Guild Wars 2

Vulpis.8063:

Kai Darkness.5801:

It hasn’t ended, there is still a single FaF achievement to be completed.
“A Rallying Flame – Commemorate the completion of the Flame and Frost story arc in Lion’s Arch, Hoelbrak, or the Black Citadel.”
So there is at least something more to do, even if it is just watch a cinematic, but currently theres a tonne of refugees preparing to move to Southsun Cove. We have had no sight of our personal nemesis, who we are assuming will appear this time around and not in the next installment of Living Story.

The dungeon entries move until May 12th.

And to be fair it was clearly advertised as a dungeon, hardly a surprise. For the interest of community building I can’t really fault them for making it a group instance to aid in the discussion of living story.

The ‘Rallying Flame’ is the epilogue I mentioned, that’s only active for one day. (I’m still..amused that this Climactic Ending is only going to be around less than half the time the April Fool’s Day content made by one person has been.)
And yes, I can fault them, for making it forced grouping when none of the other content leading up to it requires it whatsoever, and they’ve well proved they’re very capable of putting in alternatives alongside just a WoW-clone dungeon-run.
And yes, I know the Personal Story pulls the same stunt, which at this point makes me wish I still had blissful ignorance instead of having looked ahead in the wiki—given I’ve really liked GW2 until this point, I’m put in mind of of a banana split with delicious ice cream and freshly made whipped-cream…which is then topped by raw sewage which is subsequently set on fire and presented as a flambe.

I think you’re being too critical. If you want to play in a world by yourself, Guild Wars 2 isn’t the game to play. I enjoy the vast amounts of solo content in Guild Wars 2, but trying to fault the developers for giving you group content that you don’t have to do just seems silly.

Well, I guess this is my first and only BUMP as I guess no one saw it the first time, or no one cared. Sharing is caring, I spent about 2 hrs on this.

Hello, I am posting to this forum to provide feedback on my experience of the Guild Wars 2 story to-date and to leave the entire team with things to consider moving forward with the construction of the Guild Wars 2 story. The true content is being added as an attachment. The document is fairly extensive but has a brief summary as I know most of you won’t have time to read much of it.

As of this writing I have not yet had the chance to analyze content released within the past month, as a result I will omit any comments pertaining to this content.
Note that this evaluation tried to minimize emphasis on elements other than the story; however, due to the nature of the video game medium, there are times where such comments will be made and may include (minimal) technical language.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-nyK76NiqpvcVJiWHRMMUJKTFk/edit?usp=sharing

I apologize for the lack of formality as I neared the end of this, it took longer than I anticipated.

My suggestions are as follows:

Moving forward, try to ensure that all people involved in story creation, especially writers and voice talent, are aware of story contexts and the way their message should be delivered.

Take your time, the best that you can. Time is money; however, in this scenario funds are coming in based on how many people are invested into your game as opposed to how many people are interested in playing from time to time. Quality story leads to a deeper investment in the game and therefor more revenues. Fail to do this, and you may even lose potential earnings.

Consider how you wish the story to progress and then find ways to accomplish the outcome that are awesome, and impressive to the player without overextending the team.

I hope you appreciate my comments and take them seriously and I wish you the best of luck ArenaNet.

DesertEagle_PWN