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I’t too late for me I pre-purchased before the demo
…You can issue a ticket for a refund; I did, and got my money back.
Speak with your wallet.
I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and see if this is the actual direction they go… Would I still be able to get a refund if they implement this and I don’t want to play it?
If you are unsure how you feel about the direction, get your refund now. You can always buy it again later if you change your mind. Speak with your wallet.
Make sure you go through the support page, do not issue a charge-back with your credit card.
I need to think about it a bit… I’m still sort of waiting for them to update us on whether or not this will be added or if they are going to listen….
We very rarely get any kind of communication about anything like this so I think you’ll find that out sometime on the 22nd of September.
I was afraid you’d say something like that… Would you still be able to get a refund if you didn’t like that content or are you stuck with it by then?
I doubt you will be able to get a refund after launch. If this issue matters to you, get a refund now. Speak with your wallet.
You can always buy the game again later if you change your mind.
Fingers crossed for flying mounts. Arguments like “they make the world feel smaller” or “they invalidate open world traveling” are moot in GW2 since waypoints already exist and already do these things.
Not completely accurate though.
Lots of contested waypoints that would be simply negated by flying mounts. Entire mapdesigns would become tivial.
Maps designed for gliding have systems in them to steer use of gliding. You have to master it in more than one way. Adding flying to those maps would render them mere loot piñata’s stripped of their gaming value.
The design of this game might just allow for ground mounts but certainly not flying mounts.
It would be like adding a massive cheatcode. Way to sink your own game as a developer. The Blizzard Krew learned this lesson the hard way.
So, Fingers crossed for NO flying mounts EVER.
I disagree entirely. It’s a popular trope that flying led to the downfall of WoW, however if you look at the facts and the numbers (when Blizzard released them), it’s quite the opposite. WoW was booming when flight was part of the game. Only recently, when flight is disabled for a long time at the start of the xpac, only to be introduced via massive amounts of tedious effort, subs have plummeted. I believe it to be true that the vast majority of people wish to battle enemies more than terrain, and sub numbers show that, if not the sole reason for the decline, that at least there’s some correlation.
When they removed flying for most of the new XP’s, they started bleeding subs so fast that they stopped reporting subscription numbers.
Because people had become used to it. And unlike gw2, the vertical depth doesn’t make much of a difference in wow. That city up that hill, go ahead, fly to it.
In gw2 some areas are locked behind passages or events, there are paths the devs want you to take. They want you to know that a contested waypoint is a bother, flight would invalidate all that, effectively destroying the world.That said, its not out of the question to design a ls4 map(s) which can accommodate flight. But then it’d have to be exclusive to those maps. After a while people will complain they want flight on more maps. It’s a slippery slope into a Venus flytrap
It wasn’t just that people “got used to” flying in WoW – it’s that they used flying mounts as a carrot for people to stay subbed while they farmed old content to try to get them, and also that they sold them in the cash store for $25 each… and then they quietly announced that they were going to remove flying from future content – not on the main forum, but on some obscure form, on a Friday night. They were pretty slimy in the way they handled it.
I agree with you – huge portions of GW2 are literally designed around terrain obstacles, and the maps are instanced and mostly kinda small… flying wouldn’t work well here.
if that does not grab you then look at this way the money you be saving from less wp,s and more mount use will be great
That’s valid and not something I really ever considered.
Personnaly I’d be more than willing to part with the gold for thier use.
Whatever you happen to save on WP costs will be offset by the fact that you have to spend money to collect your loot.
Fingers crossed for flying mounts. Arguments like “they make the world feel smaller” or “they invalidate open world traveling” are moot in GW2 since waypoints already exist and already do these things.
Not completely accurate though.
Lots of contested waypoints that would be simply negated by flying mounts. Entire mapdesigns would become tivial.
Maps designed for gliding have systems in them to steer use of gliding. You have to master it in more than one way. Adding flying to those maps would render them mere loot piñata’s stripped of their gaming value.
The design of this game might just allow for ground mounts but certainly not flying mounts.
It would be like adding a massive cheatcode. Way to sink your own game as a developer. The Blizzard Krew learned this lesson the hard way.
So, Fingers crossed for NO flying mounts EVER.
I disagree entirely. It’s a popular trope that flying led to the downfall of WoW, however if you look at the facts and the numbers (when Blizzard released them), it’s quite the opposite. WoW was booming when flight was part of the game. Only recently, when flight is disabled for a long time at the start of the xpac, only to be introduced via massive amounts of tedious effort, subs have plummeted. I believe it to be true that the vast majority of people wish to battle enemies more than terrain, and sub numbers show that, if not the sole reason for the decline, that at least there’s some correlation.
When they removed flying for most of the new XP’s, they started bleeding subs so fast that they stopped reporting subscription numbers.
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Useful to me for weekly key farming.
Please pardon my ignorance but could you tell me how you do that?
Thanks,
Anela
Once a week I create a new character, use a scroll, and do the first personal story arc after which I get a key. I think most people do the human commoner one since it’s the quickest but the others aren’t that far off in case you want to change it up.
Just went and found a wiki page dedicated to it.
Thank you so much! I am going to start doing this!
Keep in mind you can only get a key from that once per week, per account.
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I am looking forward to the mounts, and hope they add more into the game…
Back when I played WoW, I was a mount-a-holic with 214 of them:
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/korialstrasz/kurfu/collections/mounts
I didn’t see a time-lost proto-drake in there so you’ve got a bit more collecting to do.
Seriously though, nice collection. It was great fun getting that swift white hawkstrider from magister’s terrace, eh?
My old GM had the TLPD… got it totally by accident, the kitten. lol
I think I actually got the hawkstrider more than once… But I was solo’ing the dungeon, so I couldn’t give it to anyone else. No greater pain than deleting a mount.