Guild Wars 2

I really like the Living Story concept, but one of the valid criticisms about it is that if you miss the two week window you never get to see that part of the story. What if after the season is over we got to do the story again with instanced play?

Obviously the open world events can’t be done, but there is a fair bit of stuff that was instanced and most of these are the parts that advanced the story.

It’s probably too late to retrofit Season 1 without a lot of work, but if it were done Season 1 would see you doing things like running through Cragstead, Canach’s Lair and the top of the toxic Tower again, as well as going through the story instances with Destiny’s Child.

No more “You missed it? Bad luck it’s gone forever unless you play Fractals!”, plus ANet get to say that they have genuinely expanded the game.

After a living story season has ended, some key moments could be put into the personal storyline that can be played by all characters created after the end of the ongoing season. That would, in fact, be a great addition and very clever to keep people updated.

Make it so its like your character us recalling a memory. Like out of their journal.

Remember when the Toxic arc started and you had that PS style instance? They really need to make playable/replayable versions of every LS update like that so people can experience the LS update even if they missed it for whatever reason.

Guild Wars 1 had a way to “replay” historical events by having you buy a book and then when you read the book you were put into a character in the story so you could play it. Got to play Gwen that way. But that would be a nice way to let people replay scenes from the events past.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-story-journal/

Sheesh, honestly, it’s been a month since I made the first post and only now do they do something about it? Time to step it up guys!

In all seriousness they’ve obviously had this in the works for a while now, so I am really happy that they are taking this game in the direction that I want it to go even before I know I want it to go there.

I am not sure about the replayable option for special achievements. I guess I’d like to see it in action, but I will be interested to see how that pans out. My guess though is that 50% of the forum will scream “too easy” while the other 50% screams “too hard.” As long as it doesn’t stop the living world from being living though I am happy.