Guild Wars 2

I never played the original Living world series. Now in Season 2 I see people I am grouped with whom I have no idea who they are. It is my understanding that I can purchase for 200 gems the past episodes but I seen no where in the Story Journal or the Black Lion Trading company on where to purchase it. Does anyone know how I do this? I would love to go back and see the original season 1 content.

Sadly, the Season 1 content wasn’t done in episodes, so you cannot replay it at this time.

Just look up the info on the web if you’re interested. And even if it was purchasable, due to low quality, 200 gems would make it extremely overpriced.

Well that kinda blows. it would be nice to see it but ohh well. thanks for the info guys.

Chances are there are playthrough videos on youtube of the instances and story content of season 1 if one really wants to see the story before starting season 2. i know I watched a couple of them for some of the parts of season 1 I missed. There are also the wiki pages that contain all the dialog permutations possible for NPC interactions so those portions can be gotten that way if there is no video showing the same. I know it’s not the same as playing the content first hand but it is a pretty good alternative to experiencing the content of season 1.

Thanks Jia, I have read the 3 available books and am an avid reader of the Wiki it just would be nice to actually play the season. Ohh well its my fault for not paying closer attention. :-) Thanks for the feed back.

No problem and don’t feel bad for not getting to experience it first hand. I’d be surprised if we don’t see it become a part of the new journal system. Especially with the prospect of it being an addition income flow for them. Heck I’d be willing to shell out money to get them in permanent form. Given the whole living story was an experiment through season 1 where there was good and bad designs and even good and bad plot elements and dialog parts I’m sure the idea didn’t occur to them before going forward that a system like this could allow a changing world and also allow players to have permanent experiences of the living story.

Of course granted the zerg events would have to be altered, being downscaled to a 5 man instance experience providing the story aspect without the zerg aspect. Or being downgraded to purely a cinematic experience showing the zerg experience and narrating the story aspect. Or a combination of the two. Unless they were to have a large scale group of NPCs with special AI to go along with the 5 man team of players to provide a zerg experience in an instance of the original.