Guild Wars 2

Getefix.9150:

bazaar of 4 winds wasnt a festival, its a part of living story
dragonbash was for july 4th
queens jubilee will be for gw2’s anniversary – they arent just doing these for the hell of it, theres a reason behind them

All three of what you listed are part of living story, not just the bazaar… and yes, a bazaar is a festival. All we’ve done in this chapter, excluding the trials, are festival activities. There was little to no story content at all.

More festivals, I say.

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

All three of what you listed are part of living story, not just the bazaar… and yes, a bazaar is a festival.

A bazaar is most definitely not a festival. It’s a market.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bazaar

All we’ve done in this chapter, excluding the trials, are festival activities. There was little to no story content at all.

Surely the election will play a role in the story at a later point?

in gw1 there was one for the chinese new year (canthan new year) but not in gw2, i suppose they want to wait till cantha is released for that one

Spendingallmytime.7249:

More festivals, I say.

Really? So you want to spend all the time you play in GW2 doing nothing but mini-games? Its like we’re not even playing GW2 anymore.

There’s plenty to do outside of these events. Go do those instead of you loathe it so much. A break from the regular content in GW2, for me, is great.

I sorta agree with this. I’m tired of go touch base with this many items or go here just to go there type of deal. Fetch quests are not on my top 10 things I like to do. I would rather have more instanced stuff where you could go in with a team or alone. Some more in depth story telling would be nice to see. Reading text to me isn’t as much fun as watching the cut scenes. I can not remember the last competitive mini game I played. Maybe I have never even tried one to date I really can not remember but I know I dislike that content because there is no real substance to it. Were the op dislikes festivals i just dislike the way the content is being presented to us in general. I would like to see some real progression that is story driven and not achievement driven.

Zedd.8239:

A bazaar is a market.

If we’re talking about the Middle East, then yes, a bazaar is a market. But in other cultures -specifically american, and I believe, European cultures- it is a temporary market, a festive market, and generally comes but once or twice a year.

Too much too fast! I love the content updates but yes they are too bloody close together and it is becoming very hard to maintain a consistent cash flow and you can bet your kitten I am not about to spend cash on gems and convert to gold. I play the game as a game is meant to be played and work for what I want, need, desire, not buy it with my credit card like a lazy lump wanting it all RIGHT NOW. That totally defeats the purpose of playing the game. Anyway, to each his/her own but it saddens me to see Anet take advantage of the gem shop in such a manner. Gem prices are already sky rocketing and will continue so just the way they planned. Best of luck to us all, I just want to enjoy the game and not worry about not being able to buy the gems I need for important items in the store like BL salv kits, fine trans stones, character slots and bags. before we know it, gems will be 1 gold per gem muahahaaaaaa…

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Getefix.9150:

bazaar of 4 winds wasnt a festival, its a part of living story
dragonbash was for july 4th
queens jubilee will be for gw2’s anniversary – they arent just doing these for the hell of it, theres a reason behind them

All three of what you listed are part of living story, not just the bazaar… and yes, a bazaar is a festival. All we’ve done in this chapter, excluding the trials, are festival activities. There was little to no story content at all.

The bazaar was less a festival and more just a gathering of traders and merchants. What exactly was the bazaar celebrating, if it was a festival? Most kite day celebrations are earlier in the year. I don’t exactly recall doing any particular festival activities. Sanctum Sprint felt more like a mini-game than a part of a festival, and it’s staying permanently anyway so it’s not really related to a festival.

I agree to the extent that there has been too much emphasis on mini-games recently, and I think the two-week cycle is too fast to allow players to enjoy the content at their own pace (the releases seem somewhat frantic).

However, I also think most of the content has been fun.

Spendingallmytime.7249:

There’s plenty to do outside of these events. Go do those instead of you loathe it so much. A break from the regular content in GW2, for me, is great.

The problem is that this is becoming the regular content.

Look at it this way, this festival centers around a new gladiatorial arena, so I think we’re going to have a lot more fighting than activities.

Vahkris.6847:

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Getefix.9150:

bazaar of 4 winds wasnt a festival, its a part of living story
dragonbash was for july 4th
queens jubilee will be for gw2’s anniversary – they arent just doing these for the hell of it, theres a reason behind them

All three of what you listed are part of living story, not just the bazaar… and yes, a bazaar is a festival. All we’ve done in this chapter, excluding the trials, are festival activities. There was little to no story content at all.

The bazaar was less a festival and more just a gathering of traders and merchants. What exactly was the bazaar celebrating, if it was a festival? Most kite day celebrations are earlier in the year. I don’t exactly recall doing any particular festival activities. Sanctum Sprint felt more like a mini-game than a part of a festival, and it’s staying permanently anyway so it’s not really related to a festival.

-facepalm- ‘what exactly was the bazaar celebrating, if it was a festival?’ Celebrating trade; that’s what bazaars do. And Sanctum Sprint was introduced by the main traders of the festival, so you can’t say its not related, its practically their national sport. As for mini-games not being festive activities, when you go to a fair, how many mini-games are present?

The world is tormented by Dragons, Undead and just GOD know what more sleep in Underworld and Fissure Of Woe, YAY lest have another festival content.

What next Dev birthday patch?

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Zedd.8239:

A bazaar is a market.

If we’re talking about the Middle East, then yes, a bazaar is a market. But in other cultures -specifically american, and I believe, European cultures- it is a temporary market, a festive market, and generally comes but once or twice a year.

The concept of a bazaar is hardly unique to the Middle East. Many other cultures have their own words for this type of market. Bazaar is just a more commonly used word.

In the context of this event, it’s clearly intended to be a temporary market. The Zephyr Sanctum arrived in Tyria and setup a market to sell various items from other parts of the world. There’s no reason why such a thing can’t be festive but calling it a festival is simply inaccurate. It’s a market first and foremost.

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Vahkris.6847:

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Getefix.9150:

bazaar of 4 winds wasnt a festival, its a part of living story
dragonbash was for july 4th
queens jubilee will be for gw2’s anniversary – they arent just doing these for the hell of it, theres a reason behind them

All three of what you listed are part of living story, not just the bazaar… and yes, a bazaar is a festival. All we’ve done in this chapter, excluding the trials, are festival activities. There was little to no story content at all.

The bazaar was less a festival and more just a gathering of traders and merchants. What exactly was the bazaar celebrating, if it was a festival? Most kite day celebrations are earlier in the year. I don’t exactly recall doing any particular festival activities. Sanctum Sprint felt more like a mini-game than a part of a festival, and it’s staying permanently anyway so it’s not really related to a festival.

-facepalm- ‘what exactly was the bazaar celebrating, if it was a festival?’ Celebrating trade; that’s what bazaars do. And Sanctum Sprint was introduced by the main traders of the festival, so you can’t say its not related, its practically their national sport. As for mini-games not being festive activities, when you go to a fair, how many mini-games are present?

How many of those festival minigames remain after the festival is over?

Celebrating trade? We already do that, it’s called the gem store and BLTC, that means we’re always celebrating trade, so we’re always in festival mode so this complaint is meaningless.

That’s a pretty vague reason to call it a festival. It never felt much like a festival to me, honestly. It was a large market.

Hell, the large trading area way back in the original EverQuest was called a Bazaar…certainly wasn’t any sort of festival. It’s a large trading place where merchants come together to sell and trade.

Call them whatever you like but please less mini games and achievements tied to # of games played, kills earned, points scored etc.

Zedd.8239:

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Zedd.8239:

A bazaar is a market.

If we’re talking about the Middle East, then yes, a bazaar is a market. But in other cultures -specifically american, and I believe, European cultures- it is a temporary market, a festive market, and generally comes but once or twice a year.

The concept of a bazaar is hardly unique to the Middle East. Many other cultures have their own words for this type of market. Bazaar is just a more commonly used word.

In the context of this event, it’s clearly intended to be a temporary market. The Zephyr Sanctum arrived in Tyria and setup a market to sell various items from other parts of the world. There’s no reason why such a thing can’t be festive but calling it a festival is simply inaccurate. It’s a market first and foremost.

Such a thing that happens so rarely would be a festive occasion. Its been ten years since last the Zephyr Sanctum arrived, and you’re telling me its not a festival?

Vick.6805:

I agree to the extent that there has been too much emphasis on mini-games recently, and I think the two-week cycle is too fast to allow players to enjoy the content at their own pace (the releases seem somewhat frantic).

However, I also think most of the content has been fun.

Well, you see, when they started the living story with Flame and Frost (on a Monthly update schedule), the fine posters of this forum declared that there was not enough content. They wanted more to do. So they doubled the speed at which content is released – now people complain that there is too much content.

You have one month to complete one update’s content, and 2 weeks for another. If you HAVE to have everything done, then you HAVE to play more often. If it’s not important to you that you complete everything, then its timeframe shouldn’t be a problem.

Realistically, though, only the mid-month update could be said to be too short – I’ve found them just about right for my playing habits, hitting 2-4 hours on many days, and 0-2 hours on days when I work more – and I try to complete ALL the achievements with each patch. The content doesn’t bother me because if I didn’t enjoy it, I wouldn’t play it and would go run some temples, dungeons, fractals, WvW, etc. It’ll be nice when things all come together in the living world storyline and we see something more “dramatic” happening (which I suspect is what OP is looking for), but until then, I just play what I enjoy, and Molten Facility, Aetherblade Retreat, and even the mini games have been a nice diversion.

Vahkris.6847:

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Vahkris.6847:

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Getefix.9150:

bazaar of 4 winds wasnt a festival, its a part of living story
dragonbash was for july 4th
queens jubilee will be for gw2’s anniversary – they arent just doing these for the hell of it, theres a reason behind them

All three of what you listed are part of living story, not just the bazaar… and yes, a bazaar is a festival. All we’ve done in this chapter, excluding the trials, are festival activities. There was little to no story content at all.

The bazaar was less a festival and more just a gathering of traders and merchants. What exactly was the bazaar celebrating, if it was a festival? Most kite day celebrations are earlier in the year. I don’t exactly recall doing any particular festival activities. Sanctum Sprint felt more like a mini-game than a part of a festival, and it’s staying permanently anyway so it’s not really related to a festival.

-facepalm- ‘what exactly was the bazaar celebrating, if it was a festival?’ Celebrating trade; that’s what bazaars do. And Sanctum Sprint was introduced by the main traders of the festival, so you can’t say its not related, its practically their national sport. As for mini-games not being festive activities, when you go to a fair, how many mini-games are present?

How many of those festival minigames remain after the festival is over?

Celebrating trade? We already do that, it’s called the gem store and BLTC, that means we’re always celebrating trade, so we’re always in festival mode so this complaint is meaningless.

That’s a pretty vague reason to call it a festival. It never felt much like a festival to me, honestly. It was a large market.

Hell, the large trading area way back in the original EverQuest was called a Bazaar…certainly wasn’t any sort of festival. It’s a large trading place where merchants come together to sell and trade.

Okay, trading which we do every day, is not a festival; i hardly doubt when you go to work in the morning you’re pumped up about seeing amazing new things and experiencing once in a life time events. Trading once a year with unique and rare items on the line, toss in the clash of cultures, mystic flying ships and world changing attractions; sounds like a worlds fair to me.

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Such a thing that happens so rarely would be a festive occasion. Its been ten years since last the Zephyr Sanctum arrived, and you’re telling me its not a festival?

Please reread what I wrote. I didn’t say it can’t be festive in nature.

My point is that the Zephyrites arrived in Tyria to setup a temporary market. There are a few festive things that have accompanied them but overall I haven’t had any sort of festival vibe from this particular event. And the current part of the living story is about two city council candidates trying to obtain a trade agreement with the Zephyrites. Not exactly that festive.

Zedd.8239:

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Such a thing that happens so rarely would be a festive occasion. Its been ten years since last the Zephyr Sanctum arrived, and you’re telling me its not a festival?

Please reread what I wrote. I didn’t say it can’t be festive in nature.

My point is that the Zephyrites arrived in Tyria to setup a temporary market. There are a few festive things that have accompanied them but overall I haven’t had any sort of festival vibe from this particular event. And the current part of the living story is about two city council candidates trying to obtain a trade agreement with the Zephyrites. Not exactly that festive.

It doesn’t matter that they intended only to trade, the fact that they came means people are going to celebrate; thus making it a festival. The current part of the living story, has been back seat to this market, the most the candidates did was secure treasure; we are not actively seeing or participating in their campaigns at all. I would just like to see a bit more effort put into the content of the actual story.

Maybe in two weeks, we can have an Asura Magitek Expo, where top scientists from all over the world come to meet up in this convention to show off their latest and greatest inventions.

Then in two more weeks, the Charrthen have Meatoberfest Xtreme! Where the greatest meat chefs from the world over meet up to make the tastiest meats around!

Then in two more weeks, the Norn have their annual epic Hunt to End all Hunts festival.

Then in two more weeks, the Sylvari have their Green Tyria Day, where everyone celebrates by planting trees….

Then the Tengu have a festival, then the Quaggans, then the Largos all come to shore and have a big tea party with everyone!

There, I just told you the Living Story content of Guildwars 2 for atleast the next two months until Halloween comes back. And since these are annual events, you now know what happenes every year!….Your welcome!

The Dragons don’t need to do anything to destroy Tyria. The five Races are going to do it themselves by first going broke spending all their money at all these festivals, then they starve to death.

So basically, it doesn’t matter what we say. Everything is a festival regardless of word definitions, real world examples, or information directly from the game itself. I get what you’re trying to say about the current living story. There’s too much focus on mini games and not enough focus on bigger events. I agree. I just don’t agree that the inclusion of mini games automatically makes something a festival. At the moment, we’ve largely seen multiple seemingly unconnected short stories.

You may want to read this interview if you’re concerned about the story (or lack thereof):
http://www.guildwars2hub.com/features/interviews/exclusive-interview-arenanets-bobby-stein

It sounds like they have some much bigger plans coming in the future.

Zedd.8239:

So basically, it doesn’t matter what we say. Everything is a festival regardless of word definitions, real world examples, or information directly from the game itself. I get what you’re trying to say about the current living story. There’s too much focus on mini games and not enough focus on bigger events. I agree. I just don’t agree that the inclusion of mini games automatically makes something a festival. At the moment, we’ve largely seen multiple seemingly unconnected short stories.

You may want to read this interview if you’re concerned about the story (or lack thereof):
http://www.guildwars2hub.com/features/interviews/exclusive-interview-arenanets-bobby-stein

It sounds like they have some much bigger plans coming in the future.

I see it as a festival, maybe you do not, but I’m glad we agree on the main point, that the story could use improvement. As to the interview, they’ve said this before, at the time it came out, they stated Flame and Frost to be their genii pig, and that we would see the real content thereafter. But as I see it, they’ll just keep pushing back the date until they bust.

MIA it is not a festival…What you really want to say is you want ANET to get back to the actual story of GW2. I agree wholeheartedly and without reservation, but BOTW was not a festival.

I agree with OP, no more festivals, events what ever you want to call them (for a while). Every two weeks is oversaturation, all that hard work is starting to go largely ignored by my circle of GW friends. It’s leading to our being burned out faster. I would actually like to participate in some of the events but why bother they are gone in two weeks or a month tops? Many of us have jobs as well, so we have to pick and choose what we can do. This mini game dump/achievement grab in two week intervals may seem fun at first but it will be come very run-of-the-mill in time. I don’t want festivals and events to go away but the current frequency is ridiculous.

The only thing that is good about these 2 week intervals is that they usually make some kind of improvement to the game, such as the upcoming Account Wallet. For instance I ignored the new content and skipped strait to the new features with this one.

I understand that some players like new content bi-weekly because otherwise the game gets boring, but if that’s really happening it’s time to take a break from GW2. Players shouldn’t be persuading themselves into playing a game. They should want to play it, it’s play, not work. They have Wv3, SPvP, and PvE that is plenty to do. If you don’t like one of those modes of play then you aren’t getting the most out of your money.

I like festivals, events and what have you as well because it does break up the flow of the game with new gear and mini games, but not to the point that it’s what GW2 is about, the next event. Then it becomes monotony and you may find yourself bored all over again.

jweez.7214:

MIA it is not a festival…What you really want to say is you want ANET to get back to the actual story of GW2. I agree wholeheartedly and without reservation, but BOTW was not a festival.

We’ve argued about whether or not it is a festival for a long time, but it really doesn’t matter, regardless of what it’s called, I just included it in the group of festivals because they all have the same feel to them, relying too heavily on mini-games, and not enough on the plot. To one degree I was very happy about how much content in Dragon Bash was related to the actual story, so many instances, and even a dungeon, it was in the right direction. Yet even that was shallow, from the point of character development alone, it was heavily lacking. But then the following two chapters, had little to no instances at all, completely vying to mini-games. The GW2 staff cannot stay consistent, and actively develop what works.

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

jweez.7214:

MIA it is not a festival…What you really want to say is you want ANET to get back to the actual story of GW2. I agree wholeheartedly and without reservation, but BOTW was not a festival.

We’ve argued about whether or not it is a festival for a long time, but it really doesn’t matter, regardless of what it’s called, I just included it in the group of festivals because they all have the same feel to them, relying too heavily on mini-games, and not enough on the plot. To one degree I was very happy about how much content in Dragon Bash was related to the actual story, so many instances, and even a dungeon, it was in the right direction. Yet even that was shallow, from the point of character development alone, it was heavily lacking. But then the following two chapters, had little to no instances at all, completely vying to mini-games. The GW2 staff cannot stay consistent, and actively develop what works.

Yeah, that is where I am at basically with Anet also.

It doesn’t matter if its a “festival” or not, and it’s beside the point to even argue about semantics. That wasn’t the core issue the OP was having.

panzer.6034:

It doesn’t matter if its a “festival” or not, and it’s beside the point to even argue about semantics. That wasn’t the core issue the OP was having.

Yeah your right. What’s your opinion? Are you sick of the content Anet is releasing or are you happy with it?

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Dragon Bash, Bazaar of the Four Winds; and now Queen’s Jubilee? That’s a little too tightly packed for my taste

Too late! Halloween and Wintersday coming right around the corner!

It will be interesting to see if this Queen business will only come around once every 10 years (like actual Jubilees), and if Bazaar of the Four Winds will be more like SAB in that we have no idea when it will come back. If it is that way, then next year(s) won’t be as packed, but three celebrations are at least guaranteed.

Which is OK, I guess…

Hey Mia, I read a few posts and skipped to the end when whether bazaar was a festival took hold of the conversation.

I sort of agree there has been a lot of “festive feeling” events stacked together. But think about it like this: you liked the approach of Flame & Frost, then Dragon Bash is created to be similar to Canthan New Year which they can’t have yet because Cantha is not here (being Chinese I can tell you, Dragon Bash coincided with the Chinese Dragon Boat festival on June 12). But Dragon Bash was interrupted by a murder! Then we get to play a dungeon against sky pirates. I personally think the Bazaar is created to coincide with summer breaks and vacations, and now probably so is the Queen’s Jubilee. However going with the trend, I’m gonna guess (as others have on the forum) that something bad my happen towards the end of this release (meaning the next scheduled 2 week release), and we’ll get to play a dungeon-ish content once again.

This is just a guess of course, I’ll wait to see what happens. I do have to say I like Bazaar of the Four Winds better than Dragon Bash (and Bazaar has been very profitable. I didn’t buy or convert to gems, I just got lots of gold running mini games), and I hope the Zephyr Sanctum returns at some point

After poking around more, I’m hearing about something coming from the sky. One of the devs hinted: “Look to the skies”. Maybe they were simply referring to the Balloons? Maybe the Aetherblades return? If this event was sort of like DB with part of it being a festival and the other half having an actual threat, I’d be okay with that as long as the next update was not a festival release. Guess we’ll see.

So this will probably come as a shocker, but I liked the mini-games from Bazaar of the Four Winds, I just don’t want this to become a trend where all we do is play mini game after mini game with each new release. That being said, I prefer Dragon Bash over the Bazaar, because there was more story to it, whereas with the bazaar, we are greatly disconnected. I just hope that the Queens Jubilee becomes a focal point that will return us to the story, such as the treaty between the char and humans, or a White Mantle raid (Queensdale bandits for those who haven’t played GW1) as other posts suggested. Even better yet, a treaty ceremony interrupted by the White Mantle.

Yeah I’m going to have to agree, the festivals/festival type things are getting a bit annoying and only seem to be tangentially related to what’s going on in the LS. The mini games are ok but most of them don’t play very well on the game engine; none of them are anything I’ve wanted to do beyond getting the achievements for them, if that.

More story, fewer minigames please!

wookiee.4631:

After poking around more, I’m hearing about something coming from the sky. One of the devs hinted: “Look to the skies”. Maybe they were simply referring to the Balloons? Maybe the Aetherblades return? If this event was sort of like DB with part of it being a festival and the other half having an actual threat, I’d be okay with that as long as the next update was not a festival release. Guess we’ll see.

Would that mean that the Aetherblades will be nothing more than festival crashing louts in fancy garments wielding awkwardly constructed swords whom appear once a month perhaps every other with the soul purpose of closing out the current bi-weekly event? Some pirates …

Mia, the way you are transparently twisting the context of the Zephyr sanctum is quite obvious and ludicrous. It is not a festival plain and simple and that is not even your root issue. Address your root issue which is you don’t want to do a million mini games that don’t feel like guild wars in its main content instead of supporting an unsupportable position on whether the Zephyr is a bazaar or not.

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

So this will probably come as a shocker, but I liked the mini-games from Bazaar of the Four Winds, I just don’t want this to become a trend where all we do is play mini game after mini game with each new release. That being said, I prefer Dragon Bash over the Bazaar, because there was more story to it, whereas with the bazaar, we are greatly disconnected. I just hope that the Queens Jubilee becomes a focal point that will return us to the story, such as the treaty between the char and humans, or a White Mantle raid (Queensdale bandits for those who haven’t played GW1) as other posts suggested. Even better yet, a treaty ceremony interrupted by the White Mantle.

Yep, I am waiting to see what happens as well.

As for the mini games, I feel like it’s a bit of over-compensation on ANet’s end. They promised lots of mini games a long time ago, and all we had for a long time was the keg brawl that no one played (and random costume brawls that rely on someone planting down a banquet or box o fun in LA). So I think all the recent mini game releases have been planned for quite a while. They tied a lot of temporary achievements to each new mini game release, so people will be encouraged to try them out. And now they’re set to put these games on a rotational schedule, meaning not all games will be available at the same time. It seems to be they’ve finally rolled out enough mini games that they’re winding down. That’s my guess.

MastaNeenja.1537:

Would that mean that the Aetherblades will be nothing more than festival crashing louts in fancy garments wielding awkwardly constructed swords whom appear once a month perhaps every other with the soul purpose of closing out the current bi-weekly event? Some pirates …

If Anet decided to do that then…yeah. And disappointing it would be. I didn’t care for the Aetherblades the first time, I wouldn’t care the second time.

More OT: Yeah, I agree with OP. Festivals and Mini-game based events are a fine way to give players a “breather” from serious fighting content, but we’ve had too many too soon. They should be spaced much farther apart. I wouldn’t want another one until Halloween, honestly.

souless.1935:

Mia, the way you are transparently twisting the context of the Zephyr sanctum is quite obvious and ludicrous. It is not a festival plain and simple and that is not even your root issue. Address your root issue which is you don’t want to do a million mini games that don’t feel like guild wars in its main content instead of supporting an unsupportable position on whether the Zephyr is a bazaar or not.

you’re late, we already moved past that. Regardless of whether it is a festival or not, is a meek point; excuse my wording in the op.

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Spendingallmytime.7249:

More festivals, I say.

Really? So you want to spend all the time you play in GW2 doing nothing but mini-games? Its like we’re not even playing GW2 anymore.

no I do not want to spend all my time playing mini games. Things like mini games and jumping puzzles should be fun little things to do outside the main bulk of the story. At the moment its the other way around.

Something better happen that is shocking and dramatic that knocks our socks off during this ceremony. "OMG I never saw that coming!! who is this new dark character that kidnaps the queen, its some kind of demon with a unique model never seen before, that cutscene introducing him was amazing!! now we have to group together and enter his realm (which will be a whole new area involving a progression dungeon of multiple parts!! with UNIQUE bosses to fight, dropping unique gear never seen before!)

I liked that there were actual story segments to complete in DragonBash Festival. It almost felt like a series of small quests or missions. In that respect I think it was the best update so far. I did like all the activities for Bazaar especially Sanctum Sprint. But Cutthroat Politics to me is just a set of mini games/instances that are only marginally related to story content because they are supported by a particular candidate. So I agree that I"d like to see more story missions like the ones in Dragon Bash and less mini games.

But I guess in the end it depends on what keeps people playing. Anet will market the game to the majority of players. If metrics shows that the majority like mini-games and releasing content every two weeks, then that’s what we’ll get unfortunately. I hope this is not the case.

I agree with OP, enough with the 2 week of mini games/fluff and an oh so obvious twist 2 weeks later that recycles old content. (Go do fractals, go do dungeons, go farm) A twist doesn’t add anything if we know it’s coming.

What about a slow campaign pushing into the north, going after Jormag, getting back half a permanent map every month. You could have progression on different servers. With attacks and counter attacks, leading up to another zone boss, for a permanent server map unlock. I know South Sun is a failure and a ghost town, learn from that failure and try to see what you can do better.

@ Nekodoken. Regarding the mass release of mini-games simply being a buff to their inventory, and that the addition of mini-games will stop soon, as they are reaching a significant amount; I truly hope this is so. However, I sincerely doubt it. Some of the mini-games, such as aspect arena and sanctum sprint, can’t stay on, as they will not be able to operate without the crystals provided by the Zhepherites, thus many of the mini games are temporary. If their goal is indeed to reach a surprise of games for rotation, I do not believe they are ready. At any rate, I wont believe a word until the game designers speak up.

Excellent ideas Tower Guard… I agree completely.

wookiee.4631:

Yeah no more events until October would be good, that would be at least two months, considering this one is already underway. I’m sure they are working on a Halloween event already but if that’s all they focused on it for two months it’d be pretty good by the time it was ready for release.

Here’s hoping that when school starts back after summer break they cut down on the events.