I won't bother explaining how software development actually works, I don't think you would trust me anyway. Instead, let me answer your question with another question: Why did it take so long to have Super Adventure Box back, when it was obviously super popular? Or why did other simple things, like Mad Memoires or party-access to Toypocalypse take years to get back too? You think they spent 3 years working on SAB to restore it? Well if you are in fact in game development, then feel free to explain, it might help. I can, however, answer the Mad Memoires and Super Adventure Box question: Guild Chat, episode 37: Super Adventure Chat, Josh says they had some weeks of downtime after the release of HoT, so the people at Anet went "let's fix up Super Adventure Box, yay!" So basically they were able to bring it back because they had free time and the devs at Anet wanted to bring it back. As for Mad Memories, during Halloween, I found an Anet Game dev who said that it and the Lunatic Inquisition were brought back because one employee had the time/know how to do so(and I think it was brought up during Guild Chat as well, but I'm busy watching the Olympics atm). As a result of those things, if MO and other staffers says "we want to, but we cant' then I honestly believe that. If it took them a few solid weeks to fix up something as relatively small(compared to Living World Season 1) as SAB, then I can only imagine how long it would take to rework all of that. And even though I did miss all of LWS1 (and most of 2), I'd honestly rather them work on new content than bringing back the first season. As is, I am quite happy that they released most, if not all, of the items that were locked behind Season 1 content, since that's what interests me the most. I will say, that when I started playing the game, I was very confused by who all of these NPCs were that were calling me "boss". So perhaps Anet could pop in some NPCs here and there that had little video recaps of each part of the LWS1 releases, kinda like Ela Makkay does in LA, that would be lovely. Newer players like, or ones who just missed it, like myself, would be able to get a better idea of what we missed(though I've figured that out mostly via Youtube hunting) and caught up on the cast of characters/story up to LWS2 and it wouldn't take away from new content much either(speaking as an amateur video editor here). Everybody wins, I think. -goes back to watching the Olympics-