Guild Wars 2

I can’t wait to see how quickly people transition from “I saw concept art of a dude on a horse” to “ARENANET U PROMISED ME A PONY!!”

You know what is actualy in game, right now, and not just in concept art? Krait.

That doesn’t mean Krait are going to be a playable race.

So calm down.

marianitten.1247:

Tiger Ashante.1792:

MithranArkanere.8957:

That’s just artwork.

Everyone one knows humans brought horses and had them for some time, but then charr ate all horses, and the rest died because… eh…. uh… some made up illness that affects horses in Tyria or something… let’s call it “Tyrian colic”.
So when people say “Centaurs are half man/half horse” it’s as if you said “half dinosaur” on Earth.

Lol
I asked for confirmation in the main post if the horse picture means we’re getting mounts but so far no reply.

Why you need an official response? You WON’T Get Mounts in this game. Get over it….

You sound angry to me.
I’ve never asked for mounts, nor I’m I asking now, having them or not in gw2 is fine by me so nothing to get over, I’m just being curious.
Ultimately, as far as I’m concerned, having them in the game wouldn’t hurt the lore 1 bit. If we can have flying airships, choppers and submarines, I don’t see why we can’t have mounts.
I’m all for “give people what they want” especially fluff stuff. After all it’s just a game made to entertain and riding mounts is a form of entertainment that would make many people happy and isn’t that what games should be all about?

Tiger Ashante.1792:

marianitten.1247:

Tiger Ashante.1792:

MithranArkanere.8957:

That’s just artwork.

Everyone one knows humans brought horses and had them for some time, but then charr ate all horses, and the rest died because… eh…. uh… some made up illness that affects horses in Tyria or something… let’s call it “Tyrian colic”.
So when people say “Centaurs are half man/half horse” it’s as if you said “half dinosaur” on Earth.

Lol
I asked for confirmation in the main post if the horse picture means we’re getting mounts but so far no reply.

Why you need an official response? You WON’T Get Mounts in this game. Get over it….

You sound angry to me.
I’ve never asked for mounts, nor I’m I asking now, having them or not in gw2 is fine by me so nothing to get over, I’m just being curious.
Ultimately, as far as I’m concerned, having them in the game wouldn’t hurt the lore 1 bit. If we can have flying airships, choppers and submarines, I don’t see why we can’t have mounts.
I’m all for “give people what they want” especially fluff stuff. After all it’s just a game made to entertain and riding mounts is a form of entertainment that would make many people happy and isn’t that what games should be all about?

Some people think games should only be entertaining for them…
I too don’t think mounts of detract from the game experience, no more than people suddenly popping in and out of existence via waypoints. If anything you might see more people actually, you know, moving through the zones, instead of just porting to the nearest waypoint.

He is almost certainly not riding on the horse. Look closely, he is standing to the side of it. Plus, that horse doesn’t look big enough to carry a norn very safely.

I really hope mounts are not added into the game. We don’t need them and they impact the game world a lot more than a lot of people in favor ever seem to realize. They destroy the waypoint dynamic entirely (which I don’t think they want to get rid of only 5ish months after release), it takes quite a few devs and artists away from fixing issues and making new events (cough this one cough), and it destroys any semblance of adventure as everyone will be rushing from point A to point B with no consideration to what will be going on around them.

Wishful thinking isn’t a bad thing… just realize that it most likely isn’t happening ever… thankfully…

DaedalusDragon.3754:

He is almost certainly not riding on the horse. Look closely, he is standing to the side of it. Plus, that horse doesn’t look big enough to carry a norn very safely.

I really hope mounts are not added into the game. We don’t need them and they impact the game world a lot more than a lot of people in favor ever seem to realize. They destroy the waypoint dynamic entirely (which I don’t think they want to get rid of only 5ish months after release), it takes quite a few devs and artists away from fixing issues and making new events (cough this one cough), and it destroys any semblance of adventure as everyone will be rushing from point A to point B with no consideration to what will be going on around them.

Wait… you just described the current state of the game perfectly. I mean… with waypoints everyone just ports from point A to nearest waypoint of point B and then speeds like mad to their destinations. That’s the waypoint dynamic. Waypoints were added in order to minimize travel time, not to encourage it.

If you wanted people to actually travel in the game, then waypoints should have to be much more expensive, require a rather long “charging” animation before porting and maybe even have a cooldown. Then, and only then would you see people travelling through the actual landscape – because they’d have to.

With mounts at least you might get people to ride across the landscape just because it’s cooler than running, and allows you to show off a bit.
So definitely not getting your argument.

Well the way I see it, if Anet is true to their word that they want to please all kinds of players (and I have no reason to doubt them at this point), then having options for those who do want mounts wouldn’t be a bad business idea imo and I don’t personally see anything wrong with it.
Those who don’t want mounts have the convenience of wp, and probably won’t see much of the mounts anyway and therefore it shouldn’t bother them. Those who want to go on a leisurely ride through the magnificent world of Tyria should have that option too. It’s a win, win situation for all.
I got to admit there’s been times when I felt physically tired running around discovering wp’s when rolling out a new character. It would have been nice to just have a ride lol.
Edit for missing words.

MithranArkanere.8957:

Tiger Ashante.1792:

marianitten.1247:

Tiger Ashante.1792:

MithranArkanere.8957:

That’s just artwork.

Everyone one knows humans brought horses and had them for some time, but then charr ate all horses, and the rest died because… eh…. uh… some made up illness that affects horses in Tyria or something… let’s call it “Tyrian colic”.
So when people say “Centaurs are half man/half horse” it’s as if you said “half dinosaur” on Earth.

Lol
I asked for confirmation in the main post if the horse picture means we’re getting mounts but so far no reply.

Why you need an official response? You WON’T Get Mounts in this game. Get over it….

You sound angry to me.
I’ve never asked for mounts, nor I’m I asking now, having them or not in gw2 is fine by me so nothing to get over, I’m just being curious.
Ultimately, as far as I’m concerned, having them in the game wouldn’t hurt the lore 1 bit. If we can have flying airships, choppers and submarines, I don’t see why we can’t have mounts.
I’m all for “give people what they want” especially fluff stuff. After all it’s just a game made to entertain and riding mounts is a form of entertainment that would make many people happy and isn’t that what games should be all about?

Some people think games should only be entertaining for them…
I too don’t think mounts of detract from the game experience, no more than people suddenly popping in and out of existence via waypoints. If anything you might see more people actually, you know, moving through the zones, instead of just porting to the nearest waypoint.

A Norn riding a horse would be like one of us riding a Dachshund.

My argument is that nobody will be travelling around these zones anyway, but if they add mounts they will definitely be removing, or nearly removing, waypoints. With that in place I have to run through zones (with my mount) if a player wants help with a boss… and that takes a while unless they make these mounts move at like 300% movement speed which would be insulting.

Waypoints are a good means of travel and I’d hate to see it fall by the wayside for people who want more things to show off to their friends and random strangers. It would be like the legendaries except they have a huge advantage over people without them. At least the legendaries have identical stats to exotic gear.

Without fail, every post I ever read in favor of mounts only ever talks about how it won’t change anything and instead just be a nice cosmetic for the people who do want them. And unless they really only make them cosmetic with no speed buff, it will be a big change. Just imagine WvW with mounts. It changes the balance of dying and respawning. Look at the big picture. Completing map completion becomes a run through task where nobody does anything more than absolutely necessary. Big picture.

But, whatever, believe whatever you’d like. I’m pretty certain they aren’t adding them as I do remotely remember seeing a dev post that they weren’t adding them… It cheapens the experience and would give more fire for the people who compare this game to WoW to spew at everybody.

Also, this:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Incoming-Mounts/first#post1265016

WoW is a great game, with lots of great design solutions, so those who want to spew WoW hate at something just because it reminds them of it, are irrelevant. People like that will find something to hate, its pointless to try and please them.

And why would adding mounts automatically mean removing waypoints? Nothing is faster than teleportation. People would still be using them if they wanted to get somewhere in a hurry.

If they ever add mounts in this game, they will be more of a fluff item than a real necessity. Something you take out for a ride, excuse the pun. Not something you HAVE to use.
Simply don’t see anything bad about the idea.

Well anyway folks, its been confirmed in the main post.

“Martin Kerstein

Head of Global Community

Just want to step in here for a second to comment on a few speculations:

There will be no mounts, no Cantha and no dragons coming with this story arc.
Sorry if that destroyed some dreams."

Even if anet were to add mounts to the game (they aren’t), why do people think they would put them in a free content update?

Things like new races, new areas (Cantha), new classes, and mounts are pretty much strictly going to be in paid expansions.

That’s no horse, it’s a mounted scrawny minotaur slave