Guild Wars 2

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I just noticed what you are doing guys and this is extremely good lore-wise game design!
Once upon a time Asura technologies popped out and everyone was happy to use this.
With asura deadly as hell dragons also poped out. This dragons forced us to unite, each species has donated something for dragon fight. Norn bravery and muscles, human survivability and jack-of-all-trades-ability, charr war machines, f**in’ deadliness and Tybalt, sylvari which impossible to corrupt and Trahearne, who had no choice than winning this war(Dream guidance), aand asura intellegence and technologies.
We were able to tap Zhaitan to death with single button due to number of reasons, but I will highlight some:
1) Reinforcements could arrive insanely fast thanks to Asura gates and waypoint system.
2) We decrease our losses and increase our power with asura golems and golem-suits
3) Well, we can’t kill flying beast if we can’t fly. And we got the wings! We’ve built airships together, but it would be impossible without asura.
But, but, but… I don’t think technologies should be bound to asura only. And look at last updates:

Sky pirates – hey people, look at the sky! Sky travelling isn’t only for dragon wars! Presentation of steampunk-themed technologies also!

Bazaar – hey again, look at our crystals, are crystals are amazing and… the whole new way to utilize matter of this world to get what we want. New technology. And what LA is doing after sky pirate attacks? Trying to make a deal with people who can travel in skies using brand new technology.

Queen’s Jubilee – Air balloons and developement of steampunk-themed technology.
And this new technology(Watchwork mechanisms) is represented by … human-made golems and new >PORTAL< devices. Not personal asura waypoints, but new watchwork human-made personal portal devices.

And this evolution isn’t just COOL THINGS FOR PLAYERBASE WHO LOVES STEAMPUNK AND FAST TRAVEL, this is story-driven updates. Tyria is devastated, ravaged and every life is important, we can’t use oceans and seas for travelling, but… I don’t know why, but skies are clear! We can fly. And we need to improve our air travelling ability, if we want to kill every kitten dragon in this world. And to save our lives we need to build golems, who will fight with us or cover our kitten.

I think we will improve this techs over time and we will this changes ingame. And, probably, in a distant future this tech will fight us back… Maybe some steampunk-based bio/mecha race on supercool airships… oh wait~

And a bit of speculation:
Look at new weapons and abilities- they are new-tech bounded and we need to kill the most dangerous monster(champions) to get them. I don’t think this method is QJ update only. I assume new Ascended weapon types/skills will be delivived in a similiar way – by advancing technologies.