Guild Wars 2

We players, since beta and launch had a series of suggestions of how the current character creator could be improved, and I was kinda hoping to see some mention of it in the new blog post. I know you wrote at the end something in the lines of “just because it’s not listed doesn’t mean it’s not being considered” , so my question is, are you reviewing and taking in the feedback we have left since beta?

I know it’s probably not on your list of top priorities, but many players including me would be much more satisfied with a more detailed and comprehensive character creation because it’s several years behind other games currently on the market.

What we need:
- More options for faces for all races, hair, horns, beards, decorations
- Separation of scars, makeup etc. from the face preset
- Maybe more voice options
- Body sliders instead of presets, but not so that it would allow deformations

CharrGirl.7896:

- Maybe more voice options

That is an overwhelmingly bad idea.

Guild Wars 2 has too much voice content. As it is right now, a line from the latter stages of the personal storyline has to be voiced by 10 different voice actors (5 races with two genders each). Offering a single additional voice per race/gender combination would increase this to 20 different voice actors. This would increase the cost so much (remember how expensive TOR was?) that it would force ArenaNet to cut costs.

IMO, the reason why Trahearne talks so much is because it’s cheaper to have a single voice actor saying those things than recording the same dialogues with 10 different voice actors; we all know the price we, players, pay for that, considering how Trahearne half steals the spotlight from our characters.

Adding more voices for player characters would not only add little to the game, but it would also make ArenaNet more likely to use Trahearne-like shortcuts, and so make the next stories worse than the main campaign story was. Since it’s likely that ArenaNet will add more races in the future, with more voice actors, offering more than one voice per race-gender combination would demand ArenaNet to add 4 new voice actors per new race introduced. Two new races later, ArenaNet would need to record the same line with 28 different voices for every single thing said by our characters, which would be a massive waste of money.

Erasculio.2914:

CharrGirl.7896:

- Maybe more voice options

That is an overwhelmingly bad idea.

Guild Wars 2 has too much voice content. As it is right now, a line from the latter stages of the personal storyline has to be voiced by 10 different voice actors (5 races with two genders each). Offering a single additional voice per race/gender combination would increase this to 20 different voice actors. This would increase the cost so much (remember how expensive TOR was?) that it would force ArenaNet to cut costs.

IMO, the reason why Trahearne talks so much is because it’s cheaper to have a single voice actor saying those things than recording the same dialogues with 10 different voice actors; we all know the price we, players, pay for that, considering how Trahearne half steals the spotlight from our characters.

Adding more voices for player characters would not only add little to the game, but it would also make ArenaNet more likely to use Trahearne-like shortcuts, and so make the next stories worse than the main campaign story was. Since it’s likely that ArenaNet will add more races in the future, with more voice actors, offering more than one voice per race-gender combination would demand ArenaNet to add 4 new voice actors per new race introduced. Two new races later, ArenaNet would need to record the same line with 28 different voices for every single thing said by our characters, which would be a massive waste of money.

That’s why I said “maybe” ^^

It’s difficult to create various looking characters of different age groups if the voice wont fit.

But that’s a minor issue.

Bigger issue is just the fact so many options are lacking atm.