time either. It also won't have any battlepasses "because we think players are sick of those too," studio head Colin Johanson told IGN.