What if I bought the game 2 weeks ago for $40 and now I gotta buy it again for $50 if I want the expansion?! Think I got a bunch of memories that totally justify that?
This expansion is 2 new zones and a new profession, WHY is that costing more than the game that I JUST bought?
Does nobody else see the problem with this?
why does the US import goods from and allow the setting up of operations on their soil by double standardized xenophobes, again?
And why can’t the chinese people just buy through anet anyways for a digital copy and account? Oh, because they have a highly restricted internet because they’re suppressed by xenophobic tyrants?
These barriers are really a shame, and I’m really sorry they have to deal with all of that.
Have a row of tabs in the hero equipment panel, each one stores its own separate set of weapons, armor, and chosen traits.
Tabs for switching to an extra build could be acquired every 40 levels, meaning 3 at level 80, and an extra one after that after every 40 times you level up.
The gem shop could have a consumable which unlocks a new tab before this 40 level interval, the price of which would be up to you as it’s similar to a bag slot unlock.
The maximum number of tabs would also be up for debate.
Switching between tabs may need some kind of channeling time, a large global cooldown on all skills after switching it, or some other such restriction to make it less exploitable.
In that case, is it possible to change the behavior of it in and out of combat?
Pulsing out of combat, and only on switch while in combat?
Call me lazy, but I see no reason for speedy kits to only proc on equip/swap rather than just being a passive effect that’s active for as long as you have a kit out.
Swapping kits, and the cool down between doing so is basically 1 second, there’s really no reason that I can see for it to not just be a permanent boon that lingers for only a few seconds after switching away from a kit.
Right now it doesn’t really feel like we are getting value for our money.
This might change if it turns out they add more content to the expansion, or we get some uploads on youtube that really show the scope of the expansion pack.
Right now it feels like, at least in my opinion, that you’re charging as much as a whole sundae just to put a cherry on top.
The base game is massive, I’m still exploring things I’ve never seen before, and you want to charge a full games price for what is maybe 10% of the entire current world?
HoT Price Feedback + Base game included [merged]
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Weylin.6478
If you buy GW2 now, it comes with HoT.
If you already have the game, you are losing out if you just go with an upgrade.
If you get it as a separate account, you get 4 character slots + HoT.
If you get it as an upgrade, you get HoT, nothing else.
Just a week ago, GW2 was $40.
Everyone who just purchased GW2 for $40 will now have to buy it AGAIN for $50.
Anyone who’s just now showing up will have to pay the $50 for GW+HoT, that’s fine.
So veterans and intermediates alike got massively ripped off as they are having to pay the equivalent of $90 to get the full package.
This is punishing early adopters and recent buyers of the game, a friend of mine has been trying to get money set aside for weeks to buy GW2 and he finally gets it, and then this happens… If he had known, he would have just waited a few weeks and paid the extra $10 for all of the content.
If you’re a newcomer, you’re getting an entire game, and 4 character slots, for $50
If you’re a veteran, you’re getting an upgrade to the game you already have, for $50
Now, to look at this another way, imagine you bought a 10 piece cooking set for $40 a few months ago. It’s nice, has a lot of features, you had a fair few meals prepared with it.
They’ve been advertizing and hyping a future addition to this set which adds 4 new pieces and really opens up the culinary possibilities, a lot of people want it, and are expecting to just buy the new pieces for something like $20 or so, after all, it’s just an extension to a set they already have…
Then comes the release date, and the entire 10 piece set, PLUS the 4 new pieces goes up for sale, bundled together, for $50. It’s a steal if you’re late to the party, you’re paying what the others did a month ago + $10 for a bunch of stuff they never got.
But oh, what’s that? There’s no option to just buy the 4 extra pieces? What do those customers do who already have the main set of 10 do? Exchange it for the new set and still pay $50?
I don’t know how else to illustrate how much of an unfair rip-off this is…
Give it a while, regret will sink in shortly.
I was hoping for this too, would have purchased it on the spot if that was the case…
Can I at least give the base game to a friend and acquire the expansion part?
The $40 option doesn’t even exist now, and I almost had my friends get it before that too… I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t.
Don’t you dare do it, people falling for this gouging ripoff will only justify this kind of nonsense even more in the future.
Look,
The core game is $40
The core game + expansion is $50
If you already own the core game, you still have to pay $50
How is this OK in any way?!
If existing owners of GW2 are gonna have to pay 50 bucks, then we should get gems for the $40 game we already have, and the $10 that completely new customers will be paying for the additional expansion.
You still get money, and the vets feel slightly less ripped off?
Anet you’ve really $!@^ed up, with the current pricing, nobody who currently plays is going to be satisfied unless the upgrade to current accounts costs $10
Please slap your marketing department.
We can freely change costumes, how about being able to freely apply skins bought from the gem store?
The normal ones you unlock through gameplay and achievements would still cost charges, but those you spend real money on which already amounts to around 9 bucks, should be free, or AT LEAST come bundled with enough charges to outfit a character.
Honestly I don’t see the point? If they want to nerf the forge then just increase the forge prices… If they want them available on other characters then give the characters a scroll of knowledge every level?
I’m really confused what the purpose of this is.
You know all those useless gray items that clog your inventory, can’t be scavenged or deposited, and can’t be sold on the trader to get rid of em? How about an item that, with a double click, sells all junks for you, on the spot?
Despite being effectively worthless by the current gold standards, they’re tedious to destroy, and take up space until you can find a merchant, I’m surprised this hasn’t been done sooner.
Honestly I don’t know what role these things have in the game, you can make more money from one iron ore deposit than an hours worth of junk collecting, I can only assume that the 10 copper from a chunk of crab meat must have been worth something at one time.
The JPs with nothing but sticks on a cliff face are just too kitten much, I can’t take it anymore, I guess 99% map completion is ok, whatever, who needs legendaries anyhow, right? Or the last part to an achievement? Naw.
I die to these stupid things more than world bosses, that tells you something.
Normally I wouldn’t care, but when it’s necessary for map completion I do very much care.
The only one I see that looks anywhere close to normal is the Ascalonian
99% of those have the aformentioned stuff all over the helmets, I’d just assume take the helmets off, really
All these fins and wings and nets and meshes and mohawks and molten and floaty crystal armors are just so stupid looking to me.
Is there nothing that’s just… generic?
Helmets like this, maybe? http://i.ytimg.com/vi/98hRtOJqOYE/maxresdefault.jpg
Or this? http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc960pAzeE1qk1uvh.jpg
I’m sorry, what?
And the grenadier trait will just increase velocity and blast radius?
If this is the case, then I really hope the rework of the mortar into a kit fills that long range bombardment role.
Honestly, as far as the mortar is concerned, I don’t think 1500 will cut it. The projectiles are (currently) slow and painfully easy to predict and avoid, so if it’s going to be long range, it needs to be long enough that a player or mob doesn’t just close the distance in 2 seconds rendering the thing useless.
When a condition is maxed on an enemy, and when the time added is only partially absorbed (for example 10s of burning but only 1s is added, or 5 stacks of vulnerability but only 1 is added), calculate the difference and deal direct damage accordingly.
Some kind of table will need to be made that determines what kind of damage is dealt on overflow, but it needs to be carefully balanced or only applicable to PvE/Bosses.
The main focus of this suggestion is to allow condition builds to continue being useful once an enemy is fully saturated.
Make it so portals are visibly connected in a subtle way by some particle effect, and have a holographic projection of the other side, some kind of panoramic low-res snapshot, maybe an effect like Eternity, where you can see through the portal hologram and what you will face after you enter it.
Many players will lose 30% boon/condition duration. It will be interesting to see how this will be compensated.
If I understand correctly, when you choose a trait line, it will have some baseline attributes straight away.
For example, if you went withTools, you would instantly get a 30% reduction to tool belt cooldowns. Or, it might be a 5% reduction per trait into it.
I think the main thing is that CORE stats are being removed from it, but I could be wrong.
Thread title size is limited, so if people actually read my followup post, they would see that I suggested that bags only apply to one character at a time, but can be moved freely.
I am NOT asking for a five dollar unlock to open up the slots of EVERY character you own.
I am asking for slot unlocks to be movable so if you delete a character, or start a new main account, you can move them!
This DOES slightly lower the value of the bags, but it ALSO makes them more likely to be bought! Few people want to spend money on something that’s permanently bound to a character, unlike nearly everything else on the gem store.
This happened rather abruptly, a computer restart didn’t fix it, and a re-installation would take days…
Currently on “Romke’s final voyage” and this problem occurred at the start.
I can’t pinpoint what may have lead to this, something just… broke.
I remember a game where you had to go through all sorts of minigames to craft stuff, it was really a time consuming process, it could take hours to produce a decent item, and only a few players were good enough at it, most couldn’t figure it out.
It was possible to mess up if you did it wrong, requiring even more work to fix the problem, and there was a system where items would occasionally need maintenance, repair, or further refinements.
Sadly it was some sub-only game and the graphics and everything else really sucked.
Something that has always irked me with just about every MMORPG I’ve ever played, is that the ingredients to make an item are expensive, while the end result is borderline worthless.
For example, way back in the day, playing runescape, I finally got to the level to make adamantium armor… and find out that players often give those out FOR FREE?!
Now I understand why, because crafting TAKES NO TIME OR SKILL.
It simply converts useful items that are time consuming and difficult to acquire into exp and a less useful item that took little time or effort to turn it into that.
Most of these MMOs have ZERO depth to crafting, its just… select items, press craft, boom you’re done.
Why does it have to be this way? How do you make it so crafting something is better than just mining and selling materials? It has always been a money sink, and for what purpose? It’s better to just mine some materials, sell them, and buy what you need.
I’ve been playing casually, a few hours a day precisely to AVOID burnout.
It’s inevitable, and I’m not gonna ‘grind’ to reach top tier asap because then there’s nothing to do, and the journey felt pointless.
I plan on sticking around for a looong time, and hope I don’t wake up one morning having lost interest in the game out of the blue, which happens to me every few months…
I prefer to go through the game like it’s a theme park, and not stick to the ONE stall within that park which that has the highest prize ticket payout, since those things are always a long term time and money sink under the best of conditions.
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I’m not entirely sure how the UI should look for this, but it would help a bit if we could see the cooldown on a lot of these mostly hidden abilities.
For example, that Elixir S on 25% health has a 90 second cooldown, you have no way of knowing when its off cooldown, this would be useful information.
Is there some technical reason that instruments don’t override the function keys for additional features?
You guys force yourselves to squeeze as much use out of 10 keys as possible, yet it would help tremendously if you used 4, maybe 5 function keys.
The function keys could handle more miscellaneous functions like mode switching, metronomes, and octive shifts, keeping the main row free for a MUCH wider range, maybe enough to allow us to use a key of our choice, or choose from keys to play in.
The instruments cost 10 dollars, pardon me for wanting an infinitely reproducible digital sound maker to surpass the quality of a physical instrument bought at a similar price. :P
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If they do make it account-wide, then a price like 1600 gems might be good.
Think about it, with EVERY character getting a slot unlocked, even at that steep cost of $20, once you have several characters, it becomes more sensible to buy bag slots instead of another storage mule at the above price.
Price per Inventory space aside, it’s still an added convenience you may want to get early on.
Yes, and…?
I would be willing to pay for slot upgrades if it was transferable.
Obviously I’m not asking for it to be free, I’m asking for it to be movable.
So far I haven’t found it even necessary to have more bag space, but things fill up quick at times, it would be worth it if it wasn’t soulbound.
Have it so bag slot upgrades are account wide, but each slot upgrade can only be active on one character at a time.
Basically, you’ll have a number of bag slot expansions available to the entire account, and if you wish to transfer one from one character to another, you will need to remove items and the bag from the slot you wish to reclaim. This would cost nothing to do, because nothing is gained besides having more inventory available on your new ‘main’
I am not fond of account upgrades that are permanently stuck with a character, though I do think that it should only be available to one character at a time due to the lower 400 gem cost.
I WILL buy bag slots if they do this, otherwise, not a chance in hell.
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I would love to see templates and easy switching for the other classes as well, but this seemed like a far easier feature to implement, and would at least help with the issue of weapon displacement when switching between two weapons with one two-handed weapon.
You know, they could make it so OOC swapping puts a 2 second cooldown on all weapon skills to make it less likely to be abused. It’s seriously only meant to be a convenience to partially avoid this whole “running around with inventory open” meta.
I’d like to see a way to switch between two weapon sets with these two classes.
BUT ONLY OUTSIDE OF COMBAT
The main reason is simply convenience, it saves you from having to use the hero panel and rearrange your inventory every time your weapon gets displaced when equipping a staff or rifle in place of your dual daggers or pistols.
Any reason why this hasn’t already been done?
What I don’t understand is what down sides will come with an elite kit, I mean, will the skills on it take a long time to cool down? will it have a long cooldown on swapping it?
From what I saw they might not even be increasing the range, just lowering the range of grenades to 900…
I really haven’t found much use for it, it seems a tad weak and clumsy, but that 5 ability is nice, as is the heal for ally support.
I did have a run-in on an event where everyone kept getting fear spammed, so I set up next to the jerk and the stability kept me in place to actually deal damage.
The thing is, I just can’t really see where Mortar would shine. I tried bombarding large groups of mobs on some of the PvE events with tons of invaders, launching from up on a hill, but just getting into the thick of it with a bomb kit, or using grenades from a distance seems more effective.
In most cases, the act of even placing the mortar will draw aggro from 20 enemies, they’ll drop what they’re doing and close in on you, getting within your minimum range.
As for WvW, most players just dodge out of anything you shoot their way, the shots are extremely predictable and slow to reach their destination.
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Please be so kind and buy a character slot so it goes into sale next week!
I’m waiting for a sale way too long.
I already did a few days ago, 2 actually, shouldn’t be too long before it goes on sale.
You’re welcome?
If someone JUST purchased an item, and it goes on sale within a week after purchase, can you, like, do a partial refund?
This happens to me ALL the time, it’s beyond infuriating.
My friends originally talked me into this game, I caved in and bought it, and a WEEK later they go on sale and put it up for $10 dollars! (And then said friends go and get involved on some other game that had a major update and I’m left alone here ._.)
You could say it’s entirely my fault for not waiting for a sale, well I waited months for one to happen and it never did. Also, the last sale I bought something on was like 50% off, I buy it, and then 2 hours later it upgrades to a 90% off…
All I’m saying is that it really feels like you got ripped off when the thing you just bought immediately goes on sale after you get it… thoughts?
PS: I should add that I’ve had enough enjoyment from this game that I don’t mind that I payed full price for it, though I would have preferred to have that extra 30 dollars available in gems for character slot upgrades…
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ABC format would be pretty good, not sure how that could be implemented though.
When activating an instrument, could you also include a row of buttons on the F1-F4 so we can hit those critical notes that are often missing with what we have now?
There’s a lot of songs that are impossible to play because so many notes are missing.
I wouldn’t say this is high priority, but it would certainly be an improvement.
That’s quite the passive-aggressive attitude in that second paragraph.
Ehh, I rarely see suggestions implemented if they aren’t overwhelmingly popular.
Anyway, what skirts are you talking about? I can’t really think of any medium armor chest pieces that have skirts.
Basically 90% of the medium armor for Charr, it’s all draped over the legs.
For the other races it’s toned down, but just completely overdone for Charr.
And, side note, you can dye outfits.
Indeed, but you have 4 channels to work with, and setting one color changes many different things. You can’t have, for example, a tan hat with black pants, both share the same color. They could alleviate it by just adding more color channels and making that picker panel larger to accommodate 12 color tabs or so.
Most of the medium armors have a skirt that’s part of the torso piece.
Could we have a way to disable that bit? It kinda ruins the look on a lot of otherwise nice looking medium armor designs.
This probably isn’t a trivial change or likely to earn anet any money, so I doubt it will happen, so I guess I’ll just have to run around topless or use costumes that can’t even have their colors changed?
sPvP has balanced gear because its "S"PvP… Structured, intended to be balanced.
Kinda funny that I like GW2 for all the reasons you think it’s boring.
If I wanted open world PvP, I’d go back to WoW and get repeatedly killed by some kitten 40 levels above me that’s intent on being as irritating as possible.
Though, I admit it was satisfying when we put out a world-wide call for help, and they arrived 5 minutes later on cavalry and ran those horde kittens out of darkwood, that was great.
Med Kit #1 skill now blast people in the face with a healing breeze. #2 now drops a buff pylon that buff allies nearby. #3 drops a glowing syringe on the ground.
Well this is interesting, certainly sounds more interesting than dropping weakly healing bandages.
I know there’s the trait to throw the things instead and improve the healing by 25%, but that takes up a whole trait that could be used elsewhere, it feels like it should be the default, rather than a trait as it actually makes them somewhat more feasible.
The toolbelt skill for the Med Kit is fine, just a quick modest heal, but the rest?
The only time anything except the speed bottle is useful is if you’re holding down an area and have time to saturate it with med kits, otherwise the time spent deploying healing packages, and the 1 condition removal bottle, is better spent doing something else.
I’d rather see the first 3 packages condensed into a single 30s skill that deploys 3 of them at once, while the other two slots be used for something more flexible, like a close range medical applicator on the autofire, and a targeted AoE heal blast on the 2nd.