Guild Wars 2

I had sent these questions to Support because I wanted direct answers from someone at Anet, and even though I got a really good response, I was still encouraged to post on the forums about it. So! Here it is:

Are we ever going to experience real failure when it comes to the Living Story. I know that this current Living Story is meant to be about how humanity prevails, but what happens when we don’t? What will change?
Will there ever be a time in Guild Wars 2 when our failure affects the entirety of Tyria?
Will we ever be allowed to truly fail at all?

Of course, at some point we’re going to need to take Tyria back, and we will.
But after finally meeting Scarlet, I started to think about a dying Tyria.

I thought mostly of the Grove and The Pale Tree.
If Tyria were to fall, what would that look like inside the Grove especially? Would the same thing that happens to Morgan’s Spiral happen to the Grove? Would it turn completely dull and lifeless. Would we see whole of The Pale Tree wilt in a one time only cutscene?

Now here’s the suggestion part:
Let us have the choice to join the dark side.

If this ever happens to Tyria, I understand a whole bunch of players might hate it and some who read this are probably screwing up their faces, but then there would be a whole other bunch of players who are excited about it.

I think that if Tyria were to fall, we as players should be able to choose whether or not we want to join The Nightmare Court, Inquest, Bandits and so forth.
Much like we choose an Order in the personal story.

I also understand that being the bad guy probably wouldn’t work in the open world, especially if there are still only good deeds to be done when it comes to dynamic events.
But I reckon Anet would be able to think of a way to add in dynamic events for the players who chose to darker side.

I’m not looking to start arguments and annoy people. I think this would be good to talk about.
What does everybody think about the idea of us really failing for once? Seeing Tyria change so dramatically that it really impacts us as players in a big way.

Thanks for taking the time to read through!

This would be healthy for a good story. It really would. They can easily implement it the way they implemented the whole Kurzick-Luxon fiasco.

But I’m quite sure there’s a bunch of reasons against it, and it might be an issue with something like living story, for example. Imagine if flame and frost was done with this sort of situation?

I’m also sure there might be reasons against it, but I reckon the devs would figure out how to make something like this work. A friend had told me that there are a bunch of devs who actually want this sort of thing to happen.

If players really want it then I think they could make it happen. We just need to bring more attention to it.

I would never do the living story then. Sometimes I just want to watch the world burn.