Guild Wars 2

I’m fairly new to this game and thus missed out when Living world started, however after completing Victory or Death I’ve now started Living Worlds Season 2. However I’m on the final episode instead of the first one, and according to the game I can’t play those until I complete the final episode, so I’ll be going reverse through the story. Is this insteaded or a bug of some sort?

Actually what’s going on is you got Chapter 8 for free for logging in during its active period. Chapters 1 to 7 will be 200 gems each to unlock (though then they will be unlocked for all the alts you ever make), or you can find someone who has them unlocked to take you through the story, though you won’t get the achieves or be able to do interactions in the instances.

When you do unlock them, you can play them in any order you like. You’d have to abandon progress on your current chapter to do so. If you want to do the achieves associated with the chapters, you must first complete the chapter on an alt, then use that same alt to do the achieves in a second run through.

I’d offer to shepherd you through the story so you can decide if you want a full unlock but I have a splitting headache right now I can’t commit to doing anything for a bit.

For some reason, E8 is the default episode to start with after completing the personal story.
If you have the other episodes unlocked, you can simply change to E1 while outside of instances. If not, you have to unlock them for 200gems each or simply join someone that has them unlocked, so that you can at least play the story instances.
(If you want achievements etc, you have to unlock them)

I honestly don’t know what ANet was thinking when they made players start on episode eight. New players are given no warning after following the story mode and then all of a sudden the author of the book put the last chapter first because you didn’t start reading early enough after its publication. Imagine our confusion! I thought it was the continuation of a GW1 story because I had never played the predecessor and was completely lost.

Then to put the rest of the content behind a paywall feels especially shoddy. That’s $20 for a series I already know the ending to because I decided to give their MMO a shot too late.