Guild Wars 2

I can only write from my viewpoint as new player, but I couldn’t be quiet, because you really think that advertising will help this game?

On the contrary, sir.

Adding content, and the same time destroying content is not a good way to get more new players, who will ask you:

“What has this 2 year old game for Story questline in Store for me? Must be amazing, because they upated it frequently all 2 weeks!”

And the answer is:

“The same Personal story from release date, that doesn’t even fit anymore in the actual world, and no chance in hell to catch up to the actual events, because the questline is gone for good.”

You have more work cut out for you, than simply tell the PR department to get into gears.

That is the reason some MMO-gamers said: “GW2 — That game failed --- badly.”

I got this information from my fellow MMO gamer friends, who played and quit the game. “It’s nice but has no substance. And if you miss for some time, you’re out of the life story.” — These are not my words.

Before you can advertise this game again, you need an addon, where you are able to relive the past events of the first season AND future events of the coming second season…. Do not continue to kill the quests or the questline you make every two weeks.

You have NOTHING to show for now! Absolutly nothing. Only a more and more destroyed world, that will be uglier by the month, with map events, that make NO sense, comparing them to your actual personal story. —- Only from the view of a new player of course.

The poor Video clips on youtube are NO substitutes for ingame quests. RP-players want to PLAY the quests, and getting videos as reward. Not view some videos, after ending their personal questlines.

Preserve the questline maybe in fragments. USE fragments for this purpose, for gods sake! Save you hard work there, don’t throw it away every two weeks.

Otherwise new players will be feeling betrayed, and robbed of content. Additionally — this is far more worse — they do not know the world, they are thrown into after the personal story quest lines ends.

From my viewpoint as a new player, who got into this world in the last two weeks of the not 1st season, the personal story is my ONLY anchor to understand this world. I had no clue, who the hell scarlett was, and what the hell she wanted. And … I didn’t care either .. wasn’t my problem. I only had the strong feeling, this doesn’t fit at all. It made no sense for me.

Before you can advertise this messed up situation — the gap between personal story and actual world is too big, you have to repair all non fitting parts.

You will have to put your personal story elsewhere “Things of my past in a better world.” Or you can alter the personal stories to fit into the actual timeline. The last things is more work. Option one is cheaper.

Additionally you need to change all the map events accordingly and even retell season 1 in fragments, before even beginning the second season.

If you do not take this into account, you will have no chance in hell to bind new players emotionally to your game. The gap is to big by now.

Where is much to do, before even starting the second season.

So clean up your mess, first, advertise second

Because it will only getting worse, if you try to kill any dragon only in these 2 weeks events. You can yourself count very lucky, that you didn’t do that, so far. If new players are not able to relive these more important amin staory events, where the dragons will be killed, you can close shop for selling the base game at all.

In these cases, you have robbed players of the main story. And everyone can see it wide and far.

And don’t even think of removing the personal story quest lines is the sollution. If you do that, it will kill the game for new players for sure. They were as bored as new players in WoW. Nothing to do, no aim, only silly questing, walking through an uninteresting destroyed world with no meaning for them.

After 3 days playing WoW in this casual friendly form I thought:

“If I see ONE more ‘Kill n/m Monsters’ or ‘Get n/m things’, I will get into a murderous frenzy.”

I’ve never ever seen anything more from WoW than the starter areas and quests, because I couldn’t endure it any longer. It was …. terrible.

So don’t remove the personal story. Ot you will get the same result.

And to remind any other poster, who think to answer this posting: This post has high portions of ingredients from my own oppion in it. No need to say I have to think or feel any other way.

P.S. And please, find a sollution for the Zergs, too. They are annoying in their ignorance of the rights of other players, who start the events on accident or their own volition. Make drops in in map events, that they need for highend gear crafting. and place these parts over all maps. And you have the sollution for the “empty map problem”, without using megaservers.

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Would you read a book with the first half torn out? or watch a movie that has no pause or rewind feature and can only be played once? even tv shows like game of thorns, which they so regularily strive to compair, has reruns, can be tapped, and will cell CDs, the whole concept of one time entertainment Iis flawed, because entertainment is meant to be viewed and enjoyed more than once, a story, is only good, only comprehensable if you see the whole plot through, and adventure is most enjoyable experienced from begining to end, and it doesn’t make sense for someone to randomly pop up in the middle of it. no, living story should by no means be seen as a viable replacement for personal story.

I am a new player. And I agree with you. I play the personal story for the first time, and I am NOT willing to wait untill they they “fix” their living world.

I am not interested in the living world story, because I do not know anything about it. I simply do not CARE enough. I am only annoyed, because they ruined the personal story immersion.

This “living world” would make more sense, if they had instanced the timeline in chapters, like a book. As new player I am not insterested in a story, I cannot relive. I do not read books, that were destroyed by removing the pages, after someone other had read them.

As example: I am quit annoyed about the senseless toxis whatever events in the regions. They make, from MY point of view, absolutely no sense at all. They do not FIT in my world, and my personal story. So I ignore them.

From my point of view, this is not a living, but a paradox, senseless world.

I am totally new to this game. So I haven’t the slightest clue what happenend, who the hell is scarlet, and why I should care about it.

As example: I am annoyed as hell about the toxic crap events, because they make absolute NO sense. They don’t fit in any personal story branches, and have nothing to do with the envirement or backstories.

And If I can’t relive the story, I am totaly not interested in “actual” events. Point.

It has simple no meaning and no sense at all for me. And I don’t kill things without a good reason — that’s boring -that means, I need a story. From beginning to the end.

I will play the personal stories, and after that, I am gone for good.

The argument of the living world is bullkitten. On different servers you can have diffent world instances, show different timelines, and after reaching a certain point of the story, the character has to go forward to the the next server/instance in time, unless he reaches the actual story branch.

Otherwise they betray new players. They do not get the whole content. It’s as simple as that.

A living world, and telling a personal story do simply not work out, if you try it in one instance.

Hi; I feel the same. I am a natural born singleplayer, and I bought the game this morning.

I will try to get to the next EU RP server, mostly to avoid the WOW-munchkin-zerg-farming typical endcontent playing, best build using .. and demanding MMO player, who I deeply dislike.

Someone, who tries to demand, that I have to build my character a certain way, has a 101% chance to get on top of my ignore list, to be never heard of again. I made it with a member from my guild once. I will do it again.

I like to test and play characters and odd build ideas, so I likely will never ever see the high level content. My primary goal is to have fun. And to explore the world.

Maybe we see each other in game.

Have a nice day.