I honestly don’t know what ANet was thinking when they made players start on episode eight. New players are given no warning after following the story mode and then all of a sudden the author of the book put the last chapter first because you didn’t start reading early enough after its publication. Imagine our confusion! I thought it was the continuation of a GW1 story because I had never played the predecessor and was completely lost.
Then to put the rest of the content behind a paywall feels especially shoddy. That’s $20 for a series I already know the ending to because I decided to give their MMO a shot too late.