Guild Wars 2

I think there should be an achievement for playing through all of the storyline missions on an account.

You mean the Personal Story of Core Tyria? You do get a Mastery Point/Achievement for the last instance, as well as several other Achievements for doing the Story.

Or do you mean every possible permutation of the Core Personal Story? Again, there are Achievements for many of the Story steps. I guess they could make one for experiencing every possible path through the Core Personal Story.

They couldn’t make one for every Story chapter in the game, because that’s always growing.

Good luck.

Sorry, I wasn’t clear.

What I mean is that one has played through each mission segment, including the “other” one, when there are two (or three) choices available.

For example, in the Asura storyline, Part I, there are three colleges available: Statics, Dynamics and Synergetics. This achievement would require that the account has played through all three college paths.

Additionally, inside each college’s path, there is a split storyline mission. For example, in Statics, you can either choose Unwelcome Visitors or Unscheduled Delay.

So, to get all of the tier one Asura missions, you would need at least 6 different characters (3 colleges times 2 optional choices).

Likewise, each race has 6 paths through tier one.

Each race also has 6 paths through tier two missions, as well, but you can do them all with the same 6 characters.

Finally, there are 5 races, so you would need at least 30 characters to complete them all. (It turns out that all of the later options, including choice of order, can be done with a subset of the same 30 characters.)

Also, you can actually play through the optional mission choices with other players, but I don’t think you can actually verify that you’ve played through them all. So, to get the achievement, you would have to buy at least 25 extra character slots.

This is the most serious objection I could think of (it might seem like a money-grab by ArenaNet).

Another (minor) objection might be that it is emphasizing the core game, but ANet is focusing on the future, not the past.