Guild Wars 2

All right, this is not the first time someone asks this question, and I know it can become a bit repetitive and frustrating to my fellow players, but sooner or later ANet developers will answer. So I’m gonna try this once again.

Capes. Are they still in development? If yes, did you make any progress since 2013, when Colin said you were working on them in the free time? There is still hope for us to see this back piece in GW2?

I hope to see an answer this time, or in a month I’ll be here again with the same question.

I apologize to anyone who rolled his eyes for reading this question the 100th time.

Nothing is off the table.

This is, like, the third cape topic in the past 36 hours. Ugh.

Nothing is off the table, but I don’t think they’ll be in the game anytime soon. At all.

And making the same post once a month won’t make the devs pay attention or want to respond.

Actually I hope one day they’ll start reacting to serious requests as fast as they react to gem store ideas.

sorry it just had to be done

gerry.6519:

sorry it just had to be done

Thank you!

This picture is even more cliche than cape threads. Haha funny… not

Many.8419:

Haha funny… not

Also hasn’t been funny since the 80s.

/thread

I hope they address the Hobosack issue before taking the time to add capes. Since, like all backpiece skins, a cape would be pretty useless to an engineer with the current state of things.

Don’t lose hope though, just remember all the numerous Guild Hall-threads and the naysayers from them that confidently declared no Guild Halls will come

This is assuming capes have been in development at all since they were scrapped during or before beta.

Capes apparently have major issues with Charr anatomy. That’s the last word I ever heard on the subject.

I’d be willing to bet the capes they could provide without totally FUBARing everyone’s frame rate would be closer to wavy sandwich board backpacks than anything you would want to display regularly. Then there is the issue of putting a cape on a Charr….and then the Charr running on all fours.

The average player has NO idea the processing and graphical resources required to make a single waving flag, much less 100 flowing capes display with any hope of being convincing to anyone. Better they don’t even try than give us some half- kitten d, horridly stiff banner hanging on your back.

Also, there are literally hundreds of things that should be addressed before they spend a moment on even looking at this “issue”.

Kal Spiro.9745:

This is assuming capes have been in development at all since they were scrapped during or before beta.

In late 2013 Colin Johanson said in an interview with MattVisual that they were working on it in their free time, and that many devs were really passionate about it.

Brother Grimm.5176:

I’d be willing to bet the capes they could provide without totally FUBARing everyone’s frame rate would be closer to wavy sandwich board backpacks than anything you would want to display regularly. Then there is the issue of putting a cape on a Charr….and then the Charr running on all fours.

The average player has NO idea the processing and graphical resources required to make a single waving flag, much less 100 flowing capes display with any hope of being convincing to anyone. Better they don’t even try than give us some half- kitten d, horridly stiff banner hanging on your back.

Also, there are literally hundreds of things that should be addressed before they spend a moment on even looking at this “issue”.

It could be, or not. If capes are not going to be implemented fine, but I want to hear it from ANet, not from other players assuming things.

Jandopo.2107:

Kal Spiro.9745:

This is assuming capes have been in development at all since they were scrapped during or before beta.

In late 2013 Colin Johanson said in an interview with MattVisual that they were working on it in their free time, and that many devs were really passionate about it.

Brother Grimm.5176:

I’d be willing to bet the capes they could provide without totally FUBARing everyone’s frame rate would be closer to wavy sandwich board backpacks than anything you would want to display regularly. Then there is the issue of putting a cape on a Charr….and then the Charr running on all fours.

The average player has NO idea the processing and graphical resources required to make a single waving flag, much less 100 flowing capes display with any hope of being convincing to anyone. Better they don’t even try than give us some half- kitten d, horridly stiff banner hanging on your back.

Also, there are literally hundreds of things that should be addressed before they spend a moment on even looking at this “issue”.

It could be, or not. If capes are not going to be implemented fine, but I want to hear it from ANet, not from other players assuming things.

This best you will hear directly from the Devs, likely, is “nothing is off the table/it is something we have/are considering/we will update you when we have more information about this topic”.

Good luck.

Jandopo.2107:

All right, this is not the first time someone asks this question, and I know it can become a bit repetitive and frustrating to my fellow players, but sooner or later ANet developers will answer. So I’m gonna try this once again.

Capes. Are they still in development? If yes, did you make any progress since 2013, when Colin said you were working on them in the free time? There is still hope for us to see this back piece in GW2?

I hope to see an answer this time, or in a month I’ll be here again with the same question.

I apologize to anyone who rolled his eyes for reading this question the 100th time.