Guild Wars 2

This is the reason why I find living story quite boring, because its like watching other people play a game.

Remember in Starcraft when you first started a mission and you got the cutscene? Imaging the game like that, except through the entire mission you see the heroes of these scenes get all the credit and you are rewarded with Instant Gratification.

Instant Gratification
This is what I like to call, doing little to nothing and getting rewarded for it, as soon as you logged into the living story, you are instantly rewarded and praised via mail saying to show up to a place, when you get to a place you go into an instance and said cut-scene plays.

When you play through the stages, you barely have to do anything! You are less involved then the NPCs standing there guarding the arena. When you first arrive you see Lowdog and Queen Gina and whatsherfaceIdidn’tevencaretoremember.

You barely have little time to know whats going on, and you seem excited. Hey! Maybe I will actually be able to fight the—- Lowdog: I will fight it for you Milady! Hey what abou—… Yes! Very well… watches the scene for awile Stuff happens!

Eventually you.. follow NPCs around and watch all the fun happen while you have little to no involvement. and get REWARDED! YAY INSTANT GRATIFICATION!

Living Story is honestly one of the most boring things I’ve ever done, the event itself is quite boring as well. All you do is go farm a bunch of champions over and over, the same way, over and over… and Lo behold, more instant gratification!

If you are a Melee Class, don’t bother showing up at the event, mobs kill you instantly unless your standing back in ranged and zerging to death.

Honestly, with the little involvement I even had, I don’t even care about Queen Jina or Lowdog, or whatshisface or whatswhosface.

When I play a game, it should be about me and my friends. Lowdog and Gina are nice, but I really don’t care about them or their life, my player has his own life to worry about.

You are not a hero, your a babysitter
In the living story, time and time again all it proves is that Tyrians are incapable of logical thought, why is the Order of Whispers in Lion’s Arch not taking care of the problems they have been having lately, don’t they actually live there? Didn’t we just do an entire storyline to make a pact to get them involved to take care of the problems in Tyria… what ever happend to all that? Why is this even happening?

You must not like most MMOs…… cause this is pretty much how they all seem to work from my experience. ‘Escort this npc’ ‘Kill this many critters for this npc’ ‘Protect this npc from this mob’ ‘Help this npc kill random boss’ Pretty much how it works, its all a variation of the same themes.

People complain about Trahearne, when the player does all the work and the glory goes to the NPC. Now there are complaints about the player -not- having the spotlight?

See, I don’t have any issues with Trahearne….. he’s just another Togo, or Kormir.

My problem with the Living Story is that it doesn’t really tell a story so far. And lately the LS seems to be just an excuse to add more (grindy) achievements in game. There’s not a lot of substance so far, but with the update that provides nice incentives for having a lot of achievement points, it’s worth completing the LS related achievements. If it wasn’t for this, I doubt I would bother dealing with the LS content.

Could someone ask the OP to hush please? Legendary just spawned.