Guild Wars 2

anyone else wish anet would allow us to replay season one to get the whole story for those who joined late?

I would love nothing more than to replay season 1… I’m also one of the many that would like a chance to earn the rewards we couldn’t get during season 1 /cough molten jetpack(lord, I tried I could run the molten facility.. eyes closed by the end but was never rewarded with the jetpack) My main thing for those rewards I was there for but didn’t have the rng gods on my side, was I wanted a chance to try again to earn/rng them. So KITTEN YES! to a complete replay of season 1…Also can we have a Marionette boss added to the timers, It was one of my favorite event(why I like the end bosses in Silverwaste). Maybe event some clockwork zone invasions.(aetherblades commander could be in charge.

i wish they would totally do something like it would be amazing I missed 3/4 of season one and wuld love to know the whole story

Everyone, including ANet, wants them to do this. The problem is: it isn’t cheap for them to do so. It costs a lot in terms of resources, time, and energy — none of which would be available for them to work on other stuff. While lots of players would like to see S1 again, there are also a lot who want to see new stuff more.

My guess is: they will introduce a Season 1 “lite” version, maybe “as soon as” 2017. (Although I’d like to be wrong about the timing and the depth.)

Problem with Season 1 was that it interacted a lot with open world maps, ANet would have to find a way to implement the huge events that changed the landscape and had events that required the entire map to coordinate without intruding on the current maps if they wanted to bring Season 1 back.

They could try to remake the chapters into instanced features, but then they’d have to completely redo events like the Marionette or Escape From LA to work for 5-man parties instead of the 100 or so people it used to take.

Or they could put down “fractal portals” at each map that leads to an entirely separate map (using the Season 1 maps) where the event is permanently on, but that’s functionally no different from adding new maps to the a zone and I’m sure there are limitations/complications in doing that.

Either solution would take development time that’s constantly tied up by work for new content; unless ANet devs very generously work on their free time to do this (and game development rarely gives much free time), it’s unlikely we’ll see this any time soon.

Remember season one modified entire maps, some more than others. So unless they only do the major events with instances that only involve a small portion of the map we can forget about it. That’s why LS2 is self contained on two maps with a slight mod on one standard map.