Guild Wars 2

I’m asking for a simple request. A lot of content has entered and left this game. Think of the Super Adventure Box, or the Queen’s Gauntlet.

I’m asking for a simple solution to give us content whilst you work on the expansion: recycle that older content.

I bet my whole 9 gold coins that you have this data still stored somewhere. So why not allow ONE developer to bring this back into the game through some kind of temporary unstable portal or what ever could make it fit in the current story line.

The reason is because me, and a lot of my friends, have stopped playing because of lack of content. The hunt for a beta portal was very fun, as a lot of people were doing SilverWastes. Now, the boredom retook its role back.

Please, ANet, give us something to kill the bore in the current game.

Content they could easily recycle: (please post below incase I forgot something, also no holiday events)
- Queen’s Jubilee
- Super Adventure Box
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yea man, just friking enable that SAB for gods sake…

It might not be as easy as it seems.

Along those se lines, Ive just returned to playing after a long break. And i did see some of the content in the store for sale in the form of a pass or something. What is that? Is it a 1 time thing or can you do stuff over and over? Is it worth it?

Wryscher.1432:

Along those se lines, Ive just returned to playing after a long break. And i did see some of the content in the store for sale in the form of a pass or something. What is that? Is it a 1 time thing or can you do stuff over and over? Is it worth it?

You buy it once and it’s yours forever to repeat as often as you’d like.

Ayrilana.1396:

Wryscher.1432:

Along those se lines, Ive just returned to playing after a long break. And i did see some of the content in the store for sale in the form of a pass or something. What is that? Is it a 1 time thing or can you do stuff over and over? Is it worth it?

You buy it once and it’s yours forever to repeat as often as you’d like.

Thank you.

YES PLEASE! There are 5000 achievement points in that Historical content that I would love to have access to. 10 a day for daily is inconsequential for an AP hunter, I can’t make any real progress there.

At the moment there is no way for me to get out of the 90th percentile, unless I can get access to content that the top 1000 Achievers completed.

Oh, and more giants, and a non bugged giant spawning event would be nice too.

signed, i would also like to replay old content

lordkrall.7241:

It might not be as easy as it seems.

Agreed- can’t remember who it was (perhaps you?) but in another thread somebody mentioned that older content might not work anymore because the engine has been updated and changed so many times since LS1/SAB.

Although I’d love to see this content make a comeback, it would certainly take more work than a lot of players think. Many people think that A-net can press a single button and SAB will be back in game.

Crimson Clouds.4853:

lordkrall.7241:

It might not be as easy as it seems.

Agreed- can’t remember who it was (perhaps you?) but in another thread somebody mentioned that older content might not work anymore because the engine has been updated and changed so many times since LS1/SAB.

Although I’d love to see this content make a comeback, it would certainly take more work than a lot of players think. Many people think that A-net can press a single button and SAB will be back in game.

It was indeed Lordkrall and he is very right. I would still gladly pay to have access to SAB whenever i wanted to, but thats unlikely to happen. I would however love to see it return.

To the person who asked for season 1, they cannot bring season 1 back at the moment as it was not designed to be done more than once. They do plan on such a thing however if they can put aside time for it.

Queens Gauntled would be nice so I can farm myself a Lyssa backpiece recipe.

The abundance of temporary content in this game is shocking. SAB, queens gauntlet, marionette fight from scarlet, the original karka queen event, the zephyr sanctum, frost/flame monocle reward item…. etc. Holiday events are the only events in any game that should be temporary.

Guild Wars 1 had a simple workaround for new/old content which was just a message on screen showing you were playing missions in the past and were experiencing what other heroes already did. The content was always there to do, you always had something to do in GW1 and they need to revisit doing that. Temporary content is absolutely ridiculous to have, designers and developers go to great lengths to create these things only to have it be temporary, or worse, one-shot content. The game already has a lack of content with no dungeons in 3 years, let us hope for HoT.

As I’ve stated before…. in another thread…. I don’t like to see people begging Anet to recycle content.

We need to have more permanent content….

…and we need to have more new content….

…but we certainly don’t want Anet to recycle content and repackage it as new…

It just takes away from what we could be getting in the new content department.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Moa_Racing
Bring back moa racing! I know LA was destroyed, but there are more moas in the world..

As some have stated it might be an issue bringing back old content. Instead update old content make it a different style. Moa racing as example the lion arch was destroyed but there are many moas. Cant we have it at divinity reach or something. Sabs might be an issue of compatibility as its been a year it was a different instance so I probably has old codes that doesn’t recognize the many updates that has come since it close.

I really liked Scarlet and the aetherblade invasions. Or even just the mechanic of it, so much could be done with that for regular content. Yes… give us incursions hehe

Reanne.5462:

YES PLEASE! There are 5000 achievement points in that Historical content that I would love to have access to. 10 a day for daily is inconsequential for an AP hunter, I can’t make any real progress there.

At the moment there is no way for me to get out of the 90th percentile, unless I can get access to content that the top 1000 Achievers completed.

Oh, and more giants, and a non bugged giant spawning event would be nice too.

Seriously this. I still have a 99/100 zephyrite achievement that will never go away on my achievement panel.

One solution could be instancing them. The Lion’s Arch storylines would have to be done via fractals or something.

For those interested: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Release
Just look at all of Season 1 content.

I will say this. I would buy the parts I’m missing of Season 2 LS if I could actually play through LS S1.

Ralanost.8913:

I will say this. I would buy the parts I’m missing of Season 2 LS if I could actually play through LS S1.

They should do a re-run of the first season (maybe both?) leading right up to the expansion release. Man, that’d be sweet.

Do a recolor of all the related limited edition gear/wardrobe/pets/ect. for a second sell-through in the tp and a second run-through of events/dungeons. They’d get business from both players that missed the events and completionists that would want both versions, and they’d be able to preserve the “rarity” of the original versions at the same time. A win all around.

Bah SAB and Queens Gauntlet? People are so unimaginative. What about Tower of Nightmare? Marionette? How about areas that were never completed? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=600HUe2S_50). How about an overhaul of Southsun? There’s so much content beyond SAB.

The point of this thread is to ask ArenaNet to give us content whilst we wait for Heart of Thorns.

The content they already created would be a lot more easier to implement instead of, saying, create a whole new patch from scratch…

Something like the Queen’s Gauntlet could easily return. I found it quite a lot of fun and the rewards were pretty good too. So why not give it to us?

But we do not know how much work would be needed to add this old content back in. For all we know it could end up requiring MORE work than doing something completely new, due to issues finding and fixing bugs that have turned up due to changes to the engine and so on since they were last active.

yea man, just friking enable that SAB for gods sake…!

Derigar.7810:

The point of this thread is to ask ArenaNet to give us content whilst we wait for Heart of Thorns.

The content they already created would be a lot more easier to implement instead of, saying, create a whole new patch from scratch…

Something like the Queen’s Gauntlet could easily return. I found it quite a lot of fun and the rewards were pretty good too. So why not give it to us?

This is neither a new request or one that ANet doesn’t already know about. Given that nothing new is being said in regards to SAB or even queens gauntlet I can ask myself why was this posted if it adds nothing new to the conversation not even an interesting or a mildly creative twist. Otherwise you could just have posted in here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Super-Adventure-Box-merged-1

They keep these events scarce for a reason. If they had a perma SAB most would get bored and never use it, so releasing it every once in awhile keeps the hype alive. The simple fact you made this post and people asking for SAB is proof of that. It saves them from having to continually create events.

It’s idiotic to keep them scarce. They put so much time and effort into it, so it can never see the light of day again?

That’s just wasteful developing.

It really is not as hard as it seems, they’ve recycled Wintersday and Halloween with out much issues. A couple minor glitches from someone forgetting to remove an NPC that was part of an obsolete quest.

There may be some Lore issues as to why some of the content can’t be recycled (Zephyrs ) However, a lot of the fun aspects can and probably should be re-used while we wait for HoT.

Wolfey.3407:

It really is not as hard as it seems, they’ve recycled Wintersday and Halloween with out much issues. A couple minor glitches from someone forgetting to remove an NPC that was part of an obsolete quest.

There may be some Lore issues as to why some of the content can’t be recycled (Zephyrs ) However, a lot of the fun aspects can and probably should be re-used while we wait for HoT.

To be honest, i was hoping they would bring that quest back all the way xD I have all the items for the upgraded backpack still…but i got booted while i was running to the final person. Agree with the rest though

lordkrall.7241:

But we do not know how much work would be needed to add this old content back in. For all we know it could end up requiring MORE work than doing something completely new, due to issues finding and fixing bugs that have turned up due to changes to the engine and so on since they were last active.

I have a general idea, but it’s more a matter of resources, where as much of their current resources (funds and manpower) are aimed towards the HoT release. But the existing game state is not entirely in maintenance mode, such as with the example of the beta key events currently active. So they still have an active development team working on the existing live builds, but the question is where have they been allocated to since completing the development cycle of the current pre-beta event going on.

No, it would require more work for something completely new. In that case, you would need additional departments working on such a project rather than mostly just coders. Coders don’t make art, animations, sound engineering etc, which is what you need with “new” content in addition to the coders. And then you don’t throw just everyone onto a single project, that becomes inefficient, like having too many cooks in the kitchen, it’s all departmentalized with many specific roles and tasks. But even with coding, researching (R&D) something “new” is usually specialized, and likely committed to HoT, currently. While reimplementation and bug crushing is a job for a different department, a department likely still working on the live game build.