Guild Wars 2

Warning: Spoilers Ahead.

Given quite a few of us are paying a considerable amount of money for a game we already own, I can only think of one suggestion posted to me by a friend on how to sweeten the deal for us that don’t get the refund on the standard game.

How about you do some jury-rigging of Season 1 of Living World for a 5 to 10-man crew to be able to take on the Villain of All Villains in her Cataclysmic Rise to Power?

I bought my game sadly months after the end of Living World season 1, with that actually being my drive to -buy- the game. Only too late to realize that the archfiend voiced by one of my all-time favourite voice actresses was already cooling in a pool of her own chlorophyll.

I’ve been patiently waiting since then only to see this hope dashed and dashed and dashed again by other things coming up to play.

So here, after all my whining, is my jist. We obviously need something to sweeten the deal given we’re effectively dropping another game-price amount on a game we already have ‘forever’.

You should give those unable to having played it early the ability to do both seasons of Living World.

So that way new players won’t feel as… unenlightened as I was once I reached Season Two and was all ‘Who are these people and why are they calling me Boss?’

Just an idea.

That would take a massive amount of work and resources. If they haven’t started it, it would take longer longer than the potential time gap for HoT, even if they weren’t working on the expac.

Should S1 exist? of course, absolutely – we’ve been saying this in some form or another since its inception. Will it come before HoT even as a sweetner? No, I can’t see how unless work on it has been done in silence in the background.

I do understand that it would be a massive amount of work, don’t get me wrong. But if like any company with a reasonable team does, they back up data. Everything should still all be there, just saved in some backlog in case of emergencies.

And if I can’t get Season One.. at least let me have my bunny ears. So all the two+ year players will stop taunting me with them…

You can still purchase Season 2 for gems. And I guess they will add season 1 again as well, just for that exact reason.

That’s basically one of the boni for veteran players…they got all the story for free.
In Germany we have a saying “Who comes late will be punished by life”

Oh, I already have all of Season Two. I just feel like I’m being punished by not being able to access previous content that definitely feels like a requirement for the Lore of the game.

KistariaPrime.1624:

I do understand that it would be a massive amount of work, don’t get me wrong. But if like any company with a reasonable team does, they back up data. Everything should still all be there, just saved in some backlog in case of emergencies.

And if I can’t get Season One.. at least let me have my bunny ears. So all the two+ year players will stop taunting me with them…

The problem is that a LOT of the season 1 content was happening out in the open world not in instances, so a pure backup restore would simply not work, they would have to convert it all to instances and stuff, and that would take a HUGE amount of work

GummiBear.2756:

KistariaPrime.1624:

I do understand that it would be a massive amount of work, don’t get me wrong. But if like any company with a reasonable team does, they back up data. Everything should still all be there, just saved in some backlog in case of emergencies.

And if I can’t get Season One.. at least let me have my bunny ears. So all the two+ year players will stop taunting me with them…

The problem is that a LOT of the season 1 content was happening out in the open world not in instances, so a pure backup restore would simply not work, they would have to convert it all to instances and stuff, and that would take a HUGE amount of work

This

You are right about it being confusing without it though. S2 needs a birdge for new players and right now its a mess.

edit: mods, I accidentally hit report instead of reply and typed this response in there…I’m sure you will work out I hit the wrong button though