Is living world worth the money?

[Burba]

Years ago I played this game and really did not like the story. Leveling in this game for me was unpleasant to say the least. I had some fun up to level 20 or 30 then forced my self to get to 50ish then quit. I just could not take it any more.

I came back to the game for a bit last year for the expansions. I remembered the horrible time I had leveling but I saw the expansions came with a level 80 boost so I was sold. I tried Heart of Thorns but I just got lost and bored. So I went to Path of Fire. I had quite a bit of fun in Path of Fire and the story was pretty ok.

So will I like the living world content? Is it worth $40? Is the best way to get it the $100 bundle? Does living world offer anything other than the story that might be worth it? Like maps, daily quests, dungeons or anything like that?

[Darkrayne]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Burba:

Like maps, daily quests, dungeons or anything like that?

Yes, quite a lot actually. Not dungeons but all the new strike missions, fractals and raids that were added to the game during living world updates are in the pool. Obviously they all include a lot of fully voiced story missions and most of them are way more mechanically rich than previous story missions. There's reasons to replay them too for the achievements and the rewards that come with them.

Living World Season 3 alone adds 6 new zones, all with daily activities.

Living World Season 4 + The Icebrood Saga is practically the size of an expansion.

It's all a ton of content and it's very high quality more often than not.

[SinisterSlay]

Season 2 sucks though

[leafs43]

I personally liked all of the living seasons. Even the Icebrood saga, which due to Covid, was the one season they didn't provide as much content. The maps that they did do were fantastic though

[Nico]

First, if you want to continue using your old account you can't buy the 100$ pack here on Steam since that only works for the new Account that's connected to your Steam account.

So far there are 4 seasons of the living world that you need to unlock via ... either being there when they unlocked or buying them with gems (or this special pack) Each season having like 5-8 story chapters with new story instances. Which can be considred as a lot of story, and also, if you ignore all the living story and just play the regular expansion stories ... you will miss out of a huge part of the story.

Gameplay wise each season also adds new maps. Season 2 is an exception since it only ads 2 maps and also the maps are always available and don't need the episodes unlocked. But every single chapter of season 3 and 4 gives access to a new map region and in general they're often quite fun to play, also with lots of achievements you can do if you like that.
Season 5 is another exception as every 2 chapters share on map region, so it only has a total of 3.

It obviously also depends how much you like the maps but in general you can spend quite some time on these maps and trying to find all secrets and unlocking all achievements. Also, there are some more meta like achievements, that require you to do special tasks in all maps of a season in order to unlock very special rewards, like some unique accessories or also one new mount.

So you surely can say that there is a lot of content packed inside most of the living world seasons (maybe except the a bit more boring season 2) And if you like the story or simply want more content to play I'd say the living world seasons are pretty much worth it. Though I obviously can understand that 100$ for everything is a very steep price, even though ArenNet probably thinks that it is very much worth it for having 3 expansions and 4 seasons in it. It at least is cheaper than when you buy everythign individually. But also, you can buy the living world seasons for gems, and you can convert gold, the normal ingame currency, into gems to buy them, so you theoretically cold save the money ..... but it really requires a lot of it, so .... idk how much worth it would be to try to farm the needed gold for it.

[Buzzerker]

Nothing in GW2 is worth the money. 'Worth' or 'Value' in this game are completely subjective concepts. Your question is an invitation for persuasion. You won't be 'farming gold' until you reach level 80 and have exotic gear, it won't be easy but it will be repetitive. When you see the "living world" seasons , you get 'access' to season 1 for free, everybody does, but some have a lock and your money is the key to open that lock. Per episode in some cases. Take notice of all of those tiny locks in the 'living world' in this free to play game. Those locks are there even when you buy the three expansions. If you had played the game for 10 years from day one you might have had access to it all at one time but Arenanet closes the door on some of it and locks it up behind a pay wall.

I actually leveled 6 characters to 80. You're right, it was a living hell. Playing the same boring story over and over and over again. The worst story and acting, the lamest cut scenes I have ever seen in any game. When I first played this game I thought it might be a Japanese MMORPG.

[Burba]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Buzzerker:

Nothing in GW2 is worth the money. 'Worth' or 'Value' in this game are completely subjective concepts. Your question is an invitation for persuasion. You won't be 'farming gold' until you reach level 80 and have exotic gear, it won't be easy but it will be repetitive. When you see the "living world" seasons , you get 'access' to season 1 for free, everybody does, but some have a lock and your money is the key to open that lock. Per episode in some cases. Take notice of all of those tiny locks in the 'living world' in this free to play game. Those locks are there even when you buy the three expansions. If you had played the game for 10 years from day one you might have had access to it all at one time but Arenanet closes the door on some of it and locks it up behind a pay wall.

I actually leveled 6 characters to 80. You're right, it was a living hell. Playing the same boring story over and over and over again. The worst story and acting, the lamest cut scenes I have ever seen in any game. When I first played this game I thought it might be a Japanese MMORPG.

You are right I should have been more specific about what I would consider worth it. I think I got 20ish hours of fun out of Path of Fire before. So taking that into consideration Would the $100 bundle get me 50 hours of fun? I know I would be starting over and paying for two of the expansions again and I am ok with that.

[Satyr]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Burba:

You are right I should have been more specific about what I would consider worth it. I think I got 20ish hours of fun out of Path of Fire before. So taking that into consideration Would the $100 bundle get me 50 hours of fun? I know I would be starting over and paying for two of the expansions again and I am ok with that.

All the content in the bundle includes potentially thousands of hours of fun. It entirely depends on your goals and how much time you plan to put into them.

Also keep in mind the guy posting above, that you replied to is trolling these forums to deter people from the game. He has nothing positive to say and gives a lot of false information. You don't have to spend money on the living world seasons, you can buy them with in-game gold through the conversion to gems process. Takes about 2-3 weeks of dailies (fractals etc.) to get enough gold to buy a full season. The expansions are the only thing you cant buy with gold.

[Turin]

Yes absolutely. Especially if you care for story. I would say all of Living World seasons have like two expansion worth of extra maps. And they have every features you would expect from an expansion besides new class specs.