Guild Wars 2

Like honestly, its been the same way for almost 11 years. It’s been shift left click since GW1 came out, and since GW2 came out, why change it to right click, its uncomfortable as hell doing it, its awkward, and its just a change for no seeming reason. I have yet to hear anyone complain about how to draw on the map, yet everyone I know is complaining of this change, why was this done, and if your going to do this, then give us the option of switching it between left or right like you’ve done to people that complain about things as simple as the compact button in the inventory.

Reddit post explained it as

ArenaNetEvanL
This is a case of normalizing behavior between the mini map and full-screen map. This was needed so we could reclaim some keys for… stuff. It wasn’t the intention that it go out at this time, so that’s why there was no patch note.
I don’t know off the top of my head if the input binding system can support meta key and mouse operations, but its something we can look into.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Reddit post explained it as

ArenaNetEvanL
This is a case of normalizing behavior between the mini map and full-screen map. This was needed so we could reclaim some keys for… stuff. It wasn’t the intention that it go out at this time, so that’s why there was no patch note.
I don’t know off the top of my head if the input binding system can support meta key and mouse operations, but its something we can look into.

How is this normalizing anything, you could draw on the mini map, you could draw on the full screen map, everything was the same, this sounds like utter useless information and gobbledy goop to just say we changed it cause of reasons.

I think you need to read the part where he said This was needed so we could reclaim some keys for… stuff to get the true reason why they did it.

They needed to reclaim keys for other purposes.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I think you need to read the part where he said This was needed so we could reclaim some keys for… stuff to get the true reason why they did it.

They needed to reclaim keys for other purposes.

Yet they dont say the purpose, and they dont even do any sort of asking or consultation or anything. And reclaiming keys is silly considering key bindings. But this is becoming par for the course for Anet, change stuff, give vague/no reason saying its needed for something, need never materializes.

I’m not sure that ArenaNet really needs to ask permission, and they stated it wasn’t supposed to go out at this time. Perhaps, they plan(ned) to explain the change when it was scheduled to release.

I’m sure they are aware of the lamentations of those this affects. Doesn’t really matter which key to me, but for others, it is an issue.

Graka.9457:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I think you need to read the part where he said This was needed so we could reclaim some keys for… stuff to get the true reason why they did it.

They needed to reclaim keys for other purposes.

Yet they dont say the purpose, and they dont even do any sort of asking or consultation or anything. And reclaiming keys is silly considering key bindings. But this is becoming par for the course for Anet, change stuff, give vague/no reason saying its needed for something, need never materializes.

I’m sure they’ll take your opinion that they need to consult us before they make any changes to the UI and state a purpose that we all approve of, and give it the consideration that it deserves.

They actually didn’t have to answer that question at all you know.

Graka.9457:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I think you need to read the part where he said This was needed so we could reclaim some keys for… stuff to get the true reason why they did it.

They needed to reclaim keys for other purposes.

Yet they dont say the purpose, and they dont even do any sort of asking or consultation or anything. And reclaiming keys is silly considering key bindings. But this is becoming par for the course for Anet, change stuff, give vague/no reason saying its needed for something, need never materializes.

I dont think keybindings are the keys they’re referring to. But given your attitude, I wont bother making any guesses as to what they’re doing.

Thanks for point it out. I didn’t even notice the change. I think I briefly noticed it wasn’t working, but I didn’t know the keys changed.

Not sure why they felt it was necessary either, but presumably they’re going to be doing something else with shift left click and while keybinding is a thing that’s the decision they made.

Trying to make it work with the right-mouse button, but I really suck at that. Hope a fix will come for this eventually.
I kept pinging in PvP matches before I figured out how to still draw on the map. Still pinging instead in many stupid ways every match since.

you like to cry over useless things, don’t you?

I am sorry you consider it a ‘useless thing’, but if it’s something that bothers me when I play without need, I am definitely going to post a message about it.