Guild Wars 2

I was expecting it to be hard, time consuming and expensive. I was also expecting it to be an alternative to grinding. At this point my plan is to give it a miss and buy by next pre with gold :-(

Update-
Guildwarshub.com is reporting that forging Nightfury will NOT be restricted to the Halloween event but no source is cited.

These are great! Thanks Anet, I hope to have them for my Charr before long. Now to join
the hunt……

Some of the past Halloween recipes have only been available during the Halloween event, The Mad Moon for example, and are disabled the rest of the year.

I respectfully ask the Dev’s to clarify whether or not the forging of Nightfury will be limited to the duration of the Halloween event. Obviously the availability of certain ingredients will be, Tattered Bat Wings for example. It is a fantastic looking skin and I am sure many of us are making it a priority project. It would be helpful to know if we are on the clock or can be more leisurely in enjoying the holiday event (my favorite) and the HoT expansion.
Thanks for your time and consideration.

Then there is the issue of the 5 gold and 250 spore samples it cost to unlock in the first place.

I spent points on on this skill yesterday. Big mistake.

I made Eye of Rodgort partly because I really wanted it and partly to see if I had the patience to make a legendary. At that time the eyes cost around 2 gold each. It was quite an undertaking at the time but I am glad I did it. It’s not an often seen skin. At 7 gold each it just would not have happened.

What bothers me is the above mentioned “Batteries not included” aspect. They have hyped the new class but if I want to play it i have to spend an additional $10 for a character slot.
There are the other issues about the value of content and what-not but for me that is not as big an issue as selling an expansion that then requires an additional expansion to utilize the content advertized!
I will state for the record that the addition of 800 gems, the cost of a character slot, for existing accounts would be a fine resolution and if this happens I will buy the pre-order despite the other reservations I have.
It then becomes a matter of Anet convincing the majority that the new content is worth the $50 price tag, which for some of us, apparently, will take some doing.

I was expecting to pay $50 for the expansion.
That the expansion includes the core game is annoying but an understandable marketing decision.
However, if I am going to spend $50 on an expansion it had better include character slots.
I have continued to pay regularly after repeated disappointments and the near total depopulation of my guild, due to migration to other games.
Perhaps it is time to get out now.

That is a great dress. There are many good NPC outfits that I would love to have for my characters, in whole or in part. I might even pay gems for them…….

You sold us something dynamic colorful and fun, got us in invest time creativity and money in it and now you are ripping it away and replacing it with something static and restrictive. Supposedly because YOU like it better. Then, with the same breath try to sell us more of the new downgraded product. Why on earth would we ever buy more costumes? Or any thing else for that matter? We would be foolish to invest more money on something that could be changed or destroyed ant any time at the whim of the seller. Thats the message you are sending, expect to feel it in the bank book.
I am furious over the loss of content I loved and my trust in you products is shattered. I’m not sure it’s worth spending more time on this game at all.

Now that my initial shock and anger has calmed down I am just bewildered. Why is the removal of town clothes needed or desirable? I personalty have no desire to put a top hat on my heavy armor, for instance. Why not just leave the existing system alone and continue to sell us silly hats and anachronistic sports wear! If town cloths realty must be worn in combat why not use the existing dye-able slot system and have it override the appearance of the combat armor, like the costume being presented, only multiple slots. I very much enjoy town cloths, mixing and dying them. Down-grading the game to remove this content seems counterproductive at best.

While many features of the wardrobe system are welcome and exciting to myself, the dismantling of the town cloths system is not. I enjoy mixing the various articles to create different looks and have spent a lot of money buying town clothes in the gem store. It upsets me that these items are being casually destroyed as part of an “upgrade” especially as the distinction between what is becoming a skin and what becomes a tonic seems arbitrary. If I am reading correctly the Top Hat becomes a skin, the Aviator Sunglasses becomes a tonic and I won’t be able to use either of them with the Bloody Prince costume (as I do now). I find it especially frustrating that I bought several items when it was announced they were being discontinued, not knowing this was because they were being made obsolete. Some disclosure then would have been appropriate. I will likely not ask for refunds, in the hope that someday the functionality of these items will be restored in some way. However I will be very wary of spending any more money on gems as there seems to be no guarantee that what we are buying will remain true to what was advertized. In business customer confidence is everything. ArenaNet has lost mine.