Guild Wars 2

joneirikb.7506:

Even if I have to agree with Illconceived Was Na’s post as usual, I still really hate that I can’t turn of shoulders on outfits!

Being able to turn off shoulders would be a good option along with possibly using a different “helmet” too.

What exactly is your budget range? If you plan on using the desktop for gaming all around and not just GW2 then something around the level of the 6GB 1060 would be better than a 1050Ti. The reason I say this is because the 1050 line is meant for older games or recent esport games. They’re games like LoL, Dota, etc that don’t require much to stay above a constant 60/120+ fps. Games above that would benefit more from the 1060 along with allowing you to not worry as much about future games too. I also suggest getting an SSD even if it has very limited capacity to be used as you boot drive and for 1~2 games that you have as the current primary. An SSD makes a very big difference when it comes to the responsiveness of even just Windows itself. DOn’t drop the HDD though, you would use your HDD for general storage and your SSD would be used only for Windows and what ever game you play often that benefits from the SSD.

These two upgrades would add an additional ~200$.

InQuIzY.5269:

As mentioned before, I’m playing on a laptop not a fix PC. Although I agree that 4GB is now kind of outdated even for laptops but 16GB RAM is still too much. You won’t expect to buy a laptop of 16GB with a decent video card and CPU under 1000 euros in my country.

Depending on your laptop you can add additional RAM yourself. Typical laptops are setup to allow RAM/Storage to be upgraded. Of course some are done in ways that don’t let you, but hopefully yours isn’t one.

Danikat.8537:

Purgatori.3645:

It takes less than a minute to log in to get your daily rewards and check the trading post for promos …. While agree that something labeled “customer appreciation” should be around longer, maybe even mailed out to the community, Im sure you could have found one minute to log in and snatch up the freebie

Dont even get me started on all the laurels and mystic coins flipped = gold that you are missing out on ….. jeez lol

It only takes a minute or two if you’re already on the computer. If you need to stop whatever else you’re doing, turn on the PC, wait for it to start up, log into the game, wait for it to load and then open the gem store it takes considerably longer. And on most days (Mondays especially) there’s a high probability you’ll find that nothing at all has changed since last time you logged in.

Not to mention the fact that I suspect for many people, even long-term devoted GW2 fans, checking the gem store for new promotions comes very far down their list of priorities in life. Taking those few minutes out of whatever else you’re doing may be disruptive enough that it’s just not practical, even if it’s not a long time (for example if you’re trying to pack and get everything sorted to go away, or you’ve got family over).

Or you might just not think of it at the right time. On Saturday I was thinking I really need to do guild missions more often and I’d make sure I did them on Sunday evening. But come Sunday evening I was walking around the lake outside of town with my husband and didn’t even think about guild missions until I got home and they’d been over for hours.

Ultimately it’s a game. It shouldn’t be something you have to go out of your way to keep up to date with. Sure this is a relatively trivial example, but it’s easy for the same thinking – that we as players should be making an effort to log in at least part of every day – to spread to other aspects of the game. They did a good job with the login rewards by making them pick up where you left off instead of resetting if you miss a day, it would be nice if they could make similar allowances for less regular promotions too.

You can’t say “it’s just a game” and be upset when you miss something.

Something else that seems to be ignored is the fact you do not have to be at a computer to know about promotions. Most people have cell phones now a days, which can be used to check the forum thread that posts promotions/sales, along with checking news posts, or one of those other sites that keep track of promotions too. Bookmarking any of this means you can quickly check your phone which would be less than a minute.

I view virtual shop sales the same exact way I do for non-virtual shop sales, if I miss it then that’s my fault.