Guild Wars 2

Teaser post is now up at: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-return-of-living-world-season-2/

Bit of a gap sadly though ;_;

Looks like this portal may be within the level 80 camp in brisbane wildlands.

Just read this:

http://dulfy.net/2014/09/10/gw2-season-2-living-story-returns-nov-4/

Why is LS being delayed another 2 months?

You claim to have a 2-week release schedule and put out content faster than any other mmo… yet this is only true for 4 weeks, then a 12 week break…How is that different from any other MMO?

Why the delay?

Having the WvW tournament and a new story realease at the same time would be too confusing.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Just read this:

http://dulfy.net/2014/09/10/gw2-season-2-living-story-returns-nov-4/

Why is LS being delayed another 2 months?

You claim to have a 2-week release schedule and put out content faster than any other mmo… yet this is only true for 4 weeks, then a 12 week break…How is that different from any other MMO?

Why the delay?

It’s different because if you sum up the content we get trough LS, it doesn’t even come close to the amount of content a regular expansion has.

So they are different, but in a negative way.

I THINK the delay is to ‘look back’ at what happened and then hype us up again for part 2 of this season.

cephiroth.6182:

Having the WvW tournament and a new story realease at the same time would be too confusing.

HAHA I litteraly ROFL’d there

Because they are trying to kill this game

cephiroth.6182:

Having the WvW tournament and a new story realease at the same time would be too confusing.

For all the new players … oh, wait …

One could argue that they need the time to sort out bugs and “bugs” with the feature pack.

The mid-season break is going to be twice as long (3 months) as the first half of the season was.

Having both WvW Tournament and a new LS chapter would be too intimidating and overwhelming for the player base.
They give us 2 months to properly recover psychologically from the very scary and confusing experience that is WvW.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

You claim to have a 2-week release schedule and put out content faster than any other mmo… yet this is only true for 4 weeks, then a 12 week break…How is that different from any other MMO?

When was the most recent use of that advertising line? They did that for a while, and then they’ve been reasonably clear about communicating when new updates were coming out or being delayed for most of this year, first with the end of LS1, then with LS2’s releases and the feature pack. If they’re still touting the 2-week release schedule in advertising, that’s not good, but if they’re not using that line anymore because they found working in chunks works better, it’s understandable.

November 4th, eh? Hopefully that means we’ll get a better Halloween this year. I’ve seen people doubtful about Halloween, since it’s not part of the LS, so hopefully this break will give Halloween a little love.

cephiroth.6182:

Having the WvW tournament and a new story realease at the same time would be too confusing.

I would laugh if I didn’t think this might actually be the reason…

cephiroth.6182:

Having the WvW tournament and a new story realease at the same time would be too confusing.

Having a 2 week schedule is also confusing.

They should make it a month between new chapters, just so we don’t get overwhelmed of course.

The delay is probably due to Halloween festivities / paranormal goings on throughout Tyria. (One can only hope anyway)

This also means there will likely be another break in the LS in December / January for the return of Tixx and the infiniarium for the Christmas holidays.

Personally I am ok with the delay in the LS if it is for these events.

maybe its a delay because of working more on an expansion?

“Given that NCsoft’s major global peers
Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts are trading at 2014F P/Es of over 15x, the company
appears significantly undervalued. Most global PC and console game companies are expected
to suffer from stagnating margins in 2014. However, NCsoft is scheduled to launch an
expansion pack for Guild Wars 2 in the US and Europe in 2015.”

taken from
http://www.kdbdw.com/bbs/download/182450.pdf?attachmentId=182450

I’ve been defending Anet since yesterday because I thought some of the stuff from the update was good. But after hearing that you pushing back LS for WvW…now I’m kittened.

Are you seriously trying to alienate the players to the point that some of us white knights can’t even defend you anymore? You guys are idiots!

ZudetGambeous.9573:

cephiroth.6182:

Having the WvW tournament and a new story realease at the same time would be too confusing.

I would laugh if I didn’t think this might actually be the reason…

You must have missed the first WvW event, they did release content part way through and the forums where filled with rage.

Well as the title says I would personally like to thank Anet for the exciting times and memories! I like many others have to bow out! It saddens me to have to! I just can’t keep the hope alive. The hype is played out! You have taken this game from an Epic fantasy world to B grade horror! Down goes Frazier!

Xar.6185:

The delay is probably due to Halloween festivities / paranormal goings on throughout Tyria. (One can only hope anyway)

This also means there will likely be another break in the LS in December / January for the return of Tixx and the infiniarium for the Christmas holidays.

Personally I am ok with the delay in the LS if it is for these events.

Unless, of course, these events break the immersion of the new living story.

Shalloe.4867:

maybe its a delay because of working more on an expansion?

“Given that NCsoft’s major global peers
Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts are trading at 2014F P/Es of over 15x, the company
appears significantly undervalued. Most global PC and console game companies are expected
to suffer from stagnating margins in 2014. However, NCsoft is scheduled to launch an
expansion pack for Guild Wars 2 in the US and Europe in 2015.”

taken from
http://www.kdbdw.com/bbs/download/182450.pdf?attachmentId=182450

This is research analyst speculation based on what most game companies do, I think.

Don’t ya’ll get it?
Its so that the mythological “NEW PLAYERS” will have the chance to reach
level 80 and not QQ about not being able to play Living Story Season 2.

Some of the updates were good and some bad. I don’t blame you, it can get demoralizing with these anet dev. If they pushed it back for WvW, then thats pretty bad.

Can’t agree more. I’m out too. I’ll be collecting my LS content upon release to hold it in hopes that the game improves.

Jacobbs.9468:

Xar.6185:

The delay is probably due to Halloween festivities / paranormal goings on throughout Tyria. (One can only hope anyway)

This also means there will likely be another break in the LS in December / January for the return of Tixx and the infiniarium for the Christmas holidays.

Personally I am ok with the delay in the LS if it is for these events.

Unless, of course, these events break the immersion of the new living story.

That is true. Also how do you level / time gate Halloween and Christmas so that you aren’t overwhelming new players?

It is really sad that is virtually impossible to pin down the direction / vision of the game. So many things just contradict one another.

Once ArcheAge comes out (Friday woo) this game is dead to me, I’ll check on holiday and LS content but that’s about it. Good work anet, being one of the only games around with devs that have actually made the game worse over time. So much potential ;c

HHR LostProphet.4801:

One could argue that they need the time to sort out bugs and “bugs” with the feature pack.

The main bug they need to fix is the one that when planning on how to improve the game results in destroying it.

Shalloe.4867:

maybe its a delay because of working more on an expansion?

“Given that NCsoft’s major global peers
Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts are trading at 2014F P/Es of over 15x, the company
appears significantly undervalued. Most global PC and console game companies are expected
to suffer from stagnating margins in 2014. However, NCsoft is scheduled to launch an
expansion pack for Guild Wars 2 in the US and Europe in 2015.”

taken from
http://www.kdbdw.com/bbs/download/182450.pdf?attachmentId=182450

They have been predicting an expansion being released/announced at least twice before, they just keep moving back the date.

It is still F2P after purchase so maybe things pick up soon. Who knows maybe we get an expansion some day. GW2 still has potential but I don’t blame people for stepping away at this point.

Check back on the 4th though. The new map could be cool later in the season.

Xar.6185:

Jacobbs.9468:

Xar.6185:

The delay is probably due to Halloween festivities / paranormal goings on throughout Tyria. (One can only hope anyway)

This also means there will likely be another break in the LS in December / January for the return of Tixx and the infiniarium for the Christmas holidays.

Personally I am ok with the delay in the LS if it is for these events.

Unless, of course, these events break the immersion of the new living story.

That is true. Also how do you level / time gate Halloween and Christmas so that you aren’t overwhelming new players?

It is really sad that is virtually impossible to pin down the direction / vision of the game. So many things just contradict one another.

I swear if they level gate any of Halloween…….god I’m terrified of how my friend will react if she finds she is unable to participate in all of it, she is so looking forward to it.

Well..i think ill take some more holydays from GW2 once i get bored from playing the same content over and over again…

I wish the had left SAB to fill that gap, but we only have a bunch of crappy goldsink achievements

They took a break from the living world between seasons one and two from March 18th – July 1st about three and a half months, now they’re taking a break from August 12th to November the 4th. Another three months.

I think this is insane and I don’t think that “Feature Packs” or a WvW Season is a substitute for Living World content. Nor, for that matter, is a rehashed Festival of the Four Winds, Halloween or other real world holiday, those are things that should just be running alongside the Living World content.

Fort Vandal! Finally. Been waiting for this one since launch!

I like that we’re given reasons to go into Brisban now. I’ve always felt it was neglected with it’s lack of jumping puzzles (it’s the only explorable zone in the game without one) and lack of world bosses. The skritt meta event is kinda cool, but it’s doable solo, and the ‘Trinity’ champ group is one of the best flavour and inside jokes in the game – sadly often not completed.

Prophet.6257:

It is still F2P after purchase so maybe things pick up soon. Who knows maybe we get an expansion some day. GW2 still has potential but I don’t blame people for stepping away at this point.

Check back on the 4th though. The new map could be cool later in the season.

To be quite honest I wish I could treat this as a normal purchase and return it. AT this point even an expansion couldn’t change things for me! There are things that have been in game from day 1 that need fixing still. Don’t release more broken content! Everything they have released is bugged! I just can’t pay for anymore alleged hype content! Till what already is righted!

There’ll probably be the Halloween festival in between. I’d be extremely surprised if they didn’t bring that back this year.

But still, new map by the looks of things.

Maybe they need 2 months to unkitten most things… Or it’s maybe long enough for newcomers to grind enough gold to buy the 4 chapters of LS2 released in August.

Maybe the end of s2 is supposed to introduce cantha but cantha development has been delayed?

Chimps are dangerous as they grow up. Its not safe to keep a chimp in a human environment when its bigger than 2 years. They have to train new chimps before they can continue programing whats left of this game.

Yep, Halloween again, the same as last year, it shouldn’t cause a break in the LW schedule (and neither should Christmas) because it will more than likely be the same content as last year (which was much the same as the first year with a couple of new instances) and as such is hardly a substitute for the LW content.

That probably means no new GvG or WvW map until 2015.
Well I’m going to take a break too since there is nothing new to look forward to.

My guess is the Halloween patch starts at the end of the WvW series, and after Halloween the living story resumes.

Vayne.8563:

My guess is the Halloween patch starts at the end of the WvW series, and after Halloween the living story resumes.

So glad they separate the story in game with halloween… the two together would’ve been so confusing… like dragons and pumpkins… oh my god, I wouldn’t know what to do!

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Just read this:

http://dulfy.net/2014/09/10/gw2-season-2-living-story-returns-nov-4/

Why is LS being delayed another 2 months?

You claim to have a 2-week release schedule and put out content faster than any other mmo… yet this is only true for 4 weeks, then a 12 week break…How is that different from any other MMO?

Why the delay?

I don’t mind it delaying that long if it can deliver on quality content. Remember Dragon’s Reach Part 1? That update was practically broken when that first came out and it took around 6 hours for Anet to isolate the issue. Chances are they would use the 2 month time to check and ensure everything is a go go. That’s what I think, anyway.

Could give people some time to catch up on the newer collections. Perhaps the next iteration is not in Dry Top anymore and they don’t want to split the players too much into chasing the new thing or chasing the illusive ambrite fossile thingies.

And as mentioned already Halloween and WvW and who knows, SAB for September? tease

Another 2 months of no contents. Oh wait, we haven’t had any new contents for the last year or so.

Another 2 months of waiting? How many months has it been since last LS episode? What are you gonna work on for the next 2 months then? Maybe you can take your time and collect the (overwhelmingly negative) feedback about “new player experience” and change it actually, hmm?

But seriously, when the LS resumes, it better be a blast. It needs to be even better then the last episodes, These breaking are taking way too long.

One thing that doesn’t seem to be mentioned is that the preview is another new portal. Looks like we are getting another zone at least.

Hopefully this one is bigger than dry top.

So our “veteran content”, which was last updated 1 month ago, is going to appear over 2 months. And it’s going to appear during a time a lot of new and well known pc games are going to get released. It’s like they are telling veterans to go away and new players to come and play cuz by then they’ll already have lvl 80 characters. I’m so glad I got FFXIV to do dungeons alas I can’t speak the same for WvW though…… Meh, maybe one day I’ll find a good WvW MMO.

Well.. season 1 wasnt as good as season 2 regarding story telling and plot, but we had both feature and living story release in the same patch every 2 weeks without pause.

As far as I know, their new “friendly designs” have scared many new players. And they give “another months of waiting” for veteran players. Living Story? Leaving Story?

I can think of several “reasonable” reasons why LS was pushed back.

1) Give new players a chance to get caught up to level 80.
They must have a really good indication that a large influx of new players were going to be coming over, or are seeing large numbers of new players coming in. Enough to justify changing the whole system for them.

2) They are working on creating a whole (complete) new zone/fractal/dungeon to continue Episode 3, as well as new world bosses etc.

3) They are allowing people to take time off and use their vacations at this time in order to be able to have “all hands on deck” for the new LS, and whatever else they have planned.

Pretty sure its halloween related