So let’s break it down:
1: We don’t want mounts because the world already feels small. Well then don’t use one. Simple.
2: We don’t want mounts because teleporters and separated maps make the world small. Don’t use the teleporters or the mounts. Simple.
3: We don’t want mounts because it would mean we have to actually play the game to learn how to use them. Don’t use them. Simple.
4: We don’t want mounts because there will be items in the store (likely cosmetic only) that if purchased will make us feel like we’re buying nothing. Don’t buy them. Simple.
All of these logical fallacy arguments against mounts mean nothing at the end of the day when your npcs are getting around using mounts and carriages that means your game is incomplete. Mounts are a central part of every fantasy mmo and that’s what GW2 is.
Which is important to a game’s longevity. If all there is to do is get somewhere very fast, beat something up, and pin on the I-WIN badge, why bother?
Exactly my thoughts. A big appeal of MMOs are massive open worlds… being able to instantly teleport everywhere, then teleport out only diminishes that. And GW2 already feels small to me due to zones seperated by loading screens.
I thought teleporters were there for fast access to events. You can ignore them as you explore and level a character.
They are hardly of any influence on the zones, that are quite big enough to ‘get lost’ in imo.
But there is no player that will start at the lower left of a zone and travel by mount to the upper right “because it is so beautiful in the countryside”.
Bar the odd exeption to the rule off course.
I think that the number of people who enjoy exploring the visuals of the game fully might be greater than you assume.
I wasn’t talking about how many people enjoy exploring the visuals of the game. They could be 99,99% of all players and then i would still say what i did.
Bzzt.
Not every argument against mounts can be solved with ‘just do not use one’. For example, if nobody is around to rez you because they are all riding mounts whether or not you use a mount has no bearing on the situation. There are plenty more examples in this thread but coming up with more is an exercise for the reader.
You mean you can not tell when it is night? Gee, you want them to make it dark or something so you can tell when that is?
Yes, actually. :|
I just plowed my way through Astralaria IV, and it was really frustrating, especially since “night” is only 40 minutes long.
Tangent, the Hidden Garden in Mt Maelstrom is always day, even during night hours. . . Thanks, ANet.
I thought the
would have made it clear I was being sarcastic about how they do night in this game. They clearly have the ability, just look at Bitterfrost, why they have not done that elsewhere is anyone’s guess.
I would implement it as a client setting since the rendering is there anyway. Some people want night to get really dark but others would not be able to see so at a disadvantage. There would be no advantage/disadvantage to players with different settings as everyone could set it to be noon 24/7 if they wanted.
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Well, except for the large candy-corn golem that was in shades of green.
50 shades of green then? :P
Dunno. I had a green outfit on and my hair was more green-tinged than I expected (not sure if it has been like that all along, it does not look like that on the 32 bit client on low). The candy corn was a huge red flag though as most ones I have seen in the game were orange shades. I seem to remember seeing a green mini one once though (in fact, I may have it) so it is possible someone just had a tonic for the large version of that.
Maybe I should have whispered the person to find out what color I should have been seeing.
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