Guild Wars 2

I found the kit backpack was completely removed because of too many engi players complaining about their nice fancy fashion was blocked by the huge backpack.

A simple question, why on earth would you choose your profession as engi and complaining about the main characteristic of that?

Will that be one day people start complaining heavy armor is too ugly for guards then Anet will change it to medium armour or naked?? I know many here would advocate for that

This was ages ago? …
Besides complaining about something that covers the armour, in this case the back item is not the same as complaining about some armour pieces being ugly.

Besides the kits still have skins..

This was one of the few victories for the engie community. We can now choose what we want to show in our backs like all the other professions. The kits are still visible thanks to the diferent weapons that show when you select them.

IMO the old backpacks should be put as alternative skins, though.

Kurenai.6258:

A simple question, why on earth would you choose your profession as engi and complaining about the main characteristic of that?

When Guild Wars 2 launched in 2012, they didn’t even really have any real back items. They were just invisible “straps.” You can still buy them in WvW, if you don’t know what I’m talking about. It wasn’t until Fractals and the Living Story began literally months after the game’s launch that they started to actually release cosmetic back items and the problem quickly revealed itself.

So the implication that I “chose” engineer on the basis that I’d be cut out of a lot of those cosmetic rewards is not particularly accurate, because there weren’t any good back items in the game at launch—and I don’t think even ArenaNet properly thought out or recognized the bind they put us in, which is why they ended up just gutting them.

Many of us requested that the kits only showed up when we hid our back item, thereby still giving us some semblance of choice … but I imagine just removing them was the easier option for ArenaNet.

if you want the dirty brown bag of junk on your back go ahead,
transmute your back item into a hobbosack,
there are plenty of them to choose from.

i for one am very happy that we don’t have to look at them anymore :P

Phineas Poe.3018:

When Guild Wars 2 launched in 2012, they didn’t even really have any real back items. They were just invisible “straps.” You can still buy them in WvW, if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

is it still available to buy it from WvW?

According to wiki, these are available from any armorsmith vendor. Of course, that wiki page was last edited in june 2016…
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Backpack_Straps

Kurenai.6258:

Phineas Poe.3018:

When Guild Wars 2 launched in 2012, they didn’t even really have any real back items. They were just invisible “straps.” You can still buy them in WvW, if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

is it still available to buy it from WvW?

Probably. The point is that when GW2 launched back items weren’t a cosmetic feature, or even that common. It’s what made engineers visually distinct, and it was why a lot of people would transmute their Christmas back item (which was account bound) to look like the engi backpack in 2012, before the wardrobe came out.