Guild Wars 2

Hey,
yesterday Arenanet announced that the new upcoming traits will have to be unlocked and will be characterbound for sPvP. I strongly disagree with this idea, because this does not match my anticipation of GW2’s PvP and would love to see the new traits be available from the start for every character. Here is a thread where this topic is already debated: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Please-stop-with-the-sPvP-unlocks.

I’d like all of you, who, like me, dislike these restrictions to the new traits, to take part in this signature campaign and hopefully acheive that Arenanet’s developers will rethink their plans. (please only “sign” with your username in order to keep this serious!)

Arrask.6925

Signed, in before topic lock…

This wont do anything.

If you really want this to have an more of an impact on it, here is what you should do.

Create a poll on some website for players to answer (make sure its a safe one). Spread the link to the poll around. Post something On reddit, other forums, post it ingame. make a post in the official forums with links to each of the other media outlets to show that when the developers see the poll, you’re getting replies from a lot of sources and not the minority that is the forum base. So if you were to post the poll on reddit, you’d put a link to the thread in your post on the official forums. Keep the poll going for a while. A week at the least to ensure that you get as many people as you can from all timezones.

Then you show the developers.

Deified.7520:

This wont do anything.

If you really want this to have an more of an impact on it, here is what you should do.

Create a poll on some website for players to answer (make sure its a safe one). Spread the link to the poll around. Post something On reddit, other forums, post it ingame. make a post in the official forums with links to each of the other media outlets to show that when the developers see the poll, you’re getting replies from a lot of sources and not the minority that is the forum base. So if you were to post the poll on reddit, you’d put a link to the thread in your post on the official forums. Keep the poll going for a while. A week at the least to ensure that you get as many people as you can from all timezones.

Then you show the developers.

And if you do what he said make it so that there´s a option to differentiate between “against char bound and locked traits” and “only against char bound” otherwise a lot of people will probably vote with no.

There is absolutely no reason for trait unlocks to be character bound except to sell character slots, especially in PVP. I can understand in PVE that people re-roll and want to experience the game all over again (including all the grind that comes with it) and so character bound unlocks make sense.

But in PVP, players re-roll for different reasons than in PVE. Personally I don’t want to re-acquire traits that I’ve already unlocked before just because I needed to re-roll a profession that I don’t have permanently on my account because of lack of slots.

Until ANET gives a good reason why unlocks are character bound in PVP, I’m convinced that it’s a money grab.