Guild Wars 2

DeanBB.4268:

DaikonSamurai.6714

I only have over 20-ish accounts that are mostly young

Off topic, but… Did I read that right? You have 20 accounts? Or characters? 20*5=100 potential characters, minimum. How do you even have time to log them in to harvest a node? Why 20?

oops chars you got me haha.

Maybe this would work if it were a mastery you could unlock in game. That would be cool. Seems a lot of the “boo nooo” is because hypothetically one would just buy it and get it? I think it could work if it’s something you ‘earn’ in-game.

And gosh darned it this thread has got me posting a lot more than I thought I would haha…

Ayrilana.1396:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Yeah map clearing would be faster but I don’t see how this would be P2W either. Gameplay wise you’d still have to complete the same content anyway. As long as a pre-determined number of map completions is required before getting the item I don’t see why not.

Part of that “still have to complete hearts, etc” component is getting to those things. Having the waypoints available speeds this up significantly. It is an advantage. Considering the “hot is pay to win” crowd, can you image how they would view something like this if it didn’t have any drawbacks?

So while I have no issue with people desiring this issue, there should be drawbacks to this “cheat,” which is essentially what this would be. As you point out, XP is abundant, so obviously just removing that wouldn’t be sufficient.

In addition to that, should it be one item for core, and a different one for HoT, and so on for each new expansion. Seems like the only proper option, especially if this is something people want the ability to “buy” in order to bypass…well, playing.

Making it impossible for a group of players to get as many gifts of exploration seems extreme in the other direction though. Maybe if there were ways to make up for it that would be fine. But then this gets into pondering a hypothetical item that I’d like, but am not frothing at the mouth to get either so… Don’t care to think further lol.

I would imagine it would be one for core, 1 for HoT, etc. as you describe since world map completion only counts for Central Tyria I believe? Might be mistaken on that.

They would have made that choice by choosing to pay to unlock all WP’s.

So instead of P2W it would be Pay to Lose? Haha ok sure.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Jhoul.6923:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

You’d still have to complete all the hearts, jump to all the vistas, find all the POIs… So you’d still have to cover a lot of the same ground and the same content anyway. Maybe if it were like the jump to lvl 80 item we got in our free shared slot and only unlocked 1 waypoint in maps so you still had to uncover those maps. I’d be fine with all WPs unlocked though if it required you to have done map completion at least once before. Repeating map completion on multiple characters seems kinda silly to me (especially if you’ve done it 10+ times) and doesn’t really prove any accomplishment so I’d be fine with an item like this.

You get me, that is exactly what I mean, they could even add a requirement where you have to it more than X amount of times for it to be unlocked.

But I consider others that have done more than 3 times martyrs.

This game is fun, but not that fun; and unlocking the WP will still require ppl to play over 100 hours on map completion to get the gift of exploration.

Yeah, multiple map completions would work for me too. I think as is, it just punishes altaholics and hinders getting to your friends and guildies with alts. An item like you describe would promote people playing together and make purchasing additional character slots more palatable imo.

Teleport to Friend.

Problem solved. I suppose they could just sell these things directly in the gemstore. Although, I tend to get plenty from my odd ball black lion chests. You get also get 5 from each 3rd birthday present and 5 from the lvl 80 boost too.

Edit: I’m an alt-a-holic myself. Sitting at 40ish characters between my 2 accounts. I don’t necessarily enjoy mapping either, unless I’m specifically in the mood for it. However, I have no issues running to where I need to be to meet up with people, or popping one of these. Its not like it’s time consuming. You can run from one side of the “world” to the other in like 15 minutes.

Wait is there a permanent teleport to friend? If so then yeah to a degree I guess. It still makes alts less desirable for many. I only have over 20-ish *EDIT*characters*EDIT* that are mostly young and I’m not addicted to black lion chest gambling so I’m not drowning in them.

But yeah I’d welcome a perma-teleport to friend item too if that’s not available… Also sorry for quoting you twice haha.

Edit: 20 characters not accounts LOL. Oh boy… my brain sometimes…

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Yeah map clearing would be faster but I don’t see how this would be P2W either. Gameplay wise you’d still have to complete the same content anyway. As long as a pre-determined number of map completions is required before getting the item I don’t see why not.

Part of that “still have to complete hearts, etc” component is getting to those things. Having the waypoints available speeds this up significantly. It is an advantage. Considering the “hot is pay to win” crowd, can you image how they would view something like this if it didn’t have any drawbacks?

So while I have no issue with people desiring this issue, there should be drawbacks to this “cheat,” which is essentially what this would be. As you point out, XP is abundant, so obviously just removing that wouldn’t be sufficient.

In addition to that, should it be one item for core, and a different one for HoT, and so on for each new expansion. Seems like the only proper option, especially if this is something people want the ability to “buy” in order to bypass…well, playing.

Making it impossible for a group of players to get as many gifts of exploration seems extreme in the other direction though. Maybe if there were ways to make up for it that would be fine. But then this gets into pondering a hypothetical item that I’d like, but am not frothing at the mouth to get either so… Don’t care to think further lol.

I would imagine it would be one for core, 1 for HoT, etc. as you describe since world map completion only counts for Central Tyria I believe? Might be mistaken on that.

Ayrilana.1396:

Or people can just delete their characters if they plan on quitting.

Yeah this haha. They can also make a video out of it to sad music and make a few bucks lol.

Ayrilana.1396:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Ayrilana.1396:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Ayrilana.1396:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

You’d still have to complete all the hearts, jump to all the vistas, find all the POIs… So you’d still have to cover a lot of the same ground and the same content anyway. Maybe if it were like the jump to lvl 80 item we got in our free shared slot and only unlocked 1 waypoint in maps so you still had to uncover those maps. I’d be fine with all WPs unlocked though if it required you to have done map completion at least once before. Repeating map completion on multiple characters seems kinda silly to me (especially if you’ve done it 10+ times) and doesn’t really prove any accomplishment so I’d be fine with an item like this.

You’d do map completion in less time if you had all WP’s unlocked.

Which you’d already proven you can do if you’ve gotten world completion already.

Which would be made faster if all WP’s were unlocked.

So?

How would you feel about Anet allowing players to purchase a consumable which unlocks everything in their wardrobe? After all, it would just be saving the player time.

Having all WP’s unlocked significantly reduces the amount of time spent doing map completion.

If wardrobes were soulbound like WP unlocks then I’d be totally for an item like that. would save me a lot of time on all of my alts. :P Thankfully the wardrobe is account bound so I only have to unlock them all once.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Jhoul.6923:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

You’d still have to complete all the hearts, jump to all the vistas, find all the POIs… So you’d still have to cover a lot of the same ground and the same content anyway. Maybe if it were like the jump to lvl 80 item we got in our free shared slot and only unlocked 1 waypoint in maps so you still had to uncover those maps. I’d be fine with all WPs unlocked though if it required you to have done map completion at least once before. Repeating map completion on multiple characters seems kinda silly to me (especially if you’ve done it 10+ times) and doesn’t really prove any accomplishment so I’d be fine with an item like this.

You get me, that is exactly what I mean, they could even add a requirement where you have to it more than X amount of times for it to be unlocked.

But I consider others that have done more than 3 times martyrs.

This game is fun, but not that fun; and unlocking the WP will still require ppl to play over 100 hours on map completion to get the gift of exploration.

Yeah, multiple map completions would work for me too. I think as is, it just punishes altaholics and hinders getting to your friends and guildies with alts. An item like you describe would promote people playing together and make purchasing additional character slots more palatable imo.

Teleport to Friend.

Problem solved. I suppose they could just sell these things directly in the gemstore. Although, I tend to get plenty from my odd ball black lion chests. You get also get 5 from each 3rd birthday present and 5 from the lvl 80 boost too.

Edit: I’m an alt-a-holic myself. Sitting at 40ish characters between my 2 accounts. I don’t necessarily enjoy mapping either, unless I’m specifically in the mood for it. However, I have no issues running to where I need to be to meet up with people, or popping one of these. Its not like it’s time consuming. You can run from one side of the “world” to the other in like 15 minutes.

Eh, it’d be a QoL thing and that’s always subjective anyway. I’m just saying I’d be cool with it provided you can only have access to it after completing a map completion previously. I don’t care enough to really ‘fight’ for it lol.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I agree with Ayrilana, if an item comes into the game which grants the unlocking of WPs either for the account or for a specific character, and you opt to use it, then you should automatically negate your right to map / world completion rewards.

1) You should get none of the XP normally granted for discovering those WPs, because you didn’t discover them
2) Being able to waypoint around grants a significant advantage regarding both time and effort when clearing a map

Yeah maybe negate XP, I can agree with that. Either way if you’ve already completed map completion and regularly do dailies you’re probably drowning in writs of experience and tomes of knowledge anyway, but still…

Yeah map clearing would be faster but I don’t see how this would be P2W either. Gameplay wise you’d still have to complete the same content anyway. As long as a pre-determined number of map completions is required before getting the item I don’t see why not.

Ayrilana.1396:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Ayrilana.1396:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

You’d still have to complete all the hearts, jump to all the vistas, find all the POIs… So you’d still have to cover a lot of the same ground and the same content anyway. Maybe if it were like the jump to lvl 80 item we got in our free shared slot and only unlocked 1 waypoint in maps so you still had to uncover those maps. I’d be fine with all WPs unlocked though if it required you to have done map completion at least once before. Repeating map completion on multiple characters seems kinda silly to me (especially if you’ve done it 10+ times) and doesn’t really prove any accomplishment so I’d be fine with an item like this.

You’d do map completion in less time if you had all WP’s unlocked.

Which you’d already proven you can do if you’ve gotten world completion already.

Which would be made faster if all WP’s were unlocked.

So?

Jhoul.6923:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

You’d still have to complete all the hearts, jump to all the vistas, find all the POIs… So you’d still have to cover a lot of the same ground and the same content anyway. Maybe if it were like the jump to lvl 80 item we got in our free shared slot and only unlocked 1 waypoint in maps so you still had to uncover those maps. I’d be fine with all WPs unlocked though if it required you to have done map completion at least once before. Repeating map completion on multiple characters seems kinda silly to me (especially if you’ve done it 10+ times) and doesn’t really prove any accomplishment so I’d be fine with an item like this.

You get me, that is exactly what I mean, they could even add a requirement where you have to it more than X amount of times for it to be unlocked.

But I consider others that have done more than 3 times martyrs.

This game is fun, but not that fun; and unlocking the WP will still require ppl to play over 100 hours on map completion to get the gift of exploration.

Yeah, multiple map completions would work for me too. I think as is, it just punishes altaholics and hinders getting to your friends and guildies with alts. An item like you describe would promote people playing together and make purchasing additional character slots more palatable imo.

Ayrilana.1396:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

You’d still have to complete all the hearts, jump to all the vistas, find all the POIs… So you’d still have to cover a lot of the same ground and the same content anyway. Maybe if it were like the jump to lvl 80 item we got in our free shared slot and only unlocked 1 waypoint in maps so you still had to uncover those maps. I’d be fine with all WPs unlocked though if it required you to have done map completion at least once before. Repeating map completion on multiple characters seems kinda silly to me (especially if you’ve done it 10+ times) and doesn’t really prove any accomplishment so I’d be fine with an item like this.

You’d do map completion in less time if you had all WP’s unlocked.

Which you’d already proven you can do if you’ve gotten world completion already.

You’d still have to complete all the hearts, jump to all the vistas, find all the POIs… So you’d still have to cover a lot of the same ground and the same content anyway. Maybe if it were like the jump to lvl 80 item we got in our free shared slot and only unlocked 1 waypoint in maps so you still had to uncover those maps. I’d be fine with all WPs unlocked though if it required you to have done map completion at least once before. Repeating map completion on multiple characters seems kinda silly to me (especially if you’ve done it 10+ times) and doesn’t really prove any accomplishment so I’d be fine with an item like this.

Ophidia Moonstone.2587:

And if you get a Daily rotation with a JP, a Daily Activity, and an Adventure, you might as well not have any option. I won’t do a fractal daily, I tried that once, I do not know fractals and people who do them for Dailies are impatient with newbies. WvW is confusing to me, and PvP seems to be a really nasty place, I have heard they treat newbies like garbage.

I know this thread isn’t necessarily about dailies, but for anyone who runs into an issue like this I strongly recommend PvP Daily rooms. They are custom maps maintained by players who don’t enjoy PvP and most of them are accessible to everyone. Not only do you get at least 3 easy dailies within 1-2 rounds, (typically 4 dailies as long as “complete a match in unranked/ranked arena” isn’t one of them) you also earn reward tracks that give you various dungeon/PvE map specific currencies and weapon/armor skins. If anyone is curious I made an introduction video here: PvP Daily Rooms

Very accessible and friendly to newbies, I’ve always found people are willing to walk you through how a room works if you say you’re new and you ask. And if hitting people and jumping off ledges like in the video is still too much “PvP” for you there are rooms where people literally stand around and trade capturing capture points without hitting anyone at all unless there are volunteers.

Just posting this hoping it helps some players out. 3 out of 4 dailies can be asking a lot, but this might make it 3 out of 8 for a lot of people.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

What bugs me is we can’t have any hats. I mean, I can have a hat. But as soon as I give that hat to anyone, it doesn’t matter if it’s my Dad’s ‘hat, Mother’s ‘hat, sister’s ‘hat, brother’s ‘hat, friend’s ‘hat, girlfriend’s ’hat. They all magically turn into kittens!

And now everyone I know has a kitten sitting on their head and they’re looking rather disapprovingly at me… Nobody mention my hat! :o

As a side note… I really want a kitten hat headpiece now plz…

I always preview first before posting and fix it so there aren’t unnessary kittens in my post.

Dad’s ‘hat, Mother’s ‘hat, sister’s ‘hat, brother’s ‘hat, friend’s ‘hat, girlfriend’s ’hat. They all magically turn into kittens!

And they all thank you for fixing their head attire!

It’s really a minor problem. They don’t show up that often and it takes very little to fix to remove the ones that do appear. On the other hand, replacing true curse words with kitten helps keep the forums civil.

Yeah I know. I mostly just posted for kittens and giggles. Mostly kittens. And this thread gave me a good opportunity haha.

Fire glider like Iroh Man!

Just a flesh wound.3589:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

What bugs me is we can’t have any hats. I mean, I can have a hat. But as soon as I give that hat to anyone, it doesn’t matter if it’s my Dad’s ‘hat, Mother’s ‘hat, sister’s ‘hat, brother’s ‘hat, friend’s ‘hat, girlfriend’s ’hat. They all magically turn into kittens!

And now everyone I know has a kitten sitting on their head and they’re looking rather disapprovingly at me… Nobody mention my hat! :o

As a side note… I really want a kitten hat headpiece now plz…

I always preview first before posting and fix it so there aren’t unnessary kittens in my post.

Dad’s ‘hat, Mother’s ‘hat, sister’s ‘hat, brother’s ‘hat, friend’s ‘hat, girlfriend’s ’hat. They all magically turn into kittens!

And they all thank you for fixing their head attire!

Asrat.2645:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

What bugs me is we can’t have any hats. I mean, I can have a hat. But as soon as I give that hat to anyone, it doesn’t matter if it’s my Dad’kitten, Mother’kitten, sister’kitten, brother’kitten, friend’kitten, girlfriend’kitten. They all magically turn into kittens!

And now everyone I know has a kitten sitting on their head and they’re looking rather disapprovingly at me… Nobody mention my hat! :o

As a side note… I really want a kitten hat headpiece now plz…

This. Is amazing.

Nobody on my end seems to think so, they rather liked their hats. My dad in particular has a bald spot. :P

Or everyone I know now is a kitten… That works too. But I already have a feline tonic for that lol.

What bugs me is we can’t have any hats. I mean, I can have a hat. But as soon as I give that hat to anyone, it doesn’t matter if it’s my Dad’kitten, Mother’kitten, sister’kitten, brother’kitten, friend’kitten, girlfriend’kitten. They all magically turn into kittens!

And now everyone I know has a kitten sitting on their head and they’re looking rather disapprovingly at me… Nobody mention my hat! :o

As a side note… I really want a kitten hat headpiece now plz…

Yes please!!!

Dashingsteel.3410:

Yes, it seems we have a divided crowd here on this topic. That is why ops idea is a bad one. Introducing Sya into the adventure would be divisive. Why turn off one portion of your customers just to pander to another portion of customers?

Anet literally does that with every decision/change they make and can’t make any change without doing so.

Raziel.4216:

If they want to do this I hope that the new character’s gender identity is not the reason they’re in the spotlight. DA3 had a very well received trans character, you found out about it if you dig in the story but it’s not the main reason your character respects/cares about her.
They could introduce a new character that adds something to the team and you’d eventually find out – in a tangential not-center-of-the-plot way – that the character is transgender and had to face some struggles. However, if the only defining aspect of this new character is the fact that they’re transgender you’d be doing a disservice to the people you want to represent.
Take Taimi for example: she’s the genious of the team, she fills a required spot and her dissability is simply part of the character, but it’s not the one and only defining facet. Now that’s good representation.

Yeah that sounds cool. I think Taimi is a great example as well. If Sya is fleshed out beyond “token transgender” I really don’t see why not. I don’t think Anet necessarily has to “hide” her sexuality for the player to dig in the story for though. But that could work I think. But yeah, flesh her out have her add something to the team. Anet did it before, they can do it again.

Whatever opinion people have of SP I hope at least this get’s through to Anet.

Dashingsteel.3410:

Which is an agenda and makes the story shallow

Not if “Anet’s writers are top notch. They’re able to include homosexual characters into the Living Story without having an agenda pushed. That’s what I’d like for Sya as well.” kitten said…

Yeah megaservers join all servers in PvE. The only place server choice matters still is in WvW/EotM where server will determine which team you are on. I will say even PvE players often go to EotM to level fast so you may still be interested in knowing what the culture of your WvW server is. I’m not very familiar with EU WvW though maybe someone else could shed some light on that.

Redenaz.8631:

The important question is whether there’s enough people to do your preferred game mode, and the OP never said which part of the game (s)he likes to play.

The April update revamped the LFG tool, making it massively easier to find people for the content you want to do. I’m having an incredibly easy time finding viable HoT maps now, compared to a month ago when it was always a hassle. (Improved rewards certainly didn’t hurt, either.)

With that in mind it would make this thread more constructive haha.

I’ll add for WvW, the april update is running an “open beta” of sorts and has allied low pop servers with higher pop servers. In addition there are a lot of improvements to loot, including reward tracks similar to sPvP reward tracks, and loot drops with every tick that becomes more frequent as you earn more participation. So far WvW has had every map queued on reset nights (Friday) on my server in T3 and seems to be more active throughout the week so far. So WvW is a lot healthier now population wise.

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

It’s not that people are against a transgender character, it’s that people don’t want a character shoehorned in, for the sake of it.

And you’re all assuming that’s what the OP wants. I’m pretty sure Mr. Penguin wants a well told story just as much as anyone here. Background characters gain prominence in stories all the time, so if an element of the story calls for it, why not Sya?

He wasn’t Sya thrust in to the light just because Sya is trans. No other reason. We still know very little about the people in DE 2.0, we don’t really know all that much about DE, unless you’ve read the book.

And if it’s because he wants someone overcoming adversity, my PC necro did that, she grew up on the streets, she never knew her parents. The first time she leave the city she saves a village and becomes a hero, she has the ear of the captain of the Seraph. Saves the queen, joins a order, rises through the ranks quickly, becomes second.in command of an army, kills 2 dragons. Now if that’s not inspiring I don’t know what is.

Plenty of Sylvari had to overcome adversity too both PC and NPC. If Anet has a good story to tell I don’t see why Sya can’t develop into something more important as well.

But why dose it have to be Sya? Because they are trans? Is that the only reason? Why not someone else. What makes her special enough to be elevated above the rest? I can tell you why. Because trans has been in the media as of late so it’s the “cool” thing to be supporting. That is the only reason. If it was because of just raising awareness of transgender then this thread would have come up asking this when the character was introduced. That is the truth, and you can handle the truth!

Up to Anet to decide. If they have a good story that includes Sya I’m all for it. If they have a good story to tell that doesn’t include Sya I’m all for it. Why do you think if Sya becomes a prominent character it instantly means it’s pushing an agenda? It just means Anet has a story they want to tell that includes her.

I couldn’t care less, if you had read through the thread I’m probably the only one here who has had a family member go through with going from a man to a woman. So I can say with hand on heart I don’t care. What I do care is when someone comes on the forum with out a clue about what that decision can do to a person, a family, just because they think it would be “cool” annoys me to no end. I don’t want to see the impact this choice has on a person and there family be trivialized in a game. You could never do it justice. It’s not something you wake up.one day and decide it’s what you are going to do today. People who are your friends might not be after, family members might disown you. This is a big thing. Sure the same.could be said about being gay. But there are a lot less trans people out there than gay.

But you keep on talking about something you know jack about, because there is nothing cool or hip about it. Want to make a difference to the transgender population, go out there and help the transgender people in your community, a game won’t help people in the real world, no matter how good the story is.

I have a transgender friend and friends ranging throughout the LGBT spectrum. Not family but do you really want to whip out a measuring stick about this?

And I think you’re mistaken if you think media can’t move people or make a difference. I remember a very moving thread started by a physically disabled player complimenting Anet for creating Taimi. Daredevil cheered up a lot of disabled Marvel fans. If it brightens even one person’s day over whatever unjust struggles they have to go through, I think that’s “cool” and “hip” regardless of whatever cringe people in this thread seem to perceive.

Really? A measuring stick. You clearly do not have a clue do you. If that’s all you took away from what I posted you must be full of it.

Meh, think what you want. I’m not LGBT so I won’t pretend to understand their challenges. I only hear what a handful of them describe to me. Still nothing you have said to me challenges what I’ve said from the start. If Anet has a good story to tell and it includes Sya, then why not? I think positive representation of any rarely represented class or group is cool.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Coulter.2315:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Daredevil cheered up a lot of disabled Marvel fans. If it brightens even one person’s day over whatever unjust struggles they have to go through, I think that’s “cool” and “hip” regardless of whatever cringe people in this thread seem to perceive.

Daredevil has better senses than people with working eyes xD He’s hardly a poster boy for the blind – he can “see” better than me. Remember the thing you think is “seeing” is just a picture your brain draws you from electrical sense input and guesses, Daredevil has a better input and thus a better picture and is not in any way disabled (sorry if you’re blind and loved DD and I ruined it for you).

Yeah DD takes it to superhuman extremes, but there’s some truth to enhanced touch, hearing, etc. for blind people last I checked. Regardless I’ll bet many people find Batman stories moving and relate to him losing loved ones despite never having his ridiculous superpower of “wealth” nor being the greatest detective in the world. You don’t have to be superhuman to relate to superheroes.

Hmm. I am inspired by real people overcoming real obstacles. Not fictional characters who overcome everything with mythical plot devices.

But, carry on.

And for blind people with your attitude they have Stevie Wonder. Doesn’t mean fictional universes can’t have them either.

Wow, for a bunch of people who don’t care one way or the other this thread has certainly sparked a lot of activity lol.

Coulter.2315:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Daredevil cheered up a lot of disabled Marvel fans. If it brightens even one person’s day over whatever unjust struggles they have to go through, I think that’s “cool” and “hip” regardless of whatever cringe people in this thread seem to perceive.

Daredevil has better senses than people with working eyes xD He’s hardly a poster boy for the blind – he can “see” better than me. Remember the thing you think is “seeing” is just a picture your brain draws you from electrical sense input and guesses, Daredevil has a better input and thus a better picture and is not in any way disabled (sorry if you’re blind and loved DD and I ruined it for you).

Yeah DD takes it to superhuman extremes, but there’s some truth to enhanced touch, hearing, etc. for blind people last I checked. Regardless I’ll bet many people find Batman stories moving and relate to him losing loved ones despite never having his ridiculous superpower of “wealth” nor being the greatest detective in the world. You don’t have to be superhuman to relate to superheroes.

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

It’s not that people are against a transgender character, it’s that people don’t want a character shoehorned in, for the sake of it.

And you’re all assuming that’s what the OP wants. I’m pretty sure Mr. Penguin wants a well told story just as much as anyone here. Background characters gain prominence in stories all the time, so if an element of the story calls for it, why not Sya?

He wasn’t Sya thrust in to the light just because Sya is trans. No other reason. We still know very little about the people in DE 2.0, we don’t really know all that much about DE, unless you’ve read the book.

And if it’s because he wants someone overcoming adversity, my PC necro did that, she grew up on the streets, she never knew her parents. The first time she leave the city she saves a village and becomes a hero, she has the ear of the captain of the Seraph. Saves the queen, joins a order, rises through the ranks quickly, becomes second.in command of an army, kills 2 dragons. Now if that’s not inspiring I don’t know what is.

Plenty of Sylvari had to overcome adversity too both PC and NPC. If Anet has a good story to tell I don’t see why Sya can’t develop into something more important as well.

But why dose it have to be Sya? Because they are trans? Is that the only reason? Why not someone else. What makes her special enough to be elevated above the rest? I can tell you why. Because trans has been in the media as of late so it’s the “cool” thing to be supporting. That is the only reason. If it was because of just raising awareness of transgender then this thread would have come up asking this when the character was introduced. That is the truth, and you can handle the truth!

Up to Anet to decide. If they have a good story that includes Sya I’m all for it. If they have a good story to tell that doesn’t include Sya I’m all for it. Why do you think if Sya becomes a prominent character it instantly means it’s pushing an agenda? It just means Anet has a story they want to tell that includes her.

I couldn’t care less, if you had read through the thread I’m probably the only one here who has had a family member go through with going from a man to a woman. So I can say with hand on heart I don’t care. What I do care is when someone comes on the forum with out a clue about what that decision can do to a person, a family, just because they think it would be “cool” annoys me to no end. I don’t want to see the impact this choice has on a person and there family be trivialized in a game. You could never do it justice. It’s not something you wake up.one day and decide it’s what you are going to do today. People who are your friends might not be after, family members might disown you. This is a big thing. Sure the same.could be said about being gay. But there are a lot less trans people out there than gay.

But you keep on talking about something you know jack about, because there is nothing cool or hip about it. Want to make a difference to the transgender population, go out there and help the transgender people in your community, a game won’t help people in the real world, no matter how good the story is.

I have a transgender friend and friends ranging throughout the LGBT spectrum. Not family but do you really want to whip out a measuring stick about this?

And I think you’re mistaken if you think media can’t move people or make a difference. I remember a very moving thread started by a physically disabled player complimenting Anet for creating Taimi. Daredevil cheered up a lot of disabled Marvel fans. If it brightens even one person’s day over whatever unjust struggles they have to go through, I think that’s “cool” and “hip” regardless of whatever cringe people in this thread seem to perceive.

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

It’s not that people are against a transgender character, it’s that people don’t want a character shoehorned in, for the sake of it.

And you’re all assuming that’s what the OP wants. I’m pretty sure Mr. Penguin wants a well told story just as much as anyone here. Background characters gain prominence in stories all the time, so if an element of the story calls for it, why not Sya?

But then one could ask, out of the hundreds of random NPCs in the game, why Sya?

Why not?

I’m not saying Sya couldn’t be part of it, providing the character would be well written and brought something to the plot.

I think you are in greater agreement with the relatively frictionless penguin than you realize. lol

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

It’s not that people are against a transgender character, it’s that people don’t want a character shoehorned in, for the sake of it.

And you’re all assuming that’s what the OP wants. I’m pretty sure Mr. Penguin wants a well told story just as much as anyone here. Background characters gain prominence in stories all the time, so if an element of the story calls for it, why not Sya?

He wasn’t Sya thrust in to the light just because Sya is trans. No other reason. We still know very little about the people in DE 2.0, we don’t really know all that much about DE, unless you’ve read the book.

And if it’s because he wants someone overcoming adversity, my PC necro did that, she grew up on the streets, she never knew her parents. The first time she leave the city she saves a village and becomes a hero, she has the ear of the captain of the Seraph. Saves the queen, joins a order, rises through the ranks quickly, becomes second.in command of an army, kills 2 dragons. Now if that’s not inspiring I don’t know what is.

Plenty of Sylvari had to overcome adversity too both PC and NPC. If Anet has a good story to tell I don’t see why Sya can’t develop into something more important as well.

But why dose it have to be Sya? Because they are trans? Is that the only reason? Why not someone else. What makes her special enough to be elevated above the rest? I can tell you why. Because trans has been in the media as of late so it’s the “cool” thing to be supporting. That is the only reason. If it was because of just raising awareness of transgender then this thread would have come up asking this when the character was introduced. That is the truth, and you can handle the truth!

Up to Anet to decide. If they have a good story that includes Sya I’m all for it. If they have a good story to tell that doesn’t include Sya I’m all for it. Why do you think if Sya becomes a prominent character it instantly means it’s pushing an agenda? It just means Anet has a story they want to tell that includes her.

Ashen.2907:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

It’s not that people are against a transgender character, it’s that people don’t want a character shoehorned in, for the sake of it.

And you’re all assuming that’s what the OP wants. I’m pretty sure Mr. Penguin wants a well told story just as much as anyone here. Background characters gain prominence in stories all the time, so if an element of the story calls for it, why not Sya?

Its not an assumption. He has said, multiple times now, that it is what he wants. He wants a transgender character focus for the sake of influencing players in real life, with any in game story considerations as secondary (if that) to his stated sociopolitical agenda.

“I’m not asking for any type of forced sexual preference based story. I’m just asking that a NPC, who happens to be transgender, be included in our party.” -Smooth Penguin.5294

Mii noh theenk u reed 2 gud.

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

It’s not that people are against a transgender character, it’s that people don’t want a character shoehorned in, for the sake of it.

And you’re all assuming that’s what the OP wants. I’m pretty sure Mr. Penguin wants a well told story just as much as anyone here. Background characters gain prominence in stories all the time, so if an element of the story calls for it, why not Sya?

He wasn’t Sya thrust in to the light just because Sya is trans. No other reason. We still know very little about the people in DE 2.0, we don’t really know all that much about DE, unless you’ve read the book.

And if it’s because he wants someone overcoming adversity, my PC necro did that, she grew up on the streets, she never knew her parents. The first time she leave the city she saves a village and becomes a hero, she has the ear of the captain of the Seraph. Saves the queen, joins a order, rises through the ranks quickly, becomes second.in command of an army, kills 2 dragons. Now if that’s not inspiring I don’t know what is.

Plenty of Sylvari had to overcome adversity too both PC and NPC. If Anet has a good story to tell I don’t see why Sya can’t develop into something more important as well.

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

It’s not that people are against a transgender character, it’s that people don’t want a character shoehorned in, for the sake of it.

And you’re all assuming that’s what the OP wants. I’m pretty sure Mr. Penguin wants a well told story just as much as anyone here. Background characters gain prominence in stories all the time, so if an element of the story calls for it, why not Sya?

But then one could ask, out of the hundreds of random NPCs in the game, why Sya?

Why not?

Population seems fine to me.

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

It’s not that people are against a transgender character, it’s that people don’t want a character shoehorned in, for the sake of it.

And you’re all assuming that’s what the OP wants. I’m pretty sure Mr. Penguin wants a well told story just as much as anyone here. Background characters gain prominence in stories all the time, so if an element of the story calls for it, why not Sya?

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

If I could color my abilities, I would make a spirit weapon guardian, color them green, name him Green Lantern!

I want a turtle shell glider, like the kaiju “Gamera”. Mostly because I want a turtle shell backpack though lol.

Sazukikrah.5036:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Sazukikrah.5036:

why would you ask a question like this? You know its a bug but you going to ask us if we want you to fix it? YES WE WANT YOU TO FIX THE BUG! Plumper comes to my house knows my pipes are broke and ask me if i want them to be fixed… who does that? If its uniquely made then why would you not change it back to the original form… Dont be lazy Anet.. STOP THAT, no one likes when you guys are lazy.

Woah, calm down… Anet’s made changes to skins before to “fix” them only to find people complaining about the change and having to revert back to the original. Asking about this purely aesthetic change is quite reasonable in my opinion.

hope i dont sound upset that’s just how i talk/type. but yea i understand what you’re saying.

Ah, k. Yeah it’s easy to project emotion onto text when I read it, especially when it’s CAPS LOCKED LETTERS! So yeah, hard to read intended tone sometimes!

Yes, thank you Anet, Josh, and all involved. Many skins were obtained and many cosplays enhanced. Thanks!

Sazukikrah.5036:

why would you ask a question like this? You know its a bug but you going to ask us if we want you to fix it? YES WE WANT YOU TO FIX THE BUG! Plumper comes to my house knows my pipes are broke and ask me if i want them to be fixed… who does that? If its uniquely made then why would you not change it back to the original form… Dont be lazy Anet.. STOP THAT, no one likes when you guys are lazy.

Woah, calm down… Anet’s made changes to skins before to “fix” them only to find people complaining about the change and having to revert back to the original. Asking about this purely aesthetic change is quite reasonable in my opinion.

mrstealth.6701:

Siobhan.5273:

The good news is, it seems they’ve finally updated the HoT page to include the fact that we won’t be getting all the weapons most of us were sold when we bought the expansion.

Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns will let you begin your journey toward the first new set of legendary weapons to be added to the game since its original set of 20 that were included in the launch of Guild Wars 2. The first three to be released will be the celestial axe named Astralaria, an experimental energy pistol called H.O.P.E., and the raven spirit staff named Nevermore. Additional legendary weapons will be released in small groups at regular intervals until the full set of 16 has been added to this game.

Update, March 2016: Please see this post from game director Mike O’Brien about legendary weapons & upcoming content in Guild Wars 2.

I think Anet is trying to have their cake and eat it, too. You ate most of the cake, now it’s time to take down the sign that says you’re selling a whole cake. Not scribbling “sorry, we ate half the cake” on the sign. Not scribbling “turn over sign for details on what we did with the cake” on the sign.

They leave up the false info, and put an unclear “something has changed” subtext to it, with nothing but a forum post link to clarify. They could have at least taken out the last line that specifically states 16 weapons would be added, and perhaps reworded the first line a bit. That would get rid of the blatantly false info and leave the rest being somewhat vague, but still true. Of course, the update should still remain to further clarify the situation.

You could look at it that way, or you could look at it as they want to keep the old post as it is to show what it said originally while also informing people of the changes. The last time they outright changed an advertisement on their site to better represent the current product (something about needing core GW2 to play HoT before they decided Central Tyria would come with HoT) there were a lot of accusations that they were manipulating and trying to hide the error from us. I see this new method as an attempt at transparency. Though I think simply crossing out the changed info and an asterisk with a note would’ve been better but w/e.

wrathmagik.3518:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Did Anet give a predicted timeline to the lifespan of GW1?

Yeah, they said about 6 to 8 weeks.

Heh, then expect them to give a lifespan timeline 6-8 weeks from it’s death.

Celtic Lady.3729:

EOTM – lol – A few months ago I had the misfortune of encountering the same backseat commander three times in one week. Unbelievable. He spent the entire time he was on the map all three times screaming at me for making my own decisions and not following his instructions.

I said nothing in return. Not one single word. He became so frustrated with my lack of response that he began going on about how I wasn’t even on the server I was on, that I was really a spy for one of the other servers, that I had hacked my account and stolen it from someone else, etc, etc.

All 3 times, eventually people in my group would start making fun of him. Lots of jokes. They called me the “Spy Commander” etc, making fun of his accusations. He finally left the map.

So, yeah, sometimes you can even say nothing at all and still win.

Yeah I wasn’t commanding in my example just a li’l zergling. You don’t have to be a commander to make a difference!

Yes fix please. Also would like nun-chucks since they are basically spikeless flails!

And as others have said, why not both? I wouldn’t mind that either if it’s possible.

Also thanks for the communication!

During the beta weekends I made a “Beta Data”. Yeah there are Sci-Fi armors available but I’d never say no to more of them.

Also this game already has laser cannons, computer consoles, various gizmo-gadgetry. I really don’t see why not.

I just used my tag to mark event locations when I ran across them for a daily and someone got mad and called me names. It happens no matter what you do. Sometimes you can turn it around for some fun though.

In EotM one guy kept backseat commanding saying “you didn’t get scorp form?! What a idiot commander!”. I was leveling a new lvl4 and took scorp form and just ran with the zerg goin “yeah, bunch of n00bs. Y’all don’t stand a chance without me! I learned from the best backseat commander NA! I have scorp form!”. Then every time we killed a tower lord I was like “phew, good thing I’m in scorp or else we NEVER would’ve capped that!”. Or if I saw an enemy zerg coming I’d be like “Zerg inc! Don’t worry guys I got dis!” “SCORP!” then inevitably get run over. Then back at spawn be like “OK guys, it didn’t look like it, but they must’ve all had scorp form cuz they murdered me…”. Then when we were blasting through a wall our commander was like “Alright, Hamato (I was on a Hamato character) you know what to do!”. I was like “YEAH SCORP!”. As just one scorp I only made a few dents so I said “uuuh… I could use some help from some catas… XD”. And everyone seemed to have a good time with that. Except the backseat guy who I guess left.

So, sometimes you can turn it around and make it fun again.