Guild Wars 2

I like the whole idea of the Living story. After halloween 2012 I thought that was one of the best Holiday event’s I have ever done in an MMO. I enjoyed the clocktower a lot and who does not love mad king ? Lost shores came out I had a total blast with that with my GF who spend about 4 hours with me fighting 21391234234 karka’s. While it was laggy it was still a lot of fun.

Then SAB came out and again blew away my expectations on In game events or Holiday events. Im really looking forward to that again.

While I enjoyed the whole story with scarlet and how the world did seem to change around those events I feel that this would be MUCH better if there is also some permanent content and or this was beind developed also with More personal story. I like the living story but at the same time I want too see some more Personal story already. I know the new dragon is coming but the real question is did LS season 1 lead up to more personal story or is the new dragon going to be more temp content. I assume we will get new zone’s to explore out of the deal but I really hope The new dragon is not a one time deal like Scarlet. If there was a way however to make the Living story REPLAYABLE at any time though then I think I would actually prefer Living story over a traditional expansion as the game would grow enormous with content very quickly.

TLDR: The problem with Living story is you cannot go back and do missed events, But if you get to do those event’s they are very well done most of the time.

The nice thing about living story content is that its constant and keeps the game fresh. It also provides cosmetic rewards most of the time so if you have school, work, or whatever that doesn’t allow you to play the game during that time, you don’t really miss much. The bad thing is the same thing, its constantly changing. There is no permanent content and more and more the living story updates feel like wasted effort and time. It would take Anet a few weeks to make a living story and most of the time, you could complete everything regarding that living story in a day. Then it was two weeks of just roaming around the new content or going back to pvp, wvw, or whatever you were doing before.

End-game PvE content is really lacking. There are no larger dungeons to do with your guild or any solo intended content.