Guild Wars 2

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/45944258-Town-Clothes

" Items related to endless tonics cannot be mixed or dyed."

I actually almost cried reading this. I bought ALL the individual town clothes and I have had a huge amount of fun mixing them, matching them, dyeing them. This just kills one of my characters, he basically doesn’t exist now.

Anet don’t you want to make money? You could make single item town clothes transmutable into combat stats and dyeable and only available via the gem store. Release a new set every month! I will buy them! I will dress up my characters and I will love it! All the people who didn’t bother with them because of no combat stats will get sucked in too!

I keep reading that this game is all about design options, cosmetics etc.. but honestly it is fail to me in this area. Every medium armor a long coat? Bleh. I was patient though, I assumed things were only going to improve, options were going to open up and someday town clothes were going to be used in combat. To find out now you have taken away dyeing them and limited me to wearing ONE ITEM and decided for me what all the other clothes my character will wear will look like.. well I’m flabbergasted. I can’t understand this backwards move. Who would think this is a good idea? Who is going to like this?

I’m not even an RP’er other than my one character. I can’t imagine how awful this is for RP’ers. You have 2 RP servers Anet, is it so hard to listen to what they want?

Twyll Blackleaf excellent posts. There’s some odd things going on, saying it’s a problem if you can’t tell the difference between weight classes by looks and then letting everyone run into battle as a cook?

I will never buy a complete outfit that cannot be separated. What for, where’s the creativity in that? I was thinking of buying the Aetherblade medium for one part of it, I had looked up the preview codes and was fiddling around with the choices when this bombshell hit. SO GLAD I never bought it.

You have to say goodbye to that bunny because you can’t wear more than one tonic at once. And you can’t dye them.

IT is totally not cool. There is no way I would have bought that hoodie if I was told, A. I can’t dye it pink and B. I cannot wear it with anything other than what Anet tells me to wear it with! I bought it and the shorts and the sunglasses and put them together on a character and was happy and now I’m very very unhappy with a bunch of unmixable, unmatchable stuff.

And for what reason? I cannot understand, who does this benefit?

Sir Lysander.9842:

Curtis Johnson.8456
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Thank you for your response. Given in mind everything you have stated, I am interested in exactly what the justification was in creating and releasing for sale mix-and-match Halloween and Wintersday town clothes when the loss of functionality of those as separate, mix-and-match pieces was in jeopardy, as the changes to the town clothes system in the upcoming release and loss of town close was undoubtedly in the planning stages when those items were offered for sale?

I honestly wonder if they have any idea what most people do with this stuff. Maybe they are so far removed as to not know that people don’t use complete sets and didn’t have a clue that people would be upset that this stuff and future stuffs was going to be one skin covers all.

Grind gold, buy the exact dye you want from the TP.

Don’t gamble unless you love to gamble. Some people love the lottery, some people don’t. If you don’t you’re better off using gems to buy gold and then buying the dye.

Taking away our customization just seems so backward. The complete outfits, bleh, the point of customization is NOT to look like everyone else.

I’m feeling totally ripped off. I knew it was kind of stupid to spend real money on pixels but I loved the town clothes. I was a bit bewildered there was so few of them (pants etc..) but I held on because I figured it would end up like WoW where you could dress up your character in a huge array of diverse looking items, it would just take time. And of course it was so much fun to play with dye combos.

Now I feel really really stupid to have ever spent real money on them.

Go ahead and release more stuff that can be used in combat for people to buy.

Just leave us with the town clothes we have now, without combat capability. They will be old school town clothes and EVERYTHING we have been doing with them all along will remain.

Anet NO ONE wants the tonics, the undyeable, unmixable tonics for items we bought to dye and to mix!

Why can’t you just leave them as they are and don’t give them combat capability? This would be far more acceptable. You’ve retired most of them anyway. Just don’t sell any more in that category.

Given the choice I will take them as they are now.

I don’t even care if all the retired ones can’t be used in combat and Anet brings out a thousand gems worth of new town clothes which can. I just want the ones I bought to still be able to be used the way they are now, which is WHY I bought them.

Though if they did go this route I sure hope they reconsider the all or nothing deal, for one thing they will make a LOT more money if they have people like me buying whole outfits just for boots etc..

When I saw that helm my first thought was, “looks like something a 5 year old glued together with cardboard and toilet paper tubes”.

One thing I don’t get is.. people keep saying the game is all about customization and design. But it isn’t, it’s very very limited. Endless repeats of armor looks, repeats for multiple levels. Very small amount of unique items you have to do unique things to get. Why is all the temple armor cosmetically the same regardless of which temple? Everything is different name, different stats, same looks.

And of course the trench coats..

The only customization GW2 gives that exceeds other games is the dye system, which is lovely.

I’ve only been playing since last December and for a long time I thought I was missing something because I kept reading about how design and customization oriented the game was. I find it stifling as far as the choices go for armor. There’s just not a lot of fun stuff.. or unique items. I remember in my previous MMO which I played for years running dungeons to try and get rare and whacky drops like shoulders that were glowing orbs or trees, that kind of thing. But there doesn’t seem to be one off, oddments in GW2? Much less tons and tons of them?

Anyway I do love my Asura and my Charr (who is in most of the T3 cultural and looks great). I love their races and history and I enjoy the gameplay and I love their cities I’m going to drop the fashion element of GW2 with the cost as detailed by the OP and the town clothes debacle (I bought just about all of them, sigh). It’s stressful with things I loved losing all their customization and expensive and oddly limited.

Curtis my question is: will there be individual mix and match pieces in future releases? Or will they all be complete sets?

Here’s my Asura in his current town clothes. Ornate Ruched Shirt, Riding Pants and Riding Boots. I know some didn’t care for the Riding Pants but he IS an engineer and he likes to be prepared with all those little pouches even when dressed in his finest.

I included the side picture because I love how this shirt has dots down the side, the same dye panel as the stitching in the front. This is great for colour matching details. And not only will he not be able to wear this outfit when the clothes-pocalypse comes he won’t even be able to dye this shirt and take advantage of the really nice detail that was put into the design of it. These items were made with dyeing in mind and now we can’t.