On the one hand? Cool

On the other hand? Holy crap, GW1 has official gamepad support before GW2…

On my third hand (it is one of those pinchy grabby things): I am gonna be REAL curious how this shakes out.

I loved GW1 back in the day. Five or six months back I got it in my head to replay the campaigns and… they are REAL bad

1. Prophecies is the original campaign and is, narratively, the coolest (and really drills down how Humans are actually the Elves of Tyria which just went even farther with GW2). It is also the one that was specifically designed to require coop and the henchmen, if anything, make the game worse which is why general guidance is to not start in Prophecies or to make a mad rush to Nightfall to get proper Heroes). Laranity gonna have to work in overdrive to put out enough videos to tell people to not make a Prophecies character…
2. Even once you have a full roster of maxed out Heroes, the level scaling means that you are basically constantly in a slog against rapid healing enemies until you get the right skills to make the right builds to stop that… and the way skills work in GW1 is that you have to buy them from specific vendors (or steal them from specific bosses) which means you actively can’t make a solid build until a good chunk of the way through multiple campaigns
3. And, regardless of those builds, the way fast travel works is that you can only fast travel to towns/outposts. So to complete a quest or reach the next mission that often involves a 10-40 minute slog through one or more zones of constant level cap enemies just to find the next town/mission before you have to log off for the evening. Which is a REALLY bad feeling when you aren’t even sure what path to take to get to the next outpost

I DO think GW1 can be “modernized” with minimal changes.

1, Add more skill vendors to Lion’s Arch or even the starting hub areas. Especially since it sounds like Reforged is getting rid of the DLC/expansions and making it one bundle. 2. Arguably also allow us to buy those skills regardless of our class (so Necro can buy Mesmer skills). This removes a lot of the importance of Ascending but also makes building out those Heroes so much faster 3. Similarly, let’s add a Hero or two to Prophecies and Cantha so it isn’t a mad rush to Nightfall. 4. Add more fast travel points to the maps. I would almost say to just make all the respawn shrines fast travel points but there are probably balance issues there

Do that and GW1 stops being a slog where you need an hour or two per session to make any progress and instead lets people focus on the REALLY fun builds you can make for different characters.