Guild Wars 2

In order to hopefully bump this up the list, let me provide a use case. Lots of guilds do map completion events where they take as many guild members as are interested in 100% complete a map. The prerequisite of course is choosing which map to complete. With a lot of people with different map completions it would be very useful to be able to pull map completion information.

Just another use case to add to back up the request; I understand there’s probably more important things going on with Path of Fire and whatnot but a map completion API would be outstanding to see.

I agree I think it was most likely an oversight and not a money grab. I do hope ArenaNet takes note and addresses it. Thank you all for your comments on the subject. Happy gaming

Ashen, thanks for your comment. I have spent probably more money than I should have on cosmetics so I am certainly not afraid to do so. I love GW2 and love supporting them and hey, I get to look cool in the process! However, my opinion is dark eyes should really be there by default. It just doesn’t make sense that such a common eye color is exclusive.

See TL;DR and Disclaimer toward the bottom. I recently made a Canthan Human character and found something frustrating in the character creation, or rather not in the character creation. There are no dark eyes available. There is a dark brown but it isn’t very dark at all.

For those of you that don’t know, Canthans are a subculture of Humans in Guild Wars 2 that is very similar to Asian cultures in our world. These cultures typically have very beautiful dark eyes. So it’s frustrating that there are no dark eyes in the character creation.

The same problem extends to anyone wanting to create an Elonian character, which I also would like to do. Again, for those that don’t know, Elonians are a subculture of Humans in Guild Wars 2 that is very similar to African/Middle Eastern cultures in our world who also typically have beautiful dark colored eyes.

Now, there are dark eyes as exclusive eye colors if you purchase a Total Makeover Kit. But I don’t think someone should have to pay 350 Gems to create a typical Canthan or Elonian looking character. There are already far too few facial options supporting these subcultures. And I know, I know, you hardly see the eyes, but honestly I do notice it in cutscenes or when looking closely at my characters. And yes I do that, I take pride in my characters and enjoy appreciating how they look. The dark eye color is a subtle factor but it’s amazing the difference it makes in pulling off the look especially with the limited facial options. The current brown eyes really work against the look I’m going for. I really think a darker “dark brown” eye color should be added to the character creation options, much like the Chocolate color.

Disclaimer
To anyone of any ethnicity reading this, please know your eye color is beautiful no matter whether it’s the color that most of your ethnicity has in common or is different from that. My goal is making characters that match the typical theme of their subculture. Because I’m just boring perhaps :P
But really please don’t take offense, none is intended.

TL;DR
Please forgive my frustration, I really do love Guild Wars 2. But basically, I’d love to see more free (and exclusive) character creation support for Canthans and Elonians.