Guild Wars 2

Dear ANet,

Please provide a novelization of the personal story.

• The first chapters should loosely be based on the personal choices at character creation.
• The tribe chapters should be randomized
• The order chapters should depend on the order choice (if no order has been chosen yet by a specific character, randomize or have text bits ready that reflect that a character is working with all orders. FOR THE PACT!)
• Obviously, the entire last third of the book would be the same for everyone, other than name and personal pronoun (and possibly some flavour text based on the character’s race).

Formats

• Make hardcopies available via print-on-demand. Allow people to order it via your website, providing an account name and character name to base the story on. Allow people the choice of several backgrounds for the book cover; then render it using the character’s current model from your character database. I would pay up to USD 20/EUR 15 per book.
• Make e-book available via the gem store. 1000 gems would be a fair price.

The hardcopies would make excellent presents for people’s significant others, guildies’ birthdays, etc.

The e-book I would probably buy for myself; I’d buy several, just for my own characters! I’m convinced that many people would buy at least three (order, priory, vigil).

Super Fancy Bonus

If it featured a “best buddy” based on a different player character (most people I know play GW2 personal stories together with their significant other, BFF, guildie etc.)… I’d buy 10 just for myself, plus they would make even more excellent birthday gifts. I would pay a couple dollars/gems more for this option, even.

I don’t think that any game or even movie franchise has done this yet (at least, I haven’t heard of it) – the PR would be potentially spectacular. I’m sure that these things will come, though. Somebody’s gonna be the first to offer this and get all the PR. Be that somebody.

(Totally not posting this because my boyfriend’s birthday is coming up.)

That’s actually a pretty cool idea. I’d love to buy my personal story in a hardcover with some nice artwork in it.

OOooo. I like.

Like I said, I am absolutely certain that this sort of thing will be done by others in time – you can already get customized children’s books and such.

ANet’s advantage would be that we’re already heavily invested in our characters, and people have been asking for more GW2 novels anyway – put two and two together…

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

ANet’s advantage would be that we’re already heavily invested in our characters, and people have been asking for more GW2 novels anyway – put two and two together…

I am not but it would help, I guess.

Well, let me put it this way, I’ve been trying to get more invested, too. It just adds another quality to playing the game.