First of all I understand is not Anet’s fault if people take a break from the game and not experience content and I don’t feel like they “owe” anyone anything…. but I think it could garner lots of good will for returning players if say a “replay server” was added were past living story events/rewards can be experienced.
The reason for a different server is to not disrupt ongoing players experience. This way a person can choose to guest on this server and do the content without hindering other players experiences. and there wouldn’t be a need to do bug fixes/testing if old content does not play nice with new content (because in this server new content would not have been added yet).
It’s not lost on me that the Living world is a way to keep players coming back regularly and giving the option of “replay it” undermines this objective, but by making it delayed (say a 6 month difference) I expect the status quote to be maintained.
I’m sure that there are tons of issues I have not thought out but I leave that to the brilliant minds that gave us the game in the first place. The main idea is the same.
TLDR
-Suggest a separate server were Living story content can be replayed/experienced with a 6 month delay.
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