Guild Wars 2

Are all future bi-monthly LWD updates going to be overlapping like the last 2/3 or were these mostly because there was only one LWD team and this allows more reuse?

Just wondering because of stuff like https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/bazaar/Achievements-Monday-last-day
There is really no need for that sort of uncertainty.

We don’t know (yet) whether all releases are going to be set up like this, but it seems pretty logical that they would be considering the structure. I created a thread here for those who want a central place to locate the deadlines, though.

We know there are 4 Living World teams. Each team is responsible for a full month’s content. There are releases every 2 weeks, which means each team will be responsible for 2 releases. One of the reasons they went to a release every two weeks was because player activity dropped off after about 2 weeks once a release had been launched.

It seems likely what they’ve done is create monthly releases in a two-act structure. Act I is released near the beginning of the month and provides the setup and first part of the content for that story arc, whereas Act II is released two weeks later and adds the remaining content, story, and rewards.

It’s possible that a team could have two relatively unrelated releases…but considering they’re doing this to also tell a story, I think having that “Act I” to set up the scenario and then “Act II” have the meaty content (while Act I content and achievements persist like it has for every month so far after F&F) is a very likely template for future releases.

Ah .. I missed that bit of detail about each team being responsible for 1 month.