Guild Wars 2

Hey there! I’d like to dig up an old interview because it was something I really loved about the upcoming release of the game at that time. First of all, I’m aware that not everything makes it to release and I don’t start with “you promised us!!” because I think they have their reasons to scrap things. That being said I think that exacly things like they wanted to do is what’s missing at the moment for lore-fans like me.

Here the part of the interview:

GWI: Yoh from the GWI Forums also had a question. Are there plans to collect/gain pieces of lore and other information about the GW2 world to be saved on a codex, and will they be accessible in game?

Ree: We have a couple of different answers for that. One is your personal journal. As you do things in the game and go through your story, you have a personal journal that tracks what you do, talks about the NPCs that you’ve met, and the places you’ve been and the things that you’ve done. We also have books in the game that you can go and quest and find. A lot like you you would quest and find elite skills, you can find people who sell them or will only give you this book if you complete a challenge in the game. Those books will be things that you can keep to read over and over. To sort of see the story that they tell; whether it be about parts of the past or monsters in the game. We want that lore to be accessible and we want it to be something that if you really liked the story, you can go click on the book again and see the story again and so forth.

source: http://www.guildwarsinsider.com/guild-wars-insider-interview-ree-soesbee/5/

TL;DR: we can collect books and read those whenever we want. Stuff about lore, monsters etc.

I wonder what the reason was to scrap this. It would fit quite fine into the game as the lore is vast and absolutely worth reading. The thing is: Anet releases a lot of the lore bits currently only in the web instead of the game. I can’t say how many people miss that wonderful pieces… but only few of my friends know these.

Personally I’d love to see those in the game. Ebonhawke and those static books are a nice start, but reading those in a random order is kind of confusing imho, and I don’t want to leave the game for reading this as a whole.

and please don’t move this thread into the “suggestions” forum, since I have the feeling that no one ever responds there.

I totally support this, more lore in-game! I also totally forgot it was actually in-game until Marcus did bring it up in another thread. To have something like this would be great, especially for new players that didn´t burn through every lore blog post/article/wikipage/whatever before the launch…the lore gets really burried in this game.it´s there, but for someone not familiar with at all, totally unaccessible