Guild Wars 2

Don’t spend gems till they start listening to the community.

A status symbol. Most WvW commanders I’ve talked to won’t bother to purchase a new color based on the fact they are being charged for a feature designed to help organize players in large groups, something this game has desperately needed since release.

The new colors will become a status symbol, and I fear players might even be mocked for purchasing them, much like the guy in town who revs his engine at the stop light in his super expensive car, or the guy who parks in the handicapped space in his brand new red Ferrari.

What are your thoughts?

Anet is basically charging the community for a feature the community wanted put into the game to help large groups and events organize. They’ve taken a highly requested idea and spun it around as a gold sink.

Charging gold for a colored tag designed to help promote oragization, split large groups (zergs) and promote tactics (something WvW is severely lacking) is an outrage. It can be compared to charging players gold to use map chat, a tool used to organize groups and for tactics, much like the commander tag.

I beg that the decision to charge gold to access colored tags be reconsidered.

Just read the comments of over 400 players over at reddit:
http://www.guildmag.com/command-tag-gamescom-2014/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2djnv8/interview_with_devon_carver_commander_tag_will_be/

I can safely say that the Anet has failed the WvW community. After playing again for the last couple weeks it’s clear WvW isn’t going anywhere.

The community has repeatedly asked for content and suggested fixes but all we get in return is horrible management.

Let’s look at a few things Anet has done recently for the WvW community:

Open transfers up a few weeks before the tournament so server ranks will be in disarray when the tournament starts.

Failing to fix the annoying “chat suppression” bug nearly 2 years post launch. Super annoying when you don’t have dedicated populations on voice-coms all the time.

Failing to implement secondary command tag colors and icons. How many time’s has it been suggested? How hard is it to implement a “Change my icon color” feature. It would take less than a weeks work.

Failing to listen to the community for unique items and armor as rewards for WvW. I’ve dedicated hundreds of hours to WvW, and I have nothing to show for it, but my friend who’s dedicated hours of PvE has all sorts of cool looking armor and items.

Failing to implement or experiment with rule-set changes during matches, like was suggested nearly a year ago. For example, camps would be worth extra points one week, ect, ect.

In the end WvW is fun for a while, but I’m burnt out and I just tried to return after 4 months away only to find it completely the same with no promising content expected.