Guild Wars 2

I love the feature pack and hope that you continue to place new emphasis on improving the core systems of the game, getting them closer and closer to perfection.

I have one thing that personally bugs me every time I look at the screen when I play guild wars 2… it feels too cluttered. No offense intended, because I do think the game has lovely graphics, but it’s just that by covering the screen in buttons and writing and maps the immersion is totally broken.

Games that have a minimal UI are more immersive, and as a result more fun.

Since you have realised the wisdom in reinstating a lot of the old systems that made Guild Wars 1 great I would propose you bring back the vast customization options that game boasted.

For anyone that didn’t play or experiment much in that game, basically you could:

• re-size the skill bar, health bars, energy bars etc to ANY size you liked
• you could move them around the screen to anywhere you liked
• You could choose which elements should be on the screen or not

For me, even just the final one would be adequate for this game since you have designed a very tight skill bar that I would not want to split up or modify in any way.

What I would like to (have the option to) lose from the screen:

• The writing in the top right of the screen!! Very bad for immersion!
• the experience bar (and have skillbar automatically drop to bottom of screen if hidden)
• The party button (never used it.. since launch)
• The menu buttons at the top (fade to invisible / reappear if you take the mouse up there)
• The Mini Map. A button integrated in to the map / bottom right corner that shows or hides the map.

I hope you consider this request. Giving people some customization over the UI gives those that care about such things a sort of a connection with the game in the same way that you can “connect” to an extent with your in game character.

I agree with you completely. Even just resizing and changing transparancies would go a long way for me.