Guild Wars 2

I enjoyed all of the new features and content added. Over all it was set up pretty good with all the new things added to the game. I always joked that Southsun just needed a Quaggan/Krate Dungeon that was entirely underwater, under the island. Think Pearl Armor set. I was just excited to see this place come back to life.

Although, there is such a lack of story in this Southsun “Living Story”.

Why are we being forced to support the consortium and fight capture/kill the rebellious liberator of the people we saved in the Shiver Peaks and Ascalon? Why would we want the Consortium to keep their contracts that keeps them essentially slaves? Is there more to this story?

How confusing is it to setup a story line where you help save peoples being over run and pushed out of their lands by violent force to helping oppress them into slavery the next month? That is just bad.

Why did you name a robot NULL that is suppose to be bad when you have a Null that is suppose to be good if we are on the side of the Consortium? Is there no story at all behind Kasmeer and Faren? This is all soooo confusing.

This living story lacked …. “The Story” and in in game delivery of that story. It also set us up for a dungeon that never happened instead just a confusing (why am i fighting this person) boss fight.

I’m sure a lot of people did work hard bringing us this and as a result we did get some good content. I think the over all picture wasn’t painted in a rush to throw together something new.

I do hope that the writer(s) are allowed to help fix this mess by correcting it and the content devs work on pulling all of this together with in game lore instead of ditching it and moving on to the next project leaving yet another black eye on Southsun. Flame and Frost was a bit drawn out in the beginning but had such a great ending. I really thought you would top that this time and you were headed in the right direction.

Did you talk to all of the NPC’s? Those who blasted through the content missed a lot of the story.

You’re not forcing them into slavery. They signed contracts that obligated them to service to the Consortium, and did so of their own free will. Sure, it was maybe coorced to a degree by the Molten Alliance disaster, but no one held a sword to their head and forced them to sign. They could have declined signing the contract and walked away (in fact some of the refugees did just that, you can find some of the named refugees from the camps back in Nolan Hatchery or Cragstead).

I won’t claim that it isn’t shady and underhanded that the Consortium preyed on the refugees with underhanded contracts, but it was ultimately still the refugees themselves that signed. The Consortium hasn’t done anything illegal, just morally uncouth.

The Lionguard is essentially a police force. They uphold the law. The Constorium is following the law, and are thus “in the right” as far as the Lionguard goes, even if individual members of the Lionguard aren’t happy with it (Kiel in particular has some conversations with some of the workers at the asura gate that make it clear she’s not happy about the situation). The players in this scenario are also expected to be siding with the law. Maybe it would have been nice to have some branching story paths to take and side with different peoplem, but it’d be more work and I guess they didn’t deem it worth the extra time to develop (or maybe they just don’t like branching “moral” paths).

As for Null…. the Consortium NPC is called Noll, not Null. And Canach has a grudge against Noll in particular (since Noll has been sending assassins to kill him, as mentioned in the blog post), so naming his golem Subdirector Null is an obvious jab at Noll.

As for calling Canach a “rebellious liberator”…. I don’t think that’s really accurate. Canach may claim to be doing this all for the refugees, but his attacks have led to who knows how many refugees getting killed by his crazed wildlife. At the very least he’s misguided (or crazy) and its possible he’s just using the “I’m trying to save the refugees” thing as a justification to himself about his actions, and really all he wants is revenge on the Consortium.

Kelly.5293:

Why would we want the Consortium to keep their contracts that keeps them essentially slaves? Is there more to this story?

Was also wondering about that. If I had the option here, I would let the contracts be destroyed (I like to play as lawful neutral most of the time…although I am rarely given the opportunity…)

Let’s say you enlist in the military and they essentially own you. Things go south and you’re working in “poor” conditions. All of the records stating you are contractually obligated to serve are easily accessible.

Is it right to destroy those because you feel that things are not fair?

No, it’s not like enlisting in the army, it’s like signing a contract to work for a company (like a Japanese sweat shop), and they’ll sue the pants off of you if you quit, but then the building burns down and you have the option to save the papers, but you don’t because it’s your only way out.

Basically, once all is said and done, it simply boils down to the following:

“Looks like Team Rocket’s blasting off again!~~~~~”