I have a few things to say here and there. Its nothing different than one anyone else has said, but maybe one more voice will make a difference.
One thing not mentioned so far seems to be the excessive worthless rewards LS meta achievements give us. I’ve had enough of the immersion breaking backpacks and minipets. I want to be given something useful. By useful, I mean something that can be used to craft ascended weapons, ascended armor and legendary weapons. The krait obelisk is a step in the right direction but its still not quite enough.
I’m also displeased with the repetitive mindless grinding that each month brings. Kill one million enemies, close 3000 doors. Its not fun. Its awful. This week will the last time I grind garbage like this.
I suppose I haven’t explained this clearly enough. We don’t have UI or tech to do this. The only thing we can do in the game currently is attach a short description to an object that is triggered by interaction (F to read, for example) or put that information inside a conversation tree. Those are our options. Neither solution is ideal for large chunks of text due to size limitations and usability restrictions. We’ve used both approaches on occasion to present details as you’ve described. But these current solutions are hard limited with how much we can display onscreen. They aren’t really appropriate for the amount of text information we’d put in proper books.
The Founding exists. Surely you could have made an effort. Something like this could have been added in this current patch as meta achievement instead of the pointless krait obelisks.
Pacing: …we made the conscious decision to pace out her character development over multiple game builds. In other words, we haven’t gotten to that part of her story yet, but since nobody outside the building has an idea of what’s to come I can understand the reactions that she’s “one-dimensional” or conveniently powerful. We’re aware of the perception and feel that future releases will have content that develops her character.
I guess the question now is whether or not you think you can continue drawing out Scarlet’s escapades without killing what’s left of the community. Everyone I know is tired of Scarlet. I am tired of Scarlet. The living story is awful. Even with knowing that there is an end in sight, I still don’t know if I can continue playing it. I enjoyed the lore of Guild Wars 1 but I’m finding it very hard to even care about LS.
I wish that more time could be spent developing the LS. I really miss the days of Gw1 beyond content. It had a longer development time but it was always worth it when we got it. This kitten approach doesn’t seem like its going to be good for the game in the long run.
The cadence is something we discuss frequently. We are a very collaborative team and do our best to never sweep anything under the rug (-:
It sounds exactly like you are sweeping it under the rug. Please, I beg you, for my sanity, to please stop with the 2 week release cycle. Its killing me. ._.
