Guild Wars 2

Do you think living story season 1 will return before the x pack drops? So far ANET hasn’t said anything about it and I’m really hoping for it to be playable. Take my money and let me PLAY!!

Not a snowball’s chance.

They’ve been busy with the expansion and living story season 2, so the chances are extremely low.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens. There’s 4-8 months where the LS team is going to be twiddling their thumbs (unless they’ve been tasked to polishing the expansion now) while we wait for HoT to be released. If they aren’t working alongside the development team of HoT perhaps they’ll give us S1 during the hiatus in one form or another.

If nothing is going to come out between now and then… well… guess I’m hopping in for 1 second to grab my daily gift and signing off before too much longer- I might explore all the zones on my Ranger for a few days- until HoT. After all the interruptions of S2, this is a painful wait.

Well, the playable demo will be at the next PAX in 6 weeks, with the beta opening up shortly after apparently. So 4-8 months away is extremely unlikely.

http://youtu.be/lRCvuXssmu8?t=7m44s Is where it is said.

Yeah, 12-18 months is more like it.

A demo is a far cry from ‘ready’, 4-8 months gives time to for the demo (6 weeks is about 1.5 months, we’ll say 1 now since January is over). Then they need to sign up waves of beta testers to get enough people to actually stress the content- then fix bugs and test again (1-3 months). Then they need to market the game before its release (pre-orders, making it fresh in gamer’s minds) for about a month. So, we have 3 to 5 months until release. Perhaps 8 is a bit out there, but 4 definitely isn’t. 8 could be if something goes horribly wrong, like people get bugged in their glider and can fly from Heart of Maguuma all the way to Ebonhawke. I’d rather they fix issues like that instead of scrapping it all together a month after releasing the expansion (cattle-pult in Gendarrin Fields still feels like it should have an animation instead of a load screen to me to get to that Vista).

If it were 3 months or less out, I’d expect a ton more info about the expansion as well as a semi-solid date of release. So far we don’t even have basics (cost, release date, pre-order date, etc…).

Well I’m not sure how much they need to tweak LS1 to make it ready for their new replayable system.

I’m sure it’s a lot of work, but given that they’ll be needing money to fund all this new stuff they’re making it would be helpful for them if they could have a team finish it up and release it before the expansion.

I for one missed a lot of the LS1 stuff so I’m still kind of like, “who are all these weirdos” when I do my LS2.

Releasing LS1 would give a good amount of story continuity and give players an opportunity to catch up on the story thus-far before jumping into the HoT release.

I’ll tell you this much, I’m already bored without a Living Story update. Done everything I can in Silverwastes. Now I’m logging in, doing my three dailies, and logging out.

Apparently it’s time to chase the achievements in Guild Wars 1 again. . . .

Hope they don’t take 12-18 months to polish their work. It won’t be pretty if they do.

Hmmz. Well maybe try some PvP?

I took a few months off and I’m eternally behind on everything >.< Taking a little time off from the game does wonders making “I’ve done it all already” a lot less likely. :P

PvP? I’d rather run through hell in gasoline underwear. I’ll go for those Guild Wars 1 achievements instead.