Guild Wars 2

So you complete the story, see a few cutscenes… now what?

Do we get to catch up with Logan, Zojja, Kasmeer, and Rox? do we get to see if Taimi's research in the abandoned dragon lab comes up with anything on the other dragons?

I’ve gone to Tarir in THAT chamber and there was no extra scenes or anything.. is there anything that the Pale Tree has to say about all this after the story is done?

So many loose ends leftover. The vanilla GW2 ending allowed you to catch up aith all of Destiny’s Edge, and talk to people that you’ve encounted in your personal story along the way, giving a bit more closure than what we have here.

LS3

HoT is kind of a “Multiple season pass” to the story, they decided to make the release basically a complete season (along with all the new maps and features) and pace the story out with live updates, just like the raids.

The original story was built more as a “boxed set” because they’ hadn’t nailed down this idea of living world as solo instance story progression. So, the new model they came up with in LS2, they basically decided that having a season finale where we lobotomize mordremoth was a good value point for the expansion’s release, and the next season (or two or however many) are kind of just ongoing parts of that story (for free like LS2 of course) alongside new map releases and other such things.

Basically, think of how Launch release paid for the story and 2 LS seasons. They didn’t know they were gonna use the LS as a personal story extension at the time (remember the original LS stuff being very “well this has to happen alongside the living story, wait no it doesn’t, wait yes it does”) but as of now they’re firmly fixed on the living story being extensions of the personal story, so it makes sense.

I would have liked a “roll credits” scene though. For every season finale even.