Guild Wars 2

As per patch notes regarding Flame and Frost instance:
“This content is available from April 30 to May 12.”

That’s not even 2 weeks. Do you mean April 30 to June 12 by any chance?

I was wondering this too. Why put all the effort in to create a dungeon that’s only there 12 days. Surely it’s a mistake…?

Yeah, me and my guild members are also dumbfounded by it. We knew it would be temporary (expected it to last a month or so) but 12 days is completely insane, I really do hope they’ve made an error on this one.

There likely will be final of the Final part of the Living Story after 12th with some event.

Yeah I have to agree this is a bit lame on ANet’s part. Unless the next patch is coming in the 3rd week of May, the new dungeon should be active until then IMO.

Preacher.9018:

There likely will be final of the Final part of the Living Story after 12th with some event.

Well according to the help/directions post by Regina, from noon pacific the 12th to may 16th (can’t remember end time) is the final part where you can get the rallying flame achievement. So does that mean the next patch is gonna be around the 16th?

In my honest opinion, the new dungeon will be removed on 12th May but it will become the new Fractal

The amount of time this is available seems really off to me as well.

I mean, we got a full month for earlier parts that consisted of much less to do. We got a full month to do stuff like “Fix a few signs” or “Do a couple short instances” (not even counting the fact that those pieces of content are still around, so even longer).

And yet the big, fancy dungeon that people are going to need a chunk of time to complete and probably want to run multiple times, gets only 2 weeks of exposure before it disappears?

Shouldn’t major content like a dungeon get at least the same amount of time as the previous parts got? Personally, this dungeon is the only F&F content that feels like it needs a month at all (the rest feels like it could have had 2 weeks tops and been fine), though I realize its more about how much content Anet can put out in a period of time and the fact that not everyone can play all the time. So I’m fine with the other stuff getting a month even though I don’t personally need it. This dungeon, though, feels like it needs a month and yet its the only content thats only going to get half that before it up and disappears.

I was wondering about this as well. I wonder if on may 16th, they will be introducing something new. Or maybe it is like Tyria is having a moment of calm.

I will be puzzled if the dungeon will disappeared without any traces after the 12th of may. I hope it will stay in some way… Like a fractal, as it was mentioned, but I expected it to stay like a regular dungeon with added explorable path and a new set of armor skins… It is very interesting to have one time only events, however in the long run, if everything new in the living story disappears we will have an end game made of very old dungeons, and the newcomers dont have any way to know what happened to tyria between the beginning of the game and the day we are now.

This is a very nicely done dungeon and it would be a shame for it to go away. But if it does, think about it… it’ll be something you remember in the future fondly as opposed to a dungeon that was fun for awhile but eventually went stagnant as people stopped running it over time. People still talk about the Mad King fight and the clock tower… if they were still in the game they’d be old, stagnant content by now.

I’d love to see it stay a bit longer, but can also see why it may not stay forever.

VOLKON.1290:

This is a very nicely done dungeon and it would be a shame for it to go away. But if it does, think about it… it’ll be something you remember in the future fondly as opposed to a dungeon that was fun for awhile but eventually went stagnant as people stopped running it over time. People still talk about the Mad King fight and the clock tower… if they were still in the game they’d be old, stagnant content by now.

I’d love to see it stay a bit longer, but can also see why it may not stay forever.

Except that we pretty much know its guaranteed that the Halloween stuff will be back. Also, it’s holiday content, which no game keeps around all year long.
This (MA TF dungeon) isn’t holiday stuff, and they could give it legitimate lore reason(s) why it (the dungeon only) stays permanently. I just don’t get why they give us such a short time period to try to get two exclusive items (in addition to the sentinel prefix/Azurite). Its like they want me to stop playing.

skullmount.1758:

VOLKON.1290:

This is a very nicely done dungeon and it would be a shame for it to go away. But if it does, think about it… it’ll be something you remember in the future fondly as opposed to a dungeon that was fun for awhile but eventually went stagnant as people stopped running it over time. People still talk about the Mad King fight and the clock tower… if they were still in the game they’d be old, stagnant content by now.

I’d love to see it stay a bit longer, but can also see why it may not stay forever.

Except that we pretty much know its guaranteed that the Halloween stuff will be back. Also, it’s holiday content, which no game keeps around all year long.
This (MA TF dungeon) isn’t holiday stuff, and they could give it legitimate lore reason(s) why it (the dungeon only) stays permanently. I just don’t get why they give us such a short time period to try to get two exclusive items (in addition to the sentinel prefix/Azurite). Its like they want me to stop playing.

To be honest, we don’t know what next Halloween will look like. The Mad King bursting through the fountain… been there, done that… I’d be surprised if they recycled that again. I believe they’ve hinted that each holiday likely won’t be identical to the prior one, either with new stuff or more added on. Time will tell.

I don’t see how them tossing new content, even temporary content, out on a continual basis for absolutely no added cost to you is somehow indicative of them wanting you to stop playing…

VOLKON.1290:

skullmount.1758:

VOLKON.1290:

This is a very nicely done dungeon and it would be a shame for it to go away. But if it does, think about it… it’ll be something you remember in the future fondly as opposed to a dungeon that was fun for awhile but eventually went stagnant as people stopped running it over time. People still talk about the Mad King fight and the clock tower… if they were still in the game they’d be old, stagnant content by now.

I’d love to see it stay a bit longer, but can also see why it may not stay forever.

Except that we pretty much know its guaranteed that the Halloween stuff will be back. Also, it’s holiday content, which no game keeps around all year long.
This (MA TF dungeon) isn’t holiday stuff, and they could give it legitimate lore reason(s) why it (the dungeon only) stays permanently. I just don’t get why they give us such a short time period to try to get two exclusive items (in addition to the sentinel prefix/Azurite). Its like they want me to stop playing.

To be honest, we don’t know what next Halloween will look like. The Mad King bursting through the fountain… been there, done that… I’d be surprised if they recycled that again. I believe they’ve hinted that each holiday likely won’t be identical to the prior one, either with new stuff or more added on. Time will tell.

I don’t see how them tossing new content, even temporary content, out on a continual basis for absolutely no added cost to you is somehow indicative of them wanting you to stop playing…

Well after they remove the temp stuff, it goes back to being the starting game again (with some minor permanent content – Guild Missions and Wxp), which has gotten kinda boring now. They keep adding this good stuff (MA TF and SAB), and then removing it. I know that SAB will be back eventually, but one of the best dungeons they’ve done yet is supposed to be removed, which is an incredible shame.