Guild Wars 2

I have become very jaded with Guild Wars 2 lately. I play Guild Wars 2 pretty much for the story and well, maybe that’s my downfall.

We waited 10 months for the xpac to release, which as we all know had a very lackluster and seemingly rushed story, and now almost 6 months after the release of the xpac we still have no news on anything Season 3 living world….

And then when we do get Season 3 is it going to be like every 2 months we get a new chapter?

I don’t mean for this to just be a complaint thread but as a long time dedicated player to the Guild Wars franchise, the story is being told at such a snails pace as compared to Guild Wars 1. Should we expect anything better as far as pace of storytelling going forward? Or should I just find some other game to sate my storytelling desires?

I hear FF14 is good as far as story goes, but I want to stick with GW2 :-(

Anyone else feeling like how I’m feeling?

I feel you brother,
Im also one that plays for the story.
Im sure SOMEWHERE after release they mentioned they noticed the folly of having to wait so long for something to happen in game and the 9 month wait we had between the end of season 2 and the HoT release was TOO long.

guess they didnt notice hard enough.
i posted a few weeks back that i was looking forward to the release of Season 3 but each week we hear nothing i get a little more hollow inside.
Ive crafted my Meteorlogicus and started on the long slog to make it a legendary.
But other than that im lost for stuff to do in the game.
Ive dabbed my toe into sPVP i still dont like WvWvW and fractals can be frustrating at times unless i wanna run Swamp fractal three times in a row.
Ive almost maxed out my masteries and this was zero farming involved.
(well as little farming as possible)

They could at least wet our appatite .. i thought in the State of Game Adress from earlier in the year that LS:S3 wasnt far away …. come on Colin step it up.

…

Please?

It’s downright depressing for me. I can barely muster up the desire to log in even if for just my dailys anymore. :-(

I think this expansion finally broke my faith of ANet and how they can (or can’t) deliver with their franchise. I had always held out hope that, “well maybe next time they will do better.” “Maybe the expansion will be the answer for all of our hopes.”

But I just feel utterly let down, and I hate feeling this way, GW1 and GW2 have been my main games for over 8 years now! I just feel like it’s time to jump to another game, and that is very disheartening. A little bit of info for us lore peeps would be something to at least keep us going but I have this fear that for the next quarterly update in April all we are going to hear is, “Living World Season 3 is coming!” and maybe a couple more vague statements about what the story MIGHT contain…

Ugh! I hate feeling this way :-(

I like the HoT story. I prefer how LS1 and LS2 rolled out, where we got updates every few weeks. Apparently, ANet is changing that to one major update every quarter (with smaller updates every 3-5 weeks).

I am hoping that they will start introducing some story or other types of game changes, including updated event chains, living story, new festival activities, etc.

On the other hand, I hope they first work on changing the meta chains so that they aren’t all completely regimented and maps aren’t gated by both time & events. Gating has its place, for a variety of reasons, but it should be used tactically and sparingly, rather than the default choice.

tl;dr yes, more story, please! However, maybe not the top priority for me.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I like the HoT story. I prefer how LS1 and LS2 rolled out, where we got updates every few weeks. Apparently, ANet is changing that to one major update every quarter (with smaller updates every 3-5 weeks).

If you mean living story for these updates, Colin has already debunked this on reddit – LS will run as normal between the major quarterly updates.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/440m4i/what_does_quartaly_updates_mean_for_us/