Guild Wars 2

I really hope that I will NOT see any other colour commander tag than BLUE in the entirety of WvW… please all servers instruct your players to use the /join squad functionality that is already build in. Do NOT BUY a coloured tag, instruct all your guilds to NOT BUY them. Buying this tag will only ensure that more features in the game will be accompanied by these kinds of silly things.

Even if the entirety of WvW-Commanders doesn’t buy them, there will be more than enough PvE Commanders doing it instead. Or PvE Farmers and Tradepost-Players, who don’t know what to do with their massive amount of money. I mean, not too long ago (meaning: before the introduction of guild missions, farmtrains, and revamped World Bosses), when there was no need for commanders in PvE – and showing of a commander-tag in PvE was like screaming “hey, i got too much money and thought you all would be impressed by my shiny blue tag, even though i’ve never set my foot on a WvW map to support my Server” - it still didn’t stop PvEPlayers from buying it just for showing off; And that was during a time where it was frowned upon (at least on my Server). Since currently using a commander tag in PvE is generally seen as legit (see coordianation of guild missions, Major World bosses like the 3 Wurms, Templeevents, and.. Champion-Farmtrains) i wouldn’t be surprised if there were even more PvE players to buy the new Tag + new Colors just for the sake of ‘having it’, if not only to be able to show it off to others

So even if the entirety of WvW (which is bound to be much smaller than the PvE Fraction) collectively avoided buying a special-color-tag, it still wouldn’t make enough of a difference for A-PvECareBear-net to change it’s mind

I dont understand the point of the different colours in wvw, most guilds dont like to tag up because they don’t want randoms to see where they are. What are the points of the 4 colours? Oh its up for community to decide? Okay how about its used for nothing because its useless

The new commander tag is a PvE vanity item, not a WvW improvement. The whole point of -help to organize- is lost when you need to buy every color at 300g.

There is no benefit to the new commander tags in wvw.

Even if community in wvw decided blue tag randoms can follow, red tags do not follow, it’s for raids, it still wouldn’t work.

What was asked for was tags that were only visible to guildies.
This is a PvE change and a gold sink.
They pretend its wvw improvement but talk about how it can be used for 3 headed wurm.

Well, personally I do not mind if they use it to take some gold out of PvE players that farm to much, though it would have been nicer if they were to use actual PvE things for that… Seeing Anet can not keep their economy in check, and even though they personally might not have wanted to, but the players have made it into a big farm fest and you can’t make a decent build for a lvl80 without having 100g just for the runes alone … Taking gold out of the community might increase the buying power of the more sane players, or those that flock their gold on upgrades so the farmers can have their stat increases in PvE. Though likely it doesn’t … they will just flip some more and farm a tad harder…

But seeing there is the ‘join squad’ option, I would like to point out that even though it would be a nice feature to have in WvW, I hope not to see these things in WvW, if only to make a statement…

What this says to me is that the current gold sinks are clearly not working well enough. I would have thought they would index link the price to mudflation, but that would require them to acknowledge that inflation exists and Smith is a notorious denier.

I flat out refuse to pay more for a color, its pure greed on their part, they should be handing them out for free to those that already have a tag for taking over a year to add color. In the end, this game is getting to the point of stupidity with the lack of care and attention, don’t be surprised to see dev posts a year from now stating “if we could do it again, we would listen to the community more”.

I fully expect tomorrow when they announce it and the price, there will be an all so subtle advertisement “reminding” people they can buy gems and convert to gold! I mean, it’ll only take ~$50 PER COLOR! What a deal!!

Overall, really disappointed with this big “content” patch. Even having only 1 mastery, when past patches used did those more than once every 6 months. And the new trap…I’m not sure if it was fully thought out…

I believe the crowd these items are aimed for is PvE players with
lot’s of gold in their pockets.
I PvE as well as WvW and I know that the gold you can make per
hour in WvW is 1/10th or less of what you can earn in PvE,and that
is just by casually running events and dungeons.
It would take me 300+ hours to earn 300 gold in WvW,the cost of
consumables not included.