i stopped a long time ago and tried to go back recently, but i just couldn't. i think the Living Story/World content is a bad way to bring people back in, because if you're not there right when it's happening then you pretty much miss it. for example, i stopped playing over a year ago, so i missed the stuff about Lion's Arch being destroyed. i got to see the ruins, but i'll never ever be able to experience what actually happened.

it's great for the people who keep playing the game, but it doesn't give anybody a reason to come back if they've missed a lot of content. with something like World of Warcraft, yeah, you have pay for the expansions, but they're there for as long as the game lives on, you can always create a new character and relive them as many times as you want.

when i came back to GW2, it was pretty much the same as i had left it, except Lion's Arch was gone. that gave me no incentive to keep playing. i didn't want the exact same game that i left, i wanted a game that had new content to return to.

OnlyMMO I have had the patience to put more than 10 hours in.

very much so... "blank" is still a thing" is also still a thing as you can can surmise.

Very much so ;)

Correct, and yes. Imo, they've done very well for themselves, and I'm very impressed with what they have achived with GW2 since the game launched.