Guild Wars 2

It’s been brought up numerous times. It’s been (probably) beaten to death, resurrected, and then pounded into the ground again more times than most people care to count. It’s been highly requested and regurgitated over and over in a number of different posts. So I suppose I’m starting this one to renew the cycle, but also to ask why?

New Dances!

Whether imported from the original GW1 or new dances entirely, people have been looking for them for ages. How To Dance, Vol 1. is great, but also kind of stale after a while. 3 dance animations that each loop after maybe 5 seconds, and no real meat. It makes you feel like you’re caught in a time loop, not like you’re dancing.

So yes, we (or I) would like more dances, but I’m also curious as to why new dances haven’t been added? New animations are introduced for lots of new abilities and skills, why have dances been left out after so many years? Even opening up the other races’ dance anims of the current Gw2 would feel like a breath of fresh air. Sell that unlock on the gem store, and I can guarantee an influx of purchases.

I realize that new dances, or doing the current ones for the five races would be a thing, but I also don’t think it’d take much to please people. Is it actually a matter of development cost versus projected return on selling an item? Or is it just a bad case of back-burnering or (I have a harder time imagining this) some sort of system limitation?