As long as they keep the updates flowing and don’t sacrifice forward movement for permanence.
OPEN world CONTENT is going to take a HUGE hit. Expect LESS things like the MARIONETTE encounter, and more like the personal storyline-like instanced content that NO ONE even REMEMBERS.
Not to mention how, IRONICALLY, they’re killing the concept of a LIVING world. If the changes to the OPEN world won’t disappear, what’s the POINT in having a STORYLINE? Imagine how it would be if players defeated SCARLET but her ARMIES never stopped INVADING a given map? Or if she NEVER stopped appearing in the MARIONETTE content even after we had DEFEATED her?
ArenaNet DOESN’T know how to AVOID extremes. Having the ENTIRE season 1 based around TEMPORARY content was Bad. Having the ENTIRE season 2 based around PERMANENT content is BAD, too.
Guys, guys, this dude is using caps in some words!! He must know about this!! We must agree with him!!!
PD: I still don’t kwow what’s that Marionette thing that people talks about? Do you eat it?
Mationette was a big kitten open world fight that required 5 teams to coordinate, and to understand the individual boss fight mechanics. It was fun kitten! I would have absolutely loved to see that stay as a world boss, but sadly, it didn’t.
Youtube a few videos of it.
Marionette continued for 2 weeks after EOTM was released. The day EOTM was released was the last day marionette was done successfully on a regular basis (it had a 2 hour spawn rate). Before it was released it was done regularly on Aurora Glade from 13:00 to late in the evening.
What I am getting at is that if it was permanent it probably would be done like teq and the wurm before megaserver, after megaserver it would be fine.
On my server, marionette was successful through the very last day. I miss that fight.
“Be angry about legendary weapons, sure, but what about the recent drought of content?”
-Mike O’Brien
Because we can’t be angry about both?
As long as they keep the updates flowing and don’t sacrifice forward movement for permanence.
OPEN world CONTENT is going to take a HUGE hit. Expect LESS things like the MARIONETTE encounter, and more like the personal storyline-like instanced content that NO ONE even REMEMBERS.
Not to mention how, IRONICALLY, they’re killing the concept of a LIVING world. If the changes to the OPEN world won’t disappear, what’s the POINT in having a STORYLINE? Imagine how it would be if players defeated SCARLET but her ARMIES never stopped INVADING a given map? Or if she NEVER stopped appearing in the MARIONETTE content even after we had DEFEATED her?
ArenaNet DOESN’T know how to AVOID extremes. Having the ENTIRE season 1 based around TEMPORARY content was Bad. Having the ENTIRE season 2 based around PERMANENT content is BAD, too.
Guys, guys, this dude is using caps in some words!! He must know about this!! We must agree with him!!!
PD: I still don’t kwow what’s that Marionette thing that people talks about? Do you eat it?
Mationette was a big kitten open world fight that required 5 teams to coordinate, and to understand the individual boss fight mechanics. It was fun kitten! I would have absolutely loved to see that stay as a world boss, but sadly, it didn’t.
Youtube a few videos of it.
Marionette continued for 2 weeks after EOTM was released. The day EOTM was released was the last day marionette was done successfully on a regular basis (it had a 2 hour spawn rate). Before it was released it was done regularly on Aurora Glade from 13:00 to late in the evening.
What I am getting at is that if it was permanent it probably would be done like teq and the wurm before megaserver, after megaserver it would be fine.
On my server, marionette was successful through the very last day. I miss that fight.
It was successful, it just went from being successful for about 12 hours per day to being successful once per day. With the schedule introduced now it would make no difference but back then it made a very big difference.
Yeah, when I said it was successful through the last day, I meant consistently. Even on overflows. Maybe not every single time, but certainly more than once or twice a day. Well over half the time, I’d say.
“Be angry about legendary weapons, sure, but what about the recent drought of content?”
-Mike O’Brien
Because we can’t be angry about both?
And no you will not have to pay for the micro-updates. You get the open world content regardless if you unlocked the episode or not. You can also join a friend who has unlocked it. You just will not get any of the rewards or progress in your story from it.
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/4412034
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I’d rather log in once every 2 weeks (or pay 2.50 if i’m busy) for all the content, than hundreds of dollars for expansions, subscription fees, p2w items, etc. etc…
maybe that’s just me though. I guess i’m weird :/
Druid main, 80 on all, Legendary ranked, Eternal and all that jazz (I go by Feyris in game)
Do people not get that you only have to login every two weeks to get this content for free, forever? It’s awesome! Any other company would charge for it, period. Also, I don’t think the open world content will take a hit. People are presupposing that they will not add world events with this new content. Of course they will. It’s one of the staples of the game.
Leader of The Guernsey Milking Coalition [MiLk] Sanctum of Rall
Or you know… take 5 seconds to log in during the time the ls is active and unlock it permanently…
What if I’m a deployed soldier and logging in is not an option. I’ll have to come back and pay for everything I missed?
Then you should have money to spend since your earnings are tax free plus you should be getting combat/hazard pay, no? My brother is deployed and he and his squadron do very well from the pay. They have no cost of living obviously, make a bunch of money and don’t pay taxes on it. He just bought a motorcycle with the money he made over there, which would be like 10000 Living Story updates…
200 gems = ~$2.50.
Most people don’t realize the money they waste. I bet you spend more than $2.50/week on coffee or soda (or heaven forbid bottled water….), things that bring you joy for approximately 2min.
Skip one meal eating out at a restaurant and that will cover an entire season of LS. No joke.
I won’t stop because I can’t stop.
It’s a medical condition, they say its terminal….
No. Nobody wants all temporary content, and it’s bad for the game. This news is awesome.
Speak for yourself, sir. While I agree that this news is overall good, I’ve always loved the temporary model. I was initially really unhappy about this. I’m warming to the idea now, though. As long as they keep the updates flowing and don’t sacrifice forward movement for permanence.
I too have to agree with this, as much as I am glad that they are trying to do something to appease certain groups ( I mean Life does come over any game in importance any time, with that being said there are many valid reason why a person might not be able to log in). Anyways I feel that this is a bad idea and is ruining what the game was really advertised to be, and that is a living world. Temporay content is what is needed to make that real. What happens in real life when you miss out on something? Thats just it, nothing happens, you are crap out of luck, ife is not permanent it is temp. Best to just learn how to build the best bridge you can and get over it so you can move on. Its a life lesson I see some on here greatly needing to learn. Hey, if you dont like it, you can always down grade to the last generation of games, cause frankly this is the future and is exactly what it should be.
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No. Nobody wants all temporary content, and it’s bad for the game. This news is awesome.
Speak for yourself, sir. While I agree that this news is overall good, I’ve always loved the temporary model. I was initially really unhappy about this. I’m warming to the idea now, though. As long as they keep the updates flowing and don’t sacrifice forward movement for permanence.
I too have to agree with this, as much as I am glad that they are trying to do something to appease certain groups ( I mean Life does come over any game in importance any time, with that being said there are many valid reason why a person might not be able to log in). Anyways I feel that this is a bad idea and is ruining what the game was really advertised to be, and that is a living world. Temporay content is what is needed to make that real. What happens in real life when you miss out on something? Thats just it, nothing happens, you are crap out of luck, ife is not permanent it is temp. Best to just learn how to build the best bridge you can and get over it so you can move on. Its a life lesson I see some on here greatly needing to learn. Hey, if you dont like it, you can always down grade to the last generation of games, cause frankly this is the future and is exactly what it should be.
You people are ignoring the fact that this is still a temporary content model. This stuff will be added to the game and then removed. The only difference is that you can press a button to replay instances if you have them unlocked.
Not completely. Per their twitch stream, there will be permanent events and such added to the world that will remain. Which, everyone will have access to. Yes there will be some things that go away after the two weeks (they cited things like the signs from the initial karka release), but these should be minor. Future large scale events like marionette and battle for LA type things would remain in the game.
Don’t look at me like that. Whatever you’ve heard, it’s probably not true.
No. Nobody wants all temporary content, and it’s bad for the game. This news is awesome.
Speak for yourself, sir. While I agree that this news is overall good, I’ve always loved the temporary model. I was initially really unhappy about this. I’m warming to the idea now, though. As long as they keep the updates flowing and don’t sacrifice forward movement for permanence.
I too have to agree with this, as much as I am glad that they are trying to do something to appease certain groups ( I mean Life does come over any game in importance any time, with that being said there are many valid reason why a person might not be able to log in). Anyways I feel that this is a bad idea and is ruining what the game was really advertised to be, and that is a living world. Temporay content is what is needed to make that real. What happens in real life when you miss out on something? Thats just it, nothing happens, you are crap out of luck, ife is not permanent it is temp. Best to just learn how to build the best bridge you can and get over it so you can move on. Its a life lesson I see some on here greatly needing to learn. Hey, if you dont like it, you can always down grade to the last generation of games, cause frankly this is the future and is exactly what it should be.
You people are ignoring the fact that this is still a temporary content model. This stuff will be added to the game and then removed. The only difference is that you can press a button to replay instances if you have them unlocked.
Not completely. Per their twitch stream, there will be permanent events and such added to the world that will remain. Which, everyone will have access to. Yes there will be some things that go away after the two weeks (they cited things like the signs from the initial karka release), but these should be minor. Future large scale events like marionette and battle for LA type things would remain in the game.
Right, but they also said in that stream that there would also be things in the open world that come and go, so as to make sense for the particular story being told (such as LA being rebuilt).
I suppose that it is inevitable, given the duality of gaming communities, that people will complain that we are getting exactly what we have been asking for over the last 2 years.
>Get temp content from Anet.
>Complain ad nauseum and beg for perm content.
>Complain that Anet doesn’t listen.
>Throw temper tantrums.
>Anet announces plans to do perm content.
>Complain that the temp content is being set aside.
>Complain about perm content.
>Complain that Anet doesn’t listen.
>Throw more temper tantrums.
I see a pattern here. I see the community throwing fits and crying that Anet never listens, and then I see Anet delivering exactly the things we ask for. Followed by more community outcry that Anet never listens and that they are driving the game into the ground.
Well, to be fair, I’m sure not all the things they put in can necessarily stay and be in context. So I can understand them having to take some things out. One of the things they cited were like the warning signs that were on the beaches and such in Southsun, that went away afterwards. Those were relatively minor. I’m sure there will be some larger things to, but they did say we would see events like marionette and they would remain. Which, yes, was a huge thing people asked for.
I don’t mind some of it going away, and as I’ve been saying (for over a year now) they just need to find a decent balance between what stays and what doesn’t. It got better as season 1 went on, but it wasn’t perfect. This might be closer, but we’ll see.
Yes, there’s a pattern there. People complain about everything. Even when Anet does listen and people can’t really argue that they didn’t ask for whatever it is we got, they simply ignore it and continue to complain that Anet doesn’t listen.
Don’t look at me like that. Whatever you’ve heard, it’s probably not true.