Guild Wars 2

I sympathize with you. I too missed out on everything after Dragon bash until Queen’s Jubilee.

But the bright side is I don’t take GW2 stories seriously. Predictable plots, bad acting. Game of Thrones is more than enough story for me to feed on for the next decade so it’s okay if a game can’t live up to my standards.

What’s important to me is that living story achievements are fast to accomplish (I finished half of Queen’s Jubilee today). And that fun content comes back once in a while, like the minigames cycle. It’s too bad that the dungeon instances aren’t here to stay, but who knows, it’s in the game so it might come back one day for us to experience again. Living world can cycle content in a creative way.

I feel like the emphasis on stories (living or personal) is what’s hurting GW2 since the level of writing isn’t very good or memorable. I’d hope they would focus on good gameplay instead of building on storylines, after all, if the playing is fun the storyline can be non-existent.

For me living story is bad in following ways:
- Story: predictable, unrealistic, cliché
- “Living”: it doesn’t live, there are near to no permanent changes to the world
- Achievements: achievements are very much a grind
- Rewards: nothing special
- Rough: the general design is rather rough, not detailed, hurried

I haven´t bothered to log in the last days except for fusing quartz.
I´ll see later if our guild mission can start this time, the last got canceled because nobody is logging on.

I think the living story is working, it´s making me live outside of Tyria.
What a bother.