Guild Wars 2

I’m sure it comes up consistently on here. But I played only part of the time that was going on and would love to catch the rest. However, obviously its been something no one can do. Since I havent played for about half a year was wondering if the talk of bringing Season 1 to our personal Story is still hopefully something that will happen. Any word on this or Anet just saying read the wiki for story you missed?

The last word was it wasn’t being worked upon. That was earlier this year.

It’s a huge piece of work to convert it from the form it was in to the form it needs to be in now (ie the story journal) so with LS3 and expansion 2 being made, I doubt they have spare resources for it. And it can’t be brought back in the original form for many reasons, include it not making any sense in the open world and the code probably being broken if they just revived it as it was due to all the subsequent changes to the game.

Yes it absolutely needs to be in the game – the video recap doesn’t even come close to covering the events of that story, but I’ve got to the point of believing we will never see it.

Last I heard about it, some of the Devs do want to see it come back in some form (a pretty large portion iirc), but ANet can’t justify spending the amount of time it would take to redesign the content to fit in the current game (eg making it instanced, redesigning fights and events to be done with 1 – 5 people instead of an open world, PvE zerg etc…) considering that it would be recycled content.

As much as I would like to see it return as well I doubt it will happen

I can see them maybe make a better video recapping scenes from important sections of the story. However the story itself was too tied to large group content and movement of groups across entire maps to bring it back. It would have to be completely remade to fit the ability of one person to do it, and it wouldn’t really make sense. How could one person solo the map invasions, the fall of LA with its boss fights that took groups working together to win, or the Marionette with its 3 lanes and the boss fight in the middle? It would take up a lot of resources to get even a basic, playable season one to work and it would slow down work on the next set of story and expansion. imo a better video with a narrative telling the story is probably the best that can be expected.

For what it’s worth, here’s a long post I made about it a month ago, when someone asked a similar question:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lwd/Replay-ls-season-1/6287160

I definitely understand as I played some of it how it would require a rework. But I just like the story and lore and a good chunk of that is missing. Such as why everyone is calling me boss and the history of the group like when you do the main story line for Season 2 where Rytlock goes into the mist for the sword why does he hate Rox? I’ve learned this stuff but if you never played around that time at all there are alot of things that you just miss in that aspect so I would like to see atleast the story played out. So I was just hoping that they had some news on that since when I stopped playing months ago their were rumors about it being made. Thanks for the info guys!

Maybe they could add some of the scavenger hunts back for those who missed them the first time, like for example the Mad Memories hunts from the first Halloween haven’t been available ever since.

Short answer:
They want to, but can’t figure out a means to do so. They would have to make a lot from scratch again, and doing so would take so much time and effort the game would have a content drought for over a year.

maddoctor.2738:

Maybe they could add some of the scavenger hunts back for those who missed them the first time, like for example the Mad Memories hunts from the first Halloween haven’t been available ever since.

That scavenger hunt in particular shouldn’t return ever. That back piece skin is a token that you were there at the time.

Many of the features from it could be rolled into fractals.

It’s really ironic, as a month or so after the season one content ended I bought the game. Was really looking forward to it too… and now Scarlet’s workshop and those special chests are all taunting me, begging to be opened….

Rumor has it that the Tower of Nightmares will return as a fractal.

Whitewolf.7395:

I’m sure it comes up consistently on here. But I played only part of the time that was going on and would love to catch the rest. However, obviously its been something no one can do. Since I havent played for about half a year was wondering if the talk of bringing Season 1 to our personal Story is still hopefully something that will happen. Any word on this or Anet just saying read the wiki for story you missed?

Short answer: Nope
Long answer: Hell no
Anet answer: when its ready

xXMapcoXx.9614:

Whitewolf.7395:

I’m sure it comes up consistently on here. But I played only part of the time that was going on and would love to catch the rest. However, obviously its been something no one can do. Since I havent played for about half a year was wondering if the talk of bringing Season 1 to our personal Story is still hopefully something that will happen. Any word on this or Anet just saying read the wiki for story you missed?

Short answer: Nope
Long answer: Hell no
Anet answer: when its ready

Havent been around these parts in a while. How I have forgotten Anet and their ways. “When its ready” means somewhere between tomorrow and never. I wouldnt mind a kitten experience even just something that fills in any gaps with characters/story. I guess I do like getting new story though so I can understand the decision and ok with it.

ANet has promised to re-release Season 1 Living Story in some form or another just as soon as they can get their hands on one of these:

“This Halloween, I’ll be going dressed as the scariest thing I can think of – an Ellen Kiel supporter”. I have no idea* who Ellen Kiel is, other than a random NPC I saw in Ember bay for all of 30 seconds.

If we are going to make references 2 seasons later to stuff and characters who were apparantly important back in season 1, can we have some more details. If I knew who this person was, I’d maybe have love for the concept of purchasing something in the store, but I don’t.

I played GW1 a couple of days ago to do a Zaishen mission (for my HoM) and was given a reminder “these events happened prior to your arrival in Elona”. Can we not have something similar for some story instances?

I’ve recommended that some Core player friends** don’t purchase HoT simply because a bunch of people who I can’t really explain show up, until LWS1 is implemented better.

I’d be all for LWS1 being re-made as premium content, even if the big battles have to be shown as videos from the NPC that currently shows everything (but nothing about the characters that we are supposed to be bonding with).

And I get that there are technical difficulties with doing so, I’m a developer in another lifetime.

*Ellen Kiel I gather lost some kind of in-game community vote? Correct me if I’m wrong. Wait, shouldn’t the game be doing that?

**The friends that care about story that is.

Ellen Kiel actually won the vote I’m pretty sure (I wasn’t around for LWS1 either), but yes you bring up an excellent point.

Until ANet does something to bring back LWS1 (either through instances, fractals + videos, or just videos) they really need to stop making references back to limited time events that happened during it. It feels like there is some inside joke going around that the “new” players aren’t in on when these references come up, and the characters in LWS2 and HoT story feel extremely hollow without getting their backgrounds from LWS1.

I know Anet have said it’s too much work and they don’t have the capacity to do it and won’t for a long time. But I keep hoping some people will find time to work on the necessary changes (like converting open-world content to instances) in bits and pieces around other things and then they’ll reach a point where bringing it all together is relatively minimal and they can do it.

Which is a long shot I know, but it could happen. Or at least I know in my job a lot of the “too difficult” stuff gets done just because someone feels strongly enough about it that they manage to make time to work on it in bits and pieces until it’s done.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I can see them maybe make a better video recapping scenes from important sections of the story. However the story itself was too tied to large group content and movement of groups across entire maps to bring it back. It would have to be completely remade to fit the ability of one person to do it, and it wouldn’t really make sense. How could one person solo the map invasions, the fall of LA with its boss fights that took groups working together to win, or the Marionette with its 3 lanes and the boss fight in the middle? It would take up a lot of resources to get even a basic, playable season one to work and it would slow down work on the next set of story and expansion. imo a better video with a narrative telling the story is probably the best that can be expected.

One player was able to solo the defense and recapture of claw island, the defense of Fort trinity, attack on zhaitain, and the defense on fort in silverwast (forgot name)… the answer to that question is simple: npcs, soldiers of lionsarch. This would actually make the story deeper, because they soldiers could have names, and things to say, instead of hundreds of imersion breaking player characers of the original invasion.

OtakuModeEngage.8679:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I can see them maybe make a better video recapping scenes from important sections of the story. However the story itself was too tied to large group content and movement of groups across entire maps to bring it back. It would have to be completely remade to fit the ability of one person to do it, and it wouldn’t really make sense. How could one person solo the map invasions, the fall of LA with its boss fights that took groups working together to win, or the Marionette with its 3 lanes and the boss fight in the middle? It would take up a lot of resources to get even a basic, playable season one to work and it would slow down work on the next set of story and expansion. imo a better video with a narrative telling the story is probably the best that can be expected.

One player was able to solo the defense and recapture of claw island, the defense of Fort trinity, attack on zhaitain, and the defense on fort in silverwast (forgot name)… the answer to that question is simple: npcs, soldiers of lionsarch. This would actually make the story deeper, because they soldiers could have names, and things to say, instead of hundreds of imersion breaking player characers of the original invasion.

Your idea doesn’t address the issue of where the resources would come from to redo the fights so that they could be instanced. It’s an enormous amount of work to balance the combat for even smaller fights (witness the complaints about the current LS3 episodes being ‘too easy’ or ‘too hard’).

There’s never been any question about whether it’s possible to make Season 1 available; it’s always been about whether it’s practical, especially given our voracious demand for more content.

They said when they have the time to do it they will, but as it stands I can’t see it happening anytime soon. But then ANet can blindside you, like they did with the legendary weapons.