What happens after you finish the "personal story"

neceo

Well obviously you will still be playing in the open world , but what happens then with the part where your story effects things around you.

I am probably not being clear enough but

 After you finish your story, you can no longer have that "effect" on the world as you did before from that point forward, all your actions doesn't change anything anymore as it did before.  Well untill an expansion that prob adds a new story.  

GrayGhost79

Originally posted by neceo

Well obviously you will still be playing in the open world , but what happens then with the part where your story effects things around you.

I am probably not being clear enough but

 After you finish your story, you can no longer have that "effect" on the world as you did before from that point forward, all your actions doesn't change anything anymore as it did before.  Well untill an expansion that prob adds a new story.  

Your personally effect on the world doesn't end with your personal story. They have said things about players finding a book on an alter up in the mountains, opening it up would cause a chain of events. There are supposed to be things like this scattered about. 

 

Methos12

I reckon expansion(s) will be adding to your personal story but yeah, common sense kinda tells me it would pause after you finish it until expanded on by already mentioned expansion(s),

EricDanie

AFAIK the "changes on the world" are caused by the dynamic events, not by the personal story.

The personal story impacts your home instance reflecting your choices.

Lord.Bachus

Originally posted by Methos12

I reckon expansion(s) will be adding to your personal story but yeah, common sense kinda tells me it would pause after you finish it until expanded on by already mentioned expansion(s),

This is what i am expecting too...

 

Maybe even adventure story packs that let you play through special content. DLC will be part of this game for sure.

jondifool

Originally posted by Methos12

I reckon expansion(s) will be adding to your personal story but yeah, common sense kinda tells me it would pause after you finish it until expanded on by already mentioned expansion(s),

 i think this is already confirmed !

Pigozz

Originally posted by EricDanie

AFAIK the "changes on the world" are caused by the dynamic events, not by the personal story.

The personal story impacts your home instance reflecting your choices.

 this....dynamic events will go on regardless of your personal story ending....but your personal story would be most probably over (well you still could do end-game dungeons which I think will still affect your home instance) or rolling an alt..

Anet is known for periodical patches and expansions, Im not very worried about burning out all the content (hell, dont forget the minigames and beating the leaderboards;) )

EvilGeek

The game is incredibly alt friendly, five races each with their own starting city, different personal story lines and choices within and the dynamic event system meaning you'll likely hit content you've not seen before on the way up. I'm more worried about spreading myself too thinly over different characters and it taking forever for me to see the end.

Belgaraath

Originally posted by EvilGeek

The game is incredibly alt friendly, five races each with their own starting city, different personal story lines and choices within and the dynamic event system meaning you'll likely hit content you've not seen before on the way up. I'm more worried about spreading myself too thinly over different characters and it taking forever for me to see the end.

lol, if that becomes reality you should be a happy gamer :-)

Normike

It's the writing on the wall. The fact that we haven't seen any actual video or detailed explanation about the end game mechanics is worrying. Definitely not going to pre-order. Might wait a few months after release to see what people think of the end game.

Justley3

Originally posted by keithianw

Originally posted by EvilGeek

The game is incredibly alt friendly, five races each with their own starting city, different personal story lines and choices within and the dynamic event system meaning you'll likely hit content you've not seen before on the way up. I'm more worried about spreading myself too thinly over different characters and it taking forever for me to see the end.

lol, if that becomes reality you should be a happy gamer :-)

Agreed but EvilGeek is going off a total assumption instead of facts. The game isnt Alt-Friendly yet anyways.

Rynne

Originally posted by Justley3

Originally posted by keithianw

Originally posted by EvilGeek

The game is incredibly alt friendly, five races each with their own starting city, different personal story lines and choices within and the dynamic event system meaning you'll likely hit content you've not seen before on the way up. I'm more worried about spreading myself too thinly over different characters and it taking forever for me to see the end.

lol, if that becomes reality you should be a happy gamer :-)

Agreed but EvilGeek is going off a total assumption instead of facts. The game isnt Alt-Friendly yet anyways.

 I guess EvilGeek implies alt-friendly mostly due to the replay value of the game and the ever-changing world. Have you for example thought of leveling up an alt in another game but hesitated or felt the journey was incredibly boring due to doing the exact same things for a second time?

n3verendR

While you don't add to your personal story through storyline progression...

 

You still add to your home instance by customizing certain aspects of it, this is directly related to your personal story I believe. You can bring people into your home and show them your cool stuff, then farther progress when the expansion comes out. There will be plenty to do I am sure, why would they be taking so long on an already polished project if otherwise.

drauss

Arenanet have already confirmed that future installments of GW2 will expand upon the Personal Story arc.

What isn't known is if they will be stand alone campaigns like Factions and Nightfall or be an actual expansion that requires the original GW2.

I would expect that at the end of GW2 personal story that they name the next dragon or actually place the characters in the next location for the dtory to continue. Like an epic cutscene or something.

Hmmm I think that the next dragon to to go down is Kralkatorrik... That is if we are able to kill them...

Shroom_Mage

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Originally posted by Normike
It's the writing on the wall. The fact that we haven't seen any actual video or detailed explanation about the end game mechanics is worrying. Definitely not going to pre-order. Might wait a few months after release to see what people think of the end game.

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So far, going by what they've said in interviews, there are three types of PvP that can be done at end-game in addition to the PvE dungeons. I don't know how events will work in the end-game, but they have said that they want there to be some open world events that are difficult enough to require organized guilds.

Judging from their design philosophy, however, I assume that they want the end-game to be fairly similar to the rest of the game, only probably more difficult, contrasting games like WoW, where the end-game bears almost no resemblance to anything leading up to it.

I wouldn't worry about pre-ordering until they at least announce a release date. There's a lot of time left for them to describe more of their features in detail. With as much as they've said about PvP, for example, there has yet to be an actual video or detailed explanation. No sense in abandoning ship so early.

MumboJumbo

Personal Story will end at the end-game and will be extended in some form of expansion (confirmed). The Global Story of Dynamic Events will continue however. You can visit ALL areas in game now and be side-kicked down so that you can still enjoy lower levels. You can also take part in end-game style dungeons and continue collecting achievements also. Then there is structured pvp and world pvp for you avatar.You could take part in a friend's personal story instance at some point also and enjoy their story. So there are loads of options outside of the personal story also.

But if you are talking about wanting more story and not this other content, then you have 5 races, each race has something like a dozen biography questions and 8 professions. The story hopefully will have some branches later on. So all these combinations for alternative stories to experience also and in conjunction with Dynamic Events you may see different sections of these due to their changes in state and/or alternative ones. These should all be fleshed out with some decent lore.

But, despite these positives, the story may feel too short for some, but that's the business model and expansions (full or DLC?) are in the pipe-line for this reason.

natuxatu

This question is easy to answer as of now:

A: We have no idea.

MumboJumbo

Originally posted by natuxatu

This question is easy to answer as of now:

A: We have no idea.

That's incorrect, we have the idea that was comunicated by the creators of the game such as Eric Flannum, answering exactly this question and in turn his informed answer as to the features and options intended for the player of GW2 for this stage in the player's experience of the game. You can draw your own impressions from the available information.