Guild Wars 2

I remember in beta. It was claimed before prepurchase that dyes would be account wide. During beta and after prepurchase arena net hired a former employee of Nexon that worked in maple story ‘Kristin Cox’ I believe her name was. After that point dyes we’re change to be character wide unlocks with the possibility of duplicates. The community was pretty upset. And we (myself included) flooded the forums to voice our complaints. We were told that account wide dyes would not happen (despite telling us it would and prompting us to buy the game under that false assumption.) we were told character wide unlocks was the best thing for player progression. Several people (3 if I remember right) were banned by moderators for ‘showing disrespect’ in a truly immature display of ‘moderation’. The whole thing was bullcrap. But oh well. I moved on. Didn’t buy a single dye pack though. Kept my promise there.

Years go by.
No expansion.
Get bored of the same weapons and same skills for 2 years.
Leave to play archeage
Trion f***s it up
Come back to gw2

What’s this? All my exotic dyes on my new character???

Google. Jaw drops.

So…… You went and reversed your decision to make dyes character wide??? Well what do you know. I can only imagine why you did this. Maybe the big head from being the top selling game on Amazon deflated and you learned that listening to your customers was probably a good idea? (Same reason for you making an expansion pack too?)

So please enlighten me arenanet? You were wrong and we were right? Or are you intentionally damaging character progression for the sake of holding on to your leaking player base. I’d really love to know.

At least an admission that is was a sorry excuse for a cash grab would suffice.

Oh and before banning me or deleting my post for criticism, just remember that no good company needs to silence expression of free speach.

You do know that guarantees of freedom of speech do not apply to private property right ?

Anet changed away from the beta dye system because players complained about the intense time gating.

Now you cannot get dyes as a drop, they are tied to either a few through level up rewards or cash shop purchases.

During beta and after prepurchase arena net hired a former employee of Nexon

False.
Said employee was hired in March 2012.
Pre-purchase started in April 2012.

You can say “I told you so, it should have been that way all along,” as much as you like, but you want, what, an company apology on top of that?

No. Just…no.

Ashen.2907:

Now you cannot get dyes as a drop, they are tied to either a few through level up rewards or cash shop purchases.

You can buy them with laurels as well (5 laurels for one unidentified dye).

A side effect of making dyes account wide was their decrease in value – a few rare ones are still quite expensive, but you can amass a nice selection of dyes without a large investment these days. Many are below 1s on the TP.

ariod.1078:

Oh and before banning me or deleting my post for criticism, just remember that no good company needs to silence expression of free speach.

Your freedom of speech became null and void as soon as you clicked on “I Agree to the Terms of Service” during forum registration.

Elegy.2159:

Ashen.2907:

Now you cannot get dyes as a drop, they are tied to either a few through level up rewards or cash shop purchases.

You can buy them with laurels as well (5 laurels for one unidentified dye).

A side effect of making dyes account wide was their decrease in value – a few rare ones are still quite expensive, but you can amass a nice selection of dyes without a large investment these days. Many are below 1s on the TP.

Forgot about the laurels option. Thank you.

This thread is, like, ten months late.