Guild Wars 2

Now I’m not going to write the end-all, be-all writeup on this because that simply can’t be done but I figured adding something to the mix couldn’t hurt.

I see a lot of people complaining about Living Story, and Scarlet, and figured it’d help to set a few things straight.

1. The 2-week living story updates aren’t meant to be compared to the 2-year expansions from those other games you’ve played. Each of these updates is like a half of an issue of a comic book, compared to the novels you get from other sources (which sometimes take 8 plus years, COUGH COUGH GRRM…). Please stop trying to consume it like you would something else. They’re not the same, and you’re only hurting yourself by setting expectations too high.

2. Scarlet hasn’t ACTUALLY been around that long and hasn’t ACTUALLY been mastermind of “all of the things” as long as you think. Go back and look at Wrath of the Lich King. how many months/years was Arthas the big bad, incapable of being hurt at all until there came a point at which players were finally allowed to beat him? The most you could do was inconvenience him, which you did a few times – shocking isn’kitten how much MORE you’ve been able to do to stop Scarlet already.

Fact is, this fractal wasn’t planned – and yes it does feature Scarlet, but that’s not the development team’s fault. This biweekly was supposed to be a vacation from Scarlet, not a continuation. And you can say all you want about how they wanted Kiel to win, I never saw a single celebrity (or streamer, or prominent player commenting on the game) endorsing kiel. It was a 100% across the board gnashfest amongst all of the people that I saw outside of the game commenting on who they wanted to win.

That being said, I understand completely with the people who are frustrated. Scarlet AGAIN?!?! Why it’s as if they’re INTENDING for us to get angry and upset when we see her. What is she, some sort of VILLAIN?!?!

Side note: Also the flame armors are cool, but enough with the fire already. I do think it’s cool that the medium armor looks good on male charr (hey, it’s an armor set not designed for human females!) but yeah, the fiery human tier 3 cultural looks pretty. If only dudes could wear that version too.

Should have been both SP and MP. Players choice to play the game as ‘you want’.