Guild Wars 2

would be easier to just have all your gold to be used and viewed from all characters.

so instead of having 10 gold on one, and 1 gold on the other, youll just have 11 gold to be used from any character.

put it in the bank and then any character on the account can access it as needed.

Catisa.6507:

put it in the bank and then any character on the account can access it as needed.

i know you can put it in the bank, but it would be easier and faster to just combine it.

imagine if they had laurels for every separate character. why would you have to put laurels in to the bank instead of just having it across your account

Each of my characters carries 10 silver, which is plenty for repairs and way pointing. At the end of the day, I clear out inventory and put any excess money in the bank. Why do your characters need to carry a lot of money around? It’s not like they need to buy much, or anything during most play. If they do need something special, like gear upgrade, you can get it before or after you play.

I agree with this! Like Gems, Gold should be accessible from each character. Having to go back and forth to the bank is a waste of time. Life is too precious to waste on this. Gaming, as in real life, should be streamlined to be as efficient with our time as possible.

The only extra bank for gold should be our guild banks.

I don’t really see why this is needed in the game. Similarly to Astral, each of my characters keep a minimum of 50s. Every time they level up, I go to LA to sell all my junk/items, buy anything I need, and deposit whatever money I have left over. It’s not that difficult.

If ANet did this, I hope it’s optional because I would probably disable it.

lookitsandrea.8531:

I don’t really see why this is needed in the game. Similarly to Astral, each of my characters keep a minimum of 50s. Every time they level up, I go to LA to sell all my junk/items, buy anything I need, and deposit whatever money I have left over. It’s not that difficult.

If ANet did this, I hope it’s optional because I would probably disable it.

never said it was difficult whatsoever.

simply stated that its easier and faster. if theres people like you who would prefer the extra hassle to port to a bank, run to the bank and deposit the money, and then log on to the character that the money is needed on, port to a bank, run to it, and withdraw it instead of just conveniently having it shared across character’s, i can see how it wouldnt get much support

but imo thats just silly.

Astral Projections.7320:

Each of my characters carries 10 silver, which is plenty for repairs and way pointing. At the end of the day, I clear out inventory and put any excess money in the bank. Why do your characters need to carry a lot of money around? It’s not like they need to buy much, or anything during most play. If they do need something special, like gear upgrade, you can get it before or after you play.

it wouldnt be much use to someone who only has “10” silver on each character……
and how is 10 silver enough for way pointing? thats like 5 ports. 2 of which would be used to get to the bank and back to where you were

but say i had 30 gold on my main, and i wanted to buy some dye for my other account. it would be easier and faster to not have to go to a bank on both characters and just have it automatically accessible to my other character.

Envy.1679

how is 10 silver enough for way pointing? thats like 5 ports. 2 of which would be used to get to the bank and back to where you were

Some of us are real penny pinchers and never waypoint anywhere unless we absolutely have to, or we get killed. To access the bank (and BLTP), we instead head to our Borderlands in WvW and visit the Master Crafters there rather than waypoint back to a city.

Envy.1679:

Astral Projections.7320:

Each of my characters carries 10 silver, which is plenty for repairs and way pointing. At the end of the day, I clear out inventory and put any excess money in the bank. Why do your characters need to carry a lot of money around? It’s not like they need to buy much, or anything during most play. If they do need something special, like gear upgrade, you can get it before or after you play.

it wouldnt be much use to someone who only has “10” silver on each character……
and how is 10 silver enough for way pointing? thats like 5 ports. 2 of which would be used to get to the bank and back to where you were

but say i had 30 gold on my main, and i wanted to buy some dye for my other account. it would be easier and faster to not have to go to a bank on both characters and just have it automatically accessible to my other character.

I go to La thru the Mists or I go to WvW to access the bank there. If I go to WvW then the return is free also. Usually I’m not shopping while I’m playing though. I start off with 10 silver and even with waypointing while playing I make enough money to have money to put away at the end of the day. Different play styles I guess. ^^ If you frequently stop playing to shop or your outgo exceeds your income, then yeah, you will need to carry more money.

I disagree with this suggestion.
Whenever I play a character I make it a strict policy to not take money from my bank, and to keep the character as self-reliant as possible. I do this because it’s otherwise too easy to burn up any saved gold.

If all my gold was shared, I would have to track exactly how much I started with, and would just be more annoying.

Bank access is easy enough as it is (Especially since you have full bank access through any crafting stations as well), leave it as it is.

Seriously? Putting money in the bank is too time-consuming? I mean really? I mean REEEEAAALLLLY?

Draknar.5748:

Seriously? Putting money in the bank is too time-consuming? I mean really? I mean REEEEAAALLLLY?

its faster to just have it always accesible. it saves 2 loading screens and two ports

what would be wrong with that?

so far the arguments i heard were “id rather have it so that i have to port to the bank and back and then do it again on my other character”

someones even implying they like the way it is because they dont have self control.

oh well. they do it karma, they do it with laurels, they do it with glory, and no one is complaining about it for those currencies. dont see why they would complain about it with gold

Actually they don’t do it with Karma. Karma is character bound. Laurels are the only currency directly shared by all characters.

And I didn’t “imply” that it’s a bad idea because of lack of self control on my part. I said that it makes tracking whether you’ve gained or lost gold over the lifetime of a character incredibly more difficult.

For example, I start with a new character, and at level 40, I now have 3 gold. Currently, knowing that I never withdrew gold, I can safely say I’ve gained gold, and not wasted it on buying armor/weapons or crafting mats.

With your system, when I reach 40 and have 11 gold, I’ll be wondering if I managed to make some gold or spend more than I earned. Managing your gold may not be important to you, but it is to me, since I have so precious little of it and don’t want to waste any of it while leveling my characters (because the best spend gold is only for your lvl 80s, where you won’t be discarding any gear/weapons you buy in a day or two, as you do with leveling)

ZenonSeth.5739:

Actually they don’t do it with Karma. Karma is character bound. Laurels are the only currency directly shared by all characters.

And I didn’t “imply” that it’s a bad idea because of lack of self control on my part. I said that it makes tracking whether you’ve gained or lost gold over the lifetime of a character incredibly more difficult.

For example, I start with a new character, and at level 40, I now have 3 gold. Currently, knowing that I never withdrew gold, I can safely say I’ve gained gold, and not wasted it on buying armor/weapons or crafting mats.

With your system, when I reach 40 and have 11 gold, I’ll be wondering if I managed to make some gold or spend more than I earned. Managing your gold may not be important to you, but it is to me, since I have so precious little of it and don’t want to waste any of it while leveling my characters (because the best spend gold is only for your lvl 80s, where you won’t be discarding any gear/weapons you buy in a day or two, as you do with leveling)

i was wrong about karma, but youre wrong about laurels being the only account bound currency.

gems and glory are also shared throughout your characters. you wouldnt have 1 k gems on 1k character and 2 k on the other, would you?

and in your previous post you said that if coin became account bound you would “burn though” it too fast. that sounds like a personal self control problem any way you say it

also what matters if you on a level 40 and have 11 gold ? youre level 40, you know you have 11 gold to your name. does it matter if its from your other characters than if it was from your level 40 character? why does it matter which character it came from? if youre worried about keeping track of your gold then account bound would be a whole lot easier. youll be able to see your total gold when you log on, and your total gold when you log off. it isnt hard

True – Gems and Glory. Gems are not earned through gameplay directly, and I don’t do that much pvp so Glory escaped me.

I said it would be too easy (at least don’t fuzz my words) to burn through, and if you insist on calling it a “personal self control” just to trivialize the issue and thus ignore it, this is your own personal view, not everyone’s.

I still think you’re missing the point though. I don’t want to be constantly able to withdraw from all my available money. I want to have some of them saved up somewhere. Even more, I don’t want each character to have a common pool so that if I use some I then find my other character’s funds have decreased, and I suddenly realize I have been saving on my other character for something.

But anyway, its your opinion, and only an opinion, that gold should be combined. It’s not a case where you can casually dismiss others’ point of view just because you don’t like it, because your point of view has the exact same weight as others’.

And my opinion is that I don’t like this idea, and rather have it as the system is now – separate gold on all characters.

ZenonSeth.5739:

True – Gems and Glory. Gems are not earned through gameplay directly, and I don’t do that much pvp so Glory escaped me.

I said it would be too easy (at least don’t fuzz my words) to burn through, and if you insist on calling it a “personal self control” just to trivialize the issue and thus ignore it, this is your own personal view, not everyone’s.

I still think you’re missing the point though. I don’t want to be constantly able to withdraw from all my available money. I want to have some of them saved up somewhere. Even more, I don’t want each character to have a common pool so that if I use some I then find my other character’s funds have decreased, and I suddenly realize I have been saving on my other character for something.

But anyway, its your opinion, and only an opinion, that gold should be combined. It’s not a case where you can casually dismiss others’ point of view just because you don’t like it, because your point of view has the exact same weight as others’.

And my opinion is that I don’t like this idea, and rather have it as the system is now – separate gold on all characters.

i never said you couldnt store your gold in the bank even if they did make it account bound..

I too prefer to keep my characters as self-sufficient as possible, only spending the gold they have earned themselves. Makes it much easier to plan your purchases for each of your characters, and not accidentally spending the gold on your Nec when you actually needed it on your Mesmer.

I understand that some people might want to concentrate all the gold on their main character, so your suggestion would make sense for them. However, I can’t support your suggestion, as it would make things more complicated, rather than easier, for me.

Basically OP is asking for the Devs to do work for him and change the game. To revamp the bank system and make the old system obsolete. To get this result, better reasons need to be given than what have been given so far. So far I have seen reasons of this level, I may want to buy something and its inconvenient to switch characters, or it’s inconvenient to go thru loading screens or to waypoint to LA or WvW for free. In answer, the Devs are going to point to the cash shop items, Bank Access Express and Trading Posts express. Why should they redo the game and lose money in sales on top of that? The people who want this will need to offer compelling reasons for it.

Astral Projections.7320:

Basically OP is asking for the Devs to do work for him and change the game. To revamp the bank system and make the old system obsolete. To get this result, better reasons need to be given than what have been given so far. So far I have seen reasons of this level, I may want to buy something and its inconvenient to switch characters, or it’s inconvenient to go thru loading screens or to waypoint to LA or WvW for free. In answer, the Devs are going to point to the cash shop items, Bank Access Express and Trading Posts express. Why should they redo the game and lose money in sales on top of that? The people who want this will need to offer compelling reasons for it.

i never said anything about changing the bank. the system is already in the game to have currencies account bound (gems, laurels, and glory already use such a system)

i honestly have no idea where you think i said i wanted the bank system “revamped” the bank is for your items and theres only a small part where you can withdraw and deposit gold. making gold account bound is a long shot off from “revamping” the bank system….

and the bank express is in my experience used mostly for items (storing stuff after events or dungeons) i dont know anyone who summons a bank express because they feel too overburdened with gold….

and why did you even mention trading post express? nothing whatsoever to do with gold becoming account bound

try to stay on topic with your posts please

Envy.1679:

Astral Projections.7320:

Basically OP is asking for the Devs to do work for him and change the game. To revamp the bank system and make the old system obsolete. To get this result, better reasons need to be given than what have been given so far. So far I have seen reasons of this level, I may want to buy something and its inconvenient to switch characters, or it’s inconvenient to go thru loading screens or to waypoint to LA or WvW for free. In answer, the Devs are going to point to the cash shop items, Bank Access Express and Trading Posts express. Why should they redo the game and lose money in sales on top of that? The people who want this will need to offer compelling reasons for it.

i never said anything about changing the bank. the system is already in the game to have currencies account bound (gems, laurels, and glory already use such a system)

i honestly have no idea where you think i said i wanted the bank system “revamped” the bank is for your items and theres only a small part where you can withdraw and deposit gold. making gold account bound is a long shot off from “revamping” the bank system….

and the bank express is in my experience used mostly for items (storing stuff after events or dungeons) i dont know anyone who summons a bank express because they feel too overburdened with gold….

and why did you even mention trading post express? nothing whatsoever to do with gold becoming account bound

try to stay on topic with your posts please

In order to make cash across all accounts, you have to change the game. If you change it that much, the old bank system is obsolete. Why have a money bank at all if its on your hero panel the same as gems and laurels or if all characters carry it at once. If you want more gold than what you are personally carrying and don’t want to waypoint to a nearby crafting place, WvW or LA, then that bank express is what the Devs have put in the game. I’m not arguing that its cost effective, merely that the Devs are going to say “that’s available” to any argument concerning convenience. You will need a better reason than convenience to counter that.

I mentioned the Trading Post express because I misread that person’s post. I thought he meant he was doing the buying out in explorable area.

Edit: I’m not talking about making the whole bank obsolete, just the gold storage part.

Astral Projections.7320:

Envy.1679:

Astral Projections.7320:

Basically OP is asking for the Devs to do work for him and change the game. To revamp the bank system and make the old system obsolete. To get this result, better reasons need to be given than what have been given so far. So far I have seen reasons of this level, I may want to buy something and its inconvenient to switch characters, or it’s inconvenient to go thru loading screens or to waypoint to LA or WvW for free. In answer, the Devs are going to point to the cash shop items, Bank Access Express and Trading Posts express. Why should they redo the game and lose money in sales on top of that? The people who want this will need to offer compelling reasons for it.

i never said anything about changing the bank. the system is already in the game to have currencies account bound (gems, laurels, and glory already use such a system)

i honestly have no idea where you think i said i wanted the bank system “revamped” the bank is for your items and theres only a small part where you can withdraw and deposit gold. making gold account bound is a long shot off from “revamping” the bank system….

and the bank express is in my experience used mostly for items (storing stuff after events or dungeons) i dont know anyone who summons a bank express because they feel too overburdened with gold….

and why did you even mention trading post express? nothing whatsoever to do with gold becoming account bound

try to stay on topic with your posts please

In order to make cash across all accounts, you have to change the game. If you change it that much, the old bank system is obsolete. Why have a money bank at all if its on your hero panel the same as gems and laurels or if all characters carry it at once. If you want more gold than what you are personally carrying and don’t want to waypoint to a nearby crafting place, WvW or LA, then that bank express is what the Devs have put in the game. I’m not arguing that its cost effective, merely that the Devs are going to say “that’s available” to any argument concerning convenience. You will need a better reason than convenience to counter that.

I mentioned the Trading Post express because I misread that person’s post. I thought he meant he was doing the buying out in explorable area.

thats more clear, but im not even asking to remove the option to store gold in the bank. i would do it myself to just make a savings account for gold. with that in mind, my option wouldnt change the bank whatsoever. which is definitely not “revamping” the bank system as you claimed. especially when you keep in mind that the gold storing portion of the bank is only half of the banks function.

which brings me to say, again, that the bank express is in my experience more for the items in the bank, not withdrawing or depositing gold. so anet would lose little if any money from making gold account bound due to loss of bank express sales.

but i understand that you wont like it and the other guy pretty much summed up what most peoples opinion about it seem to be which is theyd rather have each character have a sepperate gold storage

Envy.1679:

lookitsandrea.8531:

I don’t really see why this is needed in the game. Similarly to Astral, each of my characters keep a minimum of 50s. Every time they level up, I go to LA to sell all my junk/items, buy anything I need, and deposit whatever money I have left over. It’s not that difficult.

If ANet did this, I hope it’s optional because I would probably disable it.

never said it was difficult whatsoever.

simply stated that its easier and faster. if theres people like you who would prefer the extra hassle to port to a bank, run to the bank and deposit the money, and then log on to the character that the money is needed on, port to a bank, run to it, and withdraw it instead of just conveniently having it shared across character’s, i can see how it wouldnt get much support

but imo thats just silly.

Well, I should mention that I never have to switch to another character to get money in order to purchase something… Because I’m always depositing money into the bank. It makes more sense, to me, to go to LA every level or so to sell all the stuff in my pack and deposit any leftover money. Going to Mists and then LA takes me about… 1 minute, probably. Barely any time wasted. It’s just how I play, and I understand everyone plays differently. But like I said, if ANet implemented this, I would not use it.