Free travel to Lion's Arch
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The OP has a point (two really): While travel to LA is free,
a) the way it’s done is unnecessarily inconvenient, and
b) channelling people through LA this way depopulates the other cities across Tyria.
On the other hand, there is an upside to the way the free travel to LA is implemented: PvE’ers who might never otherwise go to WvW and PvP are encouraged to regularly transit through those zones and this may prompt them to investigate further. You could argue this ultimately benefits the players if leads them to discover they like areas of the game they might otherwise never visit. However, ArenaNet’s strategic drive to increase PvP participation (WvW is considered a stepping stone to PvP) seems a far stronger reason for free travel to LA remaining the way it is.
Until ArenaNet decide the benefits to PvE’ers outweigh the potential benefit to ArenaNet of encouraging players towards PvP, this isn’t likely to change much.
Free travel to the character’s home city would be awesome.
I like this idea simply because I think it could populate the more desolate home cities just a bit more than they are now. I Love the main cities way more than Lions arch, especially Divinities reach, they put so much love, thought, care and detail into that city, I wish I had more reasons to go back there.
Well, don’t care about the wp thing myself. But one way they can make it easy to populate the various cities is to give us world chat. Ppl taking a play break congregate where they can talk. And you can only talk to the map you’re in. So…. LA since it’s the hub. This is the first mmo I’ve played where there wasn’t a worldwide chat tab. Makes no sense. Not only just for ppl on break, but for shout outs for event help and the like. But I’d rather hang out in the other cities sometimes too. But no one is there to talk to, so….. LA
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