Guild Wars 2

I tried to search for mount discussions…I know there had to have been more than a few, but searching “mounts” brought nothing. So I thought I would strike up a discussion.

Would mounts add a lot of much needed variety to the game? In my opinion, they would. Adding a large variety of ground mounts (as suggested by others, Asuran Hoverboards, Charr Choppers, etc.) would not only give us something else to work towards in the end game, but it could also have a lot of other potential as well. There could be mini-games designed for mounts. (Something along the lines of the Rollerbeetle races from GW1) You could have monthly race tournaments where players compete against eachother to win special rare mounts. You could also have a PvP mount arena, where each mount type has a specific skill set, and there could be monthly tournaments there as well.

Sadly, flying mounts will probably never work since it isn’t a seamless world, and you can’t just fly from zone to zone. Ground mounts would be a welcome addition in my mind though. I’ve always loved mounts and collecting them, and I’d much rather use a mount to cross a map than using WPs and using money. I know the crowd is mixed on this subject. Some hate the idea of mounts and others love them. I’d like to hear what you all have to say about it.

This game doesnt need mounts.

Wanze.8410:

This game doesnt need mounts.

Because…. ? And don’t say “because it would be like WoW”

My opinion below is biased and is personal…

I don’t like mounts for this game. They look ugly, no matter what design. I like Starwars and even if they do a mount like whatever the Storm Trooper rides on Endor or some Pod Racer, I would still say no.

For “futuristic” themed game – maybe. But here? nah.

Nat.4029:

Wanze.8410:

This game doesnt need mounts.

Because…. ? And don’t say “because it would be like WoW”

Go to Google and type this in the search box.

mounts site:forum-en.guildwars2.com

Happy reading

if anet did incorporate mounts, I very much doubt that they would circumvent wp fees, or go any faster than players with a speed buff.

I don’t particularly find the idea of mounts attractive, and frankly don’t understand the obsession some people have with them. in this game, I think they’d be an eyesore, but that is just my opinion.

saying that, I do like your idea of mini-games using them.

@OP Answer to your question is – nothing.

nottsgman.8206:

if anet did incorporate mounts, I very much doubt that they would circumvent wp fees, or go any faster than players with a speed buff.

I don’t particularly find the idea of mounts attractive, and frankly don’t understand the obsession some people have with them. in this game, I think they’d be an eyesore, but that is just my opinion.

saying that, I do like your idea of mini-games using them.

Yeah I’m not really suggesting that they circumvent WP fees. I’m just saying I’d rather use a mount to go across a map than to just teleport. As I’m riding across a map, I might come across an event or a champion that I wouldn’t have seen if I had teleported, and then I’d dismount and have some fun.

I get the “eye sore” complaint. People don’t want to see a jumbled mess of mounts. Especially in cities and big events like Marionette.

Mounts in GW2 would:

leave their “calling cards” on the paths for you to step in
graze on someone’s lawn, causing a possible law suit
get targeted by any and all monsters out there, because monsters get hungry too
will need to be trained, which probably wouldn’t be cheap

Nope. I’m good with walking.

The solutions to mounts in this game is WPs that r literally everywhere, use them or dont they make travel much faster. You also have move speed increase (i.e. swiftness) so u can travel around with ease. Mounts would be too much of a luxury imo since we r alrdy coddled enough.

Flying broom can be viewed as a mount; and it may be fun for some players. I think creating mounts which can only be used in town mode is fun too and it won’t screw up other aspects of the game. They can be sold at gem store as income for Anet. My 2 cents.

There are already things like the flying broom. It does not give any speed buff, it just makes you look like you’re on a flying broom. I don’t even think you can attack while on it. So there is already a precedent for other mounts. There just isn’t a high demand for them, or if there is people are being really quiet about it. If Anet were to add more mounts, they would probably make them function exactly like the broom, because at that point all they have to do is swap the models and use the same code.

If they added mounts that you acquired through going out and playing the game that would be a nice change.

Add a small chance for gaining a rare mount from clearing a dungeon, more common mounts that can be acquired through completing a quest chain from start to finish, let people craft motorcycle type mounts and sell them (gives an actual benefit for maxing out crafting, but doesn’t force those of us that hate crafting to grind for it).

Give titles for obtaining a bunch of mounts, mini games for mounts, cosmetic effects like a pony trailing rainbows, rocket pack trailing fire, etc.

Anything that adds more fun and flavor to the game is a good thing, and honestly something this game desperately needs.

OK so it’s an overwhelming “no” so far. I’ll pose this question.

Taking my mini game ideas, what if there was just a mount specific arena for this? They could leave mounts out of the main game, but people could use them for the mini games and be able to show off mounts there.

Karasu.4381:

There are already things like the flying broom. It does not give any speed buff, it just makes you look like you’re on a flying broom. I don’t even think you can attack while on it. So there is already a precedent for other mounts. There just isn’t a high demand for them, or if there is people are being really quiet about it. If Anet were to add more mounts, they would probably make them function exactly like the broom, because at that point all they have to do is swap the models and use the same code.

The broom yeah..I remember buying that item with GEMS..untill anet decides to disable it everywhere but in pve…Thanks for the waste of gems anet ,appreciate you taking the fun out of every little aspect in your game

Jim Hunter.6821:

If they added mounts that you acquired through going out and playing the game that would be a nice change.

Add a small chance for gaining a rare mount from clearing a dungeon, more common mounts that can be acquired through completing a quest chain from start to finish, let people craft motorcycle type mounts and sell them (gives an actual benefit for maxing out crafting, but doesn’t force those of us that hate crafting to grind for it).

Give titles for obtaining a bunch of mounts, mini games for mounts, cosmetic effects like a pony trailing rainbows, rocket pack trailing fire, etc.

Anything that adds more fun and flavor to the game is a good thing, and honestly something this game desperately needs.

+1. This is what I was talking about.

Absolutely not.

A.) We have swiftness. Not only that, but we have incredibly readily accessible swiftness.
B.) Going along with swiftness, we have maps that are “small”, meaning we can get from point A to point B without waypoints in less than 5 minutes. A second if you use a waypoint. Mounts are necessary for games like WoW where there are no waypoints, so you HAVE to walk.
C.) Towns being cluttered with MORE things just sounds terrible, both aesthetically as well as technologically.
D.) We have tonics already that can do anything you want via minigames already. Think of beetleracing in GW1. Why would we ever need to actually ride an animal to race? It is conceptually a waste of time.

I do not see the point of it.

OptimistPrime.9283:

Absolutely not.

A.) We have swiftness. Not only that, but we have incredibly readily accessible swiftness.
B.) Going along with swiftness, we have maps that are “small”, meaning we can get from point A to point B without waypoints in less than 5 minutes. A second if you use a waypoint. Mounts are necessary for games like WoW where there are no waypoints, so you HAVE to walk.
C.) Towns being cluttered with MORE things just sounds terrible, both aesthetically as well as technologically.
D.) We have tonics already that can do anything you want via minigames already. Think of beetleracing in GW1. Why would we ever need to actually ride an animal to race? It is conceptually a waste of time.

I do not see the point of it.

Because transforming into a hoverboard with no rider would be ridiculous? Not every mount has to be an animal.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Mounts-Merged
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Incoming-Mounts
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Merged-Think-Mounts-outside-the-box
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Why-no-mounts/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Mounts-What-on-earth
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/No-Mounts
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/mounts-and-flying-mounts
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/flying-mounts-1

Nat.4029:

OptimistPrime.9283:

Absolutely not.

A.) We have swiftness. Not only that, but we have incredibly readily accessible swiftness.
B.) Going along with swiftness, we have maps that are “small”, meaning we can get from point A to point B without waypoints in less than 5 minutes. A second if you use a waypoint. Mounts are necessary for games like WoW where there are no waypoints, so you HAVE to walk.
C.) Towns being cluttered with MORE things just sounds terrible, both aesthetically as well as technologically.
D.) We have tonics already that can do anything you want via minigames already. Think of beetleracing in GW1. Why would we ever need to actually ride an animal to race? It is conceptually a waste of time.

I do not see the point of it.

Because transforming into a hoverboard with no rider would be ridiculous? Not every mount has to be an animal.

Dictionary called, said to check him out because he disagree with you.

Nat.4029:

OptimistPrime.9283:

Absolutely not.

A.) We have swiftness. Not only that, but we have incredibly readily accessible swiftness.
B.) Going along with swiftness, we have maps that are “small”, meaning we can get from point A to point B without waypoints in less than 5 minutes. A second if you use a waypoint. Mounts are necessary for games like WoW where there are no waypoints, so you HAVE to walk.
C.) Towns being cluttered with MORE things just sounds terrible, both aesthetically as well as technologically.
D.) We have tonics already that can do anything you want via minigames already. Think of beetleracing in GW1. Why would we ever need to actually ride an animal to race? It is conceptually a waste of time.

I do not see the point of it.

Because transforming into a hoverboard with no rider would be ridiculous? Not every mount has to be an animal.

There is no NEED for a hoverboard. The witch’s broom fit, conceptually, with the theme of Halloween. We didn’t get sleighs during Wintersday.

It is honestly a waste of time and resources

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Mounts-Merged
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Incoming-Mounts
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Merged-Think-Mounts-outside-the-box
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Why-no-mounts/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Mounts-What-on-earth
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/No-Mounts
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/mounts-and-flying-mounts
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/flying-mounts-1

Yes I see your point. Forgive me for using Anet’s search function….

Simply searching “mount” or “mounts” yielded no results.

Nat.4029:

Yes I see your point. Forgive me for using Anet’s search function….

Simply searching “mount” or “mounts” yielded no results.

There are other ways to search on the internet, Bing, Google, Yahoo, etc.
Learning how to use a search engine is internet 101 and should be one of the first things anyone learns before they should be allowed to use a computer.

OptimistPrime.9283:

Nat.4029:

OptimistPrime.9283:

Absolutely not.

A.) We have swiftness. Not only that, but we have incredibly readily accessible swiftness.
B.) Going along with swiftness, we have maps that are “small”, meaning we can get from point A to point B without waypoints in less than 5 minutes. A second if you use a waypoint. Mounts are necessary for games like WoW where there are no waypoints, so you HAVE to walk.
C.) Towns being cluttered with MORE things just sounds terrible, both aesthetically as well as technologically.
D.) We have tonics already that can do anything you want via minigames already. Think of beetleracing in GW1. Why would we ever need to actually ride an animal to race? It is conceptually a waste of time.

I do not see the point of it.

Because transforming into a hoverboard with no rider would be ridiculous? Not every mount has to be an animal.

There is no NEED for a hoverboard. The witch’s broom fit, conceptually, with the theme of Halloween. We didn’t get sleighs during Wintersday.

It is honestly a waste of time and resources

Ah yes because necessity is all there is. The game doesn’t NEED new zones, and we don’t NEED new weapon and armor skins. We don’t really NEED this game, period. Who NEEDS more fun anyway, right?

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Nat.4029:

Yes I see your point. Forgive me for using Anet’s search function….

Simply searching “mount” or “mounts” yielded no results.

There are other ways to search on the internet, Bing, Google, Yahoo, etc.
Learning how to use a search engine is internet 101 and should be one of the first things anyone learns before they should be allowed to use a computer.

Ok I give. I didn’t want to resort to that, because I wanted to create this topic anyway. Better?

Nat.4029:

OptimistPrime.9283:

Nat.4029:

OptimistPrime.9283:

Absolutely not.

A.) We have swiftness. Not only that, but we have incredibly readily accessible swiftness.
B.) Going along with swiftness, we have maps that are “small”, meaning we can get from point A to point B without waypoints in less than 5 minutes. A second if you use a waypoint. Mounts are necessary for games like WoW where there are no waypoints, so you HAVE to walk.
C.) Towns being cluttered with MORE things just sounds terrible, both aesthetically as well as technologically.
D.) We have tonics already that can do anything you want via minigames already. Think of beetleracing in GW1. Why would we ever need to actually ride an animal to race? It is conceptually a waste of time.

I do not see the point of it.

Because transforming into a hoverboard with no rider would be ridiculous? Not every mount has to be an animal.

There is no NEED for a hoverboard. The witch’s broom fit, conceptually, with the theme of Halloween. We didn’t get sleighs during Wintersday.

It is honestly a waste of time and resources

Ah yes because necessity is all there is. The game doesn’t NEED new zones, and we don’t NEED new weapon and armor skins. We don’t really NEED this game, period. Who NEEDS more fun anyway, right?

Yep

OptimistPrime.9283:

Absolutely not.

A.) We have swiftness. Not only that, but we have incredibly readily accessible swiftness.
B.) Going along with swiftness, we have maps that are “small”, meaning we can get from point A to point B without waypoints in less than 5 minutes. A second if you use a waypoint. Mounts are necessary for games like WoW where there are no waypoints, so you HAVE to walk.
C.) Towns being cluttered with MORE things just sounds terrible, both aesthetically as well as technologically.
D.) We have tonics already that can do anything you want via minigames already. Think of beetleracing in GW1. Why would we ever need to actually ride an animal to race? It is conceptually a waste of time.

I do not see the point of it.

There doesn’t have to be a point to it. It could just be a fun addition to the game. It opens up a ton of options to get people replaying content in the world.

Give the common ones a 33% speed buff and the elite ones a 40% speed buff and it would give people something to work for. Setup something like the pet management tab so completionists will spend time gathering all of them.

The only semi-valid concern you have is they would clutter the cities (although I doubt anet cares about that when you look at events like wintersday) they could easily make them only work in the open world.

Nat.4029:

Ok I give. I didn’t want to resort to that, because I wanted to create this topic anyway. Better?

No, it’s not better. You don’t create duplicate topics “just because you want to”.
Not only is it unnecessary, annoying, splits the topics, but it is also against the forum rules and can lead to your posting rights being removed. Creating another thread for something that has been discussed for well over a year adds nothing, does nothing and is completely useless.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Nat.4029:

Ok I give. I didn’t want to resort to that, because I wanted to create this topic anyway. Better?

No, it’s not better. You don’t create duplicate topics “just because you want to”.
Not only is it unnecessary, annoying, splits the topics, but it is also against the forum rules and can lead to your posting rights being removed. Creating another thread for something that has been discussed for well over a year adds nothing, does nothing and is completely useless.

Hey…..

It’s not your fault.

Caedmon.6798:

The broom yeah..I remember buying that item with GEMS..untill anet decides to disable it everywhere but in pve…Thanks for the waste of gems anet ,appreciate you taking the fun out of every little aspect in your game

Aww I wasn’t aware of that. So that’s why our commanders stopped using it in WvW. That sucks, I always found it humorous when they used it for some odd reason.

Wanze.8410:

This game doesnt need mounts.

And this is just only YOUR opinion.
Don’t make this statement sound like a total statement that counts for everyone, because thats absolutely not the case and will be never the case.

I can suggest to everyone who supports Mounts to wait just only onto the moment, when ANet should open up for mounts their own CDI Thread, because chances will be muhc better in such a thread, that you will see there a real constructive discussion around them as a feature and how they could get implemented, what purpose they could have and so on …

In self made threads you’ll never see such creative and constructive discussions, because all what you’ll get in threads like this here is nonsensical bad mouthing of mounts from biased people that made bad experiences in older terrible games that didn’t care a bit about it, if mounts are in their games an advantage over other players that don’t have them.
In the usual 0815 Asia Grind MMORPG style of MMO are Mounts just always only a money sink, money maker and exist in the game just out of thenm being a fun feature.

All you will see in threads like this are just people, which fear that Anet could implement Mounts, which would work then in the same way, like in all these bad other games that people played, like WoW, Aion, RoM and so on.
Peoplle, which have zero trust in the developers of ANet, that they could implement Mounts into GW2 without repeating the mistakes of many other Game Developers, whereas the solutions to many of the “issues” are very easy, like restricting the places, where Mounts can be used and where not…

Talking with this kind of people is just a waste of time, its like talking to mindless brick walls, that are unable to think and that can’t be creative, or like broken records, that if you play them, permanently repeat themself only with the same junk of arguments nonstop, because they have no better arguments, than to repeat themself until the end of time…. other than the creative mount supporters, that always try to find solutions for any issues that might exist or could come up with the implementation of mounts.

Mounts are a great feature, theres alot of potential for them to be used for new game content besides of them being just only ridable creatures/things for faster character transportation.
Mounts will never replace Waypoints in regard of effectiveness, so why can’t people just accept the fact, that both features could simply coexist with each other?

Nobody will ever be forced to use Mounts… if you just want move from A to B as fast as possible, people will always use Waypoints over Mounts.
if you just want to move from A to B with more style and you have plenty of time to do so, not havign to care about that you reach B as fast as possible, but you want not to run on feet from A to B (because thats then again too slow for you and boring), then people might consider to either rent a Mount or to breed themself a personal mount, would could be just a longterm goal for many players, like working on a legendary weapon… just another different kind of prestige item for indirect horizontal character progression that everybody is free to decide, if you want to take on working on that optional task, or not.

TL, DR

Let this thread die, don’t waste tiem here and wait for the official CDI about them, because there you can expect constructive discussions to happen and not only constant destructive uncreative bad mouthing of biased people, that have no trust in Anet and repeat only themself lamenting over worse game designs of some old games that they have played like nearly 10 years ago or so..

10 years, in which alot has been changed in the game industry, where alot of thigns can be designed now alot better, than 10 years ago. games that get designed anddeveloped today, simply can’t be compared anymore with games, that got designed and developed 10 years ago, because the technics have been developed further and are today alot better enabkling the developers today to do things, that haven#t bee possible for the games 10 years ago.

But alot of all these biased people that are full of fear for mounts seem to live still in the year 2004 and not in the year 2014 mentally >.>

Nat.4029:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Nat.4029:

Ok I give. I didn’t want to resort to that, because I wanted to create this topic anyway. Better?

No, it’s not better. You don’t create duplicate topics “just because you want to”.
Not only is it unnecessary, annoying, splits the topics, but it is also against the forum rules and can lead to your posting rights being removed. Creating another thread for something that has been discussed for well over a year adds nothing, does nothing and is completely useless.

Hey…..

It’s not your fault.

Aaand, show’s over folks, move along and wait for the topic to be locked.

Nat.4029:

Because transforming into a hoverboard with no rider would be ridiculous? Not every mount has to be an animal.

I can’t lie, using a hover board on my Asura would actually be pretty sweet.

Orpheal.8263:

Wanze.8410:

This game doesnt need mounts.

And this is just only YOUR opinion.
Don’t make this statement sound like a total statement that counts for everyone, because thats absolutely not the case and will be never the case.

I can suggest to everyone who supports Mounts to wait just only onto the moment, when ANet should open up for mounts their own CDI Thread, because chances will be muhc better in such a thread, that you will see there a real constructive discussion around them as a feature and how they could get implemented, what purpose they could have and so on …

In self made threads you’ll never see such creative and constructive discussions, because all what you’ll get in threads like this here is nonsensical bad mouthing of mounts from biased people that made bad experiences in older terrible games that didn’t care a bit about it, if mounts are in their games an advantage over other players that don’t have them.
In the usual 0815 Asia Grind MMORPG style of MMO are Mounts just always only a money sink, money maker and exist in the game just out of thenm being a fun feature.

All you will see in threads like this are just people, which fear that Anet could implement Mounts, which would work then in the same way, like in all these bad other games that people played, like WoW, Aion, RoM and so on.
Peoplle, which have zero trust in the developers of ANet, that they could implement Mounts into GW2 without repeating the mistakes of many other Game Developers, whereas the solutions to many of the “issues” are very easy, like restricting the places, where Mounts can be used and where not…

Talking with this kind of people is just a waste of time, its like talking to mindless brick walls, that are unable to think and that can’t be creative, or like broken records, that if you play them, permanently repeat themself only with the same junk of arguments nonstop, because they have no better arguments, than to repeat themself until the end of time…. other than the creative mount supporters, that always try to find solutions for any issues that might exist or could come up with the implementation of mounts.

Mounts are a great feature, theres alot of potential for them to be used for new game content besides of them being just only ridable creatures/things for faster character transportation.
Mounts will never replace Waypoints in regard of effectiveness, so why can’t people just accept the fact, that both features could simply coexist with each other?

Nobody will ever be forced to use Mounts… if you just want move from A to B as fast as possible, people will always use Waypoints over Mounts.
if you just want to move from A to B with more style and you have plenty of time to do so, not havign to care about that you reach B as fast as possible, but you want not to run on feet from A to B (because thats then again too slow for you and boring), then people might consider to either rent a Mount or to breed themself a personal mount, would could be just a longterm goal for many players, like working on a legendary weapon… just another different kind of prestige item for indirect horizontal character progression that everybody is free to decide, if you want to take on working on that optional task, or not.

TL, DR

Let this thread die, don’t waste tiem here and wait for the official CDI about them, because there you can expect constructive discussions to happen and not only constant destructive uncreative bad mouthing of biased people, that have no trust in Anet and repeat only themself lamenting over worse game designs of some old games that they have played like nearly 10 years ago or so..

10 years, in which alot has been changed in the game industry, where alot of thigns can be designed now alot better, than 10 years ago. games that get designed anddeveloped today, simply can’t be compared anymore with games, that got designed and developed 10 years ago, because the technics have been developed further and are today alot better enabkling the developers today to do things, that haven#t bee possible for the games 10 years ago.

But alot of all these biased people that are full of fear for mounts seem to live still in the year 2004 and not in the year 2014 mentally >.>

Such rage over a rideable moa.

OptimistPrime.9283:

Nat.4029:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Nat.4029:

Ok I give. I didn’t want to resort to that, because I wanted to create this topic anyway. Better?

No, it’s not better. You don’t create duplicate topics “just because you want to”.
Not only is it unnecessary, annoying, splits the topics, but it is also against the forum rules and can lead to your posting rights being removed. Creating another thread for something that has been discussed for well over a year adds nothing, does nothing and is completely useless.

Hey…..

It’s not your fault.

Aaand, show’s over folks, move along and wait for the topic to be locked.

They can lock it, delete it, or merge it. Doesn’t really matter to me. I wrote down my thoughts about Mount mini games and that’s all I really wanted to do.

Well if we have mount …. no offense to the Charr but i would want a charr as my mount…

PETA is against using mounts. So is the Asuran Thinker’s Party.

Ettanin.8271:

PETA is against using mounts. So is the Asuran Thinker’s Party.

They mount their Golems from time to time though. Asurans can leave the animal mounts to other races if they don’t like them.

Nat.4029:

Ettanin.8271:

PETA is against using mounts. So is the Asuran Thinker’s Party.

They mount their Golems from time to time though. Asurans can leave the animal mounts to other races if they don’t like them.

They’ll lose revenue which in turn makes maintaining the waypoints more difficult and make far-range travelling more difficult for non-mount users.

Also, golems are not designed for long-range travel.

No, not rage, just the truth (and the fact that I’m extremely annoyed with the bad mouthing people that always try to speak “for everyone”, when they can speak only for themself and people, that can’t think outside of the box creatively, but stick themself ratheralways only to their biased fears about how some very old games functioned back in the days x years ago when those people played these old games, that are by far not anymore the game technical standard today.
People always seem to forget very quickly, that the game market constantly develops itself further and that by this fact, old game features can be improved also with new technical mechanics, that were like 10 years ago impossible maybe that could solve alot of the “issues” that so many people fear so much, that they could be repeated by Anet in GW2…)

Speaking from personal experience in other games where mounts were the norm, I can say that mostly, they clutter up the screen and drop your FPS even lower than a busy day in LA. They also give you a way to skip content (Flying mounts in PWI…click a destination and go make coffee while your beast moves you.)

The only mount I would say might add some variety or advantages would be if it were in an instanced race situation, and you would “earn” your mounts with wins. Even then, it would be video overload and lag would run rampant. Not everyone has a machine like mine that can handle a lot of particle effects or moving players.

Ashabhi.1365:

Speaking from personal experience in other games where mounts were the norm, I can say that mostly, they clutter up the screen and drop your FPS even lower than a busy day in LA. They also give you a way to skip content (Flying mounts in PWI…click a destination and go make coffee while your beast moves you.)

The only mount I would say might add some variety or advantages would be if it were in an instanced race situation, and you would “earn” your mounts with wins. Even then, it would be video overload and lag would run rampant. Not everyone has a machine like mine that can handle a lot of particle effects or moving players.

Yeah that’s why I posed another question, asking if people would like a mount specific zone where these mini games would take place. They could leave mounts out of the main game.

Orpheal.8263:

Wanze.8410:

This game doesnt need mounts.

And this is just only YOUR opinion.

And also the opinion of the devs i think, else they would have integrated mounts.

OptimistPrime.9283:

Absolutely not.

A.) We have swiftness. Not only that, but we have incredibly readily accessible swiftness.

Not every profession has easy access to swiftness, actually— Mesmers, for example, only really have focus 4 to apply swiftness, and Temporal curtain is bugged so it doesn’t apply swiftness to characters who already have it.

Furthermore, the fact that people invest so much time making sure they have some means to generate swiftness only strikes me as an argument for mounts, not against them. Players clearly want to move faster than the normal walk rate, and it makes little sense that we should be forced to carry around a weapon or utility skill simply to make that happen.

B.) Going along with swiftness, we have maps that are “small”, meaning we can get from point A to point B without waypoints in less than 5 minutes. A second if you use a waypoint. Mounts are necessary for games like WoW where there are no waypoints, so you HAVE to walk.

While this is true for many of the pre-80 maps, this really isn’t true for Orr, where a great number of waypoints are almost permanently contested due to temple events or whatever. In theory it ought to make doing the temples more desirable, but in practice is’t just annoying.

And this says nothing about the waypoints that get contested during events and that event bugs out. I remember for several weeks, for example, the waypoint closest to the Grenth temple, that’s not contested, was locked due to a broken event.

C.) Towns being cluttered with MORE things just sounds terrible, both aesthetically as well as technologically.

Then don’t allow people to mount up in towns.

Adding mounts, for example, would give Anet something they can create skins for, and sell in the gemstore, which means they won’t have to sell things like armor skins— they might be able to justify adding those skins to the game as part of the game, rather than something we have to pay for.

Mounts could bypass jumping puzzle mechanics (especially if they’re flying mounts), and if they don’t, then they wouldn’t really be realistic or useful in any way.

As mentioned already, the WP system allows you to travel across the entire map in seconds

Orpheal.8263:

Wanze.8410:

This game doesnt need mounts.

And this is just only YOUR opinion.
Don’t make this statement sound like a total statement that counts for everyone, because thats absolutely not the case and will be never the case.

Wall Of Rage

Where in my original statement did I say that it counts for everyone?

I actually read your wall of text and couldnt find any good reason given for Anet to waste alot of ressources to implement this.

Hello,

As this thread has derailed with inflammatory & off-topic comments, it is now closed.

Thank you for your understanding.