Guild Wars 2

I just saw the news that the Halloween event will not start until the end of the current wvw season – and, even worse, the next living story step wont come until after the Halloween event. I think this is indicative of a troubling trend regarding new content releases.

The decision to hold living story/content updates until after the WvW season means there is a massive gap between the first few episodes and the next few. If the next portion is just 2 months (like the first), then the idea of the living story has changed in what I feel is a bad way. It is no longer a progressive story, but rather snippets of content every few months.

I dont think most people really felt having a WvW season and living story running concurrently was a bad thing. It kept us entertained and kept the game moving forward no matter which mode of content you preferred.

If the devs keep down this path, no one will have consistent content – it will come in fits and starts every 4-5 months. That isnt what we saw in season one and it isnt what most of your die hard fans really want.

tldr: please try to get back to a real 2 week release schedule with mixes of open world, instanced and dungeon based content.

I prefer it this way, so people who like multiple game modes don’t have to choose. And so that none of the affected areas are hurt by people having to choose. My server always participates in new PvE content, so we had no presence in WvW during the end of the last tourney (it overlapped with the LS). Similarly, LS sometimes suffers when WvW has a new tourney.

I expect that ANet will do a little of each: overlap + no overlap, since there’s no way to please everyone in this regard.