Guild Wars 2

You have to consider all of the development time done to LA during Wintersday, Halloween, Dragonbash, etc.

All of these events were designed to be reoccurring events.

It seems grossly ineffective to throw all that away. I forsee that “ruined LA” will be a temporary skin on the city placed until this temporary content is over.

It might be ruined from what we know. Some parts could remain or be rebuilt. It might not be rubble, but a totally new looking LA. That can host events.

Most of the skinning for pretty much anything in game is fairly simple to implement from what Anet has shown us in the past. They also have shown that they are willing to crete and dump content without care on design time.

This from an interview massively had:
“Personal story steps will be accessible through a new entrance. Hwang’s team has taken steps to ensure that the city will remain fully explorable for map completion, although if you’re especially fond of a particular view…well, you might want to grab screenshots while you can. We were also warned that exploration isn’t exactly going to be as safe as it currently is”

That sounds more permanent and fits with their overall discussion, such as the tag line, “Nothing lasts forever.”

If you did more than 5 minutes research would would understand how wrong you are. They can and will burn LA to the ground.

It will just be temporary. We will retake LA soon enough.

I hope LA will be toast, wouldn’t make much sense to change the landscape in a dramatic way for 2-4 weeks and then have everything turn back to normal.

Also, I’m hoping that in a few weeks I get to post ‘lfg LA p1’ in guild chat

FateOmega.9601:

It will just be temporary. We will retake LA soon enough.

Unfortunately, you’re probably right. I wish it would get burned to the ground, but that won’t happen.

While it is true that these events were designed to reoccur, they also said in one of the more recent Wintersday-Livestream that they had to / have to implement each event in LA and other areas. There is no switch for “Wintersday On/Off”, maybe a template, but nothing that couldn’t be adapted to map changes. All of the decorations are designed and finished, all Anet will have to do is to relocate them to a new layout (if there will be one).