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d) Town Clothes.
- What I like: NOTHING. This is my biggest issue here as people who have followed the pre-patch thread about it probably knows. I mean… does really anyone wins with what they did? People who wanted to use them in combat only can use a few of them and in a very limited basis. People who liked them have been kittened over…
- What I don’t like: TONICS. For Dwayna’s sake… who came out with that idea? They’re completely useless!!! I can understand not being able to mix and match… but why not turning everything into outfits, since they’re already complete outfit skins after all. And also… that shady character at Divinity’s Reach who is in charge to exchange our beloved clothes for those silly tonics. Who wrote his lines? A good deal? Come on man, you know you’re stealing from me!! To be honest each time I talk to him and he says there’s no return I cancell and go back without changing my clothes or outfits. I hoped that time he was “out of order” they were going to fix the lines, but he’s still a troll. So you take away our clothes and you punch us in our face? WHY?
- Suggestion (or more accurately, BEGGING): I can understand the technical problems to keep the mix and matching features of town clothes. As much as I will miss them, I can live without them. But PLEASE, PLEASE I’m begging you!!! Turn those silly tonics into outfits with the same characteristics as the winter outfit or the halloween ones!! They’re already complete sets so it can’t be so difficult. I don’t want my gems back. I will even continue buying gems (I want that mini orange cat, and I will purchase new armor skins, so I’m not fooling myself). But please, let us use and DYE our town clothes as before!!!!And well, I think that’s all. While I hope the changes are for the best, and I know for sure new players won’t miss them, I personally had already got used to the old system and I will have to change my way of playing to adapt myself. Most of the changes, I will adapt.
Town clothes, though, are an unacceptable loss ;_;
make town clothes an armor skin “IF YOU CAN REINFORCE A QUAGGAN HELMET, REINFORCE MY CARGO SHORTS” use some of that arcanum deus ex machina non sense on it.
826 replies in this thread and still no replies from Anet. I have not asked for refunds for my town clothes in the small shimmer of faith I have in you to make them armor skins.
I hope the deafening SILENCE from ANet means that every available person there has been working overtime turning every piece of our old Town Clothing into workable armor skins, like they should have done in the first place instead of taking shortcuts. That is what people wanted. Not just hats. Not to wear full “sets”. Ah, to dream!
I am really hoping this.
Remember Danicia I helped you get a quaggan tonic and made you feel real guilty about a sad little asura in their tonic town clothes, never forget Fruity Cyber Vermin.
Just some food for thought about how big this mess is, this thread has over 714 replies in it. Assuming everyone in this thread bought at least one pair of town clothes for 200 gems, this equates to 142800 gems. Now of course there are a lot more people affected than that, but were going to stick with 143k gems for sake of simplicity. 100 gems at the current time can be exchanged for 6.5 gold. 143k divided by 100 is of course 1430. Now I’m not some math genius or economics professor or anything, but if you multiply 6.5 gold by 1430 you get 9250 gold. Now if everyone in this thread demanded refunds for at least 1 piece of town clothing, the total value of money being generated out of nothing would be 9250 gold. This is very bad for the in game economy and is going to start causing some rather interesting inflation. I would suggest perhaps, just making town clothing an available armor skin before the economy decides to start tanking.
TLDR
- These gem store refunds are devaluing your in game gold by creating a sudden surplus of gems that will be more than likely converted to gold
- Just make town clothing an available armor skin. It does not break immersion anymore than my pink charr warrior wearing a pink quaggan hat and backpack.
- TOWN CLOTHING CHANGES AND REFUNDS DEVALUE EVERYONE’S MONEY!
On top of all of this, you have the massive economic swings caused by world event boss changes and the lack of gold sinks from armor repair costs causing massive inflation. The Energizer last week was around 180- 200 gold, it is now sitting at 539 gold. That economist you hired must really be having a fun time over there.
I’ve have been playing the Guild Wars series since the Prophecies days and have had no problem supporting ArenaNet with my cash, so I continued to do so in Guild Wars 2. You could say I have grown up with Guild Wars. I understand changes need to be made to the game to ensure its long term growth and continued development, but I also understand once your sales begin to peak and diminish that ArenaNet has to rely on micro-transactions and sales in the gemstore to keep its revenue stream going. This is where I feel kind of betrayed, not only did I buy the game, I decided to pay for cosmetic items through the gemstore, both in the act of nodding my head to ArenaNet in gratitude for a great game, but also in a vain attempt to make my character look unique in towns. I bought my town clothing with the intent of using it as advertised, a shirt, a pair of pants, etc. I am now left with a barely functional and horribly thought out compromise which allows for no individuality or mix and matching. This is particularly insulting since the people who purchased things from the gem store are those who continued to support Guild Wars 2 after they bought the game. Due to this patch, these long term supporters are now the worst effected. Now I don’t want to debate what you should do, but if I may make some suggestions that may ease some of the suffering and take load of your refund department:
- Make town clothes an available armor skin and allow mix and matching
- Apologize for this whole mess
- Perhaps in the future give “the players” a chance to beta test these new features before they are rolled out
- Elaborate further on specific changes. IE saying town clothing is being converted to “tonics” was rather general and didn’t tell us much
As a short closing statement, I would like to remind ArenaNet that the only reason why there are so many upset people from this is because they really enjoy your game and that they care about it.
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What was the goal here with these things? Were you guys inspired by the Japanese sashimonos? These things look utterly horrible. These things look like someones underwear strewn up on some sticks and glued to our backs. I could make a better model for one of these in a single night in 3d’s max, albeit untextured.
There are so many nicer designs you could of come up with. Why not something like this?
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h413/Baktwerel/capes_1.png
or a proper shashimono?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3197/2813754480_b73c6345d9.jpg
