Guild Wars 2

I think consistency is an issue from patch to patch for the episodes. I don’t really want to talk about the quality of the content. I have talked about that before and the quality has really gone up this season. The pacing and amount of content each week varies wildly though. I feel like for this week to hit the same amount of story beats as two weeks ago, it would have been wise to include the conversation with the Pale Tree this update as opposed to later.

A hopelessly optimistic friend of mine posited that this update was meager because you are all working on an expansion. The point being, that even the unabashed fan boys conceded that this update was thin when compared to last patch.

Was it wrong of me to be disappointed that we didn’t get a big new chunk of map to go along with this update?

It’s not as if I didn’t like the content that was released this patch. I did. It’s that people overseeing it could have rationed it out a little better. Two weeks ago was a feast, and this was a snack for lack of a better analogy.

I am increasingly concerned that ArenaNet hasn’t devoted enough resources to meet both the quality and quantity expectations of the playerbase.

Quality is up substantially, but it appears as though it’s at the expense of quantity.

If the story episodes are only going to be 30-45 minutes, I’d venture you’d have to deliver an episode per week without breaks to keep the playerbase happy. 52 episodes per year. Not the 12/year we’ve had as our Season 2 pace. (Now that said, some other episodes were a bit longer, so we can be generous and call it a 24-episode / year pace… but it’s still not nearly enough.)

What will it take to get double the content we’re getting now at the same quality? Do I just need to buy more gemstore crap? I’ll buy more gemstore crap.

I agree the quantity leaves a lot to be desired. I never was finished with a living story including all achievements as fast as this time. It was 2 hours of content with the achievements included.
Also the replay value is like zero.