Guild Wars 2

uberkingkong.8041:

The way I look at this gold sink is that the gold to gem ratio will get better. Theres a lot of unhappy people that don’t like the current ratio and this should help.

Also, if you have a commander tag already, you have the means and probably already have more than enough gold to buy another tag. There’s a bunch of people running around with tons of gold in there pocket, this is nothing so don’t act like its something. Don’t even pretend 300 gold is way outta your league either, and remember its ACCOUNT BOUND now, so 1 purchase of new color is for ALL your characters. Lastly, this is a way to get gold out of the game and people to convert gems to gold, so its a win win.

This won’t improve the ratio. The escalating prices of T6 hasn’t improved the ratio either. There are simply less people either willing or able to spend cash for gems for gold. A 300g sink for a commander tag is so minimal compared to every other item cost.

This is overkill, which is what anet seems to love to do. They either go way too far with something or become so conservative, it’ almost laughable. It certainly seems like a joke to toss that much goop at us for rewards. Mine as well laugh at this one, cause it’s a pretty epic fail. I mean really, we all just need to laugh at some of these decisions/changes.

Each colour will cost you 300g apparently. If this is true then i’m going to quit GW2. Thats a completely ridiculous idea..

mibanax.5463:

Each colour will cost you 300g apparently. If this is true then i’m going to quit GW2. Thats a completely ridiculous idea..

In all seriousness, would you really quit the game over a that?

jheryn.8390:

In all seriousness, would you really quit the game over a that?

You have to think about it this way. Everyone who has been playing WvW for 2 years have been waiting for these little QoL changes that they have been asking for(none of which is hard to implement for anyone with a brain) and finally when it looks like they will start to get them, Anet gives them the middle finger like this. It’s BS and the person who thought this up should feel ashamed.

I know I will get a refund but I wonder how much refund I will get. Because, if I am given the refund of the “excess” gold required to buy the tag (post patch), then, it wouldn’t be fair to me since other people only spend 100g and able to obtain a tag. Kinda feel cheated, spending more on something when you could have gotten it less.

Also, is the colouring really important? Back at the CDI, we were talking about improving the squad management system. Well, some people did suggest about multi-color tag but meh, TBH, is it really useful? I personally prefer a actual improvement on the squad system, a squad system similar to many other MMORPGs which allow you to see the classes, the status and the locations of your squad members.

munkiman.3068:

This won’t improve the ratio. The escalating prices of T6 hasn’t improved the ratio either. There are simply less people either willing or able to spend cash for gems for gold. A 300g sink for a commander tag is so minimal compared to every other item cost.

This is overkill, which is what anet seems to love to do. They either go way too far with something or become so conservative, it’ almost laughable. It certainly seems like a joke to toss that much goop at us for rewards. Mine as well laugh at this one, cause it’s a pretty epic fail. I mean really, we all just need to laugh at some of these decisions/changes.

You make no sense at all. This is minimal, than you go into this is overkill.

Most people that want/need T6 mats already have them, they have there legendary too. So it T6 mats don’t really make a big deal at all. The game is over a year old, people have that junk and just stash it and sell it. Now commander tags that something new. There’s a bunch of people with a massive surplus of gold. This sink will get rid of some of that. And those that don’t, that’s where you get enticed to buy gems and sell to improve gold to gem ratio.

Stop acting like this too much, the friggin thing is account bound. Yall stuck up on colors and forgot that its account bound. You got 8 toons, well thanks to anet all your toons get the tag and you saved 700 gold from buying a commander tag now. You got 5 toons and want to wait till the colors come out? Well thanks to anet all your toons get the colored tags and you saved 200 gold. You have 5 toons and you already have 3 tags, just buy another tag for 100g while it lasts and thank anet because you get color tag and all your toons get it AND you saved 100 gold AND you have 2 different colors.

If anything they should allow people who bought 2 or 3 tags to chose the color for their tag since they won’t get a refund.

sirflamesword.3896:

jheryn.8390:

In all seriousness, would you really quit the game over a that?

You have to think about it this way. Everyone who has been playing WvW for 2 years have been waiting for these little QoL changes that they have been asking for(none of which is hard to implement for anyone with a brain) and finally when it looks like they will start to get them, Anet gives them the middle finger like this. It’s BS and the person who thought this up should feel ashamed.

But isn’kitten little premature to get bent out of shape? We don’t actually know yet whether or not we have to pay for each color. That is just speculation. So if it actually happens that way, maybe it is Anet giving the bird, but until you know I wouldn’t get mad just yet.

I’ve been playing WvW for 2 years and I will wait to see what happens. As far as an account wide commander tag costing 300g. I’m actually good with that. I have four toons I like to play in WvW. Now when I get the urge to buy a tag it will cover all of them.

Who are the poorest players in the game? WvW Commanders!

Who will benefit most from the new color commander tags? WvW Commanders!

Lets make them spend 300g for each additional color they want. Makes sense. Let’s make the poorest people even poorer.

jheryn.8390:

But isn’kitten little premature to get bent out of shape? We don’t actually know yet whether or not we have to pay for each color. That is just speculation. So if it actually happens that way, maybe it is Anet giving the bird, but until you know I wouldn’t get mad just yet.

I’ve been playing WvW for 2 years and I will wait to see what happens. As far as an account wide commander tag costing 300g. I’m actually good with that. I have four toons I like to play in WvW. Now when I get the urge to buy a tag it will cover all of them.

Sorry to burst your bubble…

“Yes, so each color is purchased individually, and it is important to note that there is no hierarchy for colors so that you have to purchase blue and then have to go to red or yellow or whatever.”

Source: http://www.guildmag.com/command-tag-gamescom-2014/

Honestly, as long as its reasonable to get extra colors I’d be OK with the system.
I just want Anet to know I think 300g per color isn’t reasonable, early enough that it can be changed if necessary.

It would be happy too see 300g = basic tag, then you unlock other colors (possibly via badges (wvw)/dragonite (world bosses )/~10-50? g) after that.

Sean.8274:

Who are the poorest players in the game? WvW Commanders!

Who will benefit most from the new color commander tags? WvW Commanders!

Lets make them spend 300g for each additional color they want. Makes sense. Let’s make the poorest people even poorer.

Yes, it make sense. Poorest players will cave in, buy gems and convert to gold. Otherwise they have no chance to get the tag.

If this is true its the cheapest, cheeziest backhanded money grabbing kittenslap in the face I have ever seen. 300g per tag color? Seriously? Its some sort of sick perverted joke of the many ideas and suggestions we’ve been posting on the forums for 2 years.

Tbh, I’ve rather not have colors than this type of implementation.

If ANet actually announces this rather than yet another data mined “fact” posted on Reddit, then you can all panic and complain.

Behellagh.1468:

If ANet actually announces this rather than yet another data mined “fact” posted on Reddit, then you can all panic and complain.

Since an Anet staff member actually commented on the Reddit thread, it’s save to say that this is official. Can we now panic and complain, please?

Ignavia.7420:

Behellagh.1468:

If ANet actually announces this rather than yet another data mined “fact” posted on Reddit, then you can all panic and complain.

Since an Anet staff member actually commented on the Reddit thread, it’s save to say that this is official. Can we now panic and complain, please?

Sorry, I thought this was another “ANet is going charge us to identify potions” thread based on Reddit speculation.

Or paper bag helms.

Or swimsuits.

int randInt return.7810:

Honestly, as long as its reasonable to get extra colors I’d be OK with the system.
I just want Anet to know I think 300g per color isn’t reasonable, early enough that it can be changed if necessary.

It would be happy too see 300g = basic tag, then you unlock other colors (possibly via badges (wvw)/dragonite (world bosses )/~10-50? g) after that.

Sounds awesome! Badges unlock one color, a combination of all dungeon tokens unlock another, dragonite ore unlocks another…ect.. you get it.

I don’t mind this change, I always stayed myself from buying more than my 1 tag in hopes that some day it would be account bound. Having colored tags would be kinda neat but I’m still happy with my Blue Dorito since the colored one does nothing else other than be a new color. On the price point, I am also not really angry at this, 300g isn’t that hard to obtain, and the amount of people that have commander tags already is so large that I feel its lost its prestige. Bumping its price will do well to make the new colors something of a conquest again (No one will buy the blue one for 300g if that don’t have to unless they really just like blue)

The functionality of an alternate tag color vs the functionality of a tag in general just doesn’t seem close enough for them to have the same cost.
Supposing that having an icon on the map is worth 300g, would the extra ability to change the icons color really be worth another 300g?
The extra utility might be worth something, but it doesn’t provide as much utility as the initial tag.

That aside, charging the people trying to lead the community and make the game better more for their efforts doesn’t seem like a great idea either.

Sean.8274:

Who are the poorest players in the game? WvW Commanders!

Who will benefit most from the new color commander tags? WvW Commanders!

Lets make them spend 300g for each additional color they want. Makes sense. Let’s make the poorest people even poorer.

So much this.

Adding in a gold sink for a population that’s already perpetually poor…brilliant idea.

I was excited about this change until I heard it was 300g per color.

Feels like Anet skimmed over the CDI they had about WvW eight months ago, but didn’t understand what the majority of people were actually asking for.

1. People were discussing changing the acquisition of commander tags since gold doesn’t really mean anything to in terms of commanding ability.

If I remember correctly Devon even suggested having a “Commander Line” to spend WvW ability points on. A system like that would have been perfectly acceptable for most, and you could just make it so the ones that cost gold only work in PvE, while the ones that use ability points can only be used in WvW. Then simply issue a mass refund so everyone is happy.

Yet, instead of something that actually shows that a person is willing to invest time in WvW (though I guess technically you can cheat the system with laurels), they go with nonsensically raising the amount of gold you need to spend.

2. People were discussing the ability to change the tag color to more easily coordinate groups.

No one in their right mind is going to buy multiple colors for the insane price of 300g each. The whole purpose of the tag color change was to make it so people could easily assign roles. For example, blue is the zerg, while red is havoc. Instead, we are going to just have a mass of people with ONLY blue which completely defeats the purpose of the change.

Don’t know why Anet thought that it would be a better idea to emphasize commander tags as a gold sink, rather than as a viable way to organize groups.

uberkingkong.8041:

munkiman.3068:

This won’t improve the ratio. The escalating prices of T6 hasn’t improved the ratio either. There are simply less people either willing or able to spend cash for gems for gold. A 300g sink for a commander tag is so minimal compared to every other item cost.

This is overkill, which is what anet seems to love to do. They either go way too far with something or become so conservative, it’ almost laughable. It certainly seems like a joke to toss that much goop at us for rewards. Mine as well laugh at this one, cause it’s a pretty epic fail. I mean really, we all just need to laugh at some of these decisions/changes.

You make no sense at all. This is minimal, than you go into this is overkill.

Most people that want/need T6 mats already have them, they have there legendary too. So it T6 mats don’t really make a big deal at all. The game is over a year old, people have that junk and just stash it and sell it. Now commander tags that something new. There’s a bunch of people with a massive surplus of gold. This sink will get rid of some of that. And those that don’t, that’s where you get enticed to buy gems and sell to improve gold to gem ratio.

Stop acting like this too much, the friggin thing is account bound. Yall stuck up on colors and forgot that its account bound. You got 8 toons, well thanks to anet all your toons get the tag and you saved 700 gold from buying a commander tag now. You got 5 toons and want to wait till the colors come out? Well thanks to anet all your toons get the colored tags and you saved 200 gold. You have 5 toons and you already have 3 tags, just buy another tag for 100g while it lasts and thank anet because you get color tag and all your toons get it AND you saved 100 gold AND you have 2 different colors.

I didn’t complete my thought (work interruption). It’s outrageous that we have to pay 1200g for full functionality of the tag. While 300g isn’t that much in the grand scheme of cost overall, it seems ridiculous to pay (1200g) for full functionality.

Tags should have been account bound from the get-go, everyone feels that. If they want to increase the cost of getting a tag and making them more relevant, then tack on 50 laurels and 5000 badges.

Increasing the gold cost instead requiring experience in the content and requiring paying for each color makes the whole thing pointless.

Makes you wonder if there’s some sort of policy forced on the developers by upper management for this kind of stuff that just doesn’t make any sense at all under any context in the game.

captainteemo.6537:

Why is this another huge gold sink? 300g? Why not make it something like 3000 badges of honor? At least you know someone worked to earn their tag, more than had extra gold to buy it.

I will have you know that my wife had around 6,000 badges of honor and she never played WvW. We’ve both been playing since the three day head start and that is how many she had before I took her elementalist in to EotM to work on her monthlies while she is in school.

Maybe it should be 3,000 gold AND 10,000 badges of honor so it is well understood that they know what they are doing. Or should we up the badges to 100,000?

I know that something needs to be done to remove it from being a status symbol and make it a Mark of Competency.

storiessave.3807:

Sean.8274:

Who are the poorest players in the game? WvW Commanders!

Who will benefit most from the new color commander tags? WvW Commanders!

Lets make them spend 300g for each additional color they want. Makes sense. Let’s make the poorest people even poorer.

So much this.

Adding in a gold sink for a population that’s already perpetually poor…brilliant idea.

I was excited about this change until I heard it was 300g per color.

Have they announced that each color will be 300g yet? They’ve just announced that you will have to buy additional colors, not how much they will cost, as far as I know.

Guhracie.3419:

storiessave.3807:

Sean.8274:

Who are the poorest players in the game? WvW Commanders!

Who will benefit most from the new color commander tags? WvW Commanders!

Lets make them spend 300g for each additional color they want. Makes sense. Let’s make the poorest people even poorer.

So much this.

Adding in a gold sink for a population that’s already perpetually poor…brilliant idea.

I was excited about this change until I heard it was 300g per color.

Have they announced that each color will be 300g yet? They’ve just announced that you will have to buy additional colors, not how much they will cost, as far as I know.

Funny. Lets put that into the last feature patch and the wardrobe.

“hey guys you can now have a wardrobe to hold all your skins! yup, for a measly 1200g (200g per armor slot) you can store all the armor you unlocked! We’ll toss in the weapon stuff for the initial first slot purchase. Isn’t that great!”

Once they start making us pay for fully functional features, it’s all downhill from there.

Arcadio.6875:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2djnv8/interview_with_devon_carver_commander_tag_will_be/

-Duplicates will be reimbursed (Edit: Only if you own 4 tags or more)

ARE THEY KITTEN ME? I have a Commander Tag on my Mainchar and 2 months ago i decided to make a second Commander.. but i couldnt decide on which profession – so i bought the book and put it in my bank. NOW its still in my bank and now they are telling me i dont get my money back for a Tag i never used? I cant even sell or send it to another person. I have not this kittenty book in my bank and its totally useless ?!?!?! It tooks ages for me to get this 100 gold… sry but are U F**** KITTEN ME?

Guhracie.3419:

storiessave.3807:

Sean.8274:

Who are the poorest players in the game? WvW Commanders!

Who will benefit most from the new color commander tags? WvW Commanders!

Lets make them spend 300g for each additional color they want. Makes sense. Let’s make the poorest people even poorer.

So much this.

Adding in a gold sink for a population that’s already perpetually poor…brilliant idea.

I was excited about this change until I heard it was 300g per color.

Have they announced that each color will be 300g yet? They’ve just announced that you will have to buy additional colors, not how much they will cost, as far as I know.

Depends if you consider this official:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2djnv8/interview_with_devon_carver_commander_tag_will_be/cjq72z4
http://www.guildmag.com/command-tag-gamescom-2014/

“Yes, so each color is purchased individually, and it is important to note that there is no hierarchy for colors so that you have to purchase blue and then have to go to red or yellow or whatever. It is also important to point out that if you already bought a commander tag, it will become account bound so that when you’ve bought a blue commander tag you’ll never have to spend money on that again. So if you bought blue already you can go ahead and buy other colors if you want. If you’ve bought more than three you can contact costumer support and get a refund.”

I guess we’ll see more Cursed Shore farming/“exploits” leading up to this date.

Half serious suggestion: commander tags should cost 200 gold, some badges and one stack of those champ bags you get from killing tower lords.

Add a functionality the community has been asking for since the beta and then make sure only those rich people playing the TP can use it first instead of those who need it to coordinate and improve the gameplay.

How to turn a win into a fail…

I imagine that they can provide a contact to allow you to select the color if you have multiple tags, once. Like converting older soul bound tools to account bound.

Yet another example of anet taking a good idea and kittening it up. This is a complete fail cash grab by them. Never mind the fact that when initially mooted it was supposed to be quick win, and has taken almost a year to implement.

Ravion Hawk.4736:

captainteemo.6537:

Why is this another huge gold sink? 300g? Why not make it something like 3000 badges of honor? At least you know someone worked to earn their tag, more than had extra gold to buy it.

I will have you know that my wife had around 6,000 badges of honor and she never played WvW. We’ve both been playing since the three day head start and that is how many she had before I took her elementalist in to EotM to work on her monthlies while she is in school.

Maybe it should be 3,000 gold AND 10,000 badges of honor so it is well understood that they know what they are doing. Or should we up the badges to 100,000?

I know that something needs to be done to remove it from being a status symbol and make it a Mark of Competency.

People don’t realize that these are account bound so they are saving money. Too many spoiled people on these forums I swear. Also about badges, I rarely play WvW too and guess what, I have over 6000. Those people that play WvW religiously and nothing else, “I don’t want to do fractals, I only WvW”, those guys. I’m quite certain they have 100,000 by now or more.

Also, WvW commanders aren’t poor and I’m more than confident they could get 300 gold in no time. They just like to have an abundance of gold in there bank that’s why they whine.

Also, don’t talk to me about being kittened in the kitten by anet. I lost over 500,000 glory, and over 500 match win reward chests and got nothing in returned. You guys that already have tags, are saving 200 gold if you have 1 tag, 100 gold if you have 2 tags, not losing anything if you have 3 but have easy option of buying another one to get a colored one for 100g. and your getting another tag and saving 200g if you have 4. All I see you guys doing right now is whining and only focusing on “im not getting a free color tag”. You just saved 200, 100 gold compared to the people who are going to have to buy the tag later for 300 gold. Also its ACCOUNT bound, so don’t even talk about how its too expensive, its for all your toons, if you got 8 toons, you just saved 700 gold.

Anet did you a favor, new colored tags you can purchase, AND all tags are account bound, even the ones you have now. Stop whining that you aren’t getting more free stuff out of this deal.

If anet wanted to kitten you, they’d say, oh you need to buy 2 more tags to get the account bound. AKA transmutation stones compared to transmutation charges.

Yall aint getting kittened, yall got something from anet, saving gold compared to the people that will have to pay full price. Just because theres NEW stuff coming out, ‘colored tags’, don’t mean you get those for free.

buy now for 100g and if you have 12 toons, that means you saved 1100g +200g

Good game.

remember, Blue is the only color. all others are fake.

alcopaul.2156:

remember, Blue is the only color. all others are fake.

That should be a sig.

Quoted from someone elses post for truth: “Against all odds, the level of incompetence and inability to understand what features players actually want has gone up another notch.”

The whole point of wanting different colour tags is so that commanders can organise their colours amongst themselves, so people know which tag they should be following.

WvW players are completely gold poor compared to PvE players, so the very people who this feature will actually be useful for are the people who can’t afford to buy X extra colours just so they have the flexibility to switch when it’s needed.

Utter design failure. (Or possibly utter deliberate cash-grab, although if so then it will backfire massively as all the WvW commanders quit in disgust.)

ConfusedDave.4271:

Quoted from someone elses post for truth: “Against all odds, the level of incompetence and inability to understand what features players actually want has gone up another notch.”

The whole point of wanting different colour tags is so that commanders can organise their colours amongst themselves, so people know which tag they should be following.

WvW players are completely gold poor compared to PvE players, so the very people who this feature will actually be useful for are the people who can’t afford to buy X extra colours just so they have the flexibility to switch when it’s needed.

Utter design failure. (Or possibly utter deliberate cash-grabl, although if so then it will backfire massively as all the WvW commanders quit in disgust.)

Oh stop, I PvP and you guys make more gold than us. We get 22s if we win a game, 11s if we lose a game, every 8-15 minutes. Then occansional reward track with another 5-20s on average. You guys in WvW get champ bags, bags from killing people, don’t even complain. Also you guys get karma. We don’t even get karma in PvP. Theres no PvP glory either. We don’t even get badges or anything like that either.

If anything, in PvP they should give out bags when you kill people during solo q and team q.

uberkingkong.8041:

Ravion Hawk.4736:

I will have you know that my wife had around 6,000 badges of honor and she never played WvW. We’ve both been playing since the three day head start and that is how many she had before I took her elementalist in to EotM to work on her monthlies while she is in school.

Maybe it should be 3,000 gold AND 10,000 badges of honor so it is well understood that they know what they are doing. Or should we up the badges to 100,000?

I know that something needs to be done to remove it from being a status symbol and make it a Mark of Competency.

People don’t realize that these are account bound so they are saving money. Too many spoiled people on these forums I swear. Also about badges, I rarely play WvW too and guess what, I have over 6000. Those people that play WvW religiously and nothing else, “I don’t want to do fractals, I only WvW”, those guys. I’m quite certain they have 100,000 by now or more.

Also, WvW commanders aren’t poor and I’m more than confident they could get 300 gold in no time. They just like to have an abundance of gold in there bank that’s why they whine.

No, you are wrong. How much gold you made yesterday? I can tell you that instead of making gold, I “lost” 3g during my 4 hours playing WvW yesterday. So yeah, don’t come here claiming knowing things when you say yourself you barely play WvW. To that point, I can also add that the real hardcore players also won’t have this unholy amount of badges since they don’t spend hours per day farming in EoTM and they actually use their badges to exchange for siege. I don’t farm in EoTM, actually I avoid that place, and am sitting at 4k badges right now. Most of them I got from player kills instead of flipping things non stop in a karma train.

To conclude, @ Ravion Hawk, I really hope you meant 300G instead of 3,000G. Otherwise that is a illusion that any WvW player is hoarding gold somewhere. I can, for sure, tell you that most players, the ones that don’t or hardly PvE, have about 10% of less of that amount.

in short: I don’t like that…

• the badge costs gold instead of WvW badges (since when do you actually earn gold in WvW?)
• you have to buy each colour seperate, so if two commanders have bought the same colour there is no way to choose a different one

What was the motivation behind that decision?

people rage over colors ? ANET really can’t please every one, can they..?

first, people who bought asks for the commander tag to be account bound, so ANET says they will make it account bound, but at higher price, and those who bought more than one will get refunded 100g for each extra tag they own.

in addition to that, they are offering OPTIONS for colored tag. but people are raging that they have to pay 300g to get another colored tag. zzzz

isn’t acct bound tag good enough already ?

No, it’s not azizul. You obviously haven’t read the comments of the only players who should have access to the tags in the first place. The colors should be changed for QoL for WvW, not so some random PvE player can buy a tag in the color of his choice to run around on a map, feeling important because his name is displayed. Also, WvW players are poor compared to PvE players and making them pay money they don’t have because it goes towards superior siege is complete bullkitten.

ConfusedDave.4271:

Utter design failure. (Or possibly utter deliberate cash-grab, although if so then it will backfire massively as all the WvW commanders quit in disgust.)

Its a cash grab, they’ve taken the idea and tried to monetise it. If anything this just shows where the power in the game is now and its in the monetisation manager.

why O why is every decision so kittenty

hey guys we gonna give you color tags like you ask for, but also we are shoving something up your kitten

azyume.6321:

uberkingkong.8041:

Ravion Hawk.4736:

I will have you know that my wife had around 6,000 badges of honor and she never played WvW. We’ve both been playing since the three day head start and that is how many she had before I took her elementalist in to EotM to work on her monthlies while she is in school.

Maybe it should be 3,000 gold AND 10,000 badges of honor so it is well understood that they know what they are doing. Or should we up the badges to 100,000?

I know that something needs to be done to remove it from being a status symbol and make it a Mark of Competency.

People don’t realize that these are account bound so they are saving money. Too many spoiled people on these forums I swear. Also about badges, I rarely play WvW too and guess what, I have over 6000. Those people that play WvW religiously and nothing else, “I don’t want to do fractals, I only WvW”, those guys. I’m quite certain they have 100,000 by now or more.

Also, WvW commanders aren’t poor and I’m more than confident they could get 300 gold in no time. They just like to have an abundance of gold in there bank that’s why they whine.

No, you are wrong. How much gold you made yesterday? I can tell you that instead of making gold, I “lost” 3g during my 4 hours playing WvW yesterday. So yeah, don’t come here claiming knowing things when you say yourself you barely play WvW. To that point, I can also add that the real hardcore players also won’t have this unholy amount of badges since they don’t spend hours per day farming in EoTM and they actually use their badges to exchange for siege. I don’t farm in EoTM, actually I avoid that place, and am sitting at 4k badges right now. Most of them I got from player kills instead of flipping things non stop in a karma train.

To conclude, @ Ravion Hawk, I really hope you meant 300G instead of 3,000G. Otherwise that is a illusion that any WvW player is hoarding gold somewhere. I can, for sure, tell you that most players, the ones that don’t or hardly PvE, have about 10% of less of that amount.

You lost 3 gold? Well lemme tell ya something, Eredon Terrace isn’t a WvW server, so no wonder why you lost gold. I play on JQ and lemme tell ya something, these commanders are blinging. Just looking at them you can tell they got the gold in the bag.

Don’t be blaming that theres not enough people either, just bad commanders on ET so nobody follows you guys. As they say, no such thing as a bad student, only bad teacher.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

in short: I don’t like that…

• the badge costs gold instead of WvW badges (since when do you actually earn gold in WvW?)
• you have to buy each colour seperate, so if two commanders have bought the same colour there is no way to choose a different one

What was the motivation behind that decision?

Because right now, everyone is blue. So multiple colors is an improvement.

The price shift is now a throwback to the old days when it was only 100g but now it’s account bound so price hike. Same way gem bought gathering tools went from 800 to 1000 gems when it went from soul bound to account bound. It also may have to do with the notion of BoH as a requirement sort of became moot when they were handed out in achievement chests like M&Ms at a child’s b-day party and the average wealth of players have increased so 100g wasn’t as big of a hurdle now as it was at game launch.

I think they should be tied to upper ranks of WvW as a requirement as well. You need to be rank 90 or higher let’s say.

BlueZone.4236:

Guhracie.3419:

storiessave.3807:

Sean.8274:

Who are the poorest players in the game? WvW Commanders!

Who will benefit most from the new color commander tags? WvW Commanders!

Lets make them spend 300g for each additional color they want. Makes sense. Let’s make the poorest people even poorer.

So much this.

Adding in a gold sink for a population that’s already perpetually poor…brilliant idea.

I was excited about this change until I heard it was 300g per color.

Have they announced that each color will be 300g yet? They’ve just announced that you will have to buy additional colors, not how much they will cost, as far as I know.

Depends if you consider this official:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2djnv8/interview_with_devon_carver_commander_tag_will_be/cjq72z4
http://www.guildmag.com/command-tag-gamescom-2014/

“Yes, so each color is purchased individually, and it is important to note that there is no hierarchy for colors so that you have to purchase blue and then have to go to red or yellow or whatever. It is also important to point out that if you already bought a commander tag, it will become account bound so that when you’ve bought a blue commander tag you’ll never have to spend money on that again. So if you bought blue already you can go ahead and buy other colors if you want. If you’ve bought more than three you can contact costumer support and get a refund.”

I guess we’ll see more Cursed Shore farming/“exploits” leading up to this date.

Again, that doesn’t address the cost of additional colors, it just says there won’t be a specific path to get to any of them. So maybe blue is 300g, but red is 700g.

I m not going to buy another cap for that ridiculous ammount…. Sorry anet, but selling diferent colors at 300 each is hilarious and i know for certain, almost every WvW commander is going to stick to its old blue dorito….

Dawdler.8521:

Sean.8274:

Who are the poorest players in the game? WvW Commanders!

Who will benefit most from the new color commander tags? WvW Commanders!

Lets make them spend 300g for each additional color they want. Makes sense. Let’s make the poorest people even poorer.

Yes, it make sense. Poorest players will cave in, buy gems and convert to gold. Otherwise they have no chance to get the tag.

If this is true its the cheapest, cheeziest backhanded money grabbing kittenslap in the face I have ever seen. 300g per tag color? Seriously? Its some sort of sick perverted joke of the many ideas and suggestions we’ve been posting on the forums for 2 years.

Tbh, I’ve rather not have colors than this type of implementation.

Not this player; no way I’m giving them a single penny. kitten you, Anet!

Signed,

WvW Commander who hovers around 100g max

people, people.. be cheerful .. other colors are optional.. the only real color for tag is blue.

Not really much of a “feature” with that price tag as a buzz kill. I’m not too bothered, personally and not going to waste money on it, but it still isn’t something that could be a positive and fun announcement. You could of just made tags Dye-able and get people to want to buy expensive dyes even more to enhance their special snowflake if you wanted more gem sales.
I do enjoy the account bound tag though.

300 gold for a new color is a joke, you might as well start charging players gold to unlock the use of map chat.