Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone,

I have a suggestion that would help people get more into the story that’s unveiling in the Living World.

The Problem:
I feel that many players don’t seem to grasp everything that’s happening in the Living content, many believe there’s little to no story do to the fact that it is very “hidden” (either through talking to NPCs, on the website ect..). What people don’t realise is that the story is fairly rich with content.

The Solution:
My idea is that we have a History Book (either in game item or panel in the Hero window) That will detail the events of your current and past Living Stories. Now, I do understand that ArenaNet would like to keep people coming back to experience the living world, and to that I say invoke this system: The bits of living story in our history book will unlock based on the major achievements for that particular Living Story. So when we attend the Closing Ceremony, a portion will open up and explain that event in greater detail. I do believe this will appease the players who are really big on lore and what-not.

Just a thought <3

P.S. Show your support if you agree! if we really want this, it’s a possibility

I support this, or something to the same effect.

However it still doesnt change the fact Anet need to start pushing this stuff into the cutscenes and presentation of the LS. Further still, even with a history book, the average player probably wont take too much notice and still shout the forums down about the Lore and writers being terrible. Id agrue thakittens the presentation of the narrative is bad, not the narrative itself.

Gw2 is in a weird state when speaking of story. Alot hinges on how they wrap everything together going further with scarlet. I hope im right in saying they still have to do that in the next few updates after SAB, I sincerely hope they arnt satisfied with ‘yeah scarlet has been behind all the attacks, nothing more to it, shes a bad kitten and please dont worry about hows, whens and whys, the queen wasnt going to announce something world changing forget we mentioned that, just shut the kitten up and play our minigames’ otherwise my faith in the writing staff (emphasises by the website short stories and gw1) has been misplaced.

Yeah, in that regard I do hope we will get to do some detective work be that the short story announced several in game characters (Guy who greets awakened Sylvari, as well as the Pale Tree) to get some insight on Scarlet.

That being said, I do believe a history book will keep things in tact in terms of giving players who missed certain events at least a general idea of what happened, and for those who played it a more in depth story line. It’s just a kick-off point, but I hope something of its nature is implemented!