Guild Wars 2

I no longer care about the Living Story updates, I really don’t.
I don’t care if I don’t get all achievements or minis.

Honestly, I’d rather wait 1-2 months and get no new content for 3-5 New Crystal Desert maps with new Dungeons and WELL WRITTEN story.

I stopped caring a while ago, just log in to do my daily.

Do a bit of the new stuff, don’t really care what’s going on, if I get achievements fine, if not, meh.

I’m sure there’s a storyline or some lore in there somewhere, but I just run with the pack.

Don’t expect things like that to happen. Arenanet doesn’t know how to handle a game with so much potential. I’m actually amazed how they screwed it up compared to GW1.

I’m going to get the point of power for my home instance, just because I guess.
One day it might be useful. Maybe for ascended armor materials? I don’t know if this will be the only time I am able to add a PoP to my home instance. Anet likes offering things once and only once and if your not there to get that one time, well then screw you buddy, you should’ve logged in, exclusivity and all that.

Now do I actually care what’s going on. Oh god no. I stopped that a bit ago. Can’t remember when I stopped caring. Maybe chasing balloons? Or dragon footprints?

The content itself just isn’t engaging.

Nick.6972:

I no longer care about the Living Story updates, I really don’t.
I don’t care if I don’t get all achievements or minis.

Honestly, I’d rather wait 1-2 months and get no new content for 3-5 New Crystal Desert maps with new Dungeons and WELL WRITTEN story.

I still care. I like the story, it is quite interesting.

If you really think they can produce 3-5 complete new maps and dungeons in 1-2 months you are quite naive.

I don’t believe I’ve finished more than 50% of the LS achievements since release. I did complete Southsun for the back pieces and Zephyr Sanctum for the useless quartz node. Most everything else, I stopped playing once the solo bits were over with. I don’t group for dungeons and I don’t ride zerg trains. I play the game for the story and there isn’t much story presented at the moment.

lordkrall.7241:

Nick.6972:

I no longer care about the Living Story updates, I really don’t.
I don’t care if I don’t get all achievements or minis.

Honestly, I’d rather wait 1-2 months and get no new content for 3-5 New Crystal Desert maps with new Dungeons and WELL WRITTEN story.

I still care. I like the story, it is quite interesting.

If you really think they can produce 3-5 complete new maps and dungeons in 1-2 months you are quite naive.

They spend four months+ on each bi-weekly release. If they went back to a single monthly release, they could double-up the teams and essentially get the equivalent of 8 months of work from each one. It’s still nowhere near long enough to constantly produce new maps but it would seem they could then add a little more meat to the living story’s bones.

I no longer care about Scarlet’s alliances and plans, assuming she has one.
I still care about the Living Story in the sense that I don’t want to pay for expansions.

lordkrall.7241:

Nick.6972:

I no longer care about the Living Story updates, I really don’t.
I don’t care if I don’t get all achievements or minis.

Honestly, I’d rather wait 1-2 months and get no new content for 3-5 New Crystal Desert maps with new Dungeons and WELL WRITTEN story.

I still care. I like the story, it is quite interesting.

If you really think they can produce 3-5 complete new maps and dungeons in 1-2 months you are quite naive.

Even one new area from the map that it’s already drawn every 4 months would have been better. If they want they can keep the 2 other teams to work on some monthly updates and the other 2 teams create something big like a new area or a new dungeon maybe or even work on PVP. But those 2 teams must do permanent content, and not to change the current content( for that there are the other 2 teams) but create something new.

A new area or two every year and some new cool feature (like gvg or new pvp mode or something) would be great.

i stopped caring about post like this. i mean there’s 1000x others. Next time start it with Dear diary…

Temp-Content = Temp players

Long Term Content = Long Term Players

Let’s hope Anet figures this out, soon!

i dont care anymore really. i do if i got extra time which seems like i never do. i still do dailies but truthfully i might stop doing those too thinking of finding another game i can spend my money on instead

Never cared, LW has never been presented in a way that I truly liked and the story is almost non existent. Been patiently waiting for them to go in a different direction.

The idea of an MMORPG that evolves and changes is great but i have seen little evidence that it’s happening.

Achievement points are a cheap trick to get people to keep coming back
The To-do lists tied to the AP are the same thing with a different name every update
None of the characters in the LS are interesting or memorable to me
New weapon skins and back items don’t matter to me because of RNG and all of the above.

I used to do my daily well daily but now i don’t, if I happen to get it from playing, great, other-wise who cares…

Fix the core game please! This what i play for.
Plan a true expansion too that would be awesome!

I stopped caring when we had to fight robots that were shaped like Destroyers. Just kind of meh now because I do the LS to level characters.

I usually rush the meta achievement before everyone gives up on it and finds it not rewarding/interesting as champ trains, get my meta achievement reward du jour that will likely never be seen again and then find something else to play for two weeks.

I don’t even bother with the dailys anymore.

I care, I like the lore, only problem is you need an outside source to check it if you missed an update.

I no longer care either. My current time spent in game has dropped significantly because the Living Story has resolved nothing and is just meandering around accomplishing nothing but a tease at “grand plans” and to make permanent aesthetic changes to the world.

The year is pretty much over, I want some resolution. I want to know that all that we have done actually means something, and are not just excuses to spoon-feed us shinies by coaxing us to log in every day. Because I won’t do that.

I stopped caring a long time ago. I stopped playing GW2 seriously after Dragon Bash. The game just started going in the wrong direction for me. Sure, there’s a lot of content, but the rewards don’t justify it. They are severely lacking and underwhelming.

Here’s a reference to all the releases: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/

Can someone seriously say the rewards from all that content is worth it?

Well there are quite a few of us that play for the sake of playing and not for rewards.
I have never understood why people are so fixated by rewards..

I’m indifferent. I’d like to say I never cared, but I did and I still do. Just that, the way I play the game, and LS, is like shopping. If I like LS, I play and participate and if I don’t, I ignore. No pressure for anything, just having fun…

I did care in the beginning, but lately I’ve stopped caring. I have no interest to grind the achievements over and over again for some new reward I will rarely even use. Story isn’t interesting enough in itself to keep playing, so I guess I will wait until an “expansion-type” content update until I play seriously again.

btw, I’m against a two-week update schedule, I personally can wait a month or even two if it means we get more meaningful content to do and not just AP grind in a different skin.

living story should be a cool event per 2 weeks with some story and NOT a archievement grindfest

everytime we have a living story patch i dont think “oh lets check story” – its always " oh lets check the meta archievement"

I still care for this game enough, to read forums.
I still care enough for LS, to feel really bad that it’s burning good lore to the ground and replace it with utter bullskrit.
I still care enough for updates, to think “what will they screw now?” hours before release.

But with every nonsensical achievement I care less.

Maybe it is just me but the game starts to become a Collectors’ Heaven. All living stories what have gone till now starting with the Flame and Frost are based only on “collecting stuff” : refugee lost items, karka samples, etc continuing now with the toxic spores. Besides this, it is the achievement collecting which include kill/smash various number of things raging from 10 to 500 on most parts
So, to sum it up, all we do in these living stories is collecting things. We have a bit of 5 min or less story followed by a lot of collecting. Sad but it seems A-net innovative thinking has reached its highest level. Every 2 weeks we get to collect the same things just covered in different skins.

I don’t care. Haven’t cared ever after the Crown Pavilion. That was the beginning of the downfall of living story and this game.
PvE … became a grind. WvW… became uncompetitive. Living Story… became a farm.

Less and less. With each update, it becomes more of a grind fest. With each skill change, it becomes more of a ‘play the way the devs say’ game. With each update, I play less. Getting to the point where I can only play less by not playing.

Pretty much only playing with my friends keeping that from happening at this point.

Have reached the point where I just was going to fully walk away but i’m logging in to do the dailies out of habit and hoping we’ll see some change…..
No longer spending $20+ a week like I was on gems.

Ever consider it’s natural to lose interest after a while? People should take breaks from the game now and then. What Living Story does is gives the players things to do on their scheduled returns. Not having periods of stagnation in between that expansion packs create.

-New patch.

-Read the mail.

-See whatever little story there is at the moment.

-Check meta-achievement reward/temporary rewards.

-If they’re useful/desirable, grind for them and get it done ASAP.

-If not, ignore it.

I used to care. Seeing the little story bits almost make me care again. Grinding for the meta rewards/other temporary rewards makes me quickly stop trying to care, as well as all the things that require a small zerg to have fun with.

By this point, I’m about ready to say that they should just go with expansions. I mean, it worked for the first Guild Wars, right?

I’d be surprised if it was any less than 85% of the player base that would vastly prefer to see large scale content like new zones and dungeons over gimmicky monthly events and mini-stories.

Frankly they’ve wasted a lot of time year one, let’s hope they’re getting their act together.

I stopped caring when I found out there may not be any addons. I really enjoyed the stand alone addons of Nightfall and Factions. And the expansion Eye of the North. Our world expanded rapidly and we got to learn of new professions. I am getting tired of weekly or bi-weekly content. As I do them I start finding myself falling behind in the living story. I rather pay the money to return to Elona and Kaining than to waste away doing free content. I am getting bored of Tyria.

Living story has the same cycle all the time:

1. Players need to gather some things x amount
2. they need to go around of the world find things
3. they need to kill x number of foes
4. they need to do some Jumping Puzzle
5. and all ends a dungeon.

Usually that Jumping Puzzle and Dungeon stop a good amount of players to see ending of a Living Story arc, so they start to care less and less about it, because they know they will not be able to finish it. They will never see the end of the current story.

Players start to complain everything, because whole Living Story is too forseeable. Rewards are mostly useless, and players feels that they have been cheated.

It seems that those teams who are working with Living Stories have same concept what they use to make Living Stories. Well, they have such a hectic timetable how they could even invent something new and innovative in that time. No one can do that, but in a way they are underestimate players and their intelligence by doing so.

Solution for this is that those teams who are making Living Stories, should have more time to do those Living Stories. Let them throw those ready concepts away and use their own innovation, let them have brainstorms, invent new things with writers and whole Living Story would become more interesting.

Many people said that Halloween wasn’t in a game what they expected, it didn’t felt same as last year. Why is that? It is because of Living Story. Game is now like a child who has too many presents. Every giftbox looks the same and all those giftboxes have same item in it. All those special events like Halloween, Wintersday and so on will loose their glamour, they are just a ”thing” amongs another ”things”. All special events have suffer inflation because of Living Story.

I stopped caring shortly after SouthSun, it’s been the same events, over and over again with different skinned items. Not to mention I can’t be on more then a few hours a week so rarely get even a quarter of the achievements done, and I prefer to spend that time in WvWvW.

the pace of living story content is way too slow that coupled up with the content only being out for 2 weeks or so is a real drag. Could of had a meaningful expansion pack already and more fanbois.
1. Balance the classes not temporary content people ignore.
2. Produce content that will STAY!

Right now i’d kill to get inside Super Adventure Box to pass time.

I would prefer permanent content, the living story stuff was ruined for me during the karka event that i completely missed out because i couldn’t connect and when i did i had up to a minute delay on skills. The issues from the karka event haven’t happened again from what i have seen but almost every living story has bugs that don’t get fixed before it goes away.

Also not a fan of not being able to do anything other than the living story because everyone is forced to cram it all in during the limited time it is up so everything else is empty. What makes it worse now is how there are multiple limited time things going on at once so even parts of the living story are hard to do.

I care in the sense that I still check it out, but usually the result is subpar as far as story is concerned.

This recent update is okayish actually, they added some nice details in the camp even pre-patch. I wish they had some more of the small story instances similar to the ‘forced’ introduction (good way to handle it btw). F&F did that well and while I rightfully lamented it’s slow pace and lack of permanence the story bits were the best out of all LS updates so far.

The achievement checklist for this patch is okay too, not too much grind and sends you to various zones while keeping some sense (checking out other krait places in this context, as opposed to random invasions).

Einlanzer.1627:

I’d be surprised if it was any less than 85% of the player base that would vastly prefer to see large scale content like new zones and dungeons over gimmicky monthly events and mini-stories.

Frankly they’ve wasted a lot of time year one, let’s hope they’re getting their act together.

And I am surprised that some people still seems to prefer getting content once every six months that can be completed in less than a month instead of content every two weeks.

lordkrall.7241:

And I am surprised that some people still seems to prefer getting content once every six months that can be completed in less than a month instead of content every two weeks.

Content every two weeks that is repetitive, basically a check list of achievements and can be completed in less than 3hours (if not counting the daily achievements for the meta).

Hka.3942:

Content every two weeks that is repetitive, basically a check list of achievements and can be completed in less than 3hours (if not counting the daily achievements for the meta).

True, we could instead get content every six months that was more or less the same but larger in scale.

Nick.6972:

WELL WRITTEN story.

Something entirely absent in this game.

I stopped caring after the karka incident.

It was just so… frivolous.

My whole guild left the game after that. Now we mostly play games on steam.

I wish there was more armor, more dungeons, fix the dungeons (for gods sake, to do every dungeon all you have to do is stack in a corner) just write a better story.. And fix the classes. They’re botching mostly all of them save for Warrior and god knows what else still functions normally.

TLDR;
Me nor all the people in my friends list (trust me, i’ve chatted with them) care for the living world updates. None of them keep up and grind 24 hrs. a day while they’re active to get any of the rewards.

Edit:
Maybe if all of the armor in the game wasn’t a simple 3 stat bonus.. and actually had unique set bonuses, elemental damage reductions, and more than those 3 bonuses…
Heck, we might even see build diversity and a shift in the meta— which has always been and probably always will Be zerker gear + whatever covers your butt.

lordkrall.7241:

True, we could instead get content every six months that was more or less the same but larger in scale.

Well then the issue is in the lack of trust in the development team to deliver good content.

What I want is a real expansion (paid or not) with new places to explore, new mechanics, a good and coherent story, additionnal lore that builds on the interesting lore of GW1, …

What I don’t want is a checklist of “kill this, collect that x times” every two weeks with a weak story not even told in game, yeah yeah the conclusion will come in due time and it’ll all make sense et caetera… The thing is, I’m not sure I’ll still play the game when this time comes.

lordkrall.7241:

Einlanzer.1627:

I’d be surprised if it was any less than 85% of the player base that would vastly prefer to see large scale content like new zones and dungeons over gimmicky monthly events and mini-stories.

Frankly they’ve wasted a lot of time year one, let’s hope they’re getting their act together.

And I am surprised that some people still seems to prefer getting content once every six months that can be completed in less than a month instead of content every two weeks.

The issue is not that we get content every two weeks, it’s that the content is mostly lame and then we lose it in two weeks. Additionally, the amount of content released bi weekly so far, all told, does not equal the amount of content that an expansion typically brings. 1 new (very small) zone in a full year? No thanks. Also, expansion content would be more meaningful in this game due to the scaling system.

Try to use your head a little, eh?

a living story brings the world alive, so i don’t know what you’re talking about but i have never seen a living story in GW2, ever.
GW1 has one, we have war in kryta and wind of change, it’s an annoying version but it’s at least something that changes the game from stale to living.

First, I stopped doing dailies. Then I stopped doing monthlies. Then I stopped crafting. Now, I am almost about to stop doing Guild Missions. This game is boring as all. I wish this game had SOMETHING going for it… but unless you like grinding (which I define as doing anything you wouldn’t normally do to get something you need to stay up to date in something you want to do) and WvW.

I have the char name Boring Story for this very reason.

When I stop caring about a game I usually stop reading the forums as well. One would think that it takes a non zero amount of care to log in and post to a thread about not caring. But what do I care?

ZaidDyan.3057:

When I stop caring about a game I usually stop reading the forums as well. One would think that it takes a non zero amount of care to log in and post to a thread about not caring. But what do I care?

Lol. Living story isn’t this whole game. I hate LS, I do not hate GW2. But, these patches do lessen my game experience.

I no longer care either.

I’ve spent a LOT of time to help GW2, but their decisions do not support the big hits, just the little “hotfix” suggestions of mine.

Problem is, GW2’s “Lore” got very far from what we expected… with all of this gloving BS and the stolen mass-effect technologies, 8bit laser weapons…
Really…
What we expect is the old D&D in more dinamic actions…
EPICNESS that is about great characters we respect, dialogues that we remember and quote, a world that goes on and changes, a story that keeps us entertaining, a way of playing where we don’t have to grind thousands of hours to make a character of our wish… You know, this game has the tools for all of this… but the little differences ruin the whole…

Right now I came up for a daily and G’night. Like the rest of the people. I do not even care about the WVW, because people already gave up the mindless/skilless trains and give-take style of farming keeps… pointless… and not enjoyable at all!

Want to Fix this situation? Hire me up for the job -.-’

If so many people dont care why are you all still posting on the forums