Availability of future LS updates?

Availability of future LS updates?

in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns

Posted by: MorganOneNine.1025

MorganOneNine.1025

An interesting question was just raised on Reddit. I know there’s been mention that Living Story S3+ will require HoT, but I’m curious about how not owning HoT will affect actually unlocking the content.

If you don’t have HoT yet when a S3 episode launches, but still login during the window of availability, will you “mostly unlock” the episode(s) but just not be able to play it/them until you buy HoT?

Or, will you be completely locked out of S3 until you buy HoT (after each episode’s availability window) and then still have to pay gems to unlock them after the fact?