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No thats how you feel please don't try and act like you speak for the whole community.

I highly doubt that after doing a new map every release since season 2 or parts of maps every release. They clearly wanted to focus on the new aspects of the Icebrood Saga such as the response missions and the faction system. Lets wait for the trailer for chapter 1.

It doesn't say that your just putting words into the blog post clearly they wanted to talk about the new things in the chapter that haven't been in GW2 before like the response missions and the faction system how about waiting for the chapter 1 trailer. Also strikes would fall under replayable gameplay content so its like bundled with that.

The confer with Bangar achievement is that meant to be a daily achievement or weekly? Also if its weekly what was the reasoning behind adding it like this instead of daily?

Why they literally said in the road map blog from last week that the next update after Visions will be SAB not Visions will come with SAB?

I agree but I'd go further the whole of season 4 and I'm including episode 3 in that for the story that is. Just the things they did. Moving from one instance straight into another, two brilliant villians in my personal opinion Kralkatorrik was 10X better than Zhaitan and Mordremoth. Destroying the mists or damaging them really badly (side note Anet you need to address this). The first fight with Kralk but also the flying section in episode 6 just flying through the god realms on Aurenes back chasing the dragon. If I'm honest I expected when the second half of season 4 moved onto Kralk we'd lead up to an expansion dealing with him but to fight him in Living World would have been something unheard of even in season 3.

Just the concept of the living world. Just the idea of continuing the story outside of the expansions. To be honest I preferred the bi weekly releases because it really did feel like a TV show. No other game I have played has done this thing before. So basically story is my favourite thing in game.

Okay someone has to ask the WvW update i.e. alliances etc any news on that.

Given ep2 launches right at the end of Jan, I'd expect ep3 to hit somewhere after SAB in April anyway. Which about 2.5 months between releases If memory serves, they said Drakkar wont release with the episode, but shortly after. So that would prob be Feb if correct No it is coming with episode 2 they said it in the announcement from PAX.

It is usually 2 weeks before release so i expect an announcement anytime today/tomorrow. Yeah, would not get too excited for anything more than a normal living world episode release since we just got a balance patch and a QoL patch. No they release trailers a week before except for bound by bloods trailer

Because this is such a big feature is it possible we could get a chance to test these before they release?

How did you choose which characters were in this release and which weren't. By this I mean why was Kas and Jory who its nice to see back in the episode celebrating Kralks death but Canach or Caithe who were there through everything with Kralk weren't.

My guess is what they are trying to do is show little bits of various things and then tie it up with the full trailer on release day. Not only is that not a sensible way to do things imo, it also eliminates the week of speculation and theory crafting players used to enjoy leading up to release. exactly, they even stopped doing the stuff we used to get, there was always a trailer one or more week before the story release, and even this tradition was abandoned for no reason.... I feel so betrayed. because there is no story release on tuesday. The story release will be in November. So we get a trailer 2 month early. Next tuesday will be just another festival.There will be story in next weeks update shown by the cutscene of Rytlock talking to that other charr guy. Also festivals go away this map is staying in the game for good. Its a prologue to the Icebrood Sage.

Its a prologue to set the stage, its a normal episode only its called prologue. From what I've heard and seen it looks like a year long festival but thats just my opinion.

For season 5 onwards have the devs thought about adding a private test server type system using the PoF and HoT beta system to allow players the chance to test the content to avoid any possible update breaking bugs like the bug that released with Long Live the Lich?

I think you made a mistake you say 6 people but only listed 5. I'm sorry to nitpick but I'm confused if its 5 or 6 devs,

Will there be a dev celebration like with other releases.

Patch day is the 14th so maybe change that.

Mike Z would be an obvious person because he is now Game Director depending on the topic the leader of the development team. Also if possible MO just because he started the great initiative of developer AMAs.