Guild Wars 2

I purchased a pass to see if it was worth stocking up on before it leaves the store, and the Terrace is perfect for what I need. I am an exclusive WvW player, and I want to use the Terrace as a base to load in to, and to return to at the end of a session to craft and mystic forge stuff without lag and awful load times. I do not really have a main, and swap between my five characters every few hours.

The only thing stopping me from stocking up on passes is the very annoying fact that you need to have an active pass on a character in order to access the area with that character.

This really defeats the purpose of the pass, as I have to load into a zone with a bank in order to retrieve the pass for a given character, then go through another loading screen to reach the terrace. The only other alternative (as far as I’m aware) is to have five passes running at the same time, which amounts to 1500 gems.

I believe that activating a pass should unlock access to the terrace on all of your characters, without having to juggle the pass between your characters, or spend ridiculous amounts of gems on passes that run parallel to each other.

Failing this, Anet should place a bank merchant directly outside of the Terrace, so characters can withdraw the pass without having to travel to Minister’s WP to grab it and then jog back.

I love the convenience of this gem-store item, but the inconvenience for those of us that want to enjoy the Terrace on all of our characters spoils what would be a very nice luxury item.

If it was an unlimited item, I’d be fine with account bound.

It doesn’t matter anymore as the item is going away in few days according to TP.

Royal Pass needs to be a permanent account unlock. Otherwise no money from me.

I wholeheartedly agree with the OP. I would buy 2 to 4k gems worth of passes if they can implement this before the sale goes away. Soulbound ON ACQUIRE, that in and of itself is ridoncolous for any gemstore item. I can in fact think of no other item in the gemstore that acts in this manner. It defeats the purpose of buying something for your account.

To be fair, the actual pass does become account bound on activation.

My complaint is that the character needs to literally have the activated access pass in it’s hand in order to access the Terrace. If you spawn a character in there, even if the pass is in your inventory, you get booted out anyway. Which isn’t so bad, as a quick double click will allow you in.

However, should you not have the activated pass on the character you spawn in on, you must travel to a place with a bank (defeating the purpose of paying for the terrace) and withdraw the pass from your bank, then return to be permitted access.

This means that every time I want to swap characters during a WvW session, I have to log out to character select, log back in on the toon with the pass, deposit the pass, log onto another character, be booted out of the terrace where I parked it, go to the bank that I would have used without the pass, withdraw the thing, and then finally enter the Terrace.

I would totally buy a ton of these if the system was reworked to just ‘unlock’ the terrace area for my characters for the allotted two weeks, meaning being able to spawn into the Terrace without being kicked out, and to be able to come and go without the silly pass.

My point is, for an item that boasts in it’s description ‘the ultimate convenience’ it sure is a pain for those of us that play more than one character.

Vendetta.1958:

To be fair, the actual pass does become account bound on activation.

AH!!!!

Beloved terrace, here I come! I’ll get 20 weeks worth of passes I think. I hope they’ll have come up with a permanent solution by then.

Buttercup.5871:

Vendetta.1958:

To be fair, the actual pass does become account bound on activation.

AH!!!!

Beloved terrace, here I come! I’ll get 20 weeks worth of passes I think. I hope they’ll have come up with a permanent solution by then.

I have bought another four weeks in the hope that Anet will read this thread and take action. However, I won’t be redeeming them or buying more until the system’s flaws are fixed.

I love the Terrace too, and would have no problems paying for access every fortnight, but this very obvious and annoying flaw ruins the item for me.

Vendetta.1958:

Buttercup.5871:

Vendetta.1958:

To be fair, the actual pass does become account bound on activation.

AH!!!!

Beloved terrace, here I come! I’ll get 20 weeks worth of passes I think. I hope they’ll have come up with a permanent solution by then.

I have bought another four weeks in the hope that Anet will read this thread and take action. However, I won’t be redeeming them or buying more until the system’s flaws are fixed.

I love the Terrace too, and would have no problems paying for access every fortnight, but this very obvious and annoying flaw ruins the item for me.

Yea I agree this is flawed. But man, the moment I was there the ultimate convenience got me hooked again. They won’t have time to fix this overnight. So I bought 16 weeks in the hopes that by then, they’ll have a solution for alts (and devs, if you’re reading this, please allow the the item to stack!!). Remember though, in a way you’re also paying for the solitude and server responsiveness of a less populated area. So the more popular this item becomes, the less popular it is for people (like me) that can really enjoy those features.