Guild Wars 2

There is plenty of room in the login screen.

Maybe there isn’t if you’re running at a lower resolution. Most likely the character select area is a set fixed width for this reason.

There are MUCH MUCH bigger problems this this one… sorry.

1920×1080 here.
There is PLENTY of room for the eight professions that are currently in the game.

There might be bigger problems in the game, but it really isnt up to you to judge.

It is strange. I wish I had a screen where I could see them all standing together.

I use a lower resolution on my laptop (as compared to my desktop), and as Krojack stated, you don’t get to see as many character slots with a lower resolution (5 compared to 7). It’s likely a set cap to keep things neat and orderly, or whatever, for various resolutions/systems.

They can simply scale the portrait down a little bit if there is not enough space.
Or more easily, delete one of their own profession if they cannot even handle 8 on this screen that you always see everyday and yet always one is missing, as the ‘reward’ of paying them $24 for the slot expansion.

Or dynamical adjust the number of visible portraits with screen size.

DaKenster.5801:

I use a lower resolution on my laptop (as compared to my desktop), and as Krojack stated, you don’t get to see as many character slots with a lower resolution (5 compared to 7). It’s likely a set cap to keep things neat and orderly, or whatever, for various resolutions/systems.

Glad you understood what I meant.

Back to the main point, does this really impede how you play the game? I think there are far far more important things to deal with then this. =)

The selection screen probably doesn’t consider screen width, which can be rather annoying, as there isn’t anything important to the sides of the portraits, and plenty of room for a few more portraits.

krojack.4920:

[…]does this really impede how you play the game? I think there are far far more important things to deal with then this. =)

When a ‘quality of life’ change is rather simple, it doesn’t take much time from other things.
And there’s enough people with panoramic screens nowadays to consider this as something that will affect many people. I could be having 10 or 12 slots per page instead of 7 in my screen.

Same boat as xlion, I’m glad it’s been brought up, in a nice manner too by the way.

I’m glad you made a thread about this, its important. Anet, please listen to the playerbase, moving your finger to scroll is grindy and plain not fun. Why do you hate fun?

xlion, though I don’t agree with some of the sarcasm/attitude above, it is important to note that GW1 had a similar scrolling character mechanic, and that at worse, it’s a throwback to the older game, more than a bug. I admit it could be a minor inconvenience to some out there like you, but it’s been done before and IMHO, not really a “problem” per se; especially given the other more glaring problems/bugs that could be dealt with sooner. Rather than downplaying your concern, I am just saying that it might be by design and not deemed a true problem by ANet, but who knows, they may change that as well at some point.

I have 8 characters too, 1 for each profession.
And I also wished I could see all 8 professions in my login screen and not 7 with the other left out. Minor problem, but hey I’m picky =P

Running on 1920 × 1080 btw.

I have to admit the fact that one portrait is off-screen is something I noticed. It doesn’t bother me by any means, but I found it kind of funny that there are eight professions in the game but the horizontal list shows seven. Anyway, totally agree that it would be cool to have something showing them all standing together. Nice suggestion.

i have 9 character slots, so i always have 2 i cannot see on login.

being able to see all 9 would be nice,
being able to see them all side by side across the entire screen would be super!

i have had this in other games, it was good seeing all my avatars lined up like a gang.

I don’t see why you can only see 7 at a time. I mean, you make 8 profession on release, and there is plenty of space on the screen to have that one extra box. So why limit it to only 7? Should be at 8.

I know this isn’t a major issue, but little things like this deserve attention as well.

Since this topic derailed multiple times, started a little personal flamewar amongst other things, we are about to close this topic.

We’ve got your feedback about this situation, thanks for that, but as we mentioned above, the thread went beyond “repair”.