Guild Wars 2

What’s the point of voting if we don’t see result? There’s nothing like vote bar.
For example, Evon can be leader with like 99% of votes and then ANet will tell us KIEL WON.
Or someone can buy and buy support tokens without any idea that his candidate is way ahead already.
Why can’t we have visual bar?
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Evon – Kiel
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is there a counter or something that tells us who is winning?

My theory either way Evon will win due to what he wants. Reduced key pricing is money in anet’s pocket. It is sorta strange that they don’t tell us whats going on with the votes. Seems a little fishy and charr I imagine like fish as much as other felines.

I like wearing my tin foil hat as much as anyone but if they wanted to deceive the players it would be just as easy to put a fake bar/counter in as to not have one at all

I suspect it’s more to do with keeping support tokens as an effective gold sink. If one candidate was far ahead of another the losing candidates supporters would probably stop buying tokens.

…Because if there was a visual bar, people who wanted the candidate currently losing to win would know how many support tokens to buy.

In the UK we don’t get to see who is leading in a General Election other than through poll surveys, which are not always accurate. This should be no different. That said, I’m sure there will be many, many tinfoilhats around over the next two weeks. Anet should implement it as a new head gear skin!

JonG.7206:

I like wearing my tin foil hat as much as anyone but if they wanted to deceive the players it would be just as easy to put a fake bar/counter in as to not have one at all

I suspect it’s more to do with keeping support tokens as an effective gold sink. If one candidate was far ahead of another the losing candidates supporters would probably stop buying tokens.

Its a good point but a point based around purchasing things from the store. Now as others have pointed out with people getting these scraps from chests it leans even more in favor of Evon seeing how people will be able to buy more keys and get more scraps if they were a lower cost.

yeah, we need a way to see candidates rating. Please, Anet.

I hope they stay invisible.

People like to pick a winner. If one candidate is in the lead, people will think that candidate is better based on popularity. Ballots should be hidden until the event is over.

(I trust Anet not to rig the vote.)

…Seriously?

There are reason why elections are usually anonymous.
And there are pretty much no elections where one could see the results before the end.

And so the tin foil hat parade begins

Maybe I should go into the tin foil hat market……….

Sarie.1630:

…Because if there was a visual bar, people who wanted the candidate currently losing to win would know how many support tokens to buy.

In the UK we don’t get to see who is leading in a General Election other than through poll surveys, which are not always accurate. This should be no different. That said, I’m sure there will be many, many tinfoilhats around over the next two weeks. Anet should implement it as a new head gear skin!

each person only gets one vote too..