Guild Wars 2

Tom Gore.4035:

Dude, you don’t put a dragon in a fantasy story unless you are going to get it killed by heroes.

Why, because then your story wouldn’t be rote and boring enough if you don’t have that? :P

Carighan.6758:

Tom Gore.4035:

Dude, you don’t put a dragon in a fantasy story unless you are going to get it killed by heroes.

Why, because then your story wouldn’t be rote and boring enough if you don’t have that? :P

In general, yes.

In GW2’s case, what choice do we have? “Ok guys Mordy just rose from its slumber and killed off the entire planets population. Game over. See you in GW3, coming in 2020!”

Or “We’re pleased to announce that the World Summit has reached a peace agreement with Mordremoth, just like we did previously with ocean tides, hurricanes and avalances.”

I wouldn’t have let the dragon wake up in the first place.
Let it stir in its slumber, this should already cause a massive outbreak of power, resulting in permanent changes to 3-6 zones, creating new events, bossfights and dungeons over the course of 8-12 releases, while removing old ones.

Hehe I see what you did there

But yeah, seeing what the full waking up of Zhaitan did to the world, it’s safe to say Mordy isn’t just popping up and saying hello when/if it wakes up. If Anet wants to actually wake it up, it should cause pretty big changes to the world. Of course if he’s sleeping far off enough, they’d get away by just making new zones and leaving the current ones as is.