Guild Wars 2

Seems like a missed opportunity, introducing running animation as a character trait.

Human females used to run one way, and many of use made race/sex choices based on that, and enjoyed our characters for over 13 months.

A change was made, which both changes the way the character runs, but also introduces a bug with how much 2-handed sheathed weapons ‘swing’ behind the character, and is visually unappealing.

The 2-handed issue (and hopeful fix) aside, what a missed opportunity.

You have the old animation, there’s now a new animation, why not make it something you can ‘select’ at character creation?

Additionally, add it as part of the total make over, so those of us who liked the prior animation can change it back? I would ‘gladly’ buy 1400 gems to buy a 5 pack to change my 5 affected characters ‘back’ to the other running animation.

People creating new characters can then choose the new animation or the old animation.

Down the road, you could add other running animations for other race/sex combinations? Maybe a noticeable limp? Maybe a Sylvari wants to take longer leaps like a deer? Maybe an Asuran wants to skip?

Missed opportunity at making ‘everyone’ happy, introducing an interesting game mechanic for character customization, and providing an incentive for people to use total makeover kits more, and collect more of our money.

Ahhh…. man ALMOST, ALMOST I was with you…

Since I am against making everything in the gem store in the first place; forcing us to pay for something that should be given as core gameplay is MOST DOOMULOUSNESS!

But to the effect if such an option otherwise existed would be effective. No matter: I assume the degree of difficulty of “making a UI to this effect” would be “too hard for ArenaNet”. I mean… one thing for just human females?:)

The solution? Revert to launch animation and stop messin’ with the game!

Indeed it is so…

This would be nice.

The Master.2893:

Since I am against making everything in the gem store in the first place; forcing us to pay for something that should be given as core gameplay is MOST DOOMULOUSNESS!

Not ‘only’ in the gem store, I just meant it would encourage people that have the money and already (maybe?) like to change their hair every month, might be inclined to play around with how their character runs from time to time.

It would be character customization trait, just like picking your hair, skin color, height, body type, etc at creation.

The only reason gems came up is like hair styles and color, another thing to change about a character that might encourage make over kit purchases.

As far as how to handle existing characters, I suppose they could just give everyone affected as soon as they introduce a new animation one free kit. Certainly in the case of the human female running animation, it would be nice to have a free kit and not have to ‘pay’ to revert back to something we already had for 13+ months, but there you go.

I just so desperately want my running animation back, I’d be willing to pay for it.

But overall, I thought the mechanic would be a neat addition to character customization.