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[Column] Guild Wars 2: Changing What It Means to Create & Play an MMO
SBFord
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This week, Guild Wars 2 embarks on an ambitious four-part finale to a story that's been fifteen months in the works. Beginning with The Origins of Madness, players will begin to understand the strange signs and world-wide wonders they've witnessed and see what those mean for the future of Tyria. They'll also see just how serious developer ArenaNet is about changing what it means to create and play an MMO.
Read more of Neilie Johnson's Guild Wars 2: ArenaNet - Changing What It Means to Create & Play an MMO.
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How awesome is Taimi? Yeah, a LOT awesome.
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srsly? a 4 part 'living world'?...does that entails the past ones from last year.. or are they planning
on spreading the 4 throughout the year -and call it a day?...
'living story' content has been GW2 achilles heel imo...
<.<
this all just sounds horrible- such great talent wasted.
It's a four part conclusion to the Scarlett Briar arc of the Living Story. After that will be a short break for game updates, balances, etc., then the new Living Story arc will kick off.
This won't end well.
-Azure Prower
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From the interview: “I think the biggest thing that gets me excited is when I go in game, and I see people talking about [the story] everywhere."
Distinction is: are people talking positively or negatively about the story everywhere?
Problem with GW2 is not lack of talent on behalf of the devs, it is blindness to producing a game that can be played without a myriad of horrid bugs (and I'm not talking about karka) yet pumping out more and more "new" content that, while it is nice to have new story, doesn't really matter to the game. The lore is gone, the attention to detail of the original GW2 story is gone, there is NO meaningful "personal story" because the devs are too busy catering to the hyper-ooh shiny crowds who demand moremoremmore rather than high quality.
Horrid bugs? What is this "myriad of horrid bugs" of which you speak?
The Living Story actually does matter to the game. It's adding revamped and new bosses, new areas, changing existing areas, adding more permanent content as well as temporary content, etc. You sound like you don't actually play and troll from a checklist.
to think i praised this game a year ago...
well, Bethesda should be thanking Anet, as they have me back playing Skyrim, awaiting ESO..
until an official announcement of a proper content in GW2.
"They essentially want to say 'Correlation proves Causation' when it's just not true." - Sovrath
JungleWurm will be ignored and avoided after a week because of Overflow.
Does ArenaNet actually play Guild Wars 2? They're so oblivious to the actual realities of the game. We'll see how this goes.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's a fairly ridiculous assumption... Tequatl is killed in overflows as it is right now. I think ANet isn't the oblivious party here.
A sure sign that you are in an old, dying paradigm/mindset, is when you are scared of new ideas and new technology. Don't feel bad. The world is moving on without you, and you are welcome to yell "Get Off My Lawn!" all you want while it happens. You cannot, however, stop an idea whose time has come.
You can't go back to the beginning, no, much of that content has come and gone (like a TV series for example). Some elements remain behind, but in it's entirety, no. However, you can jump in now and ride the story from this point on... this one is supposed to begin giving insight into what makes Scarlett click.
They did put together a recap of the Story to date, however...
"Throughout 2013, ArenaNet's used its Living World content to test the limits of narrative possibility."
Well, if that have been the limits of ArenaNets narrative possibility...
"to log into Guild Wars 2 and experience something that maybe you're not gonna see in another MMO anytime in the future,"
is not necessarily a good thing...
“By the time the story comes to a close, I think that we will have done something with the live storyline that very few games have ever tried to do,” Johason says. “ I think people are going to be extremely excited, not only about the storyline that we have going in our world, but where it's headed as a result of that storyline.”
When he is stil thinking this way after all the months of feedback to this game, he should seriouly stop smoking that stuff and try something else.
"But if we're smart enough to listen to people's feedback, at the end of the day we'll always be able to succeed.”
Well, here he does say the right words. It's a pity he does not even believe/understand himself anymore.
Ah, got you. You are Colin, right?
Which overflow? How does one join those overflows? When one is coordinating a large group of those "skilled" enough to take down Tequatl which overflow should one direct people to? Please advise.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Two I know of for sure are Blackgate and Jade Quarry. There's a guild, TSS I think it's called, that organizes the people in the overflows (and main maps), shares teamspeak information, etc. and does a fantastic job getting the fights done. I had a blast running with them.
Would you expect anything different?
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