Hello! I just wanted to express my opinion about new items release in the BLTC and some other things.
I know the development team is kinda in a rush couse of the 2 weeks timeline, and maybe they don’t have much time to discuss the impact of new items releases on economy and on players psycology, but as scandals goes on (like the one with infinite gathering tools example) I’m wondering if the team thinks about the consequenses of these actions. It doesn’t take too much to understand what is equal and what not imho. I would kindly suggest the team to take your time and think about the impact of releasing some items that touches the concept of rarity of other items already in game.
The t3 light human armor is the last example we have. Releasing a t3 cultural with improved estetic of course piseed off completly all the people already had it spending a lot of time and resouces to get it, to just find out that suddently on BLTC it appear the same armor, avaliable for any race, and with an improved visual effect.
This is not equal, not that hard to understand.
I do actually love the concept u wanted to introduce the possibility for other races to use such an awesome set like the human t3 light, but if course this required a sort of psycological compensation for people that already have that item.
Being equal is not that hard too. The team could just gave the same effect to the t3 human, so that who already has it, was fine with it avaliable on the shop.
In any way you are not gonna loose money, becouse:
1- who already has t3 conforming to the race that only can have it, it will automatically buy the new version from npc visually upgraded. Who don’t have that race, can buy it from the gem store.
2- who buy the shop version, already have transmutation included on it since is a skin. so if me human want to use this armor on ascended armor, i’ll have to buy transmutation stores, so no loose of money for Anet anyway.
And of course for who likes the normal version without the effect, it can be created a tool in the H panel to choose if to have the effect on it or not.
In my opinion, if u do the things consideratin all the impact it can have, and giving solutions for it, is a lot better than just release a content in the way you did becouse right now most people are thinking:
1- I can’t trust Anet, why should i buy a t3 or even a legend? who assures me they are not gonna make it avaliable at the shop for a lot less money as did with t3 light human?
2- oh good, they released this content like says “we do this, if they cry maybe we can think about changing it, if they don’t we just leave things as they are”
I know the truth is probably different, or maybe a mid-way between what i said, but this doesn’t change the people opinion and trust about you as company.
We both know too many people already left the game, and that’s a big pity, couse i think gw2 has a VERY huge potential to take online gaming into the next era of experience.
Last thing. The MMO migration.
All the people I know that plays gw2 though u were talking about all the people that left the game when we first saw that title. After reading we understood it was another marketing stuff to catch new people to play the game, insisting on some stuff that in our opinion are not true. Example:
“That I turn my back forever on grind which is/are totally lame.” (taken from gw2 oath example given on the site) http://migration.guildwars2.com/en/
Do you really think gw2 has not grinding?
It takes me back at your Manifesto Video, in wich the gw2 team said all great stuff but in the game they barely did half of it.
I really hope this message don’t hurt anyone, I tried to speak with an open heart, since we all care about gw2 becoming a healty and great MMO as it deserves.
Thank you for reading.
Aedil
(edited by Aedil.1296)