Guild Wars 2

I can wrap my head around cutting out Greatest Fear. That was a heavy arc, and while there’s no shortage of people who liked it very much, I can understand why it was pinched.

I can also understand the desire to shuffle around the Orr arc in general. While it was functional as it was, I don’t think anyone was against improving the story here.

What I can’t understand, or wrap my head around, or remotely comprehend, is how you take that desire to sort out the final storylines, and wind up with this trash. Plot holes left and right. Meeting people for the first time that claim to be meeting you again. Meeting people again and having them act like it’s the first time. References to characters that no longer exist in the story.

Meaningless. Personal. Story. Choices.

I won’t pretend like my voice is louder than any other in this topic, or in this community entire. But there is always the off-chance, that minute chance that this will be seen by someone relevant to the process, and so, this is for that person. I won’t ask the obvious questions, because the answers are already apparent. No, you didn’t put these changes through any real analysis or quality assurance. No, you didn’t tie off all the loose ends made when you took a Salvaging Kit to your own narrative. No, you were not thinking at capacity. If you were, there wouldn’t be a need to fix this, because there would be nothing to be fixed.

Certainly, there would be griping and groaning about the loss of the Greatest Fear, as there is now. But that would have passed in the wake of a story that made sense without it.

To call these changes premature would be a compliment. I see no reason to call this botch-up anything other than what it is: a ham-fisted blow to your entire community.

There is a silver lining, in that it only makes sense for Guild Wars 2 to carry on in the wake of its predecessor, and enable the Personal Story for re-completion, at some point further down the road. But until then, I feel terrible for anyone playing through for the first time, and realizing, even without any prior experience with the personal story, that something is terribly wrong here.

A humble request, to the person of relevance who just happens to see this: in the future, try running your ideas past a few sober heads, and avoid putting out another virtual hangover like this one. I’m “very excited” for the day this all makes sense again.