The amount of threads on the forums and reddit related to expansion talk is absolutely out of control. It echoes the amount of blabber there was about this during the middle of 2013. A lot of people want an expansion because its what they are used to in MMO’s. I think wanting gw2 to be a boxed expansion game just like every other MMO would be pushing it into another cookiecutter MMO. I also think that if Anet saved all content they had now and kept working for the next 6 months to release an expansion in 9, that gw2 would plateau dramatically within the waiting period for this expansion. Players can’t have both frequent 2 week or 1 month updates and an expansion. Unless you want to wait another 18 months for an expansion since they would have to devote less people to this big project which would take them more time.
I don’t exactly know what anets playing for LS 2 are, and I expect the Living World to play out differently after listening to an interview with Colin. I think going back to 1 month updates may be a good idea. I do know though that feature updates will be completely separate from content updates after listening to Colins interview in January. This could mean that the updates we get are more chunky. I think the problem with 2 week updates is that you can only produce so much content for 1 months when you have a team of devs working for 4 months on it. 2 week updates make the updates feel to sparse, however they are frequent. Expansions are generally a bad idea because of how long you have to wait. I can’t imagine waiting nearly a year to get an expansion and then wait for 4 months inbetween more periodic updates.
I think the only reason certain people want expansions is because they are alienated by the experience of LS season 1 or they just have been shouting expansion since launch. LS season 1 could have gone immensely better if Anet just decided to put in more permanent content. If one of the four dev teams that worked in the living story content cycle was able to produce a new dungeon path, I dont see why the others can’t.
