If it would be true it would be a much better. If they had listened to the many people suggesting this not long after the start of season one thinks could have been much better already. Anyway if it’s true that everything will permanent it might have taken them a little longer to figure out but better late then never. Hopefully it’s then just not yet to late.
About the ’ whining’. Most complains about the LS where related to two thinks. 1 the lack of expansion-like content (something I did not complain about because I rather have that in an expansion) and 2 it being temporary making people have to do thinks against the time.
The temporary complain would be solved, the expansion-like content is not sure yet so people might still be complaining about that if they won’t release about a map per month (as you could except about 12 new maps in a years expansion I think)
Another general problem that turns up also in LS discussion is the gold-grind for everything. That’s related to the cash-shop focus, that’s why I preferred expansion-like content in expansions so they could focus on expansion to make money and put most cash-shop stuff into the world.
Now if stuff would be permanent that problem is not yet solved and even if they would push out expansion-like content then people would go into new maps to do what? Grind some more gold?
So If it’s all permanent but those problems would still exist prepare for some more ‘whining’, but completely justifiable whining. Just to prepare you.
However as long as we don’t know for sure everything is permanent and or we will get truly expansion-like content this is all guessing so maybe better wait a few patches into LS S2 before concluding that they finally listen to the people saying stuff should be permanent.
(Oow and yes I did see the post but we will not know how it works out until it here. One of the complains for example was that returning players missed the stuff and now you need to log in during the event to unlock it, so returning players will still have missed it. It’s a huge improvement for active players none-the less. But lets wait and see.)
Knowing they’ve separated Story Instanced from Open World Content, still keeping them tied, I believe they can focus on giving each area more focus and really bring more quality to the updates, instead of mixing it all up like in S1. Having Updates being replayable kind of worried me, since we’d lose the sense of a “Living, breathing world”, but the approach they’ve taken to this, by separating what affects Tyria as a world into one affair and Story instanced content into another, I think it’ll really work out nicely