Guild Wars 2

Description : whenever a living story episode is quitted, the most recent episode will start automatically.

How to reproduce : this happens when the personal story is completed after the start of living story season 2. Finishing the personal story of a character that hasn’t finished all LS episodes will trigger the unwanted behaviour.

How to solve (player’s perspective) : finishing the latest episode will bring back the proper behaviour (no automatic launch, quitting an episode means there is no episode active).

Personal interpretation : I think this has to do with the need of a closure from the personal story. Since the living story episode is sharing the UI it might be considered at some point as part of the personal story which doesn’t disappear unless it is finished. Once the personal story is finished (either before LS s2 started or with the end of the latest LS episode), LS episodes are no longer tied to this PS behaviour because the PS is finally considered finished.

Additional detail : if the personal story is completed while the latest living story episode has already been done, the bug doesn’t occur.