Guild Wars 2

There was so much brilliant open world content in LW1 that could have ( and still could) with forward thinking been reused and God knows we need the content.

- why cant season 1 events rather than attempting to remake them into instanced small group content ( which im sure is a nightmare) be brought back as some sort of regular Festival type scenario where the whole event is ran again through dedicated shards as a ‘go back in time’ event – a little like the Caverns of Time in WoW

’Located in the eastern part of Tanaris, the Caverns of Time contain various portals to different key historical periods and events in Warcraft history. The caverns act as a crossroads for the various timelines, and through them one can travel back and forth along the ebb and flow of time. ’

A new one could be opened up every 3 months for a few weeks – just like a Festival allowing Newbies and Vets the chance to revisit the destruction of Lions arch , see Labyrinthine Cliffs , reattempt Marionette, actually redo Southsun without lag so bad you take 10 minutes to get to the cavern – new content dearth’s would be broken up, the lack of regular Festivals would no longer be an issue, there would still be high world participation of they only ran for a certain period once a year.

Because its so sad that one of GW2’s best USPs which was massive open world pve battles and events has been reduced to currency grinds for collections in Hot maps.

Frankly I don’t think season 2 has that much re playability because of all the small group instanced content – I think many people who don’t give a fig about Raids are just are not being provided for – hell even poor wvw players were known to get into the large open world LS in those sorts of events – EVERYONE did those events.

Festivals and large world content keep people coming back and its not like anything else is currently in content rotation is it?

Festival, caverns of time, what?

There is already a system for this in GW2. Its called Fractals Of The Mists.

Why Anet havent made LS1 events as Fractal instances is beyond me. Just like why they didnt just reskin Alpine border to a desert landscape with some extra detail, instead of making the kittenty new map.

The Bazaar of the Four Winds map would be the perfect place to put open world stuff from Season 1:

You grab the map, copy there a nightmare tower, add a tunnel entrance for another underground molten dungeon, and another entrance for another aetherblade retreat, replicate the marionette encounter where the Zephyr Sanctum used to be, add scarlet armies scattered through the map and a meta-event about taking it back form them. Boom, we get a way to fight scarlets armies again, ways to replay those instances, and maps, and we get to revisit the Bazaar.

And the story writes itself. The remants of Scarlet’s armies would have kept an unusual unstable alliance under the command of some mysterious figure that took over after Scarlet’s death, and rebuild their efforts after escaping with their ships towards an undefended Bazaar, making it their ‘pirate cove’. We don’t get to know who it is in the map, but we get to fight them again.

I, too, would like LS S1 back. Some of my most enjoyable times in GW2 were playing that content. They have so many reasons to bring it back too, in my opinion it should be a priority but we’ve all seen that ANet do not have their priorities straight.

OP i really like your idea, as long when we go back in time it’s not all in sepia colour lol.
Some other good ideas too, but if it was done as OP suggests, nothing really would have to be changed much and everyone could replay the content as it was, even fighting Scarlet on Breachmaker, with only having to add a way to go back in time. And technology is already there for that as well, as we do go back in time to the old Lion’s Arch in one of the Personal Story, they would just have to perhaps modify it to include the entire LWS1 into it.

How do you take map wide meta events designed to be played by hundreds of players,which is what season 1 was about,and turn them to 5 man fractals?
Besides that,part of the beauty of those events is that they are not replayable.
And instead of replaying the same past events again and again,wouldn’t you prefer to
play new ones?

Good idea! My best memories of this game are all LS1-related. The tower was cool, the LA arch (from evacuation to breachmaker) and marionette was the most fun I’ve ever had in a game

Fractals is not the same – that is 5 man content which is exactly the thing im trying to avoid – for both fun to play aspects and design problems to implement – I don’t want this content made 5 man – it need to be open world as it was and no one seems to be thinking about it that way instead saying it needs to be crunched down to small group content – it wont work.

But its fabulous large group play – and it reuses content – its win win.

I still have no idea why they never thought to reuse Labyrinthine Cliffs or old Lions arch in this way in particular, New Lions arch reminds me of Milton Keynes its pretty soulless.

Im also not asking that they are ‘replayed again and again’ once or twice a year means it remains scarce but still fun to revisit – did you actually read what I said? lol

Rococo.8347:

There was so much brilliant open world content in LW1 that could have ( and still could) with forward thinking been reused and God knows we need the content.

You lost me here.

LS1 was actually the beginning of the end..
When people realized that A-Net replaced creativity with dull zerker fests
they left in crowds.
This damage has never really been repaired.

LS2 was a little bit better but still so incredible far from what people actually want,
that A-Net stopped LS in general.

The day A-Net decides to bring LS1 back is the day when they can turn off the servers.
I would never ever thought i would read a request for LS1 again.
We must really be in a bad place if people ask for the darkest hours of GW2 again

Rococo.8347:

But its fabulous large group play – and it reuses content – its win win.

No its really not. “Fabulous large group play” work only a short while when its new and everyone want to try it. HoT is the proof of that. Only simple bosses work in the long run.

Kirschsahne.2081:

Rococo.8347:

There was so much brilliant open world content in LW1 that could have ( and still could) with forward thinking been reused and God knows we need the content.

You lost me here.

LS1 was actually the beginning of the end..
When people realized that A-Net replaced creativity with dull zerker fests
they left in crowds.
This damage has never really been repaired.

LS2 was a little bit better but still so incredible far from what people actually want,
that A-Net stopped LS in general.

The day A-Net decides to bring LS1 back is the day when they can turn off the servers.
I would never ever thought i would read a request for LS1 again.
We must really be in a bad place if people ask for the darkest hours of GW2 again

The problem with LS1, as far as I know, wasn’t the story or events themselves, but the structure of the game at that time.

Frankly, I’d love for LS1-style content to come back as megaserver open-world zones. There are so many players who never had the opportunity to play because they joined late, and so many who, like me, were around for it… but busy leveling up their first character, and trying to get caught up with the game before diving into the Living Story!

Dawdler.8521:

Rococo.8347:

But its fabulous large group play – and it reuses content – its win win.

No its really not. “Fabulous large group play” work only a short while when its new and everyone want to try it. HoT is the proof of that. Only simple bosses work in the long run.

Halloween is played year in year out and it has less to offer than many of the Big events in season 1.

Hot maps are not proof of anything that counters my suggestion – Hot Maps are terrible and nothing like season 1 content.

Season 1 suffered form server problems which created terrible lag etc, the actual content was sound.

I would really rather have LSS1-type content, over LSS2 content. I played the content in Season 1 much more than in Season 2. Season 2 was do-it-once-and-never-return, for me.

I hope Season 3 is much more like Season1 than Season 2.