All of the other living stories have been one month long. They just removed the ability to get Cutthroat Politics achievements after two weeks. There are still things like Dungeon Runner and Maw Mulcher that I needed to get and I thought it would be one month like all the others. Now what.
Actually usually the second part of a story is only 2 weeks, and this was also told when they announced Cutthroat Politics.
Actually usually the second part of a story is only 2 weeks, and this was also told when they announced Cutthroat Politics.
Since when and where?
Since when and where?
It doesn’t say that the living story is ending in two weeks it only says you can vote for two weeks. And it doesn’t say that on GW2W or the update notes on this forum. They could at least bring back the achievements and let us finish them. We can buy representation buttons and still represent candidates.
Release cycles are two weeks now. They anounced this last month: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/
Since when and where?
No it does not say that there.
Release cycles are two weeks now. They anounced this last month: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/
Yes that is pretty bad (and they did get many negative reactions about that) but it has been like that also for a few weeks now. However we are talking about taking the stuff out not about putting new stuff in. So far (all?) temporary content / achievements / rewards, and so on where available for a month.
So where was announced they would take this out in 2 weeks? One thing is sure even if it was announced it was not very clear and it makes a bad idea (temporary content) even worse.
They’ve been doing the temporary content since the beginning of the year. This isn’t a surprise. It’s august and every single event since january has been this way.
No it does not say that there.
There you go:
Support Your Candidate – July 23 to August 5
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/july-23-2013/
Actually usually the second part of a story is only 2 weeks, and this was also told when they announced Cutthroat Politics.
Since when and where?
Though it doesn’t specifically says that achievements will work until that date, where it says “Read detailed notes from our developers about what’s new in this release.”, in the notes it says “Zephyr Sanctum will be leaving when the Bazaar of the Four Winds ends on August 6”.
Also, all updates since the southsun one have followed the same pattern of a big one at the beggining of each month that lasts for the whole month, plus an update that moves the story forward and adds new things 2 weeks afterwards that lasts for 2 weeks (Secret of southsun – last stand at southsun, then dragonbash – sky pirates of tyria and now bazaar of the four winds – cutthroat politics)
No it does not say that there.
There you go:
Support Your Candidate – July 23 to August 5
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/july-23-2013/
Oow there it is. Still it is bad and it’s not in the game.
Actually usually the second part of a story is only 2 weeks, and this was also told when they announced Cutthroat Politics.
Since when and where?
Though it doesn’t specifically says that achievements will work until that date, where it says “Read detailed notes from our developers about what’s new in this release.”, in the notes it says “Zephyr Sanctum will be leaving when the Bazaar of the Four Winds ends on August 6”.
Also, all updates since the southsun one have followed the same pattern of a big one at the beggining of each month that lasts for the whole month, plus an update that moves the story forward and adds new things 2 weeks afterwards that lasts for 2 weeks (Secret of southsun – last stand at southsun, then dragonbash – sky pirates of tyria and now bazaar of the four winds – cutthroat politics)
I was talking about the politics not about Bazaar of the Four Winds. That has indeed been in for a month.
I for sure never had this big of a list of NEW achievements to complete in 2 weeks. Never before.
What we did see before was that one or 2 of the already available achievements could only be completed in the last 2 weeks. Thats something else as adding a whole new part of story including a whole new list of achievements.
I did not have a lot of time the last 2 weeks but thats not the point. I have been complaining about temporary content since they started with it and is has only become worse and worse and worse.
You really don’t think people will get faster tired of a game that pressures you to play? And the completionist in my does not want to play anymore because I will not be able to complete everything anymore (one of the examples I mentioned before when complaining, back when I still had everything completed).
2 Weeks for such an important patch (story wise) with that much of achievements. I literally still had to start with half of the achievements This is really becoming a joke.
And besides that I am also simply angry, angry about all the lies.
3 weeks ago Colin was telling about how the story would be temporary and that story would make changes and that would be the new content that was permanent (after getting so many complains about temporary content). Then a few days later they come with there blog telling there will be time-gated crafting materials (= temporary content) then the politic patch gets released that already seems like more temporary content and then 2! weeks later they take that out again.
Just don;t say anything if you don’t keep your word. Now it simply feels like an insult.
^ And you are making a fatal mistake with that post.
You are assuming that they created the patch released a few days after the blog post after said blog post was posted.
Each living story have about 4 months behind it, which would mean it is extremely unlikely that events that are released just a week or two after said plans were discussed would be built around said plans.
^ And you are making a fatal mistake with that post.
You are assuming that they created the patch released a few days after the blog post after said blog post was posted.Each living story have about 4 months behind it, which would mean it is extremely unlikely that events that are released just a week or two after said plans were discussed would be built around said plans.
You do not need months to keep it in for at least a month. You don;t promise no more temporary content and then release temporary content that you take out in 2 weeks. I consider that simply arrogant towards the community. But heey thats my opinion.
the think is. I am one of those people Colin’s story was aimed at. And I feel lied to and because of that I am angry. Not because they make mistake after mistake. I feel sad about that but I feel angry because they are promising one thing and that do exactly the other thing.
Some quick comments:
I for sure never had this big of a list of NEW achievements to complete in 2 weeks. Never before.
What we did see before was that one or 2 of the already available achievements could only be completed in the last 2 weeks. Thats something else as adding a whole new part of story including a whole new list of achievements.
Sky pirates of tyria added 20 new achievements and a new meta for 2 weeks (June 25 to July 9).
I did not have a lot of time the last 2 weeks but thats not the point. I have been complaining about temporary content since they started with it and is has only become worse and worse and worse.
You really don’t think people will get faster tired of a game that pressures you to play? And the completionist in my does not want to play anymore because I will not be able to complete everything anymore (one of the examples I mentioned before when complaining, back when I still had everything completed).
2 Weeks for such an important patch (story wise) with that much of achievements. I literally still had to start with half of the achievements This is really becoming a joke.
And besides that I am also simply angry, angry about all the lies.
3 weeks ago Colin was telling about how the story would be temporary and that story would make changes and that would be the new content that was permanent (after getting so many complains about temporary content). Then a few days later they come with there blog telling there will be time-gated crafting materials (= temporary content) then the politic patch gets released that already seems like more temporary content and then 2! weeks later they take that out again.
Just don;t say anything if you don’t keep your word. Now it simply feels like an insult.
3 weeks ago Colin talked about adding more permanent content, the average production time of each of the updates is about 4 months (don’t have the source at hand, sorry), so 3 weeks ago cuttorath politics must have been already wrapped up and getting ready to be delivered, and Queen’s Jubilee was probably in final testing and tweaking, we can’t realistically expect a change of direction inmediately after it was first announced, IMHO.
Plus, Colin already said in forums that more permanent content is indeed coming, that Queen’s Jubilee is the last of the temporary recurrent content that will come back from time to time (like halloweeen, wintersday, SAB, bazaar and so on) and that the first batch of more permanent content should hit in the next update in 2 weeks.
Some quick comments:
I for sure never had this big of a list of NEW achievements to complete in 2 weeks. Never before.
What we did see before was that one or 2 of the already available achievements could only be completed in the last 2 weeks. Thats something else as adding a whole new part of story including a whole new list of achievements.
Sky pirates of tyria added 20 new achievements and a new meta for 2 weeks (June 25 to July 9).
I did not have a lot of time the last 2 weeks but thats not the point. I have been complaining about temporary content since they started with it and is has only become worse and worse and worse.
You really don’t think people will get faster tired of a game that pressures you to play? And the completionist in my does not want to play anymore because I will not be able to complete everything anymore (one of the examples I mentioned before when complaining, back when I still had everything completed).
2 Weeks for such an important patch (story wise) with that much of achievements. I literally still had to start with half of the achievements This is really becoming a joke.
And besides that I am also simply angry, angry about all the lies.
3 weeks ago Colin was telling about how the story would be temporary and that story would make changes and that would be the new content that was permanent (after getting so many complains about temporary content). Then a few days later they come with there blog telling there will be time-gated crafting materials (= temporary content) then the politic patch gets released that already seems like more temporary content and then 2! weeks later they take that out again.
Just don;t say anything if you don’t keep your word. Now it simply feels like an insult.
3 weeks ago Colin talked about adding more permanent content, the average production time of each of the updates is about 4 months (don’t have the source at hand, sorry), so 3 weeks ago cuttorath politics must have been already wrapped up and getting ready to be delivered, and Queen’s Jubilee was probably in final testing and tweaking, we can’t realistically expect a change of direction inmediately after it was first announced, IMHO.
Plus, Colin already said in forums that more permanent content is indeed coming, that Queen’s Jubilee is the last of the temporary recurrent content that will come back from time to time (like halloweeen, wintersday, SAB, bazaar and so on) and that the first batch of more permanent content should hit in the next update in 2 weeks.
Never noticed that it was only 2 weeks but then it was bad already. Still it does not take away that that was before Colin’s talk.
And if thats the case thats to late for me. Then Colin had to have said that in the interview. Maybe I had tried and complete the content from last 2 weeks.
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