Guild Wars 2

I would genuinely love to see a potions cupboard. I have so many endless tonics and such that I love to use to spice things up or make people laugh or smile but they take up SOOO much inventory space. Things like Endless Monkey King tonic and the like. I wouldn’t care about having to go to my bank to pick them up but it would be really cool to even have them work like the minis or finishers. I know it’s a lot to ask and maybe not quite what you guys are looking for input wise but even if we went to the bank to pick them up it would be cool to have a place to store them and give people who like to use them a place to keep extras and such. In fact, during Wintersday two years ago, a group of my guildies and I went and got a TON of plush griffon tonics and got the matching mini and ran around as a horde of griffons, doing jumping puzzles and such. Another thing that might be neat to add is a pantry of sorts, a place to store finished products of food (Like pumpkin cookies, omnom berry bars, steak and asparagus, ect), maintenance oils, sharpening stones and the like.

What I feel may smooth over some of that hate is perhaps separate the bundle and give just the expansion as an option for existing accounts for the standard $50 asking price that ANET wants. Have a temporary deal through the duration of current E3 where you buy the upgrade and new accounts get the core game as a free gift to help up the hype. When E3 ends, have the bundle price raise by maybe 5-10 making final price of bundle $55-$60, the standard price of a new game. When announcement of release date comes, have the following weekend as a sale to make the same deal dropping the price of the bundle to $50 where you buy the expansion and get the core game for free for new accounts. Then one more time during the first week of release for HoT.

Personally I feel this would be a fair change to the current pricing. It doesn’t give veterans a reason to feel ripped off since it doesn’t make the core game 100% free. But still leaves room for a very good deal for new players when they see that the expansion by itself is $50. At that point a veteran player can decide for themselves if they feel $50 is worth spending on the information they have so far.

To be completely honest, I really want the expansion but I’m not sure if I’m willing to pay for it just yet.

As said, this is just my veiwpoint and my two cents on what I feel so far about the current debacle. You can choose to agree or disagree but this is where I stand.

Not necessarily to complain, to debate, to argue, to flame, to troll, to QQ or to side with either end of the community at the moment. This is just my viewpoint on the HoT expansion, it’s price and the bundle.

First of all, I’m not 100% against the $50 price tag of the expansion for a game that I’ve played for about two and a half years now. I’ve enjoyed well over 1500 hours of game play gotten some rare skins in the game, decked out myself in decent gear, learned the ins and outs of many dungeons and other various aspects of the game. I have dropped money into the cash shop here and there because I love and support the game. However I do feel as though I don’t have enough information to make a good judgement over whether I feel $50 is a fair price for the amount of content we are getting. I realize that this expansion is meant to be more feature based over physical content. I was expecting somewhere in this price range for the expansion ankitten ot too horribly upset over the price. I just feel like there should have been more information released than there has been by now. We have received a lot of silence over the past 6 months while waiting anxiously for more news on when we might even get a slight idea of release date which I don’t even think is going to be until at least 4th quarter of this year if not 2016.

A small issue I’ve had over the past 6 months is the lack of things to keep my attention span. There’s been skins added to the gem store and that’s all fine as I’ve even gotten some of them. I know several people who have come back for the announcement of the expansion but with no estimated time as to when it’ll be released, simply said it wasn’t worth the wait after 6 months and still no estimate and just left again to play other games. Personally I would have liked a little bit of something to keep me amused. Dragon ball was kind of fun but that was way back in January. I would have loved to see Dragon Bash or Super Adventure Box get dusted off. Spirits know that the troops need the morale boost after everything that’s happened so far.

On to the big issue that I’ve seen in the forums lately is the fact that the expansion is bundled with the core game. I see this as a very good thing for new players. I do feel the slight jealousy over them getting the core game for free but I do understand that this is meant to not make the game a huge money wall for a new player. The main money wall I see is in buying the season 2 content for 200 gems per episode or the bundle which I think is $30 (not entirely sure on that one). I do feel like this change has ripped off the players who have bought the game between the announcement of HoT and now seeing as they haven’t really gotten the same experience as those who have had the game for 1-2 years. In all actuality they haven’t gotten any updates or free content at all. I feel they may have very well bought the game at full price of $40 and on top of it spent $x on buying the season 2 content in which I agree this is kind of a slimy tactic for sales. I do see it happen in almost every business but I don’t really agree with this kind of marketing tactic. Also I believe older players feel ripped off because even though this was supposed to be a gift to new players so they don’t have money wall to get old content it makes the old core game seem like it is now completely worthless.

With games in general the value of a game goes down with time whether it be a core game, a bundle or the game simply being for an older system. I don’t feel the veterans should receive something extra. Personally I don’t need a new character slot as I bought one in advance when prepping for HoT release. I have gear waiting for my revenant, tomes waiting to level it and mats to make ascended gear for it when I figure out what kind of build I would like to do. I don’t need gems as I can choose to buy them or work up some gold over a couple of days to buy them. No one seemed upset during 75% off sales for the core game and I feel half of that reason was because it was just a temporary thing. This bundle deal seems like a permanent option which I think is one of the reasons a lot of people are up in arms.

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Aleksi.9705:

Quaggan

Swimming, swimming, swimming all day long.

As much as I do love the quaggans. My wife has already made one. He’s a cute little guy that lives on my bed. Apologies for the horrible picture quality.
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So I am currently thinking about making a plushie based off of one of the npcs in gw2 at the moment. I know that charrlie is currently purchasable but I do not find him cuddly enough and there isn’t much variety. However I have a dilemma. I can’t decide on which npc to make! So I figured I would ask here and see who the community would like to see made. So post who you would like to see made and I will tally up votes over the course of a week. Then I will begin and post wip pictures and of course the finished product.