Guild Wars 2

It sucks.

Where are all of the special back slot items like pieces that reveal an area of skin through it and show tattoos? Glowing back pieces such as ghastly green for our beloved Necromancers? Fancy back packs? Satchels? Capes? Attachable, matching hoods for armor and robes?

Why can’t we colour our weapons? Why can’t we make our weapons glow? Why aren’t there glowing dyes? Why can’t we add particle effects to our weapons or armor?

Why can’t we make our armor glow? Why is so much armor ugly?

Why does Sylvari have a SERIOUS lack of plant armor which is what all of their armor should be? Sylvari’s are supposed to grow their armor, not spend 50 levels wearing a god-awfully ugly trenchcoat.

Why does the cash shop suck? Why would I ever buy anything from there, ever?

Why can’t we make our eyes glow other than plain white with light armor Wraith Mask?

Why so little hair styles? Why so little face types?

Why is there so little racial specific armor styles?

Where are all of the buyable emotes? Why can’t I T-Bag my opponent in SPvP after owning him?

The list goes on and on. RuneScape has more cosmetic features than Guild Wars 2. A lot of this isn’t even difficult to implement, nor difficult to put into the cash shop to make money. The cash shop is awful, and for no reason too. It needs cosmetics, which is the easiest thing to be implemented. Also, we want our Sylvari’s to look like Sylvari’s. I’m sure your artists didn’t quit, so they can surely continue working on racial cosmetics. Cosmetics in general take nothing away from content teams, so why isn’t anything being done?

Well, as far as back items go, in the last 2 or 3 updates they have added quite a few. The game is still young yet so we’ll of course see more and nicer looking options in the future.

Why do people expect so much from a game that’s been out for only 4 months? Taking the age of the game into consideration I think the options we had at start and we’ve been given since are just fine.

And just how old is Runescape exactly? And how many of those options did it have when it first launched?

TA has all the cool looking plant armor.

Elthurien.8356:

TA has all the cool looking plant armor.

… as well as the cultural armor (T1,T2,T3)

Still wondering why we have a horrible system like transmutation stones and not appearance slots.

Farzo.8410:

Still wondering why we have a horrible system like transmutation stones and not appearance slots.

Because they sell trans stones = more RL money. I guess they could sell appearance slots as well. Everything is designed around the $ bleed.

Farzo.8410:

Still wondering why we have a horrible system like transmutation stones and not appearance slots.

Because more gems.

Farzo.8410:

Still wondering why we have a horrible system like transmutation stones and not appearance slots.

It’s an MMO without a subscription, they need to generate revenue from somewhere.

Elthurien.8356:

Farzo.8410:

Still wondering why we have a horrible system like transmutation stones and not appearance slots.

It’s an MMO without a subscription, they need to generate revenue from somewhere.

This. No problem with transmutation stones tbh.

Elthurien.8356:

Farzo.8410:

Still wondering why we have a horrible system like transmutation stones and not appearance slots.

It’s an MMO without a subscription, they need to generate revenue from somewhere.

And that’s totally acceptable, cash shop is still horribly lacking though and has been for a stupidly long time now.

If Anet wants to take my money, put more beautiful skins on the cash shop ,not town clothes.

Totally agree with the forum post this game has pretty poor customization, it has less customization than in Runes of Magic (which is F2P) and the cash shop is extremely barren in the customization department, and we shouldn’t need to slave through hundreds of FotM to get a nice back slot…

Crafting is pretty barren to in the weapon skin department, i’m kinda shocked as Anet helped pioneer customization in GW1, but GW2 feels so generic and way too Asian styled for what we do have in my opinion..

Really could use more customization in Cash shop, 3 sets of GW1 armor isn’t enough..

Dante.1508:

Totally agree with the forum post this game has pretty poor customization, it has less customization than in Runes of Magic (which is F2P) and the cash shop is extremely barren in the customization department, and we shouldn’t need to slave through hundreds of FotM to get a nice back slot…

Crafting is pretty barren to in the weapon skin department, i’m kinda shocked as Anet helped pioneer customization in GW1, but GW2 feels so generic and way too Asian styled for what we do have in my opinion..

Really could use more customization in Cash shop, 3 sets of GW1 armor isn’t enough..

Do you mean Asian themed as in grind-centric? or Asian themed as in aesthetics, cos most of it seems pretty westernized in terms of style.

The game was pumped out before it was finished, then the plans got changed to suit the pocket-liners that care little to non about mmo’s, RPing or anything else apart from a buck!
Some months down the line they will look at lotro and go “Oh kitten That’s how it’s done!”.

It’s not even the consideration of the back pieces. It’s downright insane that the function to be able to preview skinns irrespective of class has been taken away – seemingly as a response to the continuous and steady stream of complaints that Anet get about making the black lion trading post eve DISTINCTLY usable.

I agree with the OP. I love Guild Wars as much as the next person, but I found myself wondering the same thing. If Guild Wars is about cosmetics, why do I catch myself recognizing every single piece of armor I see on everybody?

Reinholder.3460:

It’s not even the consideration of the back pieces. It’s downright insane that the function to be able to preview skinns irrespective of class has been taken away – seemingly as a response to the continuous and steady stream of complaints that Anet get about making the black lion trading post eve DISTINCTLY usable.

It’s been confirmed that not being able to preview gear you can’t use is a bug and will be fixed. Not being to preview on the TP though, that is truly annoying.

WHY ARE THERE NO PIERCINGS ANET? WHY?