Guild Wars 2

I’m wondering why the achievement sounds were changed in the first place. These new ones just don’t sound like they mesh in with the rest of the game sounds. Every time I hear them I’m wondering is someone trying to message me on facebook or did I go to a webpage with adult advertising with pop up ads that make noise in another window or something. They just sound very artificial. I liked the old fanfare better.

I loved the old one and I have wondered the same. What drove the change?

Count me in among the people who preferred the old achievement completion sounds.

I’ll 4th that opinion.

I hate windchimes. And now all my achievements sound like windchimes. I used to look forward to the old ding that I got from achievements. When doing something hard, it actually felt accomplishing.

These new jingle sounds like something that just annoys you alongside of the game.

i got used to the new sound

I love the new chimes tinkle tinkle sound!

Definitely like the old sound better. The new one is too loud and out of place. It really does sound like something pulled from an IM client. I want the old one back.

I really don’t like the new sound. It’s too loud and totally out of place. It distracts me from the game every time it goes off

I kinda like the new sounds, even if they seem “out of place”.

I like the new sound as it stands out from other sounds. I guess that might have been the reason why they chose it.

I will add, the new sound makes me more excited about achieving what I’ve achieved. It’s fun.

sazberryftw.3809:

I will add, the new sound makes me more excited about achieving what I’ve achieved. It’s fun.

Exactly how I feel. I’m actually excited to do my dailies now! The new sounds are better than the old ones in my opinion, but I understand why people dislike this. It’s a drastic change and some people just have different preferences. Would it hurt to let users customize this option? Of course, let’s not go down the slippery slope of “if we have 2 options, then we’ll need to have x amount of options”. It doesn’t hurt to let the players choose their preferences.

I too wondered what prompted the change. Really really prefer the old ones.

Much preferred the old sounds, for both achievements and chests. The new achievement sound can hardly be heard over combat noises, but is rather jarring when other ambient noise is at a minimum, and it’s not very pleasant at all. The old chest fanfare was grand, the new noise is like someone dropped an aluminum cup on the floor – hardly impressive at all.

I assumed it was a bug, and would be fixed. I am still hoping it will be fixed.

I disliked them originally, but they’ve grown on me. I like them more than the original now.

The new achievement reward “ding” sound is very very loud. (The new one that was added some time ago.)

I haven’t figured out which one of the sliders to turn down, so I play with all the game sounds turned almost completely down now. I really miss how the sounds used to be.