Guild Wars 2

In the recent Massively article on raiding the last bullet point touched upon plans for updating the old content, and the answer was essentially there will not be updates except through the standard holiday events. This is disappointing as there are so many lore story lines hanging in many of the zones that it’d be unfortunate to leave them in that state for so long. There are many world bosses that could be given the “Tequatl” treatment and made a bit more challenging.

The dynamic event system is a great way to “update” the old zones, either by tacking on additional event chains or removing ones that are no longer relevant. Are the charr and humans really still stalled in peace talks or has there been some progress there with all the world shattering events? Have the humans made no progress in the centaur war? Have the Kodan fortified their position? How many arctodus skin rugs does Edmund really need? In my opinion it’d be nice if the Living World would periodically revisited the “old” zones and update their story and content.

You’re right it would be and in some ways it seems vital to the notion of a Living World concept, if that is still part of the pillars of the game.

However, the issue is almost certainly one of resources. If you look at the known priorities of
- HoT
- LW3 (or post HoT equivalent)
- Season 1 redone, which they want to do
- future expansions

Doesn’t leave much or any resources to touch up these details. And they prob deem it to be a lot of work for little to no gain.

Essentially I am talking about LW3 and how I would like it to invest its resources. In my opinion, part of the resource investment should go to updating the old world as well. Whether it is a lot of work for no gain would depend on how they do the update I imagine. The Tequatl update was part of LW 1, but disconnected from LW 1’s main plot, and that content is still populated today.

LW 3 should not exclusively focus on updating Maguuma jungle and bridging the gap to the next expansion (if there is one). Some side plots and updates to other story lines would be nice. What can I say, I love my Charr and would like them to get some attention on their half of the continent :-)