[Metal Legion event slays]

@"JackassTheX.6351" said:

The music is silly, but the good, Venom kind of silly. I'm hoping it's released in some form or other soon :+1:

Ha! I was also thinking about Venom while participating in the event. Especially the "ballad" reminded me somehow of Venom's Countess Bathory.

[What Guild Wars 2 can learn from the death of Wildstar]

So MMORPGs shouldn't concentrate only on one part of potential customer groups? What a life changing revelation. In favor of Carbine, risk is part of entrepreneurship. It's always easy to criticise and know better afterwards. They surely knew that they were developing for a specific niche audience. You are not the only one with a brain.

The living story in GW2 is something similar. In my opinion Anet saw an opportunity in it but unfortunately changed the course multiple times over the years and lost player due to it. Might not be the most relevant group to them but still.

[How do you all feel about Strike Missions?]

Since my "hardcore" days are over in MMOs, i like to play a more casual gaming style. i was quite happy to see the fractal changes after i came back in january this year. Through the changes i can just hop in for 1-2 fractals and leave. Raids look very interesting but i don't want to invest so much time into raiding. So i hope strike missions will be a good substitute on a less time consuming level.

[The Skyscale Saddle]

Hopefully the PoF improvements will arrive soon. Looks like Anet tries to get more players into PoF maps again.

[Is there another Expansion in the works?]

@Obtena.7952 said:

@"Vlad Morbius.1759" said:"Mike Zadorojny.7058 ArenaNet ›

January 8, 2019We talked about wanting to release expansion level stories and features over the next couple years. Our goal is to create powerful moments like the final instance of this episode that are a culmination of multiple departments and raise the bar for what it means to be a Guild Wars 2 experience."

The more i read this quote the more i'm beginning to think that once again LS is being staged to replace expansions which failed miserably in the past. I'm hoping i'm wrong on this because i distinctly remember reading there were multiple teams, some working on LS and some working on expansions, unfortunately i can't find that quote. Anyway without telling us the who, what, where , when and why can you (Anet) at least confirm there is another expansion being developed?

It's hard to agree with that ... did anyone here think the latest LS epsiode didn't create the powerful moments that he is referring to? I think it did. I think it's easy to lose sight of what really is delivered with an expansion; I could care less about how many ways I can kill Champions to earn HP's or grinding meta's ... fundamentally, the expansions are more about good storys and gameplay than mechanics.

In my opinion it depends on the player. For example I think the whole LS didn't create a powerful but stereotyped/zeitgeisty moment. I am more into the mmo part of this game which means at some point the grinding you are speaking of. But i get it if people like the LS; just a different type of taste.