Guild Wars 2

Hey after doing some calculations I came up with an assumption on how living world is going to work from now on. (Scroll down for the schedule if you don’t want to read my theory)

First the things we know:

1. There are four teams working on Living Story releases.
2. It takes 4 months to make a new release. (last season every team was resposible for 2 releases during 1 month)

Now to my assumptions:

Between the July 1 and November 4 there are four months (July, August, September and Oktober). This could mean that instead of having a team make 2 release for 1 month ArenaNet has decided to have the teams make 1 release. So if each team makes only one release and they are released on a biweekly schedule you are stuck with about 3 months of no content (assuming you play the last release for 2 weeks).

After the season 1 finally a month later (5 weeks) the April feature patch was released, four weeks after the midseason finally the September feature patch was released. Which leads to the following assumption: Approxametly a month after a finally (midseason or end) a feature patch is released.

After the April Feature patch there was a WvW tournament the same happend after the September Feature Patch. Like with the Spring WvW Tournament ArenaNet did not release anything during the Fall WvW Tournament ArenaNet did not release anything. This leads to my next assumption: WvW Tournaments are Living World releases.

ArenaNet has stated that Halloween, Winter’s Day, Bazaar of the Four Winds, Dragon Bash, The Crown Pavilion and (Super Adventure Box (although I am not sure about this one) are returning events easy to start up and used to fill time. This does not lead to any assumptions but since the Halloween Release fits the Bi-Weekly release schedule I explain this here.

Now to how I think the Living World release schedule will look like according to me.

Week 1: New Living Story Release
Week 3: Living story
Week 5: Living story
Week 7: Living story
Week 11/12: Feature patch
Week 11/12 Friday after Feature Patch: Start of WvW Tournament
4 Weeks before hitting 4 months after Week 1: (End of) WvW Tournament
2 Weeks before hitting 4 months after Week 1: End of WvW Tournament or Start of one of the returning events (Depending on when the WvW Tournament ended)
4 Months after Week1: New Living Story Release
Week 3: Schedule as above

Offcourse it can be some changes are made e.g. Winter’s Day is released between two of the upcomming Living Story releases but I think this will the basic setup for Living World releases in the future.

Your first ‘fact’ is wrong. There is one Living Story team. The four teams were consolidated, and that was stated by Angel, I believe, some time ago.

As to the rest, I’m afraid I didn’t read it after the first incorrect fact. Sorry.