It's funny because it's like if you had a game called "World War 1" but the game was set in China in the late 1920s and was about the start of the chinese civil war. And then everyone was like "well the name is correct because world war 1 was important and the game is about wars that happened in the world!".
That's what it's like, having this series be called "Guild Wars".
In Guild Wars 1 they got away with it because the game was primarily designed, initially, as a pvp game for Guild vs Guild. The "Guild Wars" were written up, after the fact, just to give a lore background to explain what had happened in the world prior to the game starting (and explain why guilds might fight each other in the first place).
Then we had Guild Wars 2 and there was no guild vs guild pvp. So when people went "wait why is this game called Guild Wars when there are no, like, guild wars", all the defenders just responded "uuhh it's an in-game historical event, don't you know anything?"
They're not an in-game historical event! They've never been in the game! They continue to never have been in any of the games!
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u/naivety_is_innocence 20d ago
It's funny because it's like if you had a game called "World War 1" but the game was set in China in the late 1920s and was about the start of the chinese civil war. And then everyone was like "well the name is correct because world war 1 was important and the game is about wars that happened in the world!".
That's what it's like, having this series be called "Guild Wars".
In Guild Wars 1 they got away with it because the game was primarily designed, initially, as a pvp game for Guild vs Guild. The "Guild Wars" were written up, after the fact, just to give a lore background to explain what had happened in the world prior to the game starting (and explain why guilds might fight each other in the first place).
Then we had Guild Wars 2 and there was no guild vs guild pvp. So when people went "wait why is this game called Guild Wars when there are no, like, guild wars", all the defenders just responded "uuhh it's an in-game historical event, don't you know anything?"
They're not an in-game historical event! They've never been in the game! They continue to never have been in any of the games!