Guild Wars 2

Orpheal.8263:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I think people are exaggerating the whole MegaServer waypoint issue. No waypoint will be contested that was not able to be contested in the past. To hear some, almost every waypoint on every map will suddenly be contested. Lol.

No to mounts for any reason. The Guild Wars universe has done without them this long, no reason to change that. Why must it suddenly embrace mounts because other game universes have? Should we embrace the Trinity, as well? Node-stealing? Open-world PvP? Loot-rolling?

Bah, I like the Guild Wars universe just as it is, thank you very much. =)

I think you should learn first to read better, before you write any more things, that aren’t correct!

From the Blogpost

Waypoints— All contestable waypoints on any map you’re not currently playing in will always appear contested. When you arrive in the map, you will be able to travel to these waypoints pending their local status.

This mean, now before of this change, we are able to travel at any given time from Map A to Map B to a WP, as long that WP is uncontested.
Thats possible, because the game shows us currently from Server to Server different Status, based on what is dynamically happening on that Map in that Server right now.
So as long there is no dynamic Event happening that makes a Waypoint contested, you are able to travel quickly from one Map to an other.

THIS exactly won’t be possible anymore, once Anet changes the Game to the Megaserver System, because with Megaservers, Anet isn’t able anymore to show us the individual Server Statusses, if on Server A a WP is contested, while on Server B it is not contested… so the “solution” Naet makes up here is simply making all Waypoints of Maps on that you are currently NOT PLAYING contested.

This as a follow means exactly, that players will not be able anymore to easily travel from one Map to an other Map as freely as we can do currently in most of all cases, because NAet forces us now to just travel first to an uncontested Map Entrance WP to become able, once we are on the map where we want to travel to, to become FIRST THEN able to see, if the WP on that Map where we want to travel to originally is contested or not in reality on the my the Megaserver System for me chosen Map Copy.

This means, the new system literally DOUBLES all of our travel costs from using waypoints, because we will have now to do everytime when we want to travel from 1 map into a different one 2 travels instead of just simply only 1.
Thats exactly the reason, why so many people complain about the Megaserver System

And its totally obvious, that you have completely understood nothing about that System Change so far, otherwise you wouldn’t say something like, that people are exaggerating things here, when the facts are so clear to see what exactly this change will mean for all of us and its no good change at all.

Its just a disguised increase of the Money Sink paired together with a massive unneccessary restriction in the whole travel system that is completely preventable, if Anet would just get rid of that stupid “contested-mechanic” in regard of Dungeons and in regard of all useable waypoints of maps on that you aren’t playing at the moment.

The only way how Anet could do that is by reducing drastically the amount of waypoints in each map and keep on using only those waypoints, which can be designed as always useable waypoints, which don’t interfere at all with any dynamic events that could have made them contested in the past.

ANet has to make finally a compromise with Mounts, when they make this Megaserver Change, because just making all WP that are on a map on that you aren’t playing at the moment contested and making with that change the whole game just only more uncomfortable is absolutely unacceptable.

Mounts would be a good compromise, as long they are restricted to PvE only and can’t be used in towns and ANet would make profits with them too. So everyone wins from that and i can’t believe in it, that anet would be so stupid, to let that easy Cash Cow go just unmilked go by, when there could be no better time for it to milk it out now.

And I think you should read more carefully what the blog-post and I have said. Only waypoints that could be contested will be contested. Not nearly every waypoint in the game, as some try to suggest.

Sorry, didn’t bother to read your wall-o’-text, after that first poor assumption. Still, good luck. =)

Orpheal.8263:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I think people are exaggerating the whole MegaServer waypoint issue. No waypoint will be contested that was not able to be contested in the past. To hear some, almost every waypoint on every map will suddenly be contested. Lol.

No to mounts for any reason. The Guild Wars universe has done without them this long, no reason to change that. Why must it suddenly embrace mounts because other game universes have? Should we embrace the Trinity, as well? Node-stealing? Open-world PvP? Loot-rolling?

Bah, I like the Guild Wars universe just as it is, thank you very much. =)

I think you should learn first to read better, before you write any more things, that aren’t correct!

From the Blogpost

Waypoints— All contestable waypoints on any map you’re not currently playing in will always appear contested. When you arrive in the map, you will be able to travel to these waypoints pending their local status.

This mean, now before of this change, we are able to travel at any given time from Map A to Map B to a WP, as long that WP is uncontested.
Thats possible, because the game shows us currently from Server to Server different Status, based on what is dynamically happening on that Map in that Server right now.
So as long there is no dynamic Event happening that makes a Waypoint contested, you are able to travel quickly from one Map to an other.

THIS exactly won’t be possible anymore, once Anet changes the Game to the Megaserver System, because with Megaservers, Anet isn’t able anymore to show us the individual Server Statusses, if on Server A a WP is contested, while on Server B it is not contested… so the “solution” Naet makes up here is simply making all Waypoints of Maps on that you are currently NOT PLAYING contested.

This as a follow means exactly, that players will not be able anymore to easily travel from one Map to an other Map as freely as we can do currently in most of all cases, because NAet forces us now to just travel first to an uncontested Map Entrance WP to become able, once we are on the map where we want to travel to, to become FIRST THEN able to see, if the WP on that Map where we want to travel to originally is contested or not in reality on the my the Megaserver System for me chosen Map Copy.

This means, the new system literally DOUBLES all of our travel costs from using waypoints, because we will have now to do everytime when we want to travel from 1 map into a different one 2 travels instead of just simply only 1.
Thats exactly the reason, why so many people complain about the Megaserver System

And its totally obvious, that you have completely understood nothing about that System Change so far, otherwise you wouldn’t say something like, that people are exaggerating things here, when the facts are so clear to see what exactly this change will mean for all of us and its no good change at all.

Its just a disguised increase of the Money Sink paired together with a massive unneccessary restriction in the whole travel system that is completely preventable, if Anet would just get rid of that stupid “contested-mechanic” in regard of Dungeons and in regard of all useable waypoints of maps on that you aren’t playing at the moment.

The only way how Anet could do that is by reducing drastically the amount of waypoints in each map and keep on using only those waypoints, which can be designed as always useable waypoints, which don’t interfere at all with any dynamic events that could have made them contested in the past.

ANet has to make finally a compromise with Mounts, when they make this Megaserver Change, because just making all WP that are on a map on that you aren’t playing at the moment contested and making with that change the whole game just only more uncomfortable is absolutely unacceptable.

Mounts would be a good compromise, as long they are restricted to PvE only and can’t be used in towns and ANet would make profits with them too. So everyone wins from that and i can’t believe in it, that anet would be so stupid, to let that easy Cash Cow go just unmilked go by, when there could be no better time for it to milk it out now.

Mounts are another resource and the game engine would chug to a halt with them. Also the lore of the Tyria does not have mounts except for certain Foes (like the Stone Summit).

Mounts are a waste and useless in this game period.

Meglobob.8620:

Couldn’t we have Moa mounts?

We have Moa racing or had, got barbequed in LA. Evon’s selling them, barbequed Moa on sticks 1s.

Moa racing was the Moas alone, nothing riding on them. Never bet on it, did you?

ANet is still a company, that needs to make money and the history of the Gemstore has already proven, that they are willing to add in there alot of cosmetical things….

Mount Skins would be nothing different, just different Skins for your Mount ingame.
I#ve never said a would about it, that Anet should sell the Feature of having Mounts itself should be sold in the gemstore :P

PS: oh and come, on, please don’t start here again such a ridiculous lore discussion around mounts, where you keep on repeating your permanent 0815 standard excuses for why Mounts should not exist based on game mechanics from GW1, when the lorof the game clearly proves more than enough, that Tyria fully knows very well, what mounts are and there are enough proofs for it in lore, that Mounts exists and by these proofs I mean not just only pictures, but also alot of lore texts.

Be it either the second GW2 novel, or especially some lore texts from Cantha/Factions that are telling about horsemen…

Just cut it out, you can’t brainwash me with your stupid broken record arguements, that are all false that you keep on repeating over and over and over again everytime to try to keep down the faction, that supports mounts, just in fear, that anet actually might bring them into the game one day …

I don’t know about the whole ‘sellout’ take on this but Anet is a business – they’re in it for the money.
It’s not a great stretch of the imagination to think that they don’t realise there’s money to be made in some kind of mount system – so why are they ‘cutting their own throats’, so to speak?
Could it be that they have never seen a place for mounts in the GW universe?
If that’s the case then no amount of ‘gimme the pretty horsie’ posts is ever going to sway them from their grand design…and it’s a shame that more people don’t cop themselves onto this – it’d certainly stop the boards from filling up with these threads every couple of days.

Orpheal.8263:

ANet is still a company, that needs to make money and the history of the Gemstore has already proven, that they are willing to add in there alot of cosmetical things….

Mount Skins would be nothing different, just different Skins for your Mount ingame.
I#ve never said a would about it, that Anet should sell the Feature of having Mounts itself should be sold in the gemstore :P

NAH – it would be lore breaking and unimmersive.

Mounts are just another whine to make this game like all the others out there, like people wanting the Trinity in the game.

Couldn’t we have Moa mounts?

We have Moa racing or had, got barbequed in LA. Evon’s selling them, barbequed Moa on sticks 1s.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I think people are exaggerating the whole MegaServer waypoint issue. No waypoint will be contested that was not able to be contested in the past. To hear some, almost every waypoint on every map will suddenly be contested. Lol.

Go into any overflow. Look over the world map. You’d be surprised how many waypoints can be contested in some zones.

Dusty Moon.4382:

Orpheal.8263:

ANet is still a company, that needs to make money and the history of the Gemstore has already proven, that they are willing to add in there alot of cosmetical things….

Mount Skins would be nothing different, just different Skins for your Mount ingame.
I#ve never said a would about it, that Anet should sell the Feature of having Mounts itself should be sold in the gemstore :P

NAH – it would be lore breaking and unimmersive.

Mounts are just another whine to make this game like all the others out there, like people wanting the Trinity in the game.

This are just your words now…
Who says that ANet’s mounts must end up like all the other Mounts in other Games??

However, that comment just shows me, how much trust people which share this opinion have in Anet…

None.

Meglobob.8620:

You can buy a horse in ESO for $10+ from the shop!

I do like zooming around on my flying broomstick, which is really a mount, so I don’t see any reason why we can’t have mounts. To those that say no, what harm would they do to you, just ignore them.

1. Makes the screen even more messed up with even more models. Result of this would be even MORE LAG.
2. Lore
3. Evade Mechanic. How are you supposed to make a dodge roll, while your sitting on the back of a horse. All horses that i know off would just have broken legs after a dodge roll and would just crush the riders legs, leaving him vulnerable to be killed with a broken tea spoon. ( I´m supporting the idea of mounts, if this mechanic would be introduced as well, so that every dodge roll on a mount would result in a certain death).
4. Combat Mechanics. Look at a lot of the Skills people can use. And then try to explain me how you want to use, let´s say, Ride the lightning without it looking UTTERLY ridiculous and stupid. Or even a Hundred Blades without chopping off the head of your mount. Or you would have to restrict fairly all of the weapons that can be used on a mount.

Name.9625:

Meglobob.8620:

You can buy a horse in ESO for $10+ from the shop!

I do like zooming around on my flying broomstick, which is really a mount, so I don’t see any reason why we can’t have mounts. To those that say no, what harm would they do to you, just ignore them.

1. Makes the screen even more messed up with even more models. Result of this would be even MORE LAG.
2. Lore
3. Evade Mechanic. How are you supposed to make a dodge roll, while your sitting on the back of a horse. All horses that i know off would just have broken legs after a dodge roll and would just crush the riders legs, leaving him vulnerable to be killed with a broken tea spoon. ( I´m supporting the idea of mounts, if this mechanic would be introduced as well, so that every dodge roll on a mount would result in a certain death).
4. Combat Mechanics. Look at a lot of the Skills people can use. And then try to explain me how you want to use, let´s say, Ride the lightning without it looking UTTERLY ridiculous and stupid. Or even a Hundred Blades without chopping off the head of your mount. Or you would have to restrict fairly all of the weapons that can be used on a mount.

1. Ok, don’t add ANYTHING with models to the game Anet. Any more models and we’ll reach critical capacity.
2. What lore? We got broomsticks and flying pirate ships. Anything seems possible!
3. Disable the evade mechanic when on a mount. Just like when you’re wearing a tonic. Fixed.
4. Disable combat when on a mount. Just like when you’re wearing a tonic. Fixed.

Er.. >.>

1. Totally valid concern. A champ train grazed past my party, and even after they were gone, I was looking at two blank models of my friends. Mounts would probably make that worse.

2. History. People find ways to ride animals. Does that mean there are suitable animals in this part of Tyria? Nope. Does that mean GW2 needs mounts? Nope.

3 & 4. Pretty sure any “combat” action would throw you off a mount, if they did execute it. Which means a fly-by past a bunch of Svanir isn’t worth having the mount anyway.

Not totally against mounts in this, but I really don’t see a need for them.

mounts in guild wars? lol…you might as well make my toon cross eyed and bow legged too, while you’re at it :P

How about we give the kids mounts that walk as fast as dolyaks in WvW, and if the mounts get aggroed by mobs they are feared for 10 seconds, and finally die of a heart attack, and the only way to get a new mount is to pay 2000 gems?

VergilDeZaniah.3295:

How about we give the kids mounts that walk as fast as dolyaks in WvW, and if the mounts get aggroed by mobs they are feared for 10 seconds, and finally die of a heart attack, and the only way to get a new mount is to pay 2000 gems?

Yeah and just getting on the mount would result in permadeath of all toons on your account lol

/no

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

/no

Yes Mounts!

I don’t understand why so many people in the community seem to have zero imagination, vision or creativity.

I have heard all the arguments against and they are all, down to the last, extremely dull, narrow-minded and boring.

There are so very many ways mounts would be a great addition to Guild Wars 2.

xoxo.5429:

i just want to know the peoples opinion… feel free to leave if u dont like it

My opinion is …

No,…don’t need them, don’t want them. Just no. if you miss mounts so badly… there are tons of games that have them. Some even have flying mounts. Wow…. all I gotta say.

I don’t want mounts but I do wish my transformations had collision detection so maybe I could be a minotaur mount for someone, or when I turn into a chair/hammock they could sit/lay on me.

Stop making these stupid threads.

By the way, there is nothing cool about mounts.

Oh, for Grenth’s sake…

Stalvros.9217:

In addition, mounts make your guardian looks cool? XD

Yeah, a norn guardian on a moa looks cool.

Stalvros.9217:

My apologies if I posted in the wrong section.
Tried posting https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions but it says I’m ‘not allowed to’ -_-.

In any case, I would like to suggest mounts?
I mean, if you’re going to cap speed at 25% (Or was it 35%?) and that it doesn’t stack with any other speed quality attributes, can you at least introduce mounts to increase speed?

And for the sake of ‘discussion’, well…..
I know we have waypoints but, imagine trying to catch up to the Lyssa event after killing Claw Of Jormag. The closest waypoint is about 2 WP away as the nearest one is contested. I WP to the one near the ‘statue’ and after I got warped there, it says ‘WP is contested, warping you to nearby WP’. About 1 minute later while running to Lyssa (who is at that moment has it’s HP reduced down to 25%), the game warped me all the way to the camp WP which is even further away from the temple -_-.

I mean, yeah you can make the argument;
- Be there early!
- Don’t hog up all the events!
- Warp sooner!

But still…..
WP costs money (not that we care, just pointing it out), contested WP makes it harder to warp to nearby events that we wish to attend before it’s over and althought we might have 100% exploration on our main characters, we don’t have all WPs unlocked on our subs.

In addition, mounts make your guardian looks cool? XD
I’m not asking for flying mounts or even allowing attack from mounts (Let’s take it one step at a time). All I’m asking for is mount to increase our speed (You can cap it at 50% speed increase) and to make our character looks cool? XD.

Is this the 3rd or 5th or 7th thread you have started about Mounts On gw2? I swear I keep seeing you post the same thing over and over, as if it were the only time.

Answer no. Just…. No.

Nerelith.7360:

Is this the 3rd or 5th or 7th thread you have started about Mounts On gw2? I swear I keep seeing you post the same thing over and over, as if it were the only time.

Answer no. Just…. No.

Going off his posting history, it’s actually his first mounts post.

Whilst I disagree with the idea of mounts on some level..

None of you have provided a reasonable basis for them to not be on the game. It’s literally, “We’ve not had them till now and we’ll not need them ever.” Imagine where we’d all be if this was actually the answer to everything x:

Realist.5812:

Stop making these stupid threads.

By the way, there is nothing cool about mounts.

Stop making these stupid answers.
By the way, there is nothing cool about being agaisnt something, that wouldn’t ever affect you. You can use still your WP’s as much as you like, if you don’t care for mounts.

So why do you care again???

CMstorm.8679:

The reason that no one wants mounts in the game is because it would only make for more screen clutter and lag for everyone. Especially in WvW. GW2 has enough screen clutter going on in World Boss events and big events.
Yeah it would be cool and all that, but it really isn’t worth it

This^

Let’s say they introduced a horse mount…

Inside of 2 weeks there would be 6 more threads on “I wants me some moar mounts!”

Then Anet releases cows.

Rinse and repeat, replacing cows with whatever you wish.

Pretty soon, there are giant rainbow dragonfly mounts, clouds, you name it, running all over everyone’s screen.

And there will be over 9000 threads in the forum about “Why is the FPS down to 2?”

now… can we please bury this dead horse?

I’ve never seen mounts implemented in a way that didn’t completely suck and look stupid as all hell.

I don’t mind mounts as long as you can’t ride them into cities and towns. In ESO I feel like smacking the guy off his horse everytime I see someone on a horse in a town, especially inside a building.

It’s like driving a car into someone’s house. You put your horse in the town stable.

Ugh, please no. Let ANet focus on more interesting/rewarding content. Like new maps.

Nerelith.7360:

Stalvros.9217:

My apologies if I posted in the wrong section.
Tried posting https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions but it says I’m ‘not allowed to’ -_-.

In any case, I would like to suggest mounts?
I mean, if you’re going to cap speed at 25% (Or was it 35%?) and that it doesn’t stack with any other speed quality attributes, can you at least introduce mounts to increase speed?

And for the sake of ‘discussion’, well…..
I know we have waypoints but, imagine trying to catch up to the Lyssa event after killing Claw Of Jormag. The closest waypoint is about 2 WP away as the nearest one is contested. I WP to the one near the ‘statue’ and after I got warped there, it says ‘WP is contested, warping you to nearby WP’. About 1 minute later while running to Lyssa (who is at that moment has it’s HP reduced down to 25%), the game warped me all the way to the camp WP which is even further away from the temple -_-.

I mean, yeah you can make the argument;
- Be there early!
- Don’t hog up all the events!
- Warp sooner!

But still…..
WP costs money (not that we care, just pointing it out), contested WP makes it harder to warp to nearby events that we wish to attend before it’s over and althought we might have 100% exploration on our main characters, we don’t have all WPs unlocked on our subs.

In addition, mounts make your guardian looks cool? XD
I’m not asking for flying mounts or even allowing attack from mounts (Let’s take it one step at a time). All I’m asking for is mount to increase our speed (You can cap it at 50% speed increase) and to make our character looks cool? XD.

Is this the 3rd or 5th or 7th thread you have started about Mounts On gw2? I swear I keep seeing you post the same thing over and over, as if it were the only time.

Answer no. Just…. No.

1st mount post~
At least get your facts right if you wanna give negative feedback -_-.

I bet if there was mounts everyone was using them but you have full of this elitist ppl that don’t want anything different if someone suggest something different they start throwing rocks this is how gw2 community is .

God, people, stop to exaggerate things so stupidly, like 5 year old childs >.>
Seriously!
Nothing of what you describe there Ashabhi will ever happen.

When Anet introduces Mounts, there will exactly happen the following:

1) You will have alot of happy players, that will use them to travel in the game with more style, and simply faster, than running to everywhere on feet and having always to rely on 25% Movement Speed Increase Runes/Traits/Skills and Swiftness Buffs just to get faster from A to B

2) You will have tons of people, which just ignore them and keep on using just their superior Waypoints out of variious different reasons (too ugly, too expensive, too grindy to get ect. pp)

3) You will have people that will get annoyed by the introduction, because they think that Mounts make the game too easy, when people already are skipping every trash in the game even without Mounts.
Mounts will make playing GW2 just more comfortable, they add a long term goal for those people, that aren’t interested by legendary weapons as an other kind of prestige item to work on for

4) You will have people that fear, that their FPS will fall down, what can be easily prevented, by making Mounts a PvE only feature, which are deactivated in towns.
You won’t see everyone running around on mounts after a few weeks everywhere outside of towns. Thats just a pure exaggeration.

Legendary Weapons are also existing now since likely a year. Many run aroudn with them, but by far not everyone….

I could also QQ now about it, that the whole legendary weapon effects reduce MY FPS in the game, especially in towns. But thats nonsense.

And if Mounts will affect somehow the FPS, it will be marginal and so less, that you won’t feel much of a difference. FPS surely won’t fall down instantly from like 50-60+ down to 2, thats absolute exaggerated nonsense, because such a FPS basically means, that the screen of you would freeze of such heavy lag, that you’d not be able to do anything.

However, Anet has also options to improve the game performence still left open, especially high end PC’s get still alot crippled down so far by GW2, because the Game still is based on the ancient old Direct X9 and the game has no 64bit client.
If the game would finally get a 64bit client and the promised DX11 support, that would be things that could give the game easily enough of an performance boost, that nobody would have to fear any FPS falling numbers from mounts.

These 2 things would especially also help alot to improve the whole WvW performance, where alot more “action” happens on the screen, than you will ever find in PvE with players sitting on Mounts…

The only screen clutter, that comes near to what happens with the FPS in WvW is, when you fight against Bosses like Tequatl or the 3 headed wurm.

But nobody here is asking for mounted combat. People first and mostly want Mounts just as an cooler alternative travel method to be no so much reliant anymore on Swiftness/Runes/Traits and waypoints.
In regard of waypoints within a map to travel within a map faster from A to B, than by running… and to avoid having to pay the fee each time, which can become very costy, if you travel around in a map extreme much, especially with the soon to come Mega Servers, which will basically double soon the travel costs to to soon needing to make unneccessary travels to map borders first to become able to see, if the spot where we want to travel to is contested or not in real cause of the game beign able to show us from that point on only the real map status, when we are on the maps.

You have the broom. There’s your mount.

Not again. This has been discussed in many threads and it seems the suggestion has been rejected by most time and time again.

Orpheal.8263:

Realist.5812:

Stop making these stupid threads.

By the way, there is nothing cool about mounts.

Stop making these stupid answers.
By the way, there is nothing cool about being agaisnt something, that wouldn’t ever affect you. You can use still your WP’s as much as you like, if you don’t care for mounts.

So why do you care again???

1) It’s not a stupid answer, therefore I will continue.

2) Where exactly did I say it was “cool” to be “against something”? Oh right, I didn’t, congratulations on looking foolish. On the other hand, the OP said mounts were “cool”
for X and Y reasons. If you’re going to attack someone, do it right, I’m actually embarrassed for you.

3) It doesn’t affect me? I would be forced to see people riding on disgusting ugly, poorly implemented, mechanically faulty, lore ignoring, immersion breaking TOYS.

“Oh look! A guy riding on a rainbow unicorn! Another riding on a hover board! Oh look, that guy has the super rare pink fluffy cloud with a baby quaggan on it!”

/vomit-more-than-a-night-of-heavy-binge-drinking.

Mounts will never be added, because they are stupid, look stupid, move stupidly, and break the immersion (Appears out of no where! Magic!).

If mounts are the only thing you want in a game, there are others you can play that have them. The rest of us want a real game with real content to play, not some joke of a toy parading around town awkwardly.

If you want to go faster you can – the game (rightly) considers it a major advantage that you have to make sacrifices to get. You either eat up runes, utilities, or traits/weapon variety for passive +25% bonuses or you work to get +33% through swiftness uptime.

Speed is not free. Most implementations of mounts destroy those tradeoffs.

Weylin.6478:

I’ve never seen mounts implemented in a way that didn’t completely suck and look stupid as all hell.

Age of Conan came close with their horses and camels.

Realist.5812:

Orpheal.8263:

Realist.5812:

Stop making these stupid threads.

By the way, there is nothing cool about mounts.

Stop making these stupid answers.
By the way, there is nothing cool about being agaisnt something, that wouldn’t ever affect you. You can use still your WP’s as much as you like, if you don’t care for mounts.

So why do you care again???

1) It’s not a stupid answer, therefore I will continue.

2) Where exactly did I say it was “cool” to be “against something”? Oh right, I didn’t, congratulations on looking foolish. On the other hand, the OP said mounts were “cool”
for X and Y reasons. If you’re going to attack someone, do it right, I’m actually embarrassed for you.

3) It doesn’t affect me? I would be forced to see people riding on disgusting ugly, poorly implemented, mechanically faulty, lore ignoring, immersion breaking TOYS.

“Oh look! A guy riding on a rainbow unicorn! Another riding on a hover board! Oh look, that guy has the super rare pink fluffy cloud with a baby quaggan on it!”

/vomit-more-than-a-night-of-heavy-binge-drinking.

Mounts will never be added, because they are stupid, look stupid, move stupidly, and break the immersion (Appears out of no where! Magic!).

If mounts are the only thing you want in a game, there are others you can play that have them. The rest of us want a real game with real content to play, not some joke of a toy parading around town awkwardly.

3. Mini, costume, and tonics. We need these removed because of this wonderful logic.

dynasty warriors

oh and also mount & blade

both these games not only let you mount horses and suchlike, are thematically consistent, and also allow you to fight on them.

If here anyone makes hisself look currently foolish, then you, by this awesome magnificent logic Realist (sarcasm) that you shared here with us. Congratulations!

By your logic, ANet would have to remove basically everything out of the game, because one might find it ugly, poor implemented, lore/immersion breaking ect pp of that nonsense.

Legendary Shortbow Rainbow Unicorns /vomit have to say HI here … “rolleyes”

1) It is a stupid answer, because the intention behind you last posting was basically nothing more, than to flame/troll, rather than to post anything constructive.. what sadly nearly no Contra-Mount Poster ever does, other than repeating always only their same arguements like a broken record and posting always the same picture(s)
Its not what you say, but how you say it, you know??

I haven’t yet seen many threads about Mounts, in which the contra side actually tried for once to discuss constructively, how they could be ok with some kind of compromise

2) Thats what I interpretated just only from the context of your last posting.
If I just misinterpretated things here, thats also ok. Can happen.
So I asked you just why you care for Mounts not being implemented.
Looking behind you logic, you woulld be blind, if you just can’t ignore Mounts, but having no problems with the lots of other ugly, unfitting, lore breaking ect. pp things, that are already in the game, that you have to see day per day already.

I want to remind again … flying Rainbow Unicorns … that alone is already basically the confirmation, that the world of Tyria fully knows very well , what Mounts, in this case horselike creatures are.
The game has more than enough things in its lore, that confirm the existance of mounts (horses).
People here in the forums just keep on ignorign these facts only permanently out of fear, Anet will really implement Mounts one day and that this act could turn GW2 only into a WoW Clone.

Seriously…. look around yourself. GW2 is already more of a classical MMORPG that alot of people describe as WoW Clone, than you might believe…
Are you really that scared about mounts that much, when the usage of them is 100% optional, that you have like many others absolutely zero trust in Anet, that they could implement Mounts in a completely different and more unique way??

3) Yes, it doesn’t affect. you.
When Mounts would be there, there will be nothing in the game, that screams directly at you, that you have to use Mounts from now on anywhere in the game.
There also won’t be any mechanics, that will force you to use them at all.
You stay able to decide completely for yourself, if you want to use them, or not.

Would it be just ok for you, if Anet would implement under the Graphics Section the option to hide players on the Map, if they are using Mounts??
Then those people, who believe, Mounts would destroy their FPS and those sensitive people, who think Mounts would affect their immersion ect. pp could just activate that option and every player in the game, that uses a Mount, will be made invisible for the player, just like if you raise the Culling Setting to lower grades, what reduces also the amount of people shown on the screen.

And the silly “Go play an other Game” mentioning is just childish and shows me, that you run out of arguements, because thats always a poor arguementers top numer 1 argument, if they have nothing better to say ..

You don’t like it, so why don’t you play an other game …

seriously ..

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Awesome argumentation.

If everyone would argumentate so here, we wouldn’t get ever anyhow forwards, but the discussions would be only stagnant.
We need finally to come to a solution, thats acceptable for both sides.
So it would be very helpful, if the contra mount side would stop to be so extremely stubborn and help in discussing, how a good compromise could work for GW2 in regard of Anets Mega Server System plans.

In a game where you have like 15 waypoints on each map you need mounts?

saalle.4623:

In a game where you have like 15 waypoints on each map you need mounts?

Yes, because not everybody finds waypointing FUN.
Using a Mount, even if it is slower than waypointing on the other hand IS FUN.

For sure, naturally not for everyone, otherwise we wouldn’t have that discussion here, but for really many people, otherwise again, we wouldn’t say on a nearly dayly basis see new threads pop up, that suggest that anet should implement mounts – and this since years!!!

This is by far one of the strongest community desires (even if the contra side tries badly to play us always down as a minority, what is not true) since Guild Wars exists.
The wish for mounts in the game was also in the GW1 forums always very strong and it will stay strong, until we seee finally a solution by Anet, that makes both sides happy somehow.

Everyone, who wants Mounts can 100% sure understand it very well, when Mounts naturally aren’t of very high priority. We understand too, that the game has currently other critical fires to be extinguished first.
But at least knowing, that ANet would have somewhen mounts as a content feature on their table, would be nice enough to know, and the constant asking for them here in the forums would stop.

Guaranteed.

I dont think anyone asking for mounts here except you.For months of playing this game i noticed just 2 times people suggest this.Mounts are not for GW2,it might be fun to have them if there were no wp but thats not the case here.Mounts whould just turn this game in to something horrible like other fantasy games are where you ride rainbow unicorn or frog or some flashy colorfull horse or whatever.

The original post was about the lack of speed allowed in the game. Missing parts of an event. First I think that if its just speed then patience is the greatest solution. Those who play games should work on their want everything right now attitude. Now onto the missing parts of event I think they will soon be resolved when the events are fixed you can find out what time they will be happening and make sure you are there.

My own personal problem with mounts are the idiots that get on their biggest ones and stand on vendor/auction npc/etc. I don’t think mounts are really needed. It is possible to use your passive speed buffs only on travelling then change them once at the place you need to go. This is my way of doing things. I’m not the best at figuring out where I need to go or what slots to use, etc.

Orpheal.8263:

… I haven’t yet seen many threads about Mounts,

There were loads of threads about mounts,They all get deleted by Anet personally..For one simple reason,Mounts will not be coming to gw2,they have no place in this game,period.

Personally, I’ve always liked mounts in these games. I’m a collector of sorts in most MMO’s. Well, except this one. Maybe now I can with the wardrobe system.

Anyway, immersion breaking is kind of funny to me when talking about MMO’s and even video games in general. Specifically because mechanics of a game’s build show themselves more often than not. Sure I get lost in the moment and lose time here and there by being immersed in what I’m doing, but I have no delusions of what these games actually are.

Even if I were an in character RP’er, I think I would still have to abide by the mechanics of the game. Don’t think that is any different for out of video game RP’ers. You may tell yourself “in character” that the oncoming car can be controlled via some ability you have in game, but if you stand in the street and the driver doesn’t see you….you will pay the ultimate price. Can’t disregard what things actually are vs spin.

I’m going to go ahead and say that for me, the waypoint system makes me care about the world a lot less. Just doesn’t feel like a lot of weight in that category when comparing it to other MMO’s. Kind of a double edged sword I guess. Convenience is a plus at the sacrifice of making the hard choice for today’s adventure.

I honestly would have taken player summoning accompanied with mounts in any implementation over the millions of waypoints that kind of seem to be every hundred yards.

Eh, we all want what we want. Some of us don’t get what we want, doesn’t mean we want it any less.

Have lived playing this game,this long, without mounts. Don’t need, but wouldn’t be against them either.

Ashabhi.1365:

CMstorm.8679:

The reason that no one wants mounts in the game is because it would only make for more screen clutter and lag for everyone. Especially in WvW. GW2 has enough screen clutter going on in World Boss events and big events.
Yeah it would be cool and all that, but it really isn’t worth it

This^

Let’s say they introduced a horse mount…

Inside of 2 weeks there would be 6 more threads on “I wants me some moar mounts!”

Then Anet releases cows.

Rinse and repeat, replacing cows with whatever you wish.

Pretty soon, there are giant rainbow dragonfly mounts, clouds, you name it, running all over everyone’s screen.

And there will be over 9000 threads in the forum about “Why is the FPS down to 2?”

now… can we please bury this dead horse?

Half the time unless your running one mother of a computer, your FPS ends up at about 2. We already have so much lag and optimisation issues. Really if lag is your problem, mounts are the last thing you need to worry about as being a source of it. Perhaps the clutter could be an issue but that’s not the fault of Mounts as a concept. It’s about as valid as saying that "The Dreamer breaks my immersion, therefore all weapons with rainbow-like effects of any kind should be removed from game). Perhaps not as major though, given immersion is largely subjective, but the overall sentiment is the same.