Guild Wars 2

I’ll try to make this short.

GW2 was sold in more than 3 500 000 copies. I’ll just guess there are 100-500 players among those who love GW world, are talented for writing, drawing or modeling, have deep knowledge in lore and would like to contribute to it for mere enjoyment. Let’s focus on writers for now.

Social networks contest:

Players are presented with characters. For start let those be less important ones. They are introduced with their background, known facts, basic personality traits and time interval where story should take place. One of them could be that Charr cub we saved so many times in LA event known as “Save Da Children”.

Players then have chance to write about those characters or simply about one of them and post their work on GW2 social network pages such as Facebook and Twitter. Maybe even create events in which those characters participate.

Players are allowed to change elements of story any time during this content until final election.

Selection

First, stories are chosen by players.

Then, those most liked are reviewed by ArenaNet team. If needed, tips for corrections are given (to go better with their vision of global story).

After, big election is made, where winning story is rewarded by becoming part of the game.

More rewards

Players that contributed a lot are given exclusive titles such as: Storyteller, Preacher, Keeper of Legends, Oracle…

Why this?

I think that would give some depth to characters we meet in game. As they come from different authors, diversity among them shall become greater. Players would love them more as they chose them to be like that. Players would feel they matter and have impact on GW2 world. Even unsuccessful stories might give some great ideas. And maybe, if things go great, from those people that are really talented and good at it, in cooperation with Arena Net writers, we would get new amazing content.

Question for ArenaNet:

Is this possible in stated or a little bit <hanged version?

Question for players:

Do you like this idea? Do you think we need something like this? How do you think it would contribute the game?

I support this idea, I think NPC story in game would be more than enough reward but hey I will take a title too. :P

Well, titles would go to those people that wrote a lot and most of their stories became part of game.

Also, changed topic name, since people told me it sounded to them like a was talking about reviving NPC’s. o.O

Although the writers are really getting better over this first season of the Living Story.. this is a good idea too

Writers focused on important characters. This is opportunity to bring life to those “less” important ones.

Be afraid, be very afraid…

Remember the film Iron Sky? Fans could bring in their ideas into the film, the result is a entertaining but extremly bad film (thats why its entertaining probably).