Q:
when will this story end
A:
That’s exactly next week.
Honestly, I wish it could last even longer, perhaps even as a permanent map with all those events as permanent. I am mostly busy with real-life work, so hardly had a chance to play. Only last Sunday I really got a taste of it, other than that most days I hardly can play at all. I hope I can complete all achievements but I doubt it’ll be possible. I’ll try though nonetheless.
Ultimately, I must say its fun, especially the race, it really brings the game to a new area of entertainment, in a way that we are not always stuck with killing and slashing but can enjoy racing with friends and stuff. This should be permanent to give the game more variety in my opinion.
Hope it’ll stay.
Thanks
The next Living Story starts 7/23.
As far as we know at least parts of the next Living Story will take place at the Bazaar, so I guess that it will not go away for at least three weeks. In the last two month we had a Living Story with lots of achievements (Southsun, Dragon Bash) which stayed when the next patch was released, then a dungeon which was for only a patch. So this would also means that the Bazaar will be here for a while. If you check the Grandmaster of Om achievement it says: “Defeat Poyaqui, the Grandmaster of Om, in a game of Belcher’s Bluff before Zephyr Sanctum departs.” So the zone will be permanent as Belcher’s Bluff is not temporary content. But the Zephyr Sanctum will be removed at some time and you cannot complete the Bazaar achievements after that.
But this is just speculation, if you want to make sure you should complete everything until 7/23.
Hope more time is given. For players who can only play on Sunday due to heavy work commitments, it leaves little time to do anything. I believe new contents can still be release on schedule but keep old contents active for others who need more time to complete it.