Update on Precursor Scavenger Hunt

It is been a while since we were told concerning the precursor scavenger hunt that ArenaNet wanted to implement in-game. Last night, with the intention of being as transparent as attainable, Colin Johanson has updated the community with its development timeline:

Just a swift update on where the entire scavenger hunt program stands since I know that's a topic loads of of you have brought up lately. We are not right now actively working on building any sort of legendary precursor scavenger hunt, this really is something we should do in the future & we're in the midst of designing how this would function, however no one is actively building this feature & you will need to not anticipate in the Jan/Feb/March releases at this point.

We are yet working on expanding reward strategies to make them more re-worthwhile across all parts of the gw2 gold game, making the open world more gratifying, and adding new ways you can earn precursors as rewards by means of new reward methods taking benefit of our open persistent world.

Some of these additions will come as early as the January release, & will get handled in more detail in the next week or two as well release all the details about this release once checking has signed off it is all ready to go in January. (we'll also provide a high level summary of our objectives with reward methods, and so on. within our 2013 blog post, which will need to be out next week)

Update:

To clarify since I think these 2 statements could be tricky without context, Linsey is indeed working on designing the method by which we'd add precursor scavenger hunts to the guild wars 2 gold game. We are not actively implementing that design but, it hasn't been finalized, and building it that will involve a much larger team.

No conflicting statements here, as a game designer when they are working on something, by and large that implies they are designing it, as that is their employment.

Marvelous catch & thank you for asking for clarity!

helpful resources:

http://www.leapzipblog.com/blog/read/91436/darkfall%3A-unholy-wars%3A-the-games-of-2013%3A-darkfall-unholy-wars/

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