Guild Wars 2

With the ever encroaching Living Story, the fact that story timeline is locked to the real life time line, it’s becoming more and more obvious the original Personal Story is becoming irrelevant to new players.

Make books available within the game, diaries, holographic renditions of major events, sell historical renditions of the in game content through the store, add them to Fractals etc. to cover this time period and allow people to learn about and possibly play some if it.

I do not expect my child to relive the history I lived through, and I never expected the same in this game. Personally, I enjoy the Living Story. I enjoyed the impermanence of much of what happened in Season 1. It redefined what it meant to be invested in the game. If I was to busy in RL and had to miss content, that was OK. Although I understand the lack of enthusiasm for this type of storytelling, it was a large part of what made this game unique.

I’m sure that assets can be spent on making the Living Story more coherent within instances, etc., having less of current story creep into the background, etc. I just do not think that this is necessary. Spend the assets in ways to replace the XP and rewards for new players and get rid of a part of the story that is only creating larger playability issues as time goes on. Time marches on, so should the story.