Guild Wars 2

Wow…. why go and make a change like this and not let us choose to use it or not. This makes my inventory look horrible! At least give us an option under the inventory cog to enable or disable this!

Lol.

It was put in because of the opposite complaints from people that didn’t like how it rearranged their inventory ordering.

I don’t mind it that much, but I agree that anet should just add the option to choose. It’s generally much better.

WatcherJason.2678:

Wow…. why go and make a change like this and not let us choose to use it or not. This makes my inventory look horrible! At least give us an option under the inventory cog to enable or disable this!

What I think you meant was, “Wow, what a great idea for those who have been asking for this since the shared slots released, especially those who just have the free one for HoT owners. Could you also make it optional for those of us who prefer everything to be smooshed together, to take up less of our precious screen real estate?”

Myself, I’m going to try it out for at least a few days before I decide if this is a good thing or an annoyance. On the plus side, it will be easier to arrange each character’s inventory so that foods are all in the same place (as I prefer). On the minus, it’s a lot of extra screen real estate that I’d like to save.

Right. I understand some people didnt like it. But give us the OPTION to have it be either way. like you can change your bags to show or be lumped into one mass, and people like it one way or the other. Give us a kitten toggle!

Heya following the update my Shared Inventory Slots is on a different row that the other slot now. is it normal?

I preferred when the shared inventory slots was together with the other slots.

Now it is like this :

Row 1 : Only one share inventory then just blank
Row 2 : Starter Backpack

The emptiness is killing me XD

I need an option to put it back as before T_T

I’d prefer the option for it to be on the bottom but this is a good compromise from what it was before. I may now buy more slots whenever they get put back on sale

Who would have thought that something a vocal minority wants would just upset those that liked it the way it is rolls eyes

ANet needs to get their stuff together and actually add toggles. The show/hide bags toggle exists for a reason.

Axarion.3098:

Who would have thought that something a vocal minority wants would just upset those that liked it the way it is rolls eyes

ANet needs to get their stuff together and actually add toggles. The show/hide bags toggle exists for a reason.

Or they could have been even groups.

I admit that I preferred to conserve the screen real estate, and I would like an option, please!

i hate this change. it just makes my bag window even bigger than it already was, and now theres an annoying permanent scroll bar.

So… anet, instead of thinking of something -optional- and make both sides happy, you just turn the problem upside down, kitten off the other end, people like me who are now pressing another kitten ed item because I was used to my salvager being there, and call it fixed? Bad call anet.

When I press to disable show bags, I do it because I don’t want anything separated inventory wise, now you -force- separate my shared slots, come on, you have a cogwheel where you gave us various options, what is this kitten?

This change makes my eyes very sad. Please add an option to change it back to how it was.

Wow, Anet really doesn’t know how to find a middle ground anymore, do they?

The change is GREAT!….. for the people that wanted it, but not so much for those of us that were happy with the way it was before (or wanted to move the slots to other places).

Options are good, Anet. I mean, it’s our inventory and we are the ones that are forced to look at it regularly… why can’t we arrange it the way we want to?

I am now officially no longer using the shared slot I got for my salvage o matic because I’m now constantly pressing the Hall of Monuments Portal Stone that was next to it, put my slot back where it was and I’ll use it again. >.>

Inventory tips for future patches. If you come up with a new way to arrange the inventory, leave players the option to put it back the way it was pre-patch.

With this patch, using the option to show everything as one big bag, is now no longer working, it also messed up the scrollbar for that function. See the screenshot for more details. This bug really annoys me.

Nanashi.8705:

I preferred when the shared inventory slots was together with the other slots.

Now it is like this :

Row 1 : Only one share inventory then just blank
Row 2 : Starter Backpack

The emptiness is killing me XD

I need an option to put it back as before T_T

^ This. x_x

Would Like to expand with my only little buggy affair with bag i have all the bag slots and removed everything out of my top 20 invisible slot bag moved it to the inventory and all the slots disappeared no items were visible reloged and now can neither resize or see anything in my bags the only bag that is visible is my shared slot

Fixed the bag by moving another bag into the empty slot an then sloting the old one and switching them around

Sounds like stuff working as intended :v

I really don’t like this change. It takes up even more screen real estate now and there is a permanent scrollbar on the side. An option for the layout of preference would have been a much better solution.

There’s definitely something wrong with the vertical scrollbar. I can’t get rid of it no matter how much I stretch the window. I just get more empty space to scroll over with the ever-present scrollbar.

Mea.5491:

Nanashi.8705:

I preferred when the shared inventory slots was together with the other slots.

Now it is like this :

Row 1 : Only one share inventory then just blank
Row 2 : Starter Backpack

The emptiness is killing me XD

I need an option to put it back as before T_T

^ This. x_x

^ yep

edit: i could scroll down to hide the empty spaces but i need my Salvage-o-Matic

I really love the new shared line, I was hoping Anet would add that. (Thank you!) But I’m not a fan of the mandatory scrollbar thing now. I was hoping I could have one solid block of inventory once more with the shared slots being shown as being different from it.

I think centering those slots would help, or possibly to add a left/center/right alignment option for it.

Please put the share slot back where it was. Putting it on a separate line really messes up the inventory.

Why was it moved?

scrollbar…
no
just
no

If there is one category of complaint that consistently puzzles me it is the inventory stuff. I just don’t get why so many folks care so passionately about their bag layout. Surely it is a minor irritation at worst. I just have one “fixed” bag with the keys and consumables in and then treat the rest like a big bucket. I salvage, sell and deposit stuff then hit “compact” to make it neat. It just does not seem that important. <scratches head>

I find it very aggravating when the leftmost slots of my inventory rows don’t coincide with the first slot of the ‘bank view’ of the inventory that’s only 4 slots wide. It makes it harder to find stuff. That’s fixed now, so I’m happy.

DoctorDing.5890:

If there is one category of complaint that consistently puzzles me it is the inventory stuff. I just don’t get why so many folks care so passionately about their bag layout. Surely it is a minor irritation at worst. I just have one “fixed” bag with the keys and consumables in and then treat the rest like a big bucket. I salvage, sell and deposit stuff then hit “compact” to make it neat. It just does not seem that important. <scratches head>

For me it’s purely an irritation of where I expect a specific tool to be, like my Salvage-o-Matic, as a result of this I’m now constantly porting to the HoM because it’s portal stone is now where I normally had my salvager.

This really needs emergency maintenance. The scroll bar causes me mental trauma.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Lol.

It was put in because of the opposite complaints from people that didn’t like how it rearranged their inventory ordering.

Which is why it should have been an option. But I show bags so I see no difference. But there are people who are thanking ANet for the change with the minor gripe about needing to rearrange their inventory again.

Artorius.6178:

DoctorDing.5890:

If there is one category of complaint that consistently puzzles me it is the inventory stuff. I just don’t get why so many folks care so passionately about their bag layout. Surely it is a minor irritation at worst. I just have one “fixed” bag with the keys and consumables in and then treat the rest like a big bucket. I salvage, sell and deposit stuff then hit “compact” to make it neat. It just does not seem that important. <scratches head>

For me it’s purely an irritation of where I expect a specific tool to be, like my Salvage-o-Matic, as a result of this I’m now constantly porting to the HoM because it’s portal stone is now where I normally had my salvager.

Surely those two items are in your shared slots and so have not moved? Anyhow, I fully support everyone’s’ right to be upset. I’m just a bit surprised at the intensity of it.

Well some people are OCD about the layout when all the slots are lumped together. That’s why I simply avoid it by leaving bags on.

I can see wanting a toggle for it, but it really should have been designed from the start to be like how it is now. Much better. Good job ArenaNet. That being said, I would be all about a toggle for it to be the way it used to be as well.

+1 for an option that allows normal hide bags view like it was. That way the people that like the new way have it and people like me that don’t can have the old way.

This is better than what it was but still not good enough. I hate that empty space to the right of the shared slots and wish I could just move the whole thing to the bottom of the the bags. I honestly am so surprised that they still haven’t gotten this Shared Inventory Slots thing right. Just let us move it like a normal bag slot, honestly what’s so hard about that?

There’s a good quote from Ian Fleming’s “Goldfinger” novel: “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.”

If we’re supposed to “play as we want”, we’re going to need options. Forcing another global change on everybody with no options after the debacle of the last few global changes… well, as they say, once or twice is coincidence…

Seriously… One nearly fully empty line on top of my inventory and a permanent scrollbar that is constantly scrolling down to a fully empty line?

Anet needs to fix this. It’s the most annoying crap ever. I love this game… But I NEVER wanted a shared inventory slot to begin with. Now it’s messing with my inventory more. Very annoying.

Anet realise they have a ‘show/hide bags’ option already, right?

Very annoying for those who liked it how it was. Although I guess the real annoying part is just having to rearrange my inventory on 10+ characters yet again; the actual appearance isn’t that bad.

Toggle Wars 2 plz.

DoctorDing.5890:

Artorius.6178:

DoctorDing.5890:

If there is one category of complaint that consistently puzzles me it is the inventory stuff. I just don’t get why so many folks care so passionately about their bag layout. Surely it is a minor irritation at worst. I just have one “fixed” bag with the keys and consumables in and then treat the rest like a big bucket. I salvage, sell and deposit stuff then hit “compact” to make it neat. It just does not seem that important. <scratches head>

For me it’s purely an irritation of where I expect a specific tool to be, like my Salvage-o-Matic, as a result of this I’m now constantly porting to the HoM because it’s portal stone is now where I normally had my salvager.

Surely those two items are in your shared slots and so have not moved? Anyhow, I fully support everyone’s’ right to be upset. I’m just a bit surprised at the intensity of it.

They’ve moved upwards with the two slots, and left the portal stone where I normally pressed for my salvager, I don’t calmly salvage, often I partake in an event, press I then immediately double click the salvager where I expect it to be so I can quickly clean some inventory space for the event I’m in.

Another grievance is that this goes against my standard inventory view and the function to show or hide bags, I hide bags because I don’t want to see them, I want one block of inventory wherein everything is.

I have 9 empty slots between shared and normal, thusly it is a freaking horrible change.
Only 90% of slots are visible, with the remaining 10% requiring a charr with a monocle to see!

SUGGESTION:
*Add a menu with player options for shared slots:
—(1)Move line to bottom
--(2)Move shared to seperate tab
—(3)Keep Shared slots on top w/ empty trailing slots
--(4)Keep Shared slots on top without space between them and bag slots

This is a terrible change. I get others like it but for those of use who don’t have an entire row of shared inventory slots this looks ridiculous. I have 2 slots at the top all by themselves where the rest of the row is blank. It doesn’t flow what-so-ever plus there’s a permanent scroll bar on the left side now? How does this stuff make it through QC? The best and most well thought out fix to this is what veggies said…

SUGGESTION:
*Add a menu with player options for shared slots:
—(1)Move line to bottom
—(2)Move shared to seperate tab
—(3)Keep Shared slots on top w/ empty trailing slots
—(4)Keep Shared slots on top without space between them and bag slots

Please make this happen sooner than later.

Please make the Shared inventory slot merge with the rest of the bags when you have the option to hide bags. This, or implement an option to have it on the same line. It’s extremely annoying to have so much empty space only because of one slot.

I remember first picture of Shared inventory slots you posted and it was on the other line not merged with others like now. I loved the idea but hated the fact of having separate line for them. That’s reason why I hadn’t bought them for very long time until I found out they merge normally so I have bought 3 + 1 HoT. I really don’t like how my inventory looks now it hurts to look at. If merging Shared inventory slots with other bags to same line won’t come back will there be any way to have them all completely removed?

Just want to state my personal preference here.
For me it was perfectly fine as it was before. I want the shared inventory slots back merged inline!
I use “hide bags” and just hate this waste of space (got only one shared slot) and therefore unnecessary scrolling.
There should be additional options as suggested in other posts.

Preferring the compact “hide bags” option I find this new space wasting layout very annoying.
Hate at first sight!
Please implement options so everyone can be happy (again).

As a further explanation: I often salvage items while running to the next fight with a commander in wvw. Therefore my inventory window is positioned at the side and relatively small, so I can still see whats going on in front of me. And now there is space wasted at the top of this already small window… grrr.

While anet may not appreciate the language, here’s a nice summing up of how people -still- feel about this:

Artorius.6178:

DoctorDing.5890:

If there is one category of complaint that consistently puzzles me it is the inventory stuff. I just don’t get why so many folks care so passionately about their bag layout. Surely it is a minor irritation at worst. I just have one “fixed” bag with the keys and consumables in and then treat the rest like a big bucket. I salvage, sell and deposit stuff then hit “compact” to make it neat. It just does not seem that important. <scratches head>

For me it’s purely an irritation of where I expect a specific tool to be, like my Salvage-o-Matic, as a result of this I’m now constantly porting to the HoM because it’s portal stone is now where I normally had my salvager.

I do not understand how the change could have caused this, but it sounds like you could just put the salvage kit where the portal stone is now and trivially fix it yourself.

Ya, I didn’t complain when I got it, but I was a little annoyed having to adjust my inventory. However, I am annoyed on another level having to do it all again on all my characters… In fact, I still can’t bring myself to play, because I’d rather do other things than adjust my inventory. I think this should teach devs that a lot of players who get really into this type of game often have mild ocd, and we have to make things just right. Changing our inventory every few months is killing my mood. (in game) In fact, with this change, I went and spent 140$ on another game, like a fool. I’d really like an option. I personally prefered the old set-up, but an option would be ideal because we have people on both sides of the fence. However, I doubt I will go through the trouble of fixing all my characters inventories again. I literally have to move everything in my invisible slot, one space over, how annoying… I get paid to do things that tedious, gw2 has always been simple, lets keep it that way.

ekarat.1085:

Artorius.6178:

DoctorDing.5890:

If there is one category of complaint that consistently puzzles me it is the inventory stuff. I just don’t get why so many folks care so passionately about their bag layout. Surely it is a minor irritation at worst. I just have one “fixed” bag with the keys and consumables in and then treat the rest like a big bucket. I salvage, sell and deposit stuff then hit “compact” to make it neat. It just does not seem that important. <scratches head>

For me it’s purely an irritation of where I expect a specific tool to be, like my Salvage-o-Matic, as a result of this I’m now constantly porting to the HoM because it’s portal stone is now where I normally had my salvager.

I do not understand how the change could have caused this, but it sounds like you could just put the salvage kit where the portal stone is now and trivially fix it yourself.

That is what I did, which has left the shared slot my salvager was in, unused.