ArenaNet mentioned they wanted more people to play in the open world, instead of being in dungeons, as well as make players explore other areas in the world other than the high level zones.
Well, that plan, at least, is working. Having just played in Wayfarer Foothills, I could easily see the zone was filled with people, with a lot of players doing events, running around looking for refugees, and so on.
While this kind of thing won’t last forever (people are there because of the Living Story, which likely won’t stay there for long, and won’t keep people busy forever anyway), this was actually a good strategy to pull people from Fractals and from Orr.
“I think that players are starting to mature past the point of wanting to be on that
treadmill, of being in that obvious pattern of every time I catch up you are going to
put another carrot in front of me” – Mike O’Brien right before Ascended weapons
This was a really good idea, who ever thought of this needs a raise :P I really enjoy leveling up with lots of people around
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Agreed I recently logged off and was in Wayfarer with some friends just running alts and it was full of players, last night the same thing in Orr. I’d like to see ANet expand this living story idea across Tyria to keep the open world lively, if they can come up with things like this it will keep the player base interested. Hopefully they have a long term plan that works out, good job ANet!
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Though it’s a very, VERY bad day to be a grawl shaman.