Guild Wars 2

Colin likes to compare gw2 to a television show where every week there’s something new happening, and for the most part that is true and exciting.

the problem lies in the fact that even television shows, give you a way to go back and experience it from the beginning for those that came in after the launch of the series.

gw2 doesn’t have this capability as of yet even though the lore allows for it the scrying pool anyone ?

I know they are planning to implement a way to do this to some extent in fractals, which means the content will not be the same as it was when it was on live servers for everyone to experience.

let me tell yah, anet if I wasn’t already playing when the living world concept came into fruition, I would NOT have picked up the game at all, the reason being very simple, I would not like that the content was gone and simply because I wasn’t ther for those 2 weeks I don’t get to know what happened before I started playing, and there is no way for me to go back and play that content.

for this reason I think a lot of people don’t pick up the game, this is a major flaw that hinders gw2’s progress and growth

in television terms, this would be like watching the matrix reloaded without watching the original matrix, it wouldn’t make any sense to me at all, sure I can enjoy it but the enjoyment is half baked and obscured by the fact I didn’t know anything about Neo’s struggle and realization of how powerful he really is.

It’d be like starting DS9 right in the middle of the dominion invasion, sure it is exciting and can be followed but you know nothing of the prophets or the wormhole and most of the lore wouldn’t make any sense at all to yah.

at least in movies or television I can go back and watch the series and or movies in proper sequence and get the full story and lore background

TLDR anet needs to implement a way for example the scrying pool from gw1 to allow people to fully experience past living world content, not just a piece of it in fractals.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Scrying_Pool

your missing the point, i think you replied to the wrong conversation mate, this is not about them bringing new content I’m happy the way they are going with it, this is about the fact that if you miss certain living world releases you’re screwed story wise.
read properly b4 you reply to something you do not fully understand what it is about.

the ability to go back and replay previous living world releases is a must for the growth of the game. would you watch whatever series is your favorite knowing you will never get to see the 1st season ever ? only hear say from others.

I completely agree. I have been uninterested in the living world events until the Clockwork Chaos stuff came out. But I had a very busy week and a half of work (school just started), so I barely had time to get through the conclusion of Queen Jennah’s speech and track down the first portal-making device before I got on tonight…. just in time to see that we’ve now moved on to a completely different living world event that I have no interest in. And I can never go back and see what I missed for Clockwork Chaos. Frankly, that ticked me off and made me decide not to play tonight at all.

The problem is that ArenaNet is happy with the direction this is going. They have their metrics showing more and more people logging in on a daily basis. The problem is that these are the people who burn through content as fast as possible, and no matter what is added, they’ll be leaving this game as soon as the next big MMO is released.

ArneaNet is no longer building their game or even their fanbase’s game. They’re creating content geared towards these MMO hoppers.

It’s more like a daily soap opera that spits out episodes at a rate that’s too fast to have any quality. Anet: We want “The Wire,” not “Days of our Lives.”

They’re sacrificing the lore for gimmicks. SAB has absolutely nothing to do with anything and doesn’t even fit well. They just give us the “asura smart. asura build things” explanation. We’re supposed to be plagued by dragons and it’s like no one is questioning what happened with the human gods. The living story is just a creative team going off on tangents. The game has turned into nothing but a series of small episodes with little relation to each other or anything else.

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They’re sacrificing the lore for gimmicks. SAB has absolutely nothing to do with anything and doesn’t even fit well. They just give us the “asura smart. asura build things” explanation. We’re supposed to be plagued by dragons and it’s like no one is questioning what happened with the human gods. The living story is just a creative team going off on tangents. The game has turned into nothing but a series of small episodes with little relation to each other or anything else.

Admittedly I was really starting to enjoy the LS, flame&frost kind of kicked that off for me, and have been enjoying it til SAB. I would like to see LS spread out lil more 3-4weeks at a time & more in depth.

SAB…I just don’t know, fun for some but a kick in the teeth for the LS.

My 2cents, that book we got that unlocked a cut scene to that current LS was fantastic..I’am really hoping they give us a personal LS library in our home instance to reflect back, show new players, or show players that had to take a break from the story.

As someone who has tried to invest in the constant updates it has gotten to stage, for me at least, where it’s become overwhelming and I’ve decided it’s time to put the brakes on a little.

Interestingly this is in part because the hurried 2 week releases are so BUGGY that I’ve had to replay content to get an achievement that didn’t update.

Literally when something doesn’t update, I’m left contemplating do I REALLY want to go back at do this again? ‘Portal closures’ comes to mind where they had you doing 13/13 closures ( Just checked to find they’d changed it to 5/5) I sat on 11/13 for AGES and resented having to play back through content KNOWING if I didn’t do it now I would miss out forever.

Maybe I could stomach it more if I could come back to it a month later. If it remained permanent at least they would be in a better position to remove the bugs. As of now it’s impossible and I for one have decided to let the LS go, because it’s not worth the aggravation.