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Having a hard time getting into these recent living story's. Just by the time it starts to draw me in the episode ends. I really want to like these episodes as I love reading norse mythology related subjects. But just can not for the life of me get into it due to their shortness.

What do you mean they never said there would be no grind? In Anet own MMO Manifesto video Colin Johanson says at 1:35 "We just don't want players to grind in Guild Wars 2". It was in their public declaration before the game even came out.

Worried marketing department decided to renamed season to saga. So they could announce & try to sell season passes in the future like a few other MMOs are trying to do after seeing fortnite success. Which I loathe.

Few days ago I saw an announcement for something coming. Thought to my self cool. Being someone that casually keeps up with GW2s casual content releases. Well day came for the announcement watched the trailer. Was really excited with the white walker theme it had! Well next day learned of the live event they had for it. So watched it. The realization of its going to be the same casual content release they have been doing for years sank in. I mean Sure I'll play living story content, but the cosmetic shop & loot box associated theme is something I won't / refuse to partake in. It is not game content. That being said, my hopes for new content on this announcement is greatly diminished given past living story experiences. Meaning I'll play for a couple days then promptly stop. Because Ive played the story, explored the map now nothing else to do other then buy rest of the associated cosmetic in shop. Which is why cashshop cosmetics are not considered content to me. Just sitting with fancy stuff with nothing to do. So how satisfied was I? Well semi excited for 2 days of playing the white walker theme. But the cringe I have now days watching dev's trying to act like rockstars on stage with little content updates is becoming all to common. Thinking out loud.Fractals were never my thing, they were just random repeatable mini dungeons to me. Used to LOVE playing WvW., but gliders & warclaws ruined that. Never been into PVP in MMOs, cause it just makes the game a MO to me. With the little content aimed at me not sure if I can say I play casually anymore. I miss the days of playing games & earning ingame related rewards.

Isn't it considered "gambling promotion" or something like that? Like a casino giving a bunch of free tokens? (Although I'm not sure what that would be taken as.) Pretty much a gambling event. Friend & me logged in to do it. She got a griffon mount & I received a sword skin. Not 5 minutes after we got them we both were like "Meh RNG". Then logged out to play another game, due to the lack of excitement over the rng gambling.

I have more concerns as to why you cant drown without a water breather then a logout & in mechanic.

It should be reduced. Trying to revive older maps with player isn't the best way to approach the problem by recycling old content to introduce new content. Its not as healthy to the game as it seems. I say this because players are only there doing events that only benefit them for the most part. For example people dropping & leaving events as soon as their hearts are done so they can get their currency to move on. Leaving other to finish alone. Its really only a temporary fix. Eventually majority of players over time will get the achievement done leaving the maps stagnate once again. The amount of currency is just offsetting the inevitable. A more permanent fix would be to increase the continuity of profitability of lower populated maps that matches say Silverwaste. By increased profitability of hearts & events.

Grinding would be repeating the same task over and over again, aka gold farming. -That- is pure grinding.And the funny part... it is what some people here want. Unique collections is not grinding. It's offering a journey towards a goal. It was what... 4 years ago? That we got our first "true" collection that was Mawdrey.Mawdrey is arguably less "appealing" than this mount, and yet... It had a high cost at the time, it had timegate (had to wait episodes for progress) and yet... you had so many people do it, be happy of doing it, and so much less complains about unique ways to progress in the game that doesn't revolve around story, dungeons or fractals. 2018... what the heck has this community become? Since PoF every single effort in game is met with an insane backslash. Literally no matter what they try. If you can't get it "easily" "quickly", you'll have a thread about it.To all the people earlier who kept saying "the only problem is the timegate", you got your answer: It's not. You got satisfaction for one thing, now look at people trying to tackle the next.It started with Eater of Souls, with the chef adventure, all the way to where we are now. It's a MMO, for god's sake. A lot of its mechanics will have some form of repeated activities by design, it will have grind activities too, just like all the other MMOs. It is -impossible- to make content as fast as people consume it. IMPOSSIBLE. If you can't accept that, you shouldn't play a MMO. New content must rewards -ALL- sorts of activities, and not just what you like. There are MANY people who prefer "hard" content or pvp or whatnot and would hate what you like, and vice versa. Players' "valuable time" does not mean everything should be adapted to please them and only them, as it would now impact other people's pleasure.It also doesn't mean "let's give the choice" to everything, as it would completely ruin any sense of accomplishment. If someone has a chakk skin, it's because they've played through HoT content and did that specific activity, not because they grinded gold for it. The -only question- that should ever matter for any piece of content: Does this content have an audience. If the answer is yes, let them have it. It's not for you. If you want it anyway, meet the requirements. Many people here loved the "raising your own mini dragon" aspect of the collection which could not happen if everything could be over in a few clicks, just like GoT would never have been so good if all the first seasons had been rushed like that last one was :) Definition of grind also includes not only to repetitive task, but also includes unpleasant laborious tasks (or other unmentionable things). Even that said how is collecting 20x of this or 250x of that not repetitive? Saying "Unique collections is not grinding" is absurd when each of those "Unique collections" is exactly your own very definition of what grinding is.

My main issue isn't necessarily the time gates. But since the many other forum threads that are not apart of this one regarding the skyscale are being closed. I'll post it here. The issue is the long achievement grind. Anet MMO Manifesto video that is still on their Youtube page today states that they "don't want players to grind in Guildwars 2". The very definition of a Manifesto is a public declaration of policy and aims. After playing other MMO's before this it was one of the major selling points to me for this game. My prospective regarding the skyscale grind. While exciting at first. After a few days of grinding & waiting. Then learning what would become to even more days of grinding & waiting. Well its disheartening & leaves me disappointment in Anet for forgetting their promises to the players.

Just find someone who has all the S4 home nodes when they do their dailies, 3 times as fast as buying from the merchant and it does not inhale gold. I will try to remember to start putting up a LFG listing when I am about to make my dayend run. Sadly that's is not my idea of fun. Which is what games are supposed or should be about. Not farm 250x map currency X amount of times. Company clearly lost sight of their promise. Which has made me lose interest in playing for the time being.

I'm just done & over trying to get this mount. Not going to grind out 250 of each of those map currency. Especially since Anet once said & advertised its not ok to make players grind. Just gonna go spend my time elsewhere.

Wouldn't say its hard. Just do what Im doing. Just login do the daily skyscale stuff. Then go play something else. Cause that's what time gate / short living story content promotes you to do.

There is a reason there is a US Bill trying to be passed to prohibit lootboxs in games children play.

No they are not worth it to use them. Far better option to sell one legendary and gear up all alts in ascended gear. If their already geared just save for cosmetics.

Low value? The d912pxy addon alone that's basically wrapping dx9 to dx12 gives a 30 - 40% frame rate boost. That's not a low value. I call 30%+ frame improvement pretty dang significant bump up in value.

In the same boat. Returned recently. Took a long break cause did not like the way HoT was marketed to existing players. Returned recently. Got HoT with PoF on sale. Finished up the main story with those. Extremely disappointed associated living stories were not included with the purchase along with no character slots. With the 2 Level 80 Boosts stuck in my shared inventory slot . Cant help but feel there are gaps in the story line now. Defiantly not worth grinding 70g ingame to acquire each missing episodes. Which leaves me to my other issue. My endgame enjoyment. Used to love doing WvW. But to my dismay everyone is running around on mounts trolling around with a free extra 10k health. Basically everyone is running around like a mobile necro's. Tried it for a bit tho was disappointed about it. But stuck it out a bit to get my mount thinking it will improve when I had a mount too. Gave it a good go with the mount. Nope, game play did not improve. (well it improved the large scale zerg's) Disappointed, I left WvW. Enjoyed the open world pvp feel it used to offer over pvp. Now I don't know what to do. Which leaves me to my first issue. My idea of end game meta is not zerging around the same Silverwaste map doing events to earn gold (because all the other gold earning map zerg's were nerfed) to just acquire short living story episodes. Nor is doing dungen's or raid's. There fine every once in a while, but in the end there boring to run end on end. Legendary grind isn't worth it to me when I can make multiple ascended stat items much much cheaper. So what is there for me to do?

People complaining about privacy. Just make a dummy email account, and erase it afterwards. The rewards are code base that you plug into the redeem codes section. Does not have to be tied to your account.

Had lots of issues getting the code with for the outfit. Kept having to refresh pages ect. due to errors on server end. Then I tried to redeem the Mini Eggs. It just said I wasn't permitted. Refreshed the page thinking it was another error. Now the page with the Mini Egg link will no longer popup. I'm in the US.