Guild Wars 2

I am quite thrilled to see that they want to expand on the Living story.
And I like that the two areas currently have all kinds of different events in them, which give those areas a whole different feel to it.

However, I feel the changes are very thematic. Meaning, once we defeat all the Molten alliance, all those events will probably go away.

This isn’t really as world changing as I would like the Living story to be. It just would mean that after the events conclude everything will be same old same old again, as if nothing happened.

Sure, they have added two new areas, Cragstead and North Nolan Hatchery. But these are just "addons"to the area, and don’t really change the world in a very meaningful way.

Same way as how Lion’s Arch changed and southsun cove changed. The events did change the structure of the world they took part in, but they didn’t change the living part of that world. THere were (are) no new events for the players to participate in in Southsun Cove for HALF A YEAR.

I wouldn’t really call that world changing. I feel all the changes to the world are very superficial while they could have been alot more meaningful in player interaction.

It’s like adding and substracting Lego blocks to your already build world, while nothing integral changes to the world. It’s still the same world after all the events. What about substracting some blocks, and adding some new ones?

(I.E. Switching out heart-tasks (perhaps technically too hard), switching out certain events)

I feel that would also make it worthwile to run alternate characters as well and would greatly enhance replayability of the game.

Well, at least wait until the story in question until we start talking about the lack of “effect on the world” shall we?
We have no idea how the last part will play out after all.

The reason I put this in the Living Story Section rather than the Flame and Frost section is that I meant in more as a grander scope of things. I just used Flame and Frost as an example, since it’s the only one we got so far.

But true enough, we don’t know what’s to come yet, but at least now they have the whole next month to think about it if they haven’t already. =p

So far their “world-changing stuff” has been structural, but didn’t change events, hearts and all that.

Eh, with the refugees moving to Southsun Cove it seems pretty probable that at the very least Southsun Cove will have some permanent changes from Flame and Frost. I can definately see some new events coming out of all the refugees. Kind of suprised they don’t already have new events that revolve around helping them build or something.