YES! Please make SAB permanent, or at the very least bring it back much more often. You don’t have to make a big deal of it, and although I would appreciate new levels they are not mandatory every single time it returns. Why can’t you just let us play the darn thing!?
The old worlds would get tiersome fast because we can play them 24/7.
1) Baloney. Who are you to tell me what I would find tiresome? SAB is one of my favourite parts of GW2, and I never even got to play World 2 when it came out last time. I never even had the chance to get tired of it.
You know what is really tiresome? Content that I have to grind incessantly within a limited time period because I know it will expire and be taken away for another year afterwards. I would enjoy it a lot more if I could just play it once in a while, at my own pace.
2) I have to ask this every time, because I have never seen a real answer: SO WHAT!? So what, if SAB becomes permanent, and as a result overall interest in it declines over time? Is that a problem? There are plenty of zones and mini-games in GW2 which still exist, and aren’t the most popular things ever. We don’t need to be tricked into thinking anything is more “special” because it keeps being held for ransom.
It would be more like Nintendo launching Super Smash Bros game, and one character will appear for a month and then disappear for a month and then appear again.
You seem to have failed to notice in your analogy, that you have described a completely ridiculous practice that Nintendo has never done, and for good reason. So, I guess I am glad you recognize the silliness of this idea? Pretty sure removing Princess Peach for several months at a time would not make that character “more special.” Nor does keeping character permanently in the game make them “tiresome.”
Also, SAB has been gone a lot longer than a month.
Same with Guild Wars 2, we got Halloween, Winter’s Day, Dragon Bash, Super Adventure Box as events that keeps popping up and then disappears.
1) Oh, great! Then, since Super Adventure Box was originally brought out as an April Fool’s Day activity, then we should have gotten it back on April 1st? Except… we didnt.
2) SAB has nothing to do with any real-world holidays. It could easily have been brought out any time of the year, it wouldn’t matter. And you say “keeps popping up,” as if it returns on a regular basis. It hasn’t. It debuted in April 2013, then came back Sept. 2013. Hasn’t been back since.
To give people something to look forward to and give it replay value.
We should be looking forward to new content, not looking forward to old content being unlocked again for a limited time.
People would replay the old worlds because this is the only time they can do it
And you think that is a good reason to play something, do you? Not because it is fun, or because you feel like it, or because it is a good time for you — but because ArenaNet decided “now is the only time we will let you play this area.”
This makes the content take longer to complete and will keep people busy for a longer time
1) I don’t see how that makes the content longer to complete… it will take the same amount of time, it’s just that players are forced to burn through it all in one hurried burst. And rather than take their time and seek out all the secrets and achievements themselves, they will have to resort to looking up guides in case they can’t get it all done before SAB goes away again. So, players will be completing the content much faster than they normally would be. Especially if they want to collect enough baubles to get the exclusive rewards in time.
2) If SAB is temporary, then anyone who is interested in it basically has to play that primarily, while it is out. They will be playing the rest of the “real” game far less, which means the rest of you grumps who don’t like SAB are going to have a harder time getting people out to your precious Orr temple events, world bosses, LFG dungeons, etc. This is demonstrably bad for the game!
people later on complaining about ’’there’s nothing to do I have already completed everything.’’
People are saying that about the entire game! People are complaining about temporary content, and fun activities being taken away without reason! People are complaining that they want to play SAB, and being told completely ludicrous statements like “No, it should be removed from the game because I personally don’t like it,” or “Not being able to play it makes it fun.”
Hopefully Josh took on the feedback we gave for World 2 though.