Guild Wars 2

dulcispoena.1325:

Wildkitten I’m not quite sure you are understanding me. I’ve grinded fractals to get 4 ascended berserker stat backs for 4 of my characters. Now I’m saying that the skins replacing normal backs give just the appearance of someone who did that.

But you can only play one character at a time. It’s no different if those people stayed logged in on the character that had it.

Or do you think when you switch alts, people know it’s you and so they know you did that?

And why would anyone care that you did that anyway?

Seems to me that if the reason you’re getting stuff is so people can look at you and be impressed, you’re probably going to be disappointed anyway.

DakotaCoty.5721:

I don’t know ANY MMO games that don’t use a form of leveling as a way of progression. Not one.

On paper anyway, TSW doesn’t use levels…but that’s just on paper. lol

Blade Syphon.4325:

SpyderArachnid.5619:

They didn’t listen to any of the feedback/concerns leading up to the patch, why would they listen after the patch?

They haven’t responded to anything yet since the patch went live. Just basic bug reports and closing tons of threads.

This.

If Anet actually had any intention on changing things to the Wardrobe System and Dyes, to say nothing about the myriad of other problems this update brought to the game, they would have done so before it went live, and had a more direct feed back with their players on the forums in regards to it.

They didn’t, which means that in the coming weeks, all we have to look forward too is the next installment of the Living Story, and likely no changes to any of the issues this update brought with it.

In a way, this is going to be a very painful, and likely very expensive, lesson that Anet is going to learn. But, we can hope they DO learn from this, and actually take into consideration overwhelming feed back on the forums that says “We don’t like these changes, do not do them”.

Anet isn’t going to learn an expensive lesson from this.. IMO people complaining on the forums are a vast minority. I see so many people in game enjoying this patch, playing with the wardrobe, getting their dye collections complete, playing with new builds. Yes, there ARE people who are unhappy, and reasaonably unhappy at that, but the there is no lesson to be learned here.

In my opinion, and the opinion of many others, this patch, over all, is a good thing. I keep asking, for example, people who are upset by the town clothes thing, how they’d feel if Anet never ever ever made a single piece of town clothes again, but they kept the old system. The system as it stood was not sustainable. It was badly designed. Anet had to redesign it, or leave it as is but abandon it. In the future, two, three years down the road it will be better, because there will be more options. Why? Because Anet won’t have to design town clothes on a separate mesh from other clothes. It’s better for the game. And it’s really unfortunate that people are disenfranchsied by that, but far more people will buy use town clothes now that most of them (and all the new ones) will be compatible with armor.

Mega server in Orr is what this game needs. The inconvenience of having to wait to unlock a trait once (or even once per trait) is offset by the fact that Orr is now playable again.

I just had a great experience in Orr, because there were people around. We helped each other out at events. Normally those events wouldn’t be done at all.

Redead.3016:

Free—Transmutation Charges!
As part of the Black Lion support for the Wardrobe, we’re happy to provide each account with five free Transmutation Charges! Act quickly – you only have until 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday April 16 to pick up your free charges!

Per Arenanet. It will be chargeable soon.

Nothing to do with dying armor, mate. That’s for changing your look. Dying armor doesn’t require charges. Nor does using zenith skins from reward chests, hall of monument skins, or skins from costumes you’ve bought from the shop.

Dark Catalyst.1028:

Yet another ANet flop. I’d say wait for Wildstar, but given that it’s a NCSoft product…enough said. Not wasting my time again.

If you define people coming back and being interested again (in game, not on the forums) then I guess you can keep calling it a flop.

However, I’m pretty sure most people like the changes. Not all the changes universally.

And of course, no one can say if they like the megaserver or not, since it’s only in the heart of the mists right now.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Nage.1520:

Most people hate change. The human mind is naturally lazy. It looks for ways to save energy. So we fall into familiar patterns and we repeat stuff that comes easily. Not everybody but most people.

Many changes people rail about they often end up liking (or at least forgetting about) over the long term. Again, not everybody but most people.

Me, I like change. I like being forced to adapt. It’s one of the reasons I play MMOs.

I would bet that there’s a limit on what change you’re willing to accept. For example, you got hacked and lost everything that is important to you, you’re willing to accept that? Thus some change needs to be resisted.

Once, I got fired from a job that I’d held for a long time, for no other reason than the compay directors were on the take, and after a hostile take over there wasn’t enough money to pay us. At the time I thought it was the worst thing that could possibly happen to me, and it turned out to be one of the best.

But we’re not talking about real life here…we’re talking about a game. That’s all we’re talking about. MMOs change metas all the time and you either adapt or you fall behind. That’s the way MMOs are.

Many people don’t adapt and continue to play as they always did, even after changes have been made. Some people get attached to stuff. We had a guildie in Guild Wars 1 who insisted on using the elite skill backbreaker, which was a knockdown, even though we were going into a dungeon that was filled with Jotun which are immune to knockdown. Total waste of an elite if you ask me, but what can you do.

But in this case, I think most of the changes (not all) in this patch are positive.

I love how people in this thread are already blaming the megaserver for how bad their experience is, when it’s only so far been rolled out in the Heart of the Mists.

The mega server isn’t active. If you’re experience a problem in DR that affects you’re RP, it was already like this.

What you’re probably experiencing is far more people logging into the game because it’s a big patch that got a lot of promotion.

Most people hate change. The human mind is naturally lazy. It looks for ways to save energy. So we fall into familiar patterns and we repeat stuff that comes easily. Not everybody but most people.

Many changes people rail about they often end up liking (or at least forgetting about) over the long term. Again, not everybody but most people.

Me, I like change. I like being forced to adapt. It’s one of the reasons I play MMOs.

chronus.1326:

Silvanus.5821:

Completely agree. I have a feeling that most people in ANet that work on GW2 have never played GW1.

You can allways look at the credits and make it more than a feeling.

The credits won’t tell you who played Guild Wars 1, only who worked on it.

Logically if Guild Wars 1 had a staff of 50 people and this game has a staff of 350, then at least 300 people haven’t worked on it.

But you know, I played Guild Wars 1 and every time something was changed and every time an update came out, a whole group of people hated it.

Prophecies people often hated Factions. Factions people often hated Prophecies. A lot of people left because “heroes destroyed the community”.

I don’t think people remember what Guild Wars 1 was really like. People left in disappointment all the time at changes that were made, but others came and enjoyed the game and ultimately it was successful.

I’ll play the same. But more for a bit, until I figure out how I want to spec every single alt. Kill me now. lol

There’s no option. They don’t have records of everything we’ve ever deleted.

Figgy.3856:

At least you guys have your town cloths. My witch outfit, horns, toys etc. all still remain hidden on my toons – I know from the hats for sure, because when hovering over my quaggan hat, that is in my inventory, I can see them as “currently equipped”.
I can, however, not equip the quaggan hat. Rightclicking it only gives me the option to destroy it & it is not a selectable skin in my wardrobe. My outfit isn’nt in the bank or any other wardrobe, either (any towncloth, really). The Black Lion Weapon Specialist doesn’t have any options for me, other than ticket skins, the link to the BLK and smalltalk. x3

Go to the NPC called the Black Lion Armor speicalist in DR…and choose the option to convert your town clothes. Then double click on one of the ones he gives you to unlock it. You have to do it on each character.

Pure speculation. There’s pretty much limitless possibilities here. I mean Right now NcSoft runs a product that’s actually more profitable than Guild Wars 2. And it’s their baby. It’s entirely possible they’re going to go for something more sandbox and less theme park (seeing as they already have a couple of theme parks).

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

I read all of the posts by the OP and they echo my sentiments so much.
I got to the point that one more mention of Scarlet or one more paragraph of shoddy, canned dreck story would have led to an uninstall and so I just quit logging in.

And I waited for this update..only to log in and actually not move any characters from where I had left them as I TRIED to digest that this mess was billed as “improvement”.

Megaservers.. wtf. Town clothes and costumes..far worse now. No configurable UI. No meaningful client side particle effect control. Abandonment of scaling events in favor of an unwieldy, unfriendly forced population feature that WILL kill community. Less choices in dailies/monthlies. Staggering inflation of the gem/gold costs and a downturn on the rest of the market. No new permanent content in sight. Bosses buffed up to suit their vision that only super-guilds and communities are viable playstyles and every indication that is the sole direction the game is going…. reworking old zones and old content.

I see most of what you’re saying but how do you get no new content in sight? We’re pretty sure we’re getting at least one new zone and probably a couple.

It’s not here now because China is launching on May 15th, but you can’t bet it won’t be long after. At the very least the new living story will lead to new zones, and it’s highly unlikely they’ll be temporary.

Minami Kaori.2548:

Algreg.3629:

Minami Kaori.2548:

chronus.1326:

… and use tools of manipulation and suggestion.

This is why, every time Anet gives us free stuff in the gem shop, I feel like they do it to direct our attention to the rest of the gem things.
To make sure those who don’t visit the gem shop tab now must, if they want the free stuff.

On another note: I don’t have hundreds of dollars to buy a couple hundred gold through the ridiculous price of gems to gold conversion (if I want to buy exotic armor for all my alts, and a few nicer skins like The Crossing that I haven’t been able to afford).
If Anet truly cared, they’d have put a cap on those prices. :/

oh my god, advertisement, a truly fiendish machination…

I’m fine with advertisement. But I feel like I am being directed to the gem shop constantly. I bought more than my fair share of gems, to support Anet. But I am slowly getting tired of all the gem shop stuff. The near constant feel of need to buy this or that so I don’t have to feel like I’m wasting my time.

Try playing some free to play games for a while. Anet is not that bad. They don’t have ads popping up in game. They don’t have areas of the game closed off that you can’t access. They don’t have races or classes hidden behind a pay wall.

The cash shop is there, and it’s as damaging to the game as you allow it to be. The only things from the cash shop that I’d say were must haves are bank space and maybe bag slot space….oh and character slots for some people.

Most other stuff I get through playing anyway.

Do I need the armor skins in the cash shop? Or the town clothes? Or the infinite gathering tools? Nah, no one needs that.

People need to know the difference between need and want.

In paid cash in DDO to unlock the monk profession and then there was this one dungeon in the game that had this endless shuriken…and throwing star, but it always returned to you.

However, you had to buy the dungeon to get that item. It was the only way.

I spent so much money on that game, and gave up before I spent even more money.

ThiBash.5634:

Look at Rune of Speed post balance, and think again if you truly think Anet did a ‘bang up job’.

Instead of having dyable town clothes, we get a dyable set instead. Boon duration runes (the ele’s bread and butter) were of course nerfed but any warrior-affecting runes were not. And instead of actual game balance, we get hard-counter traits.

What happened to the ArenaNet that made Guild Wars 1? Is this the best you can do? Hypes and underperforming functionality? Did you even try to make changes or do you actually believe Rune of Speed does something meaningful? Do you even know your own game?

Because in Guild Wars 1 no one EVER complained about an update.

If you don’t the update, that’s fair enough, but I have a guild full of people that are really excited about it.

Not everyone plays the same way. The update doesn’t fit your play style. It sure as hell fits mine.

Did you log in on every character?

Astralporing.1957:

medohgeuh.4650:

TheLaughingMan.4320:

And what do you think will happen to the mat prices for 375/400 tier dye recipes once the stockpiles are gone?

Nothing, because people are always harvesting and selling mats on the TP.

Well, the cost of that mats will go up, because people will have a reason to buy them now.

Nage.1520:

The patch was exactly what it was supposed to be. A change to core mechanics so future mechanics can be added. This includes the megaserver technology which makes it easier for the company to introduce new zones.

Megaserver technology is not “a change to the core mechanics so future mechanics can be added”. I’s more like welding and duct-taping something that doesn’t integrate well with any other mechanic in the game (hammering it into shape when necessary – and if something else goes splat, so be it). You cannot build upon faulty foundations, and that’s what megaserver currently is.

Out of all the changes, basically the only one that doesn’t have drawbacks equal to (or outweighting) the gains is the Wardrobe (though i may be biased there, as people that were extensively using town clothes might have a different view on this one).

If you consider this to be “what was supposed to be”, then obviously you have a very, very low expectations of Anet. Lower than i do – and the only thing i hoped for was for them to not make the things any worse than they were before.

I don’t have low expectations. I have a completely different view of the mega server concept, which we haven’t seen because Anet has yet to truly implement it.

I don’t know about you, but I play at off hours. Even in the busiest servers, there are dead zones at those times. Having more people around will make my game a whole lot better.

Do I care if I never face Tequatl again? I’m sure some people do, but I don’t. I play differently than you do, so I have a different opinion of the changes. The question is what percentage of people will be advantaged compared to what percentage of people would be disadvantaged by the changes.

Since we haven’t seen it in action, we can only guess the answer to that.

winterchillz.2564:

I haven’t logged on since the update, does it mean that I have to now get into PvP and WvW in order to complete my daily quest? Seriously, Anet? I dislike both, especially WvW since I’m playing on a really old rig and it barely handles champ fight leave alone WvW. :/

You can get the daily. People are complaining they can’t get more than the daily for extra achievement points like they did a day ago.

Today you could, in PvE, do one of five.

Daily Aquatic Slayer
Daily Kills
Skill Point Accumlator
Condition Remover
Recycler
Daily Events

Plus you can get world ranker in WvW without ever PvPing. You just use 2 laurels and 50 badges of honor to buy a couple of ranks (which some people do).

I think considering that kills, skill point and events are pretty much something you do every day anyway, asking you to spend 2 minutes in a place like wayfarers and recycle 10 things probably shouldn’t be too difficult for most people.

acedragonz.9387:

Osculim.2983:

Seems to me Anet is starting to turn into one of those other greedy companies out there.
Heck ye Im fuming here where I sit. This is the great wardrobe upgrade really ? As a altoholic I expected to pay for the look i want with charges and then keep the look locked in the wardrobe.

Now i find out you have to pay again if you upgrade your armor. Not just that but you triple the price on charges.

No thanks this is a big slap in my face. I wont be using this stupid wardrobe at all heck I wont even bother creating more caracters. thanx for spoiling everything for me.

Really dissapointed in Anet and i was so exited about this wardrobe aswell.

Rant done.

How exactly did they triple the price for charges?

For characters under level 80, if you want to transmute, you have to use a charge now, which is three transmutation stones when you convert them. You used to be able to use a single transmutation stone prior to level 80.

It definitely affects a percentage of the playerbase, and I think Anet should look into it.

iFruit.6190:

+1 very confusing with no option to preview skills in major traits. You’d actually spend more time retraiting mid-field now than previously with an instatraitresetter. Dah.

You click on the field, don’t spend the points and all the traits in that line appear in the window on the left. You can browse them and select the one you want. Instead of a window that vanishes if you accidently move your mouse too far, the new window stays open when you click on it.

Denis Strasse.3462:

Transmutation Changes

Double-click Transmutation Crystals to convert them directly into Transmutation Charges.
Double-click Transmutation Stones to convert them into Transmutation Charges at a 3-to-1 ratio.

Did this and nothing happened – lost the crystals and stones – or I have no idea where they ended up. I just have the 5 transmutation Charges given out from the Gem Store.

Any advice please?

It’s a currency now. Just mouse over your gold in your inventory window and you’ll see it listed.

All my dyes are account bound including Abyss and Celestial. But I did log into every character.

The patch was exactly what it was supposed to be. A change to core mechanics so future mechanics can be added. This includes the megaserver technology which makes it easier for the company to introduce new zones.

I know this isn’t your problem OP, but the game is launching in China right now and it’s a major undertaking. I don’t know of ANY game that has huge amounts of content during a major release.

There’s plenty of content in the game for players like me, there’s just not enough content in the game for players like you, which is fair enough.

Good luck finding a new game with more content.

Dark Catalyst.1028:

Nage.1520:

Dark Catalyst.1028:

It’s dropping because there are better gaming options there at the moment. Sorry, F2P doesn’t cut it anymore.

The content is super weak and disappears in two weeks time and half of the patches are dedicated to functionality which should’ve been there from the beginning. I’ll pay for a service I value but not when half the game is in the cash shop.

It’s not dropping. We ALL know you don’t like this game. We all know you prefer WoW. We all know that a lot of people hate wow. But making up stuff to try to push a game you like is like self fullfilling prophecy.

There’s zero evidence the population is dropping. Zero…evidence.

Do you hear about mass layoffs? Nope. Do you see huge panic going on at NcSoft at stockholder meetings. Nope.

Do you see people coming back to this game every single day on reddit. Yep. So much so that people are complaining about all the returning player posts.

Stop using a personal prejudice to draw a conclusion that may or may not be warranted.

Mega servers say hi. Also the fact that you have to guest to one or two full servers in order to get anything done. All Borlis Pass was capable of doing was the Queensdale champ train.

Do you have evidence? I keep asking you never seem to provide any Just rhetoric. There are more than two full servers as far as I know…but then, some of those end up in overflows. So if you’re guesting to two full servers, and each of those servers have overflows…I just don’t get why you’re so desperate to see this game fail or to convince people that no one is playing it.

I mean, you have three servers with queues in WvW, even though edge of the mists is full of people and also in multiple overflows. I know this because we often have to join in on each other’s oveflows when we go there.

It’s okay not to like a game. Talking kitten about it with no evidence to back it up, however, I don’t consider okay.

Nope, it hasn’t.

The thing about the JP cameras is that the early puzzles are affected by the problem because after they created the puzzles, they changed the camera in beta. I’m pretty sure they have no intention of changing the older puzzles.

The newer puzzles don’t suffer from the issue however.

Also if you’re a charr or a norn, you can use a tonic to make yourself smaller, which makes doing it much easier. There’s cheap as hell on the trading post (and you get them free doing dungeons).

It seems to me like the OP thinks you have to buy a book to reset your traits, otherwise, why even ask the question.

It doesn’t cost you gold to make a new build. Go to a trainer and spend a couple of silver, I think it’s 3.5 silver to change your build.

Sure it’s worth it. You can make it back easily.

HyruleanHyroe.1473:

I don’t understand… are they destroying the existing town clothes in character inventories?

They’re changing the way town clothes function and replacing some town clothes with tonics. If you don’t like the changes you’ll be able to get your gems refunded.

So if you have a piece of town clothes in your inventory it will either turn into a tonic or an armor skin. If it’s an armor skin (like some of the glasses or the aviator hat) you can wear it like armor with any other armor.

Finally got home from work where I could watch it. Funny stuff! Well done!

Fernling.1729:

Nage.1520:

Erick Alastor.3917:

Wait what? Nage is Vayne, but if he’s Vayne who is Vol, my world is falling apart
Btw this discussion is pointless, we will never know for sure if the population is dropping, how much, why, etc… the only ones who could inform us are devs, but why should they?
Just play until the day GW2 die or you don’t like it anymore, come to the forum for feedback, suggestions and complaints, but for this kind of questions you will probably never get an answer.

I’ve given up telling people I’m not Vayne, they can believe what they want. He doesn’t particularly like me anyway, which is why I find this so amusing.

I don’t know you. You seem like a fine guy to me. I actually admire the passion you have for this game. I feel the same way for other hobbies in my life. None of this is about you personally. I just don’t agree with how you defend the game on nearly every front. You seem to have an excuse for almost every short coming included in this game.

There was actually plenty of times I thought about messaging you in game because I know you’re a good guy and could have possibly made my game experience much better, as I was playing by myself in a guild by myself. I tried guilds, but was unable to find one mature enough to suit me. I really want it to be known that I actually think very highly of you.
It just seems like you are on call 24/7 to defend ArenaNet at the slightest hint of negativity.
Ps
you made a post on reddit about how you quit the forums right when you made the post here as vayne. Your name on reddit was the same as this one.

If you look closely though the reddit name Vayne uses is similar to mine, they have completely different sources. However since it kittenes him off that people think we’re the same person, it’s all cool with me. lol

If I were defending arena net all the time, I’d post in every single negative thread. There are tons of negative threads I don’t post in however. I’ve never once said there’s enough build variety for instance. I’ve never once said that RNG cash shop boxes are a great thing and I’ve always been against the precursor system as it exists now. That doesn’t mean I have to lie down and die when someone says something completely arbitrary with nothing to back it up but an observation that can be easily explained by other things.

It’s interesting that you took the time to post something to me about how I defend the game in every thread (demonstrably untrue), where as you haven’t taken the time to take on the people who bash the game in every thread they post in.

That’s an interesting double standard.

There are facts here, on topic in this thread. Fact. No one knows how the population is doing except Anet. That is a fact. People have made sweeping statements as if they know something, but they can’t know, because guesting makes it impossible to know numbers. Overflows make it impossible.

I’m speaking out in a thread where people are making statements that can’t be substantiated. It’s a reaction to possible misinformation.

This game is far far from perfect, but population, at this point anyway, doesn’t really seem to be one of it’s problems. And because of guesting even if it were, no one could say otherwise.

Selsi.9675:

Here’s how I see temples working with the new megaserver system, everyone standing in Orr spamming “Paying 5g for invite to party with open balthazar vendor!!” over… And over… And over… What ever happened to “If it isn’t in disrepair, don’t mend it.” Everything worked fine barring small servers. If you have too many small servers… Merge them. Two tiny servers = 1 functional server.

A 19 year old girl with no formal education just eradicated the need for the megaserver system, and I won’t even ask for payment for my services.

Except for the people who are complaining during big events that they can’t get on their own server. Those people will still complain. Because servers are a bad idea, and have always been. We neither had nor needed them in Guild Wars 1.

Once you have a “server” then you have a space with the word Blackgate on it. That means it’s the same as an overflow which has the word overflow on it. People at Blackgate complain about guesting because they cant’ get on their own server. It’s entirely possibly they’re on an overflow that’s mostly blackgate, but they’ll never know and they can’t possibly decide.

This change was to alleviate that. In the old system, I’d be on Blackgate and I’d be forced into a random overflow. This time I’ll end up in an overflow with mostly Blackgate people, effectively increasing the number of Blackgate servers. In fact, we could have as many Blackgate servers as we need, comprised of Blackgate residents and the people who guest there.

The word overflow was causing a problem and a big disconnect. It’s just not necessary. Again, it worked fine in Guild Wars 1 during holiday events, it should work fine here too.

As for the other servers, even busy servers have dead zones…so just merging servers wouldn’t help that issue.

Finally, right now, Anet might be running 20-30 versions of the Iron Marches, while they might only need 3-4 version. By doing this is free up server space and processor power.

Your solution doesn’t take that into account.

People keep saying this was done just to merge servers, but I’m not so sure that’s the complete truth to the matter.

Allaraina.8614:

Nage.1520:

Town clothes should have never been in the game in the first place. It should have all been armor pieces and you should have been able to buy them piecemeal.

Anet made a major mistake putting town clothes in the game as they did. It wasn’t compatible with the armor.

I disagree. I love my town clothes. As town clothes. Sounds like others do too. And since we are the ones who spent money on them we should be compensated in a way that is superior to how we are being treated.

Nage.1520:

Moving forward Anet will be able to create MORE town clothes that fit with the armors so you can mix and match your town clothes for real and where them where and whenever you want..

Anet said specifically that they are not doing this. They are making complete ‘outfits’ that cannot be mixed and matched with anything. It doesn’t matter how you slice it, we still lose.

Anet said specifically they’re not makeing more “town clohtes”. That’s because town clothes per se, don’t exist now, except as an outfit.

You are hung up on the word town clohtes, so you’re not seeing what I"m saying. There is nothing to stop Anet from introducing stuff that looks like town clothes now, that goes into armor slots. Nothing at all.

Autorun wasn’t made to run from fights. It was made for traveling long distances. Autorunning in a fight is just….well…odd.

In a fight, you always want the most amount of control you can have. That lets autorun out.

Awbee.8405:

Nage.1520:

I’m not sure how you think the monetization has changed. You’ve always needed transumation stones to change your look.

Yes, but on leveling characters you only needed one stone to change the look of one item. Seeing how you got 3 stones for map completion and 3 stones for city completion, I was always able to keep my leveling characters looking the way I want them to.

After the patch, changing the look of a leveling character is going to cost three times as much. That’s impossibly pricey for something that’s not going to last more than a few levels. This is going to force leveling players to do one of two things:

1) Transmute the armor of their leveling characters maybe 2 times during the entire leveling process, meaning they will have extremely outdated stats on their armor for most of the leveling, making it really hard to level and probably force them to grind to 80 in Queensdale.

2) Just not use the transmutation system until 80, running around in armor they find ugly and thus likely feeling unmotivated to play their characters.

This is especially unpleasant for those players for whom creating and leveling new characters is one of the major things they do in-game. And it’s especially bitter, since those players are among the ones who have probably spent the biggest amount of money on the game so far (character slots are expensive. Imagine what someone with 20+ alts has already paid.)

As I’ve already said, for most people it’s not going to make a difference. There are players who care about appearance and those who don’t. Of those who do, there are players like me who don’t really care about their appearance while leveling. There are also players that don’t need to transmute 6 pieces to get a new look. I’m pretty sure a minority of people care about gloves and boots while leveling, as compared to say legs and chests. And you can change your look just changing chests and legs. Many boots and gloves are similar anyway. You can, and many people do, hide their helm.

The point is, they get to level 80 and that’s when they “really” start to play. If they spent years at level 80 and a month or two leveling, it’s just not going to affect that many people. Yes, it will cost them more than it does now. Experienced players will either PvP (which you can do for charges) or they’ll buy charges with cash or gold if ti’s really a problem.

Or they’ll buy a nicer skin off the trading post and just wear it, instead of transmuting.

It’s a thing, but I don’t see this as a big thing.

ThiBash.5634:

Nage.1520:

Many people felt, all along that town clothes are completely pointless because they can only be worn in town. For some people that’s the point but probably more people didn’t buy them at all because what is the point.

If you can’t really wear them, why buy them? That’s an issue that’s fixed by this change.

If you’d have an option to automatically switch to townclothes while in a town, they’d have been a lot more popular.

That might be so..however, I’d not have spent one cent on them. Becaue I don’t stand around in towns that often. I’d rather play the game, but out in the world, etc. To play money to look a certain way 10% of the time makes no sense to me.

This is what I did when that happened to me. I went after the guy, stole the fishing pole from him and made his life hell until he logged. It sucks that you have to, but sometimes that’s the best strategy.

Wolfy.8793:

How do you gift a digital copy to a friend?

Digital copy is just a code. Get a copy and give your friend the code to use. Whoever registered that number owns the account.

I can see your point OP. It’s frustrating to be laying there dead, near one of your unclaimed bags, not knowing it if’s a precusor or not.

It’s just a blue anyway…or a spike. Don’t stress about it.

Will.4807:

It still should all be the same, seems like price gouging to me.

More like the law of supply and demand. There’s more demand so you charge more. That’s not price gouging, that’s price regulation.

Let me ask you, how do you deal with the endless queues to WvW if you let everyone transfer to the three strongest servers so they can win? You haven’t answered that question yet.

morrolan.9608:

Astral Projections.7320:

All I can say is, for ANet as a company, they are trying to fix a mistake they made when the game was designed.

They aren’t really fixing it they have just thought of a way to monetise it whilst appearing to give players what they want.

Not sure this is 100% true. Many people felt, all along that town clothes are completely pointless because they can only be worn in town. For some people that’s the point but probably more people didn’t buy them at all because what is the point.

If you can’t really wear them, why buy them? That’s an issue that’s fixed by this change.

I’m not sure how you think the monetization has changed. You’ve always needed transumation stones to change your look.

Because the company wants to encourage people to move to less populated servers, not more populated servers. That’s better for the game.

If it was all the same, and everyone just moved the most populated servers, we’d only have three servers, and that means too many people on each server, since each server only supports X number of people.

The top WvW servers already have long queues to get into WvW. Imagine the complaints when everyone transfer to them and everyone has to wait even longer.

Pretty sure people who are getting refunds on town clothes will have plenty of gems to buy transmuation chargers.

Erick Alastor.3917:

Wait what? Nage is Vayne, but if he’s Vayne who is Vol, my world is falling apart
Btw this discussion is pointless, we will never know for sure if the population is dropping, how much, why, etc… the only ones who could inform us are devs, but why should they?
Just play until the day GW2 die or you don’t like it anymore, come to the forum for feedback, suggestions and complaints, but for this kind of questions you will probably never get an answer.

I’ve given up telling people I’m not Vayne, they can believe what they want. He doesn’t particularly like me anyway, which is why I find this so amusing.

Fernling.1729:

Nage.1520:

Dark Catalyst.1028:

It’s dropping because there are better gaming options there at the moment. Sorry, F2P doesn’t cut it anymore.

The content is super weak and disappears in two weeks time and half of the patches are dedicated to functionality which should’ve been there from the beginning. I’ll pay for a service I value but not when half the game is in the cash shop.

It’s not dropping. We ALL know you don’t like this game. We all know you prefer WoW. We all know that a lot of people hate wow. But making up stuff to try to push a game you like is like self fullfilling prophecy.

There’s zero evidence the population is dropping. Zero…evidence.

Do you hear about mass layoffs? Nope. Do you see huge panic going on at NcSoft at stockholder meetings. Nope.

Do you see people coming back to this game every single day on reddit. Yep. So much so that people are complaining about all the returning player posts.

Stop using a personal prejudice to draw a conclusion that may or may not be warranted.

Oh look it’s Vayne defending the honor of Guild Wars 2.
You speak of prejudice as if you have none, which we all know is not true. The amount of time you spend defending the game in this forum(and others) is beyond ridiculous. You attack people with semantics when they are just sharing their experiences with the game.
You also keep talking about how the game isn’t declining in population and that everyone else is wrong. About how your server, which just happens to be one of the most populated servers in the game is always full of people. Even some of the truly dying mmos have at least one populated server.

You say everyone else is wrong and the game is not declining in population, where is your evidence of this? Both sides of the party are just basing population on anecdotal evidence and bother parties are just making wild guesses(even you).

Were there mass layoffs and panics before they shut down CoH?

People ARE making unsubstantiated claims with no real knowledge. That’s an issue. Do you see me posting that the population is going up?

There’s a big difference between responding to unsubstantiated claims and making claims yourself.

Let’s talk about Tarnished Coast. Lots of people guest there. It makes the server ultra full. Sometimes, even often, I end up on overflows.

But are all those people FROM Tarnished Coast? If they’re guesting that means they’re not on their servers. They’re on my server.

So you can’t tell, even annecdotally the population on low pop servers, because guesting exists. You’ve pretty much proved my point.

Instead of bashing me, you should be questioning people who make definitive statements they can’t back up. This isn’t about semantics. With guesting it’s actually 100% impossible to know if the population is growing or not growing.

But everything I’ve said is true. When SWToR didn’t do as well as expected, there were major layoffs and every knew about it. When TSW didn’t do as well as expected, there were major layoffs and everyone new about it. No one is saying there are major layoffs in Guild Wars 2, but Anet is advertising for more staff.

This doesn’t sound to me like a game that’s not doing well. Maybe, just maybe, I have a point. It’s just hard for you to admit it, because frankly, you’re against who I am, not what I’m saying.

What I’m saying is actually factual.

Dark Catalyst.1028:

It’s dropping because there are better gaming options there at the moment. Sorry, F2P doesn’t cut it anymore.

The content is super weak and disappears in two weeks time and half of the patches are dedicated to functionality which should’ve been there from the beginning. I’ll pay for a service I value but not when half the game is in the cash shop.

It’s not dropping. We ALL know you don’t like this game. We all know you prefer WoW. We all know that a lot of people hate wow. But making up stuff to try to push a game you like is like self fullfilling prophecy.

There’s zero evidence the population is dropping. Zero…evidence.

Do you hear about mass layoffs? Nope. Do you see huge panic going on at NcSoft at stockholder meetings. Nope.

Do you see people coming back to this game every single day on reddit. Yep. So much so that people are complaining about all the returning player posts.

Stop using a personal prejudice to draw a conclusion that may or may not be warranted.

It takes a month to level your character. You get new outfits all the time. Most people spend 90% of their time on max level characters, eventually.

Unless you’re a mad altoholic (in which case you’ll just have to deal with it), it’s not going to affect most people for more than a short time.

With the degree of changes being made, I’d have to assume most professions would be reset…but we don’t know for sure.

OP, how many two year old games did you see marketed at PAX? I’m curious because I don’t really know of many games that hit shows years after they release.

The problem is most games sell most copies it’ll ever sell during the first three months of business. And while MMOs are different, they’re not different enough to say that it’s worth the expense of promoting at conventions, which isn’t really cheap to begin with.

I’d say that most people who are interested in this game would have picked it up already. Trying to advertise it to people who aren’t interested, for whatever reason, is probably a waste of resources.