Guild Wars 2

I really hope you guys at ANet already have plans to implement this.

I really do like the idea behind the temporary content in making it feel like the world is changing, but something feels seriously off about how a dungeon will only be open for 2 weeks. It makes so much sense to add the temporary dungeons that get removed into Fractals, perhaps modified if necessary. The more dungeons in Fractals the better and better fractals get. Wasting all the programming that has gone into those dungeons seems terribly inefficient, and it gives people a small taste of what it was like to be a part of some of the events.

It still maintains the specialness of being there when it actually happened because you lack the context given to the event, but still keeps the largest chunks of those content patches in the game in some capacity.

Here’s to hoping we see the
Mad King’s Realm
Tixx’s Infinirarium
Molten Facility
Canach’s Lair

among other new dungeons in fractals sooner than later. The more fractals the better. It seems like such an obvious thing to do, fractals is the perfect platform for these types of dungeons.

That said, probably tune the dungeons up a bit before re-releasing them, new bosses if necessary, making sure their difficulty and flow is in tune with other fractals.

Agreed. Given they tune them a bit to put the length/difficulty in line with other fractals to avoid them from being systematically skipped (especially MF) or chosen (canach’s lair).

Won’t happen. Temporary content sells Gems and games (since no monthly fee) which lets them buy more Gold Plated Yachts. I know it’s an opinion that will most likely be deleted, but it’s the truth.

That’s not true, the part of the temporary content that give them an income through gem selling are the temporary items (particularly the RNG ones) in the Gemstore.
It has nothing to do with the temporary content the OP was talking about which is mainly dungeons or instanced missions which have all been free so far.

Yeah and clearly a lot of work has gone into some of them, it’s wasteful to just leave those dungeons gone forever, and players miss out.

If Molten Facility would be added as a fractal then people would hate it more then the dredge one just because it’s too long.

Absolutely agree.

Cool idea for a reuse of previous well made dungeons. I think F&F molten factory would be an excellent candidate it.

No more temp content please

Phoenix.7845:

If Molten Facility would be added as a fractal then people would hate it more then the dredge one just because it’s too long.

They could condense it to make it short enough. Like that:
Short tunnel with no side rooms → Weapon Testing (but shorter) → one cold room → one corridor full of dredge, flame legion and prisoners → bosses.
Or maybe just they could fragment the dungeon in multiple fractals.
I don’t know, I am no fractal runner, I only went there a couple of times because my ranger needed a quiver. I just think that it is a shame that such a great dungeon was removed from the game.

Indeed. I just feel it seems like an efficient use of time.

Minos.3450:

Agreed. Given they tune them a bit to put the length/difficulty in line with other fractals to avoid them from being systematically skipped (especially MF) or chosen (canach’s lair).

This plus the original idea by the op. i think fractals as a concept was an excellent idea and adding in modified or reduced versions of otherwise obsolete/temp content would keep fractals fresh

Excellent idea ! i agree