Guild Wars 2

It’s almost 2 years since the original content was released, which included the killing of the first of the 6 Elder Dragons. We now know that the final sixth has awaken, in Rata Sum’s backyard no less. We probably will have to take care of this one right away, preferably before we have to hack our way through hordes of minions and lieutenants to get a chance at hitting it. In the meantime, we let all the other ones already producing massive armies be, as they have been so far. They seem to be just happy sitting around in their turf, making minions and absorbing magic from the world and stuff.

Considering the time it took to develop the Living Story this far, and the amount of content we got, I’d say round number it’s going to take 1 year to develop and make live any decent amount of content that would lead to the killing of each of the remaining 4-5 Dragons. That’s 4-5 more years before we can complete this story. That can be a long time. What if something happens and Anet has to wrap up GW2 earlier? One can imagine players slowly start moving away to newer titles, GW2 after all was not the ultimate MMO and GW3 is going to be ‘the thing’, profit goes down, you know…

Then the story will have to be rushed. First, we have these nice, big and powerful Megalasers that can probably be fired from a distance and still open up big Dragon Holes. So we find a way to kill this newly awaken Elder Dragon quickly, whatever way. The other ones, seeing that 2 of their kind were already destroyed, change tactics and make an alliance, creating a force so powerful that they remain safely out of reach. The Tyrians are then forced to change tactics too and try to repeat what their ancestors did 10,000 years ago: Build a Bloodstone to hide away magic, tricking the Dragons into going back to sleep sooner. But since the Bloodstone was already created, we can speed things even more by just finding the shards (we have an idea where a few of them are already) and just Asuragate them or fly them to the same location, which obviously has to be the Artisian Waters in Orr. There, the water magic will do it’s thing and fuse them back together. The rebuilt Bloodstone starts seeping up magic away from the world and yay, the Dragons go back to sleep once more. The final fight would be a defense mission against the Inquest, because they don’t want to be without the ‘dragon magic’ they need to carry out their evil world domination plans. The asura, krait, karka, quaggans, norn, kodan and whatnot go back to their ancestral lands and we’re free to restart real Guild Wars among human kingdoms/groups and maybe with the charr, again. Game Over.

I do not think the game is built in with an end to the story, and if it took 6 years to tell it would be a success not a bad thing needed to speed up. Also you are thinking the game is limited to dragons? Wars with other races and expansions into other lands etc.

Uhhh… Yeah…. Sure… The Bloodstone, and water magic dragon…

Lankybird.8149:

I do not think the game is built in with an end to the story, and if it took 6 years to tell it would be a success not a bad thing needed to speed up. Also you are thinking the game is limited to dragons? Wars with other races and expansions into other lands etc.

6 years, sure. What if the devs don’t have that time to give a meaningful ending to the current state of things?

Cantha is doing peachy. Bubbles is playing with the fishies and doesn’t care about getting dry. Elona is overrun by the undead and Palawa Joko. Once Kralkatorrik is back to sleep, we’ll just zerg all the way to the Bone Palace and kill him with fire. That would actually make a nice short epilogue expansion, or the beginning of a new story.

Ikorolch.8421:

Uhhh… Yeah…. Sure… The Bloodstone, and water magic dragon…

Its not ‘water magic dragon’, its just the magic from the artesian waters. Or whatever other excuse to fuse the shards back together.
We could also go and fuse the shards at a volcano in the Fire Islands (Ring of Fire). That would make a nice story too, revisiting a previous GW1 location.

And the bloodstone was used before to put the dragons to sleep:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloodstone
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magic