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With this change, Anet should give all players with characters that have ended their stories already a 1 time story reset function via rebirthing the characters (equipment stays useable, but is level locked and becomes useable first again, once we regain back our max Level (what is with level tomes 0 problem)
I agree that we should get a complete story reset if we want it, but I don’t think that needs to include character rebirth or level reset. Just a reset of the story journal. A character reset that retains the same birthday and gear would be fine also, though.
It’s really one of those things that’s ruining my enjoyment after having recently come back to the game and finding it really fun.
I halfway agree with other people about resetting the story. But it should be an option for those who’ve completed a certain point (by the sounds of it, completing A Light in the Darkness) and takes you to just before that certain point (making A Light in the Darkness the “new start”). So those who don’t want to, don’t need to.
Oh, for sure. I think there should be some in-game option to reset your personal story. The best thing would be for them to reset the story back before the Greatest Fear Arc only but they mentioned that wasn’t easy to implement. That’s why I suggest a full reset bought from the gem store. It brings A-net more money and gives an out to those who would really like one.
A guild name is just as important as a character’s name when it comes to reputation. So it should be very difficult (expensive) to change a guild or character name. Somebody with a poor reputation or a guild for that matter should not be able to done a whole new identity for gold or influence. Both are far too easy to come by. Gems seems to be the only realistic manner in which anybody should be able to change a guild or character name.
Fair points and agreed. It should be restricted by time and require gems. But the option would be nice.
I would like to change guild names as well. I think it would even be acceptable if we could only change it every 6 months, or even every year, or even just once.
I just wanted to provide an update since it’s been a while.
- We are currently working to restore the Greatest Fear storyline to the live game. I can’t provide a release date at this point.
- In addition to restoring the Personal Story steps to their original order we’re making some minor improvements where possible (e.g. recording new VO or updating certain conversations, etc.).
We’ll provide additional details closer to release. Thanks much for your patience.
That’s all well and good. Nice to know you are getting down to fixing it. Now, that just leaves the issue on characters who have been through the botched PS. Will you by some chance, make it replayable like you did with the Living Story? Because if I have to grind my charr character just to see the fixed version, that’s just bullcrap. :/
The Personal Story was never designed to be replayable on a single character, so making a change like that would involve a lot of revision (updating and testing hundreds of story steps). It’s simply out of scope.
The updated story steps will start with A Light in the Darkness.
This is just unacceptable, though. You’re telling me that I’ve ruined my chances of ever experiencing the full personal story and having a correct and complete story journal for my main character because I didn’t think to research whether or not personal story arcs were just incompetently REMOVED from the game before I continued my story? This is your fault, not mine. But I am the one getting punished.
If you can’t reset stories to the greatest fear, I would even accept a full personal story reset to biography and do the work of getting my character back up to that part of the story. I’d also even pay for such a service in the gemstore. I’ll wait for HoT for it too. Just give me SOME option other than rerolling my main. Please.
Make another character, problem solved. I’m just happy they’re fixing the problem. And please don’t start talking about what’s “unacceptable.” Most of us are bummed that the characters we already played through won’t get a chance at the original storyline, but we’re accepting it just fine.
Unacceptable might have been a strong buzzword, but it really is a problem for me. I don’t want to recreate the character and lose the birthday which was on the day the game released. I don’t see how it would be hard to put an item in the gemstore that resets the story. I’d even be happy for it to just be included in my story journal without me getting to play it.
I just happened to come back to the game and play through that part of the story during the relatively short interval where they botched the whole story up. I had no idea that they would even consider touching the PS given their history much less remove parts of it and now I can’t go back. I’m sorry but that’s a little ridiculous. I’m one of those OCD/perfectionist/completionist types and it just really bothers me.
If it was just an alt I had created a few months ago and leveled up I would happily delete them and begin anew, but that isn’t the case.
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I just wanted to provide an update since it’s been a while.
- We are currently working to restore the Greatest Fear storyline to the live game. I can’t provide a release date at this point.
- In addition to restoring the Personal Story steps to their original order we’re making some minor improvements where possible (e.g. recording new VO or updating certain conversations, etc.).
We’ll provide additional details closer to release. Thanks much for your patience.
That’s all well and good. Nice to know you are getting down to fixing it. Now, that just leaves the issue on characters who have been through the botched PS. Will you by some chance, make it replayable like you did with the Living Story? Because if I have to grind my charr character just to see the fixed version, that’s just bullcrap. :/
The Personal Story was never designed to be replayable on a single character, so making a change like that would involve a lot of revision (updating and testing hundreds of story steps). It’s simply out of scope.
The updated story steps will start with A Light in the Darkness.
This is just unacceptable, though. You’re telling me that I’ve ruined my chances of ever experiencing the full personal story and having a correct and complete story journal for my main character because I didn’t think to research whether or not personal story arcs were just incompetently REMOVED from the game before I continued my story? This is your fault, not mine. But I am the one getting punished.
If you can’t reset stories to the greatest fear, I would even accept a full personal story reset to biography and do the work of getting my character back up to that part of the story. I’d also even pay for such a service in the gemstore. I’ll wait for HoT for it too. Just give me SOME option other than rerolling my main. Please.
Seriously? How has Anet just ignored this for so long. I stopped playing right before I made the decision on what my greatest fear was going to be back in 2012-13 and when I came back to the game I was really hoping to finish the story.
Now I see that it’s just missing entirely and I"ll never get to experience it. My story journal won’t ever be complete. This is such nonsense. FIX IT! TALK TO US!