Guild Wars 2

So I made it a point to skip this previous event and I haven’t logged in for the last two weeks. I have to tell you, it’s killing me.

I know the temporary content will be gone in a few days and I completely skipped it, making me feel like I missed out on things.

We have had the achievements discussion before, but it still weighs heavy on me knowing I have a full tab of living story content that will never be completed.

This is fairly detrimental, to the point that I almost want to continue “not” playing.

I liked the original idea of the game where I could stop and start again and not miss much if anything at all.

Now in the sense of competitiveness, yes sure I missed out on dailies and laurels or behind on crafting components and such for ascend…and that does not bother me “as much” it can be an issue for others.

I think this problem is/has been a growing issue and needs to be considered for the future of GW2.

How do you make continuously developing content, that does not remain and become stagnant, yet does not punish people for not doing it in time?

I understand the developers concerns of keeping things fresh and active, but it is having a fairly strong side effect on some players such as myself.

For now, I went back to GW1 to experience some of that lore that I missed out on back in the day.

Love the game, but have concerns.

I think the only thing you are missing by skipping Twilight Assault is a backpack and 25 achievement points. The previous update, you would have missed again some APs and the sunless wings backpack. This thread is some months late.

Welcome in GW2 pls join the thousand of other players on these forums with the same issue……

Well, been playing since release, posted similar stuff before, but was resurfacing this concern for the sake of the game.

While I am amazed at how much they have done and highly appreciate it, the living story thing has had back lash for a while, but again, it causes these problems.

Up till this point, I have 100% everything for the living story. Some of the events really stressed me out on the difficulty but I got them all finished and I felt really accomplished.

While I worry about the quickness of the content, I admitidly finish the achievements in the first day or two and then the remaining week+ is mostly a free ride.

Yet in the midst of all that, I have this heightened state of stress that I need to “keep up”.

Yes, this may be a personal thing and a lot of people say “ignore it, you will feel better if you stop trying to keep up and just play for fun”.

So I did….and it’s not going well for me. #withdrawls

As far as a backpack and 25 achievement points, I don’t care about the “points” or the skins too much, but its that sense of “doing it all” that is causing lament.

I want to do it all, on my own pace.

The last two weeks content is permanent, only a part of its achievement is temporary (to get a stupid backpack skin that only looks good on engi), as the content of the previous two week exept for a part of its achievement which was temporary (to get tequatl wings as a back skin). So if you want to experience those two living world content, you can today or two weeks later, you only “miss” a part of its achievement and its reward.
Since you are not after the reward, you miss nothing, the achievment was something like (do TA at least once for 10 day or get 10 achievements from the permanent achievement). So if you do it afterward, you will do it all.

Prob worth lending weight to the current main thread in Living World subforum which already covers this issue, as opposed to having another thread open on the subject.

There is going to be some extensive dialogue coming up on the forums between devs/community and I suspect Living Story will be a high topic for discussion with the community. Worth ensuring your point is made in those conversations when they pop up.

Thanks randulf, went and looked at the mega thread in living world forum. I’ll admit I skip that one most of the time and just look at the current living world forum, not the primary one.

CMF.5461:

Well, been playing since release, posted similar stuff before, but was resurfacing this concern for the sake of the game.

While I am amazed at how much they have done and highly appreciate it, the living story thing has had back lash for a while, but again, it causes these problems.

Up till this point, I have 100% everything for the living story. Some of the events really stressed me out on the difficulty but I got them all finished and I felt really accomplished.

While I worry about the quickness of the content, I admitidly finish the achievements in the first day or two and then the remaining week+ is mostly a free ride.

Yet in the midst of all that, I have this heightened state of stress that I need to “keep up”.

Yes, this may be a personal thing and a lot of people say “ignore it, you will feel better if you stop trying to keep up and just play for fun”.

So I did….and it’s not going well for me. #withdrawls

As far as a backpack and 25 achievement points, I don’t care about the “points” or the skins too much, but its that sense of “doing it all” that is causing lament.

I want to do it all, on my own pace.

As with the Tequatl achievements, you can indeed do it all at your own pace with this achievement. That’s because nothing that you need for the meta to get the backpack is going away. The achievements are still there to get after the month is up, and indeed permanently.

Go to the dungeon tab and go to Twilight Assault on your achievements. All those achievements will still be available.

You haven’t missed anything , even if you haven’t played for the last two weeks…except 25 achievement points and a back item.

That’s it.

Vayne.8563:

CMF.5461:

Well, been playing since release, posted similar stuff before, but was resurfacing this concern for the sake of the game.

While I am amazed at how much they have done and highly appreciate it, the living story thing has had back lash for a while, but again, it causes these problems.

Up till this point, I have 100% everything for the living story. Some of the events really stressed me out on the difficulty but I got them all finished and I felt really accomplished.

While I worry about the quickness of the content, I admitidly finish the achievements in the first day or two and then the remaining week+ is mostly a free ride.

Yet in the midst of all that, I have this heightened state of stress that I need to “keep up”.

Yes, this may be a personal thing and a lot of people say “ignore it, you will feel better if you stop trying to keep up and just play for fun”.

So I did….and it’s not going well for me. #withdrawls

As far as a backpack and 25 achievement points, I don’t care about the “points” or the skins too much, but its that sense of “doing it all” that is causing lament.

I want to do it all, on my own pace.

As with the Tequatl achievements, you can indeed do it all at your own pace with this achievement. That’s because nothing that you need for the meta to get the backpack is going away. The achievements are still there to get after the month is up, and indeed permanently.

Go to the dungeon tab and go to Twilight Assault on your achievements. All those achievements will still be available.

You haven’t missed anything , even if you haven’t played for the last two weeks…except 25 achievement points and a back item.

That’s it.

yes you can do teq achievements….if people continue to do teq….or the new dungeon thats long with little reward

Fortunately you could do the living story meta withou even attempting TA. Or just skip it completely – the backpack, while nice, suits only engineers, which means it will be usually covered by hobo pack anyway. You are not losing anything important.

Vayne.8563:

As with the Tequatl achievements, you can indeed do it all at your own pace with this achievement. That’s because nothing that you need for the meta to get the backpack is going away. The achievements are still there to get after the month is up, and indeed permanently.

Backpack is a part of the Living Story meta, which will go away. Only the dungeon TA achievements will stay.

Astralporing.1957:

Fortunately you could do the living story meta withou even attempting TA. Or just skip it completely – the backpack, while nice, suits only engineers, which means it will be usually covered by hobo pack anyway. You are not losing anything important.

Vayne.8563:

As with the Tequatl achievements, you can indeed do it all at your own pace with this achievement. That’s because nothing that you need for the meta to get the backpack is going away. The achievements are still there to get after the month is up, and indeed permanently.

Backpack is a part of the Living Story meta, which will go away. Only the dungeon TA achievements will stay.

I did say the back item and achievement points are all you would miss out on. Even with my bevy of characters, I’m running out of backs to put back items on. Many people don’t care about a single back item. The dungeon stays. The achievements stay.

Well, good and bad news about the content. I really could care less about the back item, but I think the general idea still persists, that missing things sucks

It does sound like they are listening though, and this shows some compromise!

instanced living story content via a time-bending asura npc. That’d be a nice way to let us (re)live content we miss.

haven’t done TA, don’t care about APs nor skin. but i’m waiting for new L.S., maybe it’s good..

I once felt the way you do, but then i asked myself “why am i playing this game?”. The answer i came up with was “for fun/recreation”. Then i stopped caring about achievements, laurels, ascended gear and such. That moment was a great relief for me and now i’m enjoing the game more than ever.

It does not, however, mean that i’m a fan of temporary content.