The wait is nearly over and and, after nine months of waiting, Living World: Season Three is a go.
“Episode 1: Out of the Shadows” will be published July 26th, 2016.
What you need to know:
ArenaNet is aiming for Quality over Quantity
“Some of you may look back nostalgically at 2013 when we shipped updates
every two weeks.” ArenaNet President Mike O’Brien wrote on the official forums. “It was nice that there was
always something new, but I’m personally not wistful of that cadence,
because we sacrificed so much to be able to ship that frequently. With
Season 3 our goal is to deliver content sustainably, at quality,
establishing a pattern we don’t have to take breaks from.”
Expectnew Living World episodes every two to three months
Quarterly Feature updates are being baked into Living World updates
“You’ve seen that we’ve been following a pattern of releasing a bundled
update each quarter,” O’Brien wrote, “this is a content-focused continuation of that kind
of thing. Of course, we’ll give this release a name, not “July
Quarterly Update”. And we may be able to increase the pace, ramping from
four bundled releases per year towards six, so we’ll move away from
calling these “quarterly”.
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