Guild Wars 2

First off, let me state that I don’t mind Scarlet as a character, she’s a loon and that can make for an interesting character, and I’m sure that if/when (hopefully the latter) we find out her motivations that they should be pretty interesting. However, I feel that one of the big problems with Scarlet in the Living Story is namely that she’s the one responsible for Every. Single. Thing. If you want to make a truly living world then a more realistic way would be to have multiple villains that you could cycle through, each of them doing their own thing and trying to take over the world (OF COURSE!) in their own varied ways.

Having a single big villain gets old, and it makes it seem like all the other forces in the world are content to simply let themselves go with the flow until this single villain comes along and does something. The other factions should be able to have some motivation, or at the very least there HAVE to be some other villains with differing methods that could be used. It’s a fact that not everyone is going to like every release, and it’s also a fact that not everyone is going to like a particular character. Overusing Scarlet is going to just make it so that the players that DO like her (as a character or as a villain) are going to feel that she’s worn out her welcome in very short order.

tl;dr: Scarlet can’t be the only villain with this kind of ambition, give us some other villains to cycle through, overdosing on a single villain is a bad thing.