Guild Wars 2

When going from somewhere to LA is quite a pain, if, of course, I wanna save some silver. I need to teleport to Heart of the Mists and then take gate to LA.
A lot of loading for me

Why not give us possibility to instantly teleport to one chosen WP? Or just to capitals?

So you’re saying that you have access to a direct teleport to LA, but don’t want to pay for it. And you also have access to a free teleport to LA, but are unwilling to wait for it.

kokocabana.8153:

So you’re saying that you have access to a direct teleport to LA, but don’t want to pay for it. And you also have access to a free teleport to LA, but are unwilling to wait for it.

lol… that pretty much sums it up

And you are saying that it’s ok to have unconvenient solutions so why bother changing them?

I’m saying that there is a tradeoff between saving time and money. This applies to most aspects of MMOs. If money is not an issue, then spend $15/month on gems and sell it for gold. Never worry about the teleport fee. If time is not an issue, then wait 20 seconds for a few load screens and save your money. Asking to save on both is instant gratification that breaks the tradeoff. Developers need that tradeoff to keep you playing their game and if players won’t tolerate that tradeoff, then there’s no point in playing.

And how are these solutions inconvenient? It’s instant teleportation. Taking WoW as an example, I would have to wait for the griffon to fly me from one waypoint to another. I don’t save time or money. Ah, but they do have a hearthstone to instantly teleport you back to a city. It’s free and instant but the cooldown is an hour or two(haven’t played wow in years). So on one hand I have to wait 20 seconds to get a free teleport to a city in GW2 or wait up to an hour in WoW. Otherwise it’s pay for an instant teleport in GW2 or pay to sit on a griffon for 5 minutes in WoW.

How about the option to using Karma to teleport to home cities.

This can be done by selling a item for karma in the cities. That lets you teleport to any of the main cities for free.

That’s a reasonable solution to spend all that excess karma, but I wouldn’t say it’s free. You earn both karma and gold when doing events. If you’re farming karma to buy these, you would be earning just as much gold at the same time to do the same without the item.