Guild Wars 2

If a new player buys HOT, she/he will get base game and expansion. I imagine that means they will get all chapters of personal story that have been released so far.
If that is true, what about those that already own the game but do not have all chapters of personal story unlocked? Will we still have to buy them?

If you mean season 2 of the living story it is not part of HoT as far as I know.
New players would need to buy all chapters.

Thank you. I didn’t know that.

It will be interesting to see the reactions of new players when they realize they didn’t get what many will think they should.

I don’t know. There have been threads from new purchasers asking how to access Living Story Season Two, and when told how to purchase it, said: “Ok, thanks for the information.”

No snit or whatever….so far.

symke.3105:

It will be interesting to see the reactions of new players when they realize they didn’t get what many will think they should.

People think too much. Or perhaps too little.
Well I’ll be here with a good old helping of ‘do your research next time’ when the time come. Maybe if I’m not feeling too passive-aggressive I can tell them about gold → gems, or that they can always hope into someone else’s instance.

It’s just a bit strange to be able to buy an old game and it’s new expansion, but not get the old game’s content.

You will need to buy season 2 from the TP.

I would compare GW2 LS1+LS2 to the GW1 expansion Eye of the North. GW2 Personal Story chapters and Heart of Thorns would be the stand alone campaigns. Just like in GW1, where you can play Prophecies, Factions or Nightfall without touching any EotN content, you can play both GW2 vanilla and HoT without purchasing LS1 and LS2. The main difference is the stories of LS1 and LS2 tie closely to the HoT campaign. Anet’s in a bind here, LS was meant to provide content interim expansions. I’m not sure if they planned LS to be replayable at all, since LS1 content can’t be replayed at the moment, meaning they probably weren’t planning on selling LS as episode packs in the first place. I’m not really a PvE guy, I love the lore, but PvE stuff in-game generally gets me sleepy. I bought this game mainly for WvW and for my love of GW1 PvP, but LS really hooked me into the PvE aspect of the game. Maybe they could do the same with PvP/WvW, do something to attract people to get hooked into team based and massive player battles.

HaxTester.9816:

I would compare GW2 LS1+LS2 to the GW1 expansion Eye of the North. GW2 Personal Story chapters and Heart of Thorns would be the stand alone campaigns. Just like in GW1, where you can play Prophecies, Factions or Nightfall without touching any EotN content, you can play both GW2 vanilla and HoT without purchasing LS1 and LS2. The main difference is the stories of LS1 and LS2 tie closely to the HoT campaign. Anet’s in a bind here, LS was meant to provide content interim expansions. I’m not sure if they planned LS to be replayable at all, since LS1 content can’t be replayed at the moment, meaning they probably weren’t planning on selling LS as episode packs in the first place. I’m not really a PvE guy, I love the lore, but PvE stuff in-game generally gets me sleepy. I bought this game mainly for WvW and for my love of GW1 PvP, but LS really hooked me into the PvE aspect of the game. Maybe they could do the same with PvP/WvW, do something to attract people to get hooked into team based and massive player battles.

Living story is more like GW1 Beyond technically HoT is an expansion like EOTN not a whole campaign like Factions or NF.

Wwefan.4982:

Living story is more like GW1 Beyond technically HoT is an expansion like EOTN not a whole campaign like Factions or NF.

That’s were the revenant story comes in. I’m not sure if revenant characters will still use the vanilla PS chapters, but my hunch is they will get a separate story line, and at one point meet up with the rest of the B-b-b-b-biconics. Then with that, it would become a stand-alone campaign, just like when starting out as dervishes in Nightfall, or playing Nightfall with a character from Prophecies. I’m not sure how they will do this, since if revs will have a separate story line, then they wouldn’t have been pact commanders, unless revs are all living undead, pulled from the Mists to live again. Holy kitten, that would be interesting to see. Pact commanders who died are rallied back to the living world by Rytlock. That’s some hax you got there Rytlock, but I guess it can still be possible, since Magdaer created the everlasting ghosts of ascalon. Revs are actually undead, vampires perhaps? Nah. More like Razah. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Razah

Revenants do not get a separate story line; the Devs already confirmed this. Disparate storylines are based on race, not profession.

HaxTester.9816:

Wwefan.4982:

Living story is more like GW1 Beyond technically HoT is an expansion like EOTN not a whole campaign like Factions or NF.

That’s were the revenant story comes in. I’m not sure if revenant characters will still use the vanilla PS chapters, but my hunch is they will get a separate story line, and at one point meet up with the rest of the B-b-b-b-biconics. Then with that, it would become a stand-alone campaign, just like when starting out as dervishes in Nightfall, or playing Nightfall with a character from Prophecies. I’m not sure how they will do this, since if revs will have a separate story line, then they wouldn’t have been pact commanders, unless revs are all living undead, pulled from the Mists to live again. Holy kitten, that would be interesting to see. Pact commanders who died are rallied back to the living world by Rytlock. That’s some hax you got there Rytlock, but I guess it can still be possible, since Magdaer created the everlasting ghosts of ascalon. Revs are actually undead, vampires perhaps? Nah. More like Razah. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Razah

It will Revenants will still need to kill Zhaitan and do season 2 nothing changes classes don’t have personal stories in GW2 races do.