Guild Wars 2

Does living story still follow the rule that we have to log on during that chapter to unlock it for future play, or face paying to unlock the content later?

If so, do I have to have HoT to unlock it, or will logging on as a vanilla account unlock it for future use when I finally purchase HoT?

Vanilla players can unlock it as long as they log in without having to pay anything extra to play it, they just need to buy HoT to be able to play the LWS3 episodes. Later on when the next episode is available you will have to buy it in the gem store. Otherwise you’ll have to fork out more money for the expansion, and the individual episodes.

As I understand it, if you log in on a vanilla account you will unlock it for future use, just not be able to PLAY it until you acquire HoT. So yes, if you don’t log in while it’s going you will likely have to buy it later, but you can still unlock it with a non expansion account while it’s on.

What the others said!

Now that I know that Season 3 is tied to HoT, that makes the money spent on it (and especially for those taking advantage of the half-off sale) seem very much worth it, since we are getting a very extended story out of it (or two stories, if you consider HoT story and LWS3 as separated).

Thank you all very much. This is good to hear. With the 50% off sale, the price of HoT came down to close what I thought it was worth to me, but I wasn’t ready to upgrade all four accounts belonging to my family at the same time. We’ll just make sure to keep logging in as LWS3 develops, then pick up HoT when ready.