Guild Wars 2

I wouldn’t say it looks like the Green Lantern emblem (at least not in your screenshot), but it does look like the Central Power Battery!

In the livestream in which they announced the Story Journal, the developers said something along the lines of, “It’s not so much a question of if; but rather when.” As Pandaman.4758 said, Living World Season One was not designed in the same way that the Personal Story and Living World Season Two are; they were designed for huge numbers of players, as opposed to the 1-5 player design of PS and LWS2. This means that it will take A LOT of overhauling for LWS1 to be released for the Story Journal, BUT the developers have stated that it is their intention; just not at this time. We may not get it until after Season Three or Four, but the developers do want to put S1 into the Journal. For now, though, only 1325 AE (Personal Story) and 1327 AE (Living World Season Two) are available for viewing/playing in the Story Journal.

Dark Saviour.9410:

You need to maintain the tone and atmosphere of the main story so it doesn’t feel like the game is suddenly screaming, “IN OTHER NEWS!!!”

I actually enjoy it when stuff like that happens. I love side quests and such, which makes it really nice when you get to deviate from the ever-present main storyline and just take a trip into the lives of the NPCs who are affected by bandits, evil alliances, or what-have-yous. It makes it truly feel like the world is alive. Not all heroes focus on the major enemy 100% of the time. Some take the time to actually help the locals as they travel, instead of always moving on without thinking about the locals.

Dark Saviour.9410:

That’s a bit different, as each campaign was (originally) a self-contained story (though I will say that Factions’ writing was bad enough that it still managed to feel like boring filler somehow).

This would be more akin to hopping a boat to Cantha and just forgetting about the Mursaat entirely while we go to kill Shiro. Completely moving on would be fine if we’d already killed all the dragons and cleared that whole mess up, but we haven’t. They’re still out there, and (supposedly) are a world-level threat.

Factions was actually my favorite, though it did have a lot of rough spots. But I felt that Prophecies was significantly more filler, which led to be being so bored with it I never actually finished it. And, like others on here, I actually did have characters jump from story to story as I desired. I found it fun to do it that way, as it made it truly feel like it was all happening at once (which, according to the Tyrian calendars, is not true but the point stands).

The way I interpreted the, “The heroes return to their homes to focus on the battle against the dragons” statement (I don’t even remember where it was, but I remember seeing it) was basically, “Okay, LS is done…time to return to the ‘Player VS Zhaitan’ main game until the next LS is released.” So the way I looked at it wasn’t the announcement of a new dragon, but the implication that low-level characters and characters that haven’t finished the story can go back to the story for a time until Secret of Southsun went live.

ArtemusHunter.9521:

I hope that helps you understand.

I know how the story of it is supposed to go, but I read on this forum is that it ended at noon PST today. Which means I can’t finish it.

I guess it’s my own fault for not looking it up to begin with, but I’m pretty sad that Flame & Frost’s main content is going to be taken down shortly. I never got to complete it and I expected it to be up through tomorrow seeing as Southsun isn’t supposed to be live until the 14th…But, live and let die I guess. I’ll just have to be more diligent about keeping up with the Living Story from now on!