Guild Wars 2

Lol that story was short. Most of it was listening to NPCs and running all over that island. You didn’t do much really. You collected a few items and activated 4 machines.

I hope next update gives us a little more to do. Maybe a group instance with some bosses and loot tied to the map? why not.

Yes the Story was short.. but really take a look at what the patch give us

New PvE Map
New PvP Map
New Fractal Hub Map
New Story chapters
New Mastery
New repeatable Heart Quests
Multiple new Events and Chains
New Minipets
New Map Currency
New Merchant NPC’s and items
2 New Jumping Puzzles
New Back Skin
New Weapon set Skin

The list goes on..

Yeah the Story was short but seriously.. look how much content we got in this patch instead..
I very much want more story over content when it comes to Living World patches but sometimes you have to give and take on big patches like this..

Just wait until we get a LW patch that doesn’t give us this amount of content..
I’d expect if we didn’t get new maps and all sorts of new content like we did in both the LW3 patches we’ve had so far then we would have a far more story focused patch with longer and overall more Story content.

Same applies to the next expansion pack for Gw2 as well..
HoT give us a chunk of content but a lot of new system mechanics and stuff as well which I expect took up a good chunk of its development..

But now that all that is in the game already we can expect the next expansion to be much bigger and more content and story packed

Well, of course it was short. It was only one chapter and it had Taimi in it. But we did get a few nice things with it.

How much story people want to be integrated in a single episode? 3 h of dialogues? 10 h? 30 h?

AliamRationem.5172:

Well, of course it was short. It was only one chapter and it had Taimi in it. But we did get a few nice things with it.

Um, 2 “chapters” aka instances. There was the one at the start, where we got infodumped, and the one at the end, where Spoiler Spoiler Spoilered the Spoiler.

I don’t feel it was any shorter than any of the other repeatable living world chapters. Plus, with each map comes something new to collect and grind. In this case, getting enough petrified wood to buy all the special items.

Belenwyn.8674:

How much story people want to be integrated in a single episode? 3 h of dialogues? 10 h? 30 h?

The chapters of LW2 were about 2-3h long, now it’s 1.5h max. It’s about half. I expected just a bit more. It’s not the end of the world, but would be nice to have a bit more story imo.

Belenwyn.8674:

How much story people want to be integrated in a single episode? 3 h of dialogues? 10 h? 30 h?

Yeah sure. Why not? Whats wrong with that?

GummyBearSummoner.7941:

Belenwyn.8674:

How much story people want to be integrated in a single episode? 3 h of dialogues? 10 h? 30 h?

Yeah sure. Why not? Whats wrong with that?

What’s wrong with this is it would take a lot longer to make and people would complain about content droughts. That’s what’s wrong with it.

Anet is barely keeping their production schedule heads above water. To make content faster would be delaying content’s release.

Getting smaller releases more often keeps people in the game. Not all people but most likely more people.

I prefer this to waiting longer for longer episodes.

The collections, achievements and farming for rewards keeps me busy until the next episode.

I suppose they could do a longer story if they didn’t include a map with each release, which seems to be what’s happening. Personally I’d rather have the map.

Nothing new here, it’s living story, not expantion. The story is cut in pieces to built up to the next expantion. Along the way we get new maps and achievements to keep us busy and fully explore and get immersed in the new world.