Guild Wars 2

Bumping this just so I can track it because I, too, want to be able to give Anet money for more character slots. I would give them money for bag slots too, if they made them account wide. Heck, make them 10x the price and account wide.

Yes, I read everything available to this point.

They state that if you get one of the higher expansion packages you get a ‘free’ character slot, which is fabulous. My question is…

Will the maximum number of character slots be raised above what’s available now? Right now you can have up to 69 slots, with PoF it will be 70. Will it be higher than that?

Also, for all of you that are going to say ‘why do you need that many characters’ just keep scrolling, you play your way, other people play other ways.

I will also say goodbye, only in the hopes that Anet actually takes note of this thread. I have played almost exactly 700 days, I have played more than 4100 hours, I have 36 toons, 16 of which are level 80, the rest in 5 level increments from 75 down.

After the trait changes in April, I had a hard time convincing myself to do a leveling round (getting each toon 5 levels) but I more or less stuck it out because of my guild, OCD (love you all). With this feature pack I see that the game is going in directions that I don’t agree with. That’s fine, it’s not my company and having been in the gaming industry for almost a decade, I understand the pressures that the Devs have to work under.

Making an already simple game into an idiot-proof game is not where I want to spend my time and money. As others are doing, I am voting with my wallet. Do I think it will change anything? No. It will only give me the money that I spent on gems to spend somewhere else, as well as lower blood pressure since I will not spend hours a day frustrated and bored trying to find fun in a game that I used to love.

I will keep an eye on the forums and with my friends who still play, while they still play, just in case. A also point out a statistic, for every person that posts on a game forum, there are 10 that agree without posting, and 100 that agree without ever coming to the forums. This goes for good and bad posts, so maybe with time the tide will turn back to good posts again.

One further comment

Good going on following in SOE’s footsteps, Anet, you are almost at your own NGE yourself.

Although I honestly don’t expect anyone at Anet to actually read, let alone listen to what I have to say, I am going to say it anyway.

I am one of the veteran players, I have over 4 thousand hours into the game. I am also one of the people who have a lot of alts. I have 16 of them to level 80, with another 20 at measured increments from 20 to 75. (Why yes, I know I am crazy, and I only buy the character slots when they are on sale)

While the leveling has been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, I don’t have much of the leveling to drag myself through. But… this game was already dumbed down when I first started playing it almost 2 years ago.

As it stands now. I let my 5 year old next door neighbor make a character and start leveling her. He had no issues at all in figuring out how to play. Congratulations, you have reached your target audience. Unfortunately, your target audience doesn’t have disposable income.

In April you changed the trait system. Despite not being able to trait until level 30, and the final trait points being given at level 74, but not able to be used until level 80, if you have unlocked the trait you want, or spent the skill points AND gold to get them, I was able to deal with the changes and tweaks.

Now, however, you have made it so that you don’t have a ‘capable’ character until level 40 to 60 (depending on your class and gameplay style). By ‘capable’ I mean capable of playing PvE solo, which is about 80% of the PvE content. Capable of not dying half a dozen times before you do enough hearts to get enough levels, to unlock the skills THAT WERE NOT CONFUSING OR SCARY TO BEGIN WITH.

I recently spent 50 dollars on gems, and converted all of my gold to gems, and purchased enough character slots to make a new race and/or a new class. There are many new games that are out or soon will be out, even if I don’t request a refund, I doubt I will be playing this game, purchasing accounts for my own children for xmas, or spending one red cent more to play a game that has been idiot-proofed to the extent this one has been.

I will give it until the 19th for communication from the devs that indicates someone, anyone at Anet is paying attention, but I doubt it will happen.

TL:DR This game has been dumbed down past the tolerance of old and new players alike, I am taking my wallet elsewhere.

Jumping can be trained….. I give you arthritis, tendinitis, carpal tunnel, I give you stroke, amputations, and plain old bad hand/eye coordination that cannot be ‘trained’.

The one thing that I like(d) about this game is that you were not forced to do things you don’t like or can’t do. Don’t like PVE, go WvW, don’t like PVP, go Dungeons.

I avoided the Aspects the first time they were around, I completely avoided the entire thing the second time around. I haven’t had the chance to try the new zone yet but if you MUST use the aspects to progress then I won’t have any of my characters able to do it, plain and simple. Charr or Asura, it won’t matter, I will never get any of my (currently) 14 level 80 toons into that zone.

I don’t care if it takes 4 times as long to do it without the Aspects, it should be POSSIBLE to do it without them.