Guild Wars 2

The watchword for game devs these days is barriers. These changes that remove barriers for players with many characters has been due for a long time.

You know, I can’t comprehend what might have prevented these changes at the beginning. Were there actually devs that hated on players that bought more character slots. Was there some game management law about punishing players that actually replayed content? These questions can become argumentative, so it is best that people read them as sassy rhetoric.

The point is that there have been, and still are, some very big barriers for players that are alt junkies. Players like me. The barriers are like punishment, which is weird, because players with many alts are the ones most proving the value in the work done to make the game – all the work done. I have one of every race and class. I have played through every starting area; not for map completion, but actually as a starting character. There are many activities that I have not participated in as much as I would have liked directly due to the barriers in place to punish players with alts.

The point here is to thank the devs for correctly identifying barriers that were solely against players who did not main. I would like to see these changes continue. Maybe some day I will feel like there is fair enough reward in the experience to not feel somehow cheated at the end of a play session.