Guild Wars 2

I’ve always had an issue with MMO’s, including this one, where a huge world is created and designed around the purpose of immersion and yet everything feels so static. Once you’ve left these beautifully designed areas you have little reason to return.

Something I’ve always wanted is events based on the notion of a living, changing world. Events based on the time of day:

• Pubs open during the night, events open to fight the drunken guards.
• Bandit Thief events only happen at night.
• The carnival (a currently unused feature of the game) would only be open during the day – but you’d be able to help clean, setup and train the animals at night.

Events based on the day of the week (huge armies encroach on a lower level area. Makeshift camps are made to hold the line. 80 players fight on the front-line while lower level players look for supplies, fire mortars and take out the troops attacking the back).

Of course, events that take place monthly or even yearly (Massive attacks on major cities that requires the contribution of everyone).

This would fix some of the “end-game boredom” and facilitate the desire to continue exploring the vast world that has been designed for us. This would also help add some relevance to the NPC dialogue. I know I’d be thrilled if I found an event because I overheard a villager talk about the large centaur attack in one of the areas. Or later heard how earlier that year a group of adventures defended the city alongside the guards.

There are a few issues I’ve failed to address:

• How do you keep the dangerous higher level areas away from players? Creating 80 only instances sort of ruins the immersion.
• Day to night time may have to increase so that time-based events are more fluid.
• What happens when players fail these larger events? The consequences are going to be higher.

Why do they need to be level 80? We already have level scaling in place so that anybody can come along.

More events sounds like a great idea, along with greater dynamism in the dynamic event world. I particularly love the idea of day/night events. I for one always find day/night cycles irritating unless there’s an actual point to them in the game (maybe just because I go ‘oh it’s dark… and…?‘, but I can accept that’s just me!)

Because there seems to be little to do at the max level. While you CAN go to lower level areas, you don’t WANT to; especially because you’d be forfeiting loot. Since this game is designed around fun, I’d love the idea of being able to contribute to these dynamic events at level 80 and still get a reward at the end – something everyone likes, a nice little pat on the back for a job well done.