Guild Wars 2

I would create this magnificent Fractal that consisted of Illusions of past Fractal bosses, with new mechanics of course and two bosses per encounter. The stages to progress in this Fractal would consist of RNG codes for maybe a keypad, or color coded doors/walkways that triggered ‘Doom 2’ style of traps. All RNG. Imagine Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom style of puzzles or how the progression worked in the movie ‘Labyrinth’. Players would have to “stop and think” before proceeding. A challenge of unprecedented scales would await players and would all be by surprise. And if they fail any of the challenges, the Fractal becomes unstable and forces the players out into a normal Fractal that was already in rotation.

What I mean by surprise is this Fractal would have an extremely low chance of popping up in rotation. So rare, that when these 5 lucky players see this Fractal for the first time they will be intrigued…..they will think it was a patch mistake that wasn’t supposed to be released yet…..because it wasn’t mentioned in the patch notes. In fact, no mention of this new Fractal could be found anywhere. It would appear as a mistake. They would then proceed to take in game screenshots, but would be met with a message “Scarlet has cast a spell preventing players from sharing this discovery” or “The Fractal is too unstable to process your request” or something along those lines. Basically, players would not be able to use the built in ‘Print Screen’ ability to take screen shots. But only in this particular Fractal.

So now you have 5 random dudes screaming in map chat in LA that they were ported to this “new Fractal” and no one would believe them because people would be crying “screenshot or it never happened”. Players would start conversing in map chat. Word of this mysterious Fractal would start spreading throughout Tyria, all by the player population.

“The Story is starting to come to life…”

One by one and throughout the week random groups would get to experience this new Fractal by chance and word of mouth of it is starting to spread like wildfire. Players are starting to take screenshots with their mobile devices, etc. Oh what’s this? A new thread section popped up on the Forums out of no where with these reports.(Dev’s could play along acting as in game characters communicating with the player base giving hints on how to progress in this mysterious Fractal).

Players could gather there information on this thread and interact with each other to help progress in this new Fractal. Eventually, more and more people would run into this Fractal by chance and want to progress further. This would create a ‘Living Story’ aspect to the game.

A couple things to note: This Fractal can never show up on first roll to prevent players from “rolling” this new map. Players would have to take notes on paper or by memory. In game screenshots would be disabled. This idea would simply be on a 2 week or 1 month timer. Basically a way to introduce this new Fractal with the Living Story content. After the 2 weeks or 1 month, the Fractal becomes part of the normal rotation.

And Dulfy would still have a guild up on release day.

Grumpdogg.6910:

And Dulfy would still have a guild up on release day.

That’s the thing, no one would know how to get past the first puzzle. Unless of course they got lucky. The crit rate of getting this dungeon would be 3-5 groups a day for the first couple of days…then it would increase as time goes on.

Im going to comment on the least important part (imo), but the screenshot prevention would never work. You may be able to disable ingame screenshots, but there are hundreds of third-party programs that can screenshot your monitor, it is impossible to prevent screenshots/videos from happening.