Guild Wars 2

I have several problems with the dynamic events text always showing up in the top right corner of my screen. It’s actually not just the top right corner but sometimes the entire right side when I accumulate a lot of dynamic events that I didn’t even choose to participate in. Before going to these problems for me just say that an option to hide all dynamic events text would solve my problems.

The first thing is obvious that all that text takes up a lot of screen space. My UI feel so cramped at times especially when I have the UI size set too large. Yes I can double-click the title of the dynamic event, but that still leaves the title all my screen as well as any graphical symbols which take up even more space.

The second thing is when I get into a new area I don’t want to know that there is a dynamic events going on through the dynamic events text on my screen, but rather I would like to find out either by running across the dynamic events or by talking to an NPC who introduces me to the dynamic events. I want to feel like my character is actually learning the events in game, rather than have some user interface spill out the story for me.

Sometimes when I’m exploring zones, all these dynamic events text just start popping up on the right side of my screen and I begin to feel like some sort of robot just following instructions. UI tells me to do A okay so I do A and then UI tells me to do B okay so than I do B. Not to mention sometimes even if I’m not actively participating in a dynamic event, other players around me may have completed the event and all these flashy animations go off on the right side of my screen telling me that the event is completed. That is very distracting and just makes me annoyed. This discourages being immersed in my open world exploration, which is something I really enjoy doing.

Sure I can just not read it or double-click the title of the dynamic event hide it (although this doesn’t hide the title itself), it is still a hassle and takes up valuable screen space. I don’t want to disable my entire UI, because they are still important things I want on my screen.

In other words having the dynamic events listed on my screen breaks the immersion for me when I’m playing and exploring the world on my character. And of course is not just the dynamic events but also the daily quests., Which now has a graphical progress bar which takes up even more screen space than before.