Guild Wars 2

I have played several mmorpg games over the past decades that had very sophisticated music systems. As a multi-instrumentalist, I enjoy writing and playing music not only in real life but also in games. Now, gw2 has a very rudimentary and clunky music/instrument playing system, which I think should be revamped. Based on some other mmo games i’ve played over the years, i would like to propose some suggestions.

1) Implement a system where npcs sell music scrolls, on which players can write music and press a button to auto play. And also implement a party music system where members in your party can participate with you to play in sync. This was a very popular mechanic in a mmo game called mabinogi, where people would brainstorm for days and weeks, and literally come up with entire orchestras with each members having a music scroll for a different melody line or base line. I feel that without such system, the musical instruments that are on sale in the cash shop are really not worth even 100 gems, let alone 800.

2) if implementing a music scroll is the least of Arena Net’s priorities, then please adjust the instrument playing system so it is less clunky. A problem that most people who play around with instruments in gw2 is that the responsiveness of these instruments are terribly slow, rendering players unable to execute musical techniques such as arpeggios or passacaglias.

I feel that if Arena Net revamped gw2’s music system, then it would be killing two birds with 1 stone. I am certain that more players would actually buy those musical instruments from cash shop since they can actually do something substantial with them, such as you know.. actually playing music. And plus. everyone loves music, so having a revamped system would make the player base much more happy, and give them more stuff to do other than just mechanically grinding dungeons or pvp.