Guild Wars 2

Sadly this would be a more appropriate name for the game at the moment.

What initially seemed to be an interesting and quite novel feature is what is driving the game for many players.

The living story (which is also an excellent concept IMHO) has also been ruined by the excess of (often very poorly thought out) achievements.

Aside from those servers with very high populations, the Living story has degenerated into a ‘rush’ by players to complete all the achievements before interest dies down – these problems are compounded by the fact that many of the AP are tied to large scale events requiring lots of players and so are only practical on many servers during the first few days of the event and at peak times.

This of course then causes overflows to be created, so we have a cascading number of issues all of which are leaving players feeling annoyed and disgruntled.

I can only hope that in the upcoming hiatus, the team reviews the whole AP system which I believe is the cause of many of the problems seen during this living story season.

I got an infraction for name calling GW2. Wonder if you will too.

laokoko.7403:

I got an infraction for name calling GW2. Wonder if you will too.

More likely you’ll earn another one for discussing moderation policy instead of discussing the topic at hand. namely whether AP are contributing to some of the problems in living story releases.

I agree OP. The only thing I disagree with is that you have to do it during prime time only. The busier servers are busy after the patch around the clock.

Daroon.1736:

laokoko.7403:

I got an infraction for name calling GW2. Wonder if you will too.

More likely you’ll earn another one for discussing moderation policy instead of discussing the topic at hand. namely whether AP are contributing to some of the problems in living story releases.

^^What he said.

Nage.1520:

I agree OP. The only thing I disagree with is that you have to do it during prime time only. The busier servers are busy after the patch around the clock.

Yeah – I did say ‘aside from the high pop servers’ The problem is that all the AP hunters guest on those servers causing overflows, which are seen by many as another problem which needs to be solved.

Daroon.1736:

Nage.1520:

I agree OP. The only thing I disagree with is that you have to do it during prime time only. The busier servers are busy after the patch around the clock.

Yeah – I did say ‘aside from the high pop servers’ The problem is that all the AP hunters guest on those servers causing overflows, which are seen by many as another problem which needs to be solved.

Not a problem for me. I get almost all my achievements on overflows.

But, Nage, we can’t get on those successful overflows (or any overflow) if we don’t guest to the high-population servers. I’ve only guested once, I believe, so it is, indeed, a race to get the achievements done on my server before the ‘crowd’ drifts away. And doing it in the middle of the night? Lol. Forget it, even on patch day. And, I feel we have a decent population, compared to the servers some players describe.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

But, Nage, we can’t get on those successful overflows (or any overflow) if we don’t guest to the high-population servers. I’ve only guested once, I believe, so it is, indeed, a race to get the achievements done on my server before the ‘crowd’ drifts away. And doing it in the middle of the night? Lol. Forget it, even on patch day. And, I feel we have a decent population, compared to the servers some players describe.

That’s why I guest.

I prefer not to. I like my server, and the people on it. I don’t know the commanders or the people on overflow. Too bad people guest so much…or have to.

I understand your point, but the problem exists and a solution for it exists. It’s a choice whether you use it or not, but I’d rather do the content, and maybe make some new friends in the process.

Its all about the value you link to achievements.

In GW1, achievements were limited and actually meant something.
In GW2, you fart and get an achievement. You walk trough someone elses fart and get an achievement. New living storyline, completionist will fart untill they got all achievements.