Guild Wars 2

So after my morale was lowered by the news about ascended gear, I’ve kind of decided to spend my time playing other games more often. I missed all of the one time events. I just wasn’t in the mood to play. I’m still kind of struggling to want to play, but Planetside 2 beta is over and I’ve decided to set down Minecraft again, so I decided to check up on GW2. I took the boat to the island and found many spider NPCs and about 4 dynamic events. From my perspective there was nothing that really happened on the island and I didn’t really find any story by just looking around. I saw a roasted spider next to a pool of lava, but thought nothing of it. From my perspective it was like players didn’t really contribute to much, these spiders weren’t an actual threat, and there is not much for me to question when it came to this new part of the world.

With this in mind I would like to ask a few questions:

1. Should one time events be used as introductions into new content?
2. If you think that one time events should be used as an introduction to new content, should the one time events feel more or less important to the story for people who hadn’t seen the events?
3. Would story instancing that lasts forever, such as how we were introduced into Orr and its enemies through the personal story, be a better introduction to new content?