I don’t know if my post will ever be noticed, but I wanted to bring my brick building.
I’m a GW2 player since almost a year now. I’ve had so much fun playing the game. When I started it was different from other games I played. I loved the areas, the lore, the characters, the races, the armors, the weapons, the spells… I was really fond of this game. And so far, I -always- defended your work on the game when hundreds of people were b*tching about it. Because God knows that a lot of people got disappointed with the recent updates concerning Scarlet and the living story, but still. I defended your work.
Until now.
Let me make some comparisons before/after.
Before, the town clothes were part of a completely different set, with each cloth independant of the other. We could mix them to get what pleased us the most. And then we could dye each one of them differently to have a really different, unique look for our character, and not being lost in the huge mass of players. Feeling different.
Now, the town clothes are either tonics, which last fifteen minutes and need to be reactivated all the time and are undyable, or skins, like my fancy Winter outfit (that you decided to put in sale again in the middle of Spring, which upsets me a little, but still less than the rest). Besides the fact that hats look ridiculous on Charr due to the mane disappearing (I still don’t get why none of the devs worked on this), I’m also disappointed to see that skins from town clothes are only dyable for the whole outfit and not piece by piece. Meaning that the mix of colors can be -very- hideous, even when putting effort not to have such an end.
Before, transmutation stones were used to transmute a gear we liked for another one. One stone for one transmutation.
Now, one charge of transmutation is earned for THREE stones. I feel scammed for saving my stones in my bank account. Without speaking about my transmutation crystals for level 80 gears that are turned to one single transmutation charge. We’ll also mention, as said on other posts, that weapons and gears have now the name of the gear that had the original stats, like my vigil set which I was proud of, turned into ‘Ascalonian’ armor for my guardian.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure you’ve put a lot of effort to find this concept, and some ideas are great, like the skin sharing, or the new dye system. But GW2, besides his gameplay, had the caracteristic to let the player choose exactly what piece of armor or cloth he wanted for his character. This idea to put the town clothes in one single slot removed an entire part of customization that a lot of people appreciated, liked, loved. To be honest, I feel very offended, as this way to update the town clothes system sounds to me like you actually do not give much care about the roleplayers community, which is rather large (and spends -or spent- regularly money for gems to get more different outfits), even after all the time the game was released.
Today, I have felt scammed, offended, and worst of all, highly disappointed in a game that had, for long months, all my hopes and affection. Now, I feel so jaded that I’ve lost all will to log again on the game.
If you still have an ounce of respect for the players that allowed you to pay your rent and bills so far, please, I’m begging you, look at what you did, and solve it.
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