Guild Wars 2

We have been playing living world content for quite some months now, some people like it and some people dont. personally i think its nice and refreshing, its fun and kinda makes the world feel a bit more “alive” but is ANet 100% focussed on living world? I mean, we havent seen any “normal” permanent content for a while now. (dungeons/zones/world-bosses/large event chains/whatever). so i was wondering, is there a team working on those things while a other team is making the living story content, or is everyone/everything focussed on the living world content?

Of course? There are different teams out there man. Not everyone works on the same thing.

Go look at Mr. Foreman, his team is in charged of SAB and that’s not a part of Living Story at all.

SAB is fun and all but its not permanent content and it feels more like a mini game in the game. was more talking about expanding the story we have and adding new places to explore

Smoothy.1085:

SAB is fun and all but its not permanent content and it feels more like a mini game in the game. was more talking about expanding the story we have and adding new places to explore

Not everyone is working on the living story. Some people are working fixing bugs, including culling, and some are working on other types of content. There’s a dungeon coming out in just a couple of days. Yes it’s part of the living story but I’m not so sure it’s going to go away completely after.

There’s a solo mission that unlocks a mulitplayer misssion. That’s what we know. We also know some stuff from this living story is remaining in world.

It will be interested to see what that is.

Smoothy.1085:

SAB is fun and all but its not permanent content and it feels more like a mini game in the game. was more talking about expanding the story we have and adding new places to explore

Well they did add Southsun in November, and I agree it’s been awhile. But it’s very difficult to start a new map from scratch as well as program the additional events, animations and record voice acting. If you read Colin’s post awhile back about the GW2 plan for the spring/summer, it was more about improving and expanding the current content.

I mean, look at Southsun and how barren it was in terms of events for quite awhile. Even now, it’s not a completely full fledged zone (and we probably won’t see it as one until this phase of Southsun is over). But they are slowly improving it, as well as other areas.

Now, it takes awhile to make this type of permanent content you want, and for all we know, they may be working on new permanent content for Crystal Desert or Maguuma. And all that new content may be in store for the next expansion, or for a new revealing in the summer months. I don’t expect them to come out here and say that “Yes we’ll be releasing a new map with new content very shortly” but I’m very confident that they are working on it. They have teams for content polishing, bugs, living story and definitely for permanent content. They need a way to make money, anyways.

Vol.5241:

Go look at Mr. Foreman, his team is in charged of SAB and that’s not a part of Living Story at all.

Josh and his team have been integrated into the Living Story team because of their success. I still hope that means LS will eventually get a SAB substoryline when it reemerges =3 (once he emerges grom the pile of fangirls he is currently burried under)
Apart from this you are absolutely right. Arenanet has different teams working on different parts of the game. Dungeons are on a different team than WvW, etc. When watching the dev vids, they state which team they are part of. And it seems they are quite a crowd. So: looking good ^^

Hmm I recall Foreman talking about something for the June update – was there any indication we would be getting SAB again in June? Or something entirely new related to the Living Story?

And that guy used to post everyday while SAB was in full force. He must be very, very busy ;x

Meluna.1764:

Vol.5241:

Go look at Mr. Foreman, his team is in charged of SAB and that’s not a part of Living Story at all.

Josh and his team have been integrated into the Living Story team because of their success. I still hope that means LS will eventually get a SAB substoryline when it reemerges =3 (once he emerges grom the pile of fangirls he is currently burried under)
Apart from this you are absolutely right. Arenanet has different teams working on different parts of the game. Dungeons are on a different team than WvW, etc. When watching the dev vids, they state which team they are part of. And it seems they are quite a crowd. So: looking good ^^

I really hope they are not dumb enough to make a mini game part of the living story of the world. SAB was cool for a few days, but that’s a living story I’ll never finish haha.
That being said, I don’t think they have completely abandoned adding content, I’m sure they are working on it behind the scenes with something big for those of us who prefer lasting appeal Have faith friends!

I’d like to see a ANet statement tho :/ I really hope we will see some very good permanent stuff soon.