Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I was playing some Team Fortress 2 again lately and thought:”hey, A-net already said they got some PvP-ideas from TF2, why not use some more?”

Tell me more! (Phase 1)
I am not talking about a First-person view, but about being more open to the mod crowd. There are artist/programmers playing this game with the skills to create skins for weapons, gear, town-clothes or even minis and a lot of people are waiting to see more skins. Why not let them send these skins in and use them, doesn’t it make the design of items a lot easier?

A mmorpg is building a community (Phase 2)
Make a website where people can vote on their favorite skins, give away prices to the players, for example give the player who created the item a special effect on his designed skin (sparkle/Glow/hearts/baby quaggans)

And what on map designing? (phase 3)
Map designing is a lot harder to do, I am talking PvP, but if the community made skin idea works out nicely, A-net may to release some Map-build tool (think ‘Hammer’)

Some other crazy ideas? (Phase 4)
Well yes, I don’t know how A-net makes there Dynamic events, but if it’s some easy tool to make the generic Escort, defend/attack, gather events, why not let the community eventually help you with these to?

While Phase 4 and maybe even 3 are most-likely never going to happen, I believe phase 1 and later phase 2 can help A-net in multiple ways: Easier content, A dedicated community of modders, A sense of A-net listening (more) to there playerbase,…

-Lore breaking, offensive items (looking at you Saints-row) shall not be accepted

If anyone has any remarks/ideas, I am open for your thoughts

see you in Tyria
-Wouw

I think this is an excellent suggestion. There currently aren’t that many weapon skins or armors that I like. I would really love to see what kind of designs the community can come up with. In GW1 there was a design-a-weapon contest once, and the winners actually got their weapon designs in the game. Well, I wouldn’t be against allowing people to model and texture their own weapon/townclothes/armor ideas, and then have other people vote on their favorite. Maybe they can tie this to a special event, and make the winning entries a rare drop during that event.