Guild Wars 2

I know alot of people hate the SAB and also alot of people love it. I’m fine with both, so plz dont make this a bash/hate post.

I’m one of the persons who really loved the SAB. Not just for its 8bit theme, but also the jumping. After you’ve done all the jumping puzzles you arent chalanged anymore for your jumping skills in a way SAB did.

So my question is: Will SAB ever come back to Guild Wars2?

We have never had a definite reply, although they did state during world 2 that they would make improvements for world 3.

I have a suspicion they will space out releases more and only give one world during the next living story arc. When that will be? Couldnt possibly say!

It will, I love SAB, it’s one of the kinds of challenge that makes me happy. Josh is the man!

They could give us some kind of easter event… but they are to busy ruining game for some players =)

Xiem.4719:

They could give us some kind of easter event… but they are to busy ruining game for some players =)

They bring new features as a manner to polish, but it turns out this polish will need to be polished even further… that’s way too much polish-fix-polish-fix-polish-fix-polish…

Problem is, we have public test server…on live server. That shouldn’t not happen. Anyway, i don’t think we will see SAB anytime soon. Break in Living Story was great time to open SAB again :/

Randulf.7614:

We have never had a definite reply, although they did state during world 2 that they would make improvements for world 3.

I have a suspicion they will space out releases more and only give one world during the next living story arc. When that will be? Couldnt possibly say!

So what I understand about your post is that you are certain there will be a world 3 SAB, but you just don’t know when?

SAB is the only redeeming factor for the game atm, since it offers skins that aren’t gold-locked, TM skins are so much nicer cause its skill based

I suspect that they are putting SAB on a longer development schedule after the flower debacle and other bugs that really soured people when W2 was released.

Illuminati.2431:

Randulf.7614:

We have never had a definite reply, although they did state during world 2 that they would make improvements for world 3.

I have a suspicion they will space out releases more and only give one world during the next living story arc. When that will be? Couldnt possibly say!

So what I understand about your post is that you are certain there will be a world 3 SAB, but you just don’t know when?

Certain? No. But, based on dev replies I read during W2 release, further installments were implied. Only a dev could confirm and I doubt they will either way, but I would be confident of a return if I were to gamble on it and the long delay between releases being put down to raising hype, a low priority release and what McKeone said

I so want for the SAB to come back, even without any new content. I didn’t have enough time to get all the achievements for the second world (being stubborn and refusing to look up guides on the internet) but Arenanet said no, you’ve had your SAB fill for this year.

Okay I guess.

It’s probably not coming back until they finish this tournament zergfest.

Just in case devs are reading this, I’m adding my support/request for bringing SAB back. It has been some of the most enjoyable content for me in the game, and I would love to see worlds 3 and 4 added!

SAB wasn’t originally supposed to return. It started as a small project that was liked internally and released as a test masked under April Fools. It ended up being popular enough that it warranted a return and thus became a reoccurring event, which are basically used as filler content. Other events like this only occur once a year, but the SAB was released twice in one. They may just be evening it out.

When SAB W2 was released, people complained about its difficulty and immediately pointed at the infinite continue coin as a pay to win item, even though the difficulty was always intended. The idea of the infinite coin actually came from them failing internally, so basically, the coin was designed by and for those who couldn’t do it. Due to its length, difficulty and P2W mindset by some, which essentially made it anti-casual, SAB W2 saw a participation drop, which was rather large compared to the participation during W1’s release. Depending on the actual numbers, SAB W3 could have been put on hold or cancelled entirely.

With the release of the second season of the living story, if they are actually introducing a new zone, the small SAB dev team would be too busy making actual in-world content. The SAB is just a side project after all.

It will most likely return one day however. It is Josh’s side project, so unless he quits, he will probably continue to work on it, even if only in his spare work hours.

Pay-to-win… hahaha, not really, it just makes it easier to retry stuff and it’s acc-bound.

The ICC is for trib mode. I suspect even the most casual players can finance a trip through infantile or normal mode mode without it.

Maybe they will make it so an openworld event spawns.. you have to get the community to let the event fail in order to spawn a giant hoop for you to jump thro in order to spawn another event which then opens up SAB portal.. unless it bugs of course.. or the community don’t feel like failing it and just kill/destroy or defend said event requirements… simples, so simples in fact its already in game at a MAW or ARAH event near you.. ..

I HOPE they wait until after the tournament/zergfest.

Josh (SAB dev) has been pretty busy with other stuff lately, so I expect SAB was back-burnered. It will probably tatke some time to put together world 3 and its nightmare version.

I hope not. Didn’t much care for it. I thought the idea was cool, but the actualy event just didn’t do it for me.

so i just discoverd there is a probability of sab returing Dulfy judt posted a video of devs displaying a new finisher that will come out the music that the finisher is playing is from sab if im correct so yeah there you have it on my thought yeah oke its sab i loved it at releas on april fools but now it feels like a grind to me im sorry gw2 but i have to turn down there but hey i coud be wrong and its just another finisher ,discussion ?

link to Dulfy’s video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4CyI802BvI&list=UUkrqazrKwjFsJib-1ax6-Wg

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so i just discoverd there is a probability of sab returing Dulfy judt posted a video of devs displaying a new finisher that will come out the music that the finisher is playing is from sab if im correct so yeah there you have it on my thought yeah oke its sab i loved it at releas on april fools but now it feels like a grind to me im sorry gw2 but i have to turn down there but hey i coud be wrong and its just another finisher ,discussion ?

link to Dulfy’s video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4CyI802BvI&list=UUkrqazrKwjFsJib-1ax6-Wg

More than likely they’re just reusing assets to save costs.

I kind of wonder how Josh is doing on the project altogether. Considering of what happened during world 2 release. I wonder if he’s going to be overly cautious about how he makes world 3 and 4. If I had a tip for him it would be get everyone to test world 3 internally and externally (via: closed sessions). Do what Valve software does when it comes to testing their ip’s.

Josh please come back! We love you!

SAB World 1 came out and had huge success.

SAB World 2 came out. Levels were too long, people quit SAB, multiple glitches such as spawning on instant kill spikes at the end of a really long level, and SAB World 2 was largely unsuccessful.

Therefore, not a big push for SAB World 3. It will probably come out eventually and hopefully the levels are not nearly as long.