Hello,
I love lore in this game. I really do. When the living story first announced and in the first year of gw2 I was really excited for it. However since flame and frost we keep getting updates that are honestly seeming to have no connection. I feel like we’re in a library of uncompleted books and every 2 weeks someone writes and doesn’t finish a new book. I know I know, its all connected. You don’t want to reveal it. We will see. Honestly though, I’m starting to get discouarged. I’ve tried harder and harder each new release to think about how its connected and each release the previous release becomes what seems useless story wise and a whole new set of theories needs to be proposed.
This tequatl update, it really made me sad. I honestly think you guys really pushed this event way too hard. Do not get me wrong, I love updating stuff. I know you said you wanted to tie this into the living story. It just seems soooo pushed. So far the only connection that seems logical is that Rox trying to get into the warband. IF that is the only connection I’d be even more sad. I’m tried of every 2 weeks I’m getting more and more questions. Its been close to a year and I feel like we’ve progressed no where in terms of a story progression. Nothing seems to be solved. It seems like each living story is getting connected through a part of the story that is really lame and unsatisfying to those who are actually deeply involved in the story. Flame and frost got me really exited. Who was behind it all. What are their motives? How will we catch them. I then spend the next few months across the world in a distant land where the only connection is the refugees. All of whom have pretty much become unrelated to the current story. Then the whole aetherblades and Scarlet thing, and it seems she was the one behind the molten alliance. Why we never saw the MA in the months leading up to dragon bash was a bit disappointing. Then the whole Majory’s back story raised even more questions. Then we protect the queen from a assassination by scarlet, whose only clear motive currently is that she is just insane and hates the current order. Next thing I know I’m across the map inside of a swamp fighting a undead champion dragon of zhaitian, whom has rarely been mentioned in the story. This dragon was mysteriously buffed in the story and the only explanation is that its from the pact invasion. I’m really hoping we see this living story come to a good conclusion this year, because these recent releases have become disappointing story wise for me. Here are just a few of my questions.
1. Molten Alliance- Who was behind it all? Why did the MA just fall off the map? Why did they form an alliance between one another. Why did they attack those settlements.
2. Southsun- What happened to Canach. What will the consortium do with Southsun. How does this have any impact on the rest of the world and the overall story?
3. Zypherites- Was the only connection simply the election? What is this thing they’re rumored to be hiding? Where have they gone?
4. Dargon Bash- Most questions were actually answered in this. It would seem Scarlet was behind the alliance between Aetherblade and Pirates. They seemed to want to install a person in the council. Seemed like a pretty solid event. Just the questions about Majory and her backstory are left unanswered.
5. Queen’s Jubilee- Why did scarlet want to assassinate the queen of all people? Why not the grove? What did Scarlett see that made her go insane? What does the Pale Tree think of all this? Where did Scarlet go?
6. Rising of tequatl- Why? Why everything? This part of the story seems insanely random.
I mean like a few people I talk to, the main reason I play this game is for the story. I hate the endgame progression revolving hugely around gold and farming. So I look to the story, exploring, and open world stuff.