Guild Wars 2

SAB! SAB! /15char

OCCUPY SAB is getting larger by the minute!

More piccies!

Even the Hulk joined the group to show his support for the protesters!

Imma so mad at ANet for not bringing Diretide.
I mean SAB.

The design of the levels, the mix of 3d and 2d elements, and oh my good golly gosh the MUSIC is absolutely amazing. If a game like SAB existed back during the golden time of pixelated platformers, it would be heralded as a creation sent down from the heavens. Honestly. The sheer hair pulling difficulty of tribulation mode, and the fact that I didn’t have to pay money for the skins I could unlock.

SAB was a game on its own, an absolute joy to play and rage over, and I loved every second of it.

Honestly, Anet, after all of the amazing work put into SAB, how can you do away with how incredible of an accomplishment it was, and suddenly decide you don’t think it fits in Guild Wars 2 anymore? It completely fits. In fact I’d say it had some of the better lore so far in the Living World, in terms of how much sense it made. I’d argue it made perfect sense lore-wise, and really brought life to the Asura and Rata Sum.

PLEASE some kind of red response on why you are seemingly abandoning such a good idea is very sorely needed right now. Seriously. I believe there is a vast number of people who enjoyed SAB beyond those currently making their voices heard.

At least the Peacemakers sent out one person to keep the peace… kinda… sorta…

And yet more pics!

Protesting some more..

the devs read the forums, but not for fun… and its not work hours right now. and its likely that the majority of their forum knowledge comes from mark and regina secondhand except for specific threads theyre passed.

SAB is better than most platformers these days. Every time I buy a Sonic game I’m filled with disappointment but SAB never fails to bring out my inner child.

RIP in peace Wizard of Storms boss fight

P.s. I kickstarted Shovel Knight Josh, so if I can bribe you…

Please, no SAB.

It is a big waste of development time.

It says something that people enjoyed SAB more than the core game – and this is why they remove it – they are embarrassed that this is what people would rather do, while the core game languishes.

Anet is here to sell gems, not make games.

I thought the very first SAB was great fun, the second version was a bit of challenge just to get through the level and I lost interest.

I think they should of stuck with the format of the first zone. Easy enough to get through but it has challenging parts for those that want a challenge, and lots a hidden areas/easter eggs to find.

Its a shame that they are talking about giving up on a unfinished part of the game. That’s not a good attitude to quit half way through.

Let’s face it, the real reason why SAB is not coming back is because they promised the Chinese synchronous updates and now they are afraid that if they bring SAB out they will hate it or they won’t get the references. And they know if they only bring it back out in NA and EU that would definitely not look right.

Or maybe KongZhong flat out said that they don’t want something like that in their version of the game and because they don’t want it we can’t have it either. Sorry, I am a bit bitter right now I know and I mean no offense to anyone but the fact is something like this could very well be a factor and its not like they can say anything about it if it is.

I get that SAB is not for everyone, but it does not take that much manpower either as we all know. Why? Because of some of the flat out best developer interaction I have seen from ArenaNet or from most other companies back when SAB was around last.

Except that as it turns out what many people consider to be great developer interaction ArenaNet considered to be bad practice. Oh no, this person has some personality in his posts he is spending too much time on forums replying to topics and concerns of the players (most likely on his free time, would need to look up the specifics to be sure). We can’t have that because some of the other employees may feel intimidated by it or it might set too high expectations for future.

I generally am not a fan on the jumping puzzles. I don’t go out of my way to do them ever. But I actually liked the SAB world when I tried it out and I thought it was probably one of the coolest areas added to the game so far. I never really got far into it because I just don’t care to do jumping puzzles all day. So it is unfortunate that you could only play it for one month out of the year. It being available for only one month does not encourage someone like me to play it. But at least a couple times a week I do get the urge to want to go back to SAB and jump around. I wish it would stay a permanent playable feature that you could visit as you wish.

If they are really not going to continue SAB, I would hope they re-release the super boomboxes to the gem store to commemorate the good times. That is probably asking too much though c;

i heard something quite interesting
adding the super adventure box to the activities

sure only about once a week but itd be in the game

(my suggestion if u would do anything about activities please add a board where we can see which activitys will be in the next few days or allow us to choose between two activities a day so just like its now just that each activity lasts 2 days…)

nearlight.3064:

Hello all,

I sent in a ticket and the support person said the issue would require a bit of additional investigation. The person escalated my ticket for further asisstance.

So they didn’t dismiss it immediately for sure, so I’ll report back here when I have a final answer.

Any update on this?

I was one of the people who had immense difficulty getting through W2 the first time (mostly because of lag, those kitten geysers) but that did not make me like SAB any less.

I know world 2 got a lot of slack for being so long and difficult. But after the first time through it honestly wasn’t that bad. Because of how the stuff was designed and with some of the upgrades from zone 3 in earlier zones, which make things significantly easier on repeat runs and allow access to new shortcuts and info.

I think they went slightly overboard with the green highlights in that one bit in W2Z2 when they deployed the hotfix but overall I think world 2 was mostly a success. If only they had kept the reward structure from the first release of SAB for the most part I feel many people would have been more inclined to keep playing W2 (mainly talking about the bauble limits, that combined with the difficulty spike felt bit harsh at first).

And regardless of any mishaps with W2 their response back then showed that they cared, Josh’s posts on the forums were great to read.

I would take SAB as an activity any day although it doesn’t quite fit because it is not really dependent on groups so there is no reason to limit it for the reasons they do for other activities.

This thread should say it all, but really Arenanet, everything you do is great, but everything will get critique, OFC SAB was less played, why? Because you could make money faster, and some people sadly care more about money than fun!

Yet you have to admit that big community events like this, that happen spontainiously are rare, and shows that people really want it!

-Regards

People who love SAB

I would definitely love to see SAB return!

i would love me some sab!

Come join us! Both on EU and US we should have people willing to taxi. If not use the openworld dungeon tab and type down "Taxi needed for #OccupySAB2014 ^^

runeblade.7514:

Please, no SAB.

It is a big waste of development time.

As opposed to what?

We’re not exactly getting super amazing stuff in exchange.

I don’t even like SAB but there’s no harm in just leaving it open and adding a new thing once a year. Or even just opening it between LS stuff.

i would love me some sab!

Just make it permanent. SAB is my favorite part of GW2 and it was one of the reasons I gained a lot of respect for ArenaNet. They had the balls to put out content that you would never see in any other MMO and focused on pure enjoyment instead of taking themselves too seriously. Since it won’t fit into the living story, why not make it permanent?

SAB made me feel like a kid again. It was a nostalgia fest for a game that never even existed. It was honestly my favorite content in the game and it showed that ArenaNET was brave enough to put out atypical MMO content and made it fit the game perfectly still. It would make sense that Moto has been working on that thing long enough to fix it for good now since it wont fit in to the living story.

SAB had no place in Tyria. I won’t miss it.
It was immersion breaking and silly. I hated seeing 8-bit pixelated weapons and items, however ironic that sounds.

Asuran technology, or not, it was ridiculous to somehow tie it into the lore of Tyria.

Instead of locking us out all the time allow us some form of currency that we can pay Moto to play anytime we want in the old worlds already completed. For example for 5 to 10 laurels you could buy an “SAB all day play coin” something akin to an arcade token. Also even though I did not buy one from the Gem store anyone who did get the Infinite Continue Coin allow them all day access once per week without the need to buy the SAB all day play coin as an extra benefit to the infinite coins current function. And if not once a week at least once per month. Re Release the ability to purchase the Infinite Continue Coin on the gem store as well.

This way Anet profits and we all can be happy.

I know right nexxe?

MMOs like GW2 are all about immersion! The plethora of animations and emotes, lack of loading times, free-form interaction with environment & players, lack of 1st person view, realistic & lore-friendly clothes clearly show what GW2’s focus is!

He he developers didn’t expect this kind of uproar of comunnity if they did they would never answered question in interview

They didn’t definitively can SAB in the interview. They didn’t know what it’s future was as it doesn’t fit into the game’s scheme of things. Nothing was carved in stone. Though, the future didn’t look very bright for it either. Today’s silliness may not have helped things.

I want my SAB to come back!

Or it may have.

Who knows?

nexxe.7081:

It was immersion breaking and silly.

Immersion is obviously a strong point in GW2… it is so immersive experience when 100 people start randomly dancing and half of them have bobble heads when waiting for new patch. Don’t even get me started on how fitting some of the new hairstyles are particularly Charr ones. They look like they fit right on in Tyria no problem at all, right?

The SAB weapons also are not pixelated, they would be pixelated if they had low resolution textures but what you call pixelated is a deliberate stylistic choice. That has no bearing in immersion at least no more thna Twilights footfall effect or its swing trails.

It is so freaking immersive when you see people with Marjory’s daggers that are in the lore these special weapons given to her and her alone. The chainsaw greatsword is also such a natural fit in the Tyrian line up of weapons right.

Wolfheart.1938:

Or it may have.

Who knows?

Exactly. Who knows, indeed. We ever know (probably).

No. I don’t care about SAB.

Although, I would like SAAB to come back. Old ones were nice cars.

sMihaly.1492:

nearlight.3064:

Hello all,

I sent in a ticket and the support person said the issue would require a bit of additional investigation. The person escalated my ticket for further asisstance.

So they didn’t dismiss it immediately for sure, so I’ll report back here when I have a final answer.

Any update on this?

In fairness to ArenaNet they have always been good about refunds for these kind of things (for example, offering refunds for people who bought multiple copies of the harvesting tools once they became account bound).

If they decide they’re not bringing it back I have no doubt that they will do the same here. Of course, getting some of the higher ups to OK that may be difficult because, 1) having no plans now doesn’t mean they won’t have them later, 2) the “official” company line for just about everything is pretty much “we have people working on [feature] at the moment and we’re super excited to be able to share more information about that later on…”

I can’t understand why they can’t simply treat it as a bi-annual event like a festival though, April and September for example it appears for a month as is until they get time to add new worlds or tweak the ones that are there.

BTW, I think one of the main reasons they saw worse metrics was because they turned the chests from once per day per character to once per day per account. That and the fact that the zones in world 2 were simply too long (IMHO), if the 3 zones in world 2 were either split up into, say 5 zones, or they added checkpoints to them then it’d be a lot better.

sMihaly.1492:

nearlight.3064:

Hello all,

I sent in a ticket and the support person said the issue would require a bit of additional investigation. The person escalated my ticket for further asisstance.

So they didn’t dismiss it immediately for sure, so I’ll report back here when I have a final answer.

Any update on this?

Calling it now:
I think an ANet employee is going to come in and say ‘oops, we didn’t realize so many people enjoyed it. Nothing’s off the table, hold on to your coin!’.
Then it goes the way of the fractal leaderboard.

BlueZone.4236:

sMihaly.1492:

nearlight.3064:

Hello all,

I sent in a ticket and the support person said the issue would require a bit of additional investigation. The person escalated my ticket for further asisstance.

So they didn’t dismiss it immediately for sure, so I’ll report back here when I have a final answer.

Any update on this?

Calling it now:
I think an ANet employee is going to come in and say ‘oops, we didn’t realize so many people enjoyed it. Nothing’s off the table, hold on to your coin!’.
Then it goes the way of the fractal leaderboard.

Fractal Leaderboard, LOL, ahahahahah.
Hah.
Ha.

That’s too bad that you don’t care, you should go enjoy all your mediocre non-challenging stuff in this game then.

+1 vote for SAB!

We fellow Asuras, Charrs, Sylvari, Human and Norn….support our fellow colleagues from other servers in the riot against Anet decision to not bring SAB back.

Some screenshots of the gathering:
http://imgur.com/a/h2L1u

More info about #OCCUPYSAB2014:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/OccupySAB2014/first#post4307575

SAB should return even if there would be no new content. I just would like to play it.

I’m on Gandara and I am on there, just saying.
Now, what do you want? SAB!
#OCCUPYSAB2014

We welcome you fellow Gandara traveler… no matter who you are or from where you are, on Seafarer’s Rest your always welcomed.

More screenshots from the protest
#OCCUPYSAB2014 is REAL

Great to see so much support over the entirety of the GW2 community in both US and EU. For those willing More S A B Or We Riot is the EU guild for this event! Feel free to whisper me ((Riftguard Excell)) a /w

LETS COMMENCE IN RIOTING! AND LETS HAVE FUN DOING SO!

Agreed the EU and US community are fantastic…best community in any MMO.
Just hope ANET does something about SAB.

The riot is escalating….fire,love, boomboxes…the passion for #OCCUPYSAB2014 is real.

SAB or RIOT

Gummy.4278:

Instead of locking us out all the time allow us some form of currency that we can pay Moto to play anytime we want in the old worlds already completed. For example for 5 to 10 laurels you could buy an “SAB all day play coin” something akin to an arcade token. Also even though I did not buy one from the Gem store anyone who did get the Infinite Continue Coin allow them all day access once per week without the need to buy the SAB all day play coin as an extra benefit to the infinite coins current function. And if not once a week at least once per month. Re Release the ability to purchase the Infinite Continue Coin on the gem store as well.

This way Anet profits and we all can be happy.

hell id pay 100laures+ a few hundreds gold and gems to get playing sab
(and using my leftover colourfull tokens that are now over a year kittening in my bank space)
just the recepies to make colorufull weapons would lighten up my bank but… grumpy cat works for anet and ays no!