I believe it’s all about the story. There’s a lot of things not working with the LS and a lot has already been said about that.
I don’t like this fast rotation of enemies and characters that I already hated in the personal story. You jump from enemies and plot lines faster than the people in the Clock Tower. It’s like… “So, this is happening. Time’s up. Forget those guys, we have new bad guys! And this awesome villain that came from nowhere. Now, forget that too, we have Krait for lunch! And do you remember those girls from 3 months ago? Here they aaaare!”. It’s frustrating. You had something good with the Molten Alliance: in 3 or 4 month it began and (sort of) ended. And we moved on with a new mystery. You are opening too many doors and not closing one. We like closure, we don’t want another “Lost” series. I feel lost with this Scarllet thing and i shouldn’t, because I love her.
I like Scarllet. You need someone like her in this game, she can be your GLADOS. But for someone who sees/knows the universe, she is harmless. I was hoping for more drastic stuff happening. What if she really killed Jenna? Would we move on to some human civil war, perhaps the battle of DR? Seriously. She’s not being bad enough.
The short stories are great. Do you know what would be better idea? Put it somehow in-game and not hidden in your site. I like those stories and I feel we loose a lot not having it in-game. Make it a quest, a special video, an animation, or even a Priory book in the library… People that don’t read those loose a lot. I started to like Scarllet because of her story and not because what I see in-game. I want to know what’s her plan or if she has one at all.
For Dwayna, I even wanted to join her if I could! This could be something big: Scarllet recruiting players. Much like the election of Ellen and Evon. We could choose if we fight with or against her.
Enough with Scarllet (I really like her, thanks for creating her, now make her bad/better). If you maintain this LS thing, please don’t mix more stuff. You can have the dragons, Scarllet, krait, a plague of unicorn quaggans, but (please!) do not mix them all. Scarllet doesn’t have to be everywhere and, as I said before, we need closure in the story. Close a chapter! Molten alliance, sky pirates, more people from the sky and Glint, trying to kill Jenna, a mad dragon, nightmare court meets balloon pirates and now krait!? I really believe it’s enough. I’m already lost at what is or it’s not Scarllet. And I’ve been playing everything and reading the short stories.
More stuff to say!!! I like that the LS invites me to go to maps/dungeons that I don’t visit for a long time. I would like to see major changes like what’s happening in Kessex Hills. I know you had a lot of work making it in the first place, but you can destroy a part a map and let it like that (Great Collapse, anyone?).
More difficult stuff like Tequatl would be great. If this next update it’s not an open world tower with different floors (like Monastery of Silence in Lineage2 or the last episodes of Sword Art Online), I would love to have one of those where I could play (and please don’t say Fractals, because people only do that for the ascended stuff).
An please, please, give us closure in the story part. There’s a lot from the first game that was left untold.
There’s a lot of mysteries from GW1 that you could go back with the living story. Or even world/universe/eternal alchemy that you could explore. And I’m not talking about Cantha or Elona… The humans were brought to this planet right? From where? Is there any asura curious about the origin of some races? Why there’s not a single thing in LS about our Orders? Why there’s no Priory guy looking for artifacts like, idk, some scepter from a looong time ago? Why the hell is there a floating castle and a village of people with pet/slave/controlled elementals?
I get it. Sometimes our imagination goes wild and we are a lot of people, but you can and should use our ideas. We would be glad with that because it showed you listen to some of us (it’s impossible to make everyone happy) and you would be making something that we really wanted to play.
About the rewards: enough with the weird back items. But I sure like the home instance stuff.
But seriously guys: Crystal Desert!