Guild Wars 2

Living Story and time-gating everything is definitely killing this game for me. If I had known what state the game would be in now before I started, I would’t have wasted any money on this game. As it stands it’s still F2P for me at this point so I log in to create my own challenges, and try to ignore the LS super-casual crap as much as possible unless there’s some huge reward involved that I’d be crazy to pass up (gauntlet farming, invasion farming).

But it’s pretty pathetic that half of the game is still in beta state a year after release. How many class traits are still non-functional? How many high-value weapon and armor skins are still using the default white icons? How many tooltips are still inaccurate and/or missing crucial information?

Take a break from the Living Story crap for just a month and put two of those teams you have on actual, quality bugfix duty. Polish the parts of the game that have been pathetically broken since release. Make it feel like more than a beta test.

Broadicea.8294:

Take a break from the Living Story crap for just a month and put two of those teams you have on actual, quality bugfix duty. Polish the parts of the game that have been pathetically broken since release. Make it feel like more than a beta test.

It does look like September is a break month, at the very least. As SAB is largely a project they can add to incrementally with a smaller team, and fixing Tequatl to be challenging is a quality of life change, not a living story arc. I hope they continue with this trend of ramping up World Bosses to deal with zergs, fixing issues in WvW and sPvP, adding some new dyanmic events; because it will hopefully allow them to give us a Living story arc that has much more content, a story that is more fleshed out and told in game, and a story that is connected from week to week.

I would like to have more new perma content. SAB should stay forever, every 2 weeks some things should stay forever. And one more thing: Tequatl coming back in Living Story that happens after Zhaitan’s death?! MAKES SENSE.

@darkace.8925
Living Story is the thing keeping me play the game, not loots…
And I advise you guys who are not happy with the current situation to read PokerTuna.6170’s answer again and again until you understand what you are doing wrong.

PokerTuna.6170:

In my guild it looks like this:

Need more people in wvw!
>Sure, gimme a sec.

Lets form up for some tpvp!
>Sure, why not

Lets do a dungeon!
>Ok, which one?

Anyone want to run a fractal?
>Tim wanted to go, I’m up for it too.

Ok guys ready for the guild mission tonight?
>90% of guildies that are on join.

Does anyone want to anything?
>What you have in mind?

/ Piken Square EU – [ANGL] guild.
Character name Chayse Bones if you want an invitation.

I myself managed to do almost all achies from SAB1+2+Tribulation mode and still join my guild for this and that.

A pic to cheer you up

This is exactly what my guild looks like as well. I think the OP just needs some new friends.
To all those saying they need to sit down and do some polish updates, what do you think September is? New crafting to 500 AND new crafted exotic stats, more reward updates for doing ALL THE CONTENT IN THE GAME (JPs, Minidungeons, Bosses, etc.). Now in the 2nd half they are introducing the LFG tool and updating both WvW and World Bosses, which is what people were crying about before this recent cryfest.

I must agree with OP… maybe, they should add more permanent contenet every month, not deletable content every 2 weeks…. It seems like it should force to rush and play players, because there will be new content, and all will be deleted…. Anet is just very very weird for me with this….

The only people that is not having a problem with this updates are the ones with a lot of free time. I like to be part of the Living World but also think its taking too much of our time… I cant play the rest of the game.

I am really happy with the september 17th update… bug fixes, new boss mechanics, LFG, etc. Please, add more permanent content… I am getting tired of temporary content that I cant experience because I have real life to take care.

Thanks.

Karazul.2934:

The only people that is not having a problem with this updates are the ones with a lot of free time. I like to be part of the Living World but also think its taking too much of our time… I cant play the rest of the game.

That’s really true.
I heard that they will extend each living world update for a month, but each one will lunch still in every 2 weeks. So that doesn’t really help at all cause only some people need to take like 1-2 weeks off, but the amount of content at a time.

If I will go for 2 weeks I will have 2 weeks for 2 updates and still I won’t be able to do it and even if I do I won’t socialize with guildies cause I won’t have time for that. It’s all the same until they finally make really updates each month and maybe bug fixes od slight revamps on 2nd week. (I sure hope it will wstart from september, I really do but we will see soon and in next month, then I will start being happy.)

Septemptus.7164:

Rosie Woogs.6803:

I agree….new content every 2 weeks is really impacting progress in the normal parts of the game. I could easily live with once a month updates rather than every 2 weeks. It’s getting to the point where I cringe when i hear of new content.

That really true. I cant even progress with maps or personal story for last 3 months. It’s all cause – Living story got so time consuming.

They should really make it a monthly release as it was inteded on the start but stic to how much content we get now.

Actually, the claim is false. I have a full time job, a family and friends that I hang out with. I enjoy the updates and the pace that they come out. The type of people that can enjoy these updates are the people that don’t feel they have to do everything today.