Guild Wars 2

I would love to see more GW1 armors turned into outfits or armor skins, especially the Mesmer fissure armor.

But what I would really like to see is a revamp of the outfit system. While the changes done to it a while back did fix somethings, they messed up quite a bit. You have the male dress outfit which would look incredible with either the top hat or monocle, yet you can’t wear the top hat or monocle with it because those are armor skins and you can’t show armor pieces while the outfit is on. Also, the whole town clothes as tonic system needs to be changed. I haven’t worn my khaki cargo shorts in forever because I can’t mix and match it with tops I would like to wear with it. Would be nice to wear the shorts with the Jungle Explorers outfit to make a sort of Lara Croft look, but of course we can’t do that. Also would love to wear sunglasses with that outfit as well as the pirate one as I hate the headpieces with those outfits, but once again, can’t do that. Really hurts the functionality of the outfit system.

TJgalon.5012:

Can I ask what you need so much Karma for, I gain a lot from doing things, but I not really found a need to use it except for the free gear while leveling.

Well, just one example is you can get any sort of cloth from jute to silk just with karma. I’m not going to go into the process of how, but it’s not complicated at all.

Lil Puppy.5216:

I’m glad I don’t have any human characters, a wedding mini-skirt with train really isn’t appealing. I mean maybe today’s generation with their super loose morals would think it was awesome but this just screams “look at my panties!” It’s better on the Norns but it still looks like an Asura tent.

http://www.davidsbridal.com/Product_two-tier-high-low-a-line-gown-with-tulle-and-lace-vw351281_wedding-dresses-all-wedding-dresses

http://www.shirleysdress.com/delicate-beaded-neckline-tiered-high-low-dress-with-ruching-p702369.html

http://www.shirleysdress.com/luxurious-sweetheart-beaded-bodice-tiered-high-low-dress-p702377.html

http://www.adoringdress.com/one-shoudler-high-low-dress-with-ruched-flowers-and-belt-p703664.html

Just a few examples. The High/Low style is a popular one.

Weddings would be nice, but simply as a “cosmetic” type of thing. Children? No thank you, this is after all a game, not Second Life or The Sims.

Allaraina.8614:

Friends, Romans, Charrs…

As far as I can tell the wedding dress hasn’t been put in the gemstore yet, and so I would like to point out a small problem prior to launch…

This is not how garters work.

The purpose of a garter is to hold up socks or stockings. Garters are itchy and while sexy they tend to look pretty silly unless they are also serving their initial purpose. (For more information, click here)

Which brings us to the issue at hand.

The female human wedding outfit does not include stockings and yet the dress is cut high enough to reveal a garter. I am requesting a fix by either removing the garter or adding the stocking.

Thank you.

Actually many garters are for fashion appearance, not for holding up stockings. Most wear garter belts for that purpose. And with weddings garters are worn for the tradition of the groom removing them to “shoot” at the bachelors attending the wedding much the way the bride tosses the bouquet to the single ladies. In the past women wore garters as a way to hold small items such as lighters or money so they wouldn’t have to carry a purse. It’s also a tradition in many parts of the US for girls to give their garters to their dates as a prom reminder. Many proms have as their last dance a “Garter and Tie Dance” where the girls exchange their garters for the boys ties.

So no, there is absolutely nothing wrong with how Anet’s designer (I assume is still Kristen Perry) has designed the garter with the dress.

EDIT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garter_
There is a Western wedding tradition for a bride to wear a garter to her wedding, to be removed towards the end of the reception by the groom. This garter is not normally used to support stockings.

SairaJayn.2065:

I am royally peeved. I have almost 300 Enchanted boosters ( I buy a lot of keys!) I use them for karma. For my legendaries as I hate farming. Now? Just take them away. Those boosters are now useless. I have enough characters I don’t need experience. I dont craft or do any of the other stuff. I may as well destroy those.

Not really. You can pull the new boosters out of them as well and they will be a HUGE help in HoT. Though I do hope they do a roll back of the enchanted ones as well since I too have over 300 of the enchanted boosters and would like to pull karma out of about half of them.

While I too hate that the Karma boosts were removed from the Enchanted boosters as I was saving them up for Karma mostly, keep in mind that the new Experience Booster will be quite good as it boosts ALL experience types which would include the upcoming mastery experience things such as gliding, precursor crafting, etc.

The fix seems to have solved all the achievement, LS and hero point issues however one issue I am still noticing is my feet are missing in the Monk outfit sandals. Others have posted kitten of this and mine is identical to that.

Just an update to my post above. To test something, since Dailies also look as if they reset, I went to Metrica to do some foraging even though I completed Dailies last night, and when I did my foraging, it did not update the daily achievement, so the game is acting as if it knows the achievements were actually completed, which also seems backed up by the fact that the achievement point count is correct.

Under the Hero Panel in Training it shows as if I need to retrain all my skills, however, they are all unlocked for me to use on my skill bar. Also, it is saying I need to repurchase season 2 though I have already unlocked everything. All Story Journal achievements are showing as not done, as well as all the collections achievements I have finished along with Drytop and Silverwastes achievements, however, the total achievement points seem to be right.

EDIT: Troll’s Revenge JP achievement also reset for me.

Rits.4036:

Northern IN. Comcast. Ping spikes usually occur 9pm EST to 4AM.

Do a traceroute…see thread here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/GW-2-Internet-Package-loss/first#post5300129

You can see mine at the bottom where the ping picks up with a whole lot of timeouts.

Yes, but your tracert also shows it is not an issue with either Comcast or Anet’s servers. It is happening along one of the network likely of one of the Tier 1 providers that your ISP hooks up to as do most web servers.

Paolo.6198:

same here, ping is hitting around 4.9k then disconnecting. NEVER had this problem since launch. Servers running on coal? Getting really tired of this… I can’t even mine ore properly.. jeez -__-

( YES my internet is fine. )

Whatever it is, it’s not the game servers. Remember, your connection doesn’t just leave your ISP and then go to Anet’s servers, it goes through a LOT of routers on the internet “backbone” first. The issues that caused this thread to come about were issues caused by a router or node along the backbone, not ISP or game server issues.

If it was a true game server issue, then everyone connected to that server would have issues, not just you. I suggest keeping track of what the game servers IP address you are on when you start having problems and then immediately run a tracert to find the hop truly causing the problem.

Well, I think you were never originally talking to an Anet person. The link in your top post is a link to the original Guild Wars game, not even to GW2. Was all this done through in game mail?

As someone else pointed out, Anet does not give warnings about suspensions or banning. If you ever get an in game mail about it, Block the sender and delete it.

The tracert is a good place. It shows you every hop your connection takes between your computer and the destination IP address. This is why you want to trace to the game server. Any hop that times out is where you have issues. Now one thing to note is that the first hop after your router will typically be the node and a lot of cable internet providers have the nodes set up not to be pinged so you may see that timed out, but yours apparently doesn’t do that.

The issue isn’t always just your ISP or the server you’re trying to access. As you can see, your connection between yourself and the game servers go through several points before you get to NC Soft’s servers. This is typical as ISP’s don’t connect directly to the vast majority of web servers, they go through what’s called Tier 1 providers. It could be that there is a router along the backbone you go through between yourself and Anet that gets busy at certain times or is just failing.

Actually it’s more of a write limit than a read limit. And this was an issue when SSD’s came out, however while there is a write limit, it has gotten to the point that the write limit won’t be reached until about the same time as a conventional hard drive will reach the end of it’s life as well. Some SSD’s have been written to constantly for a couple of years now and are still going strong with petabytes having been written to them, so really I wouldn’t worry about it.

One thing though, don’t go for an 80GB drive. You want at least a 500GB for a couple of reasons. One, price per GB is a lot less and the savings minimal really and when it comes to games, you will likely put a lot more than you think you will. GW2 by itself is close to 30GB. Secondly, you want some free space for the SSD’s disk management. A good rule of thumb is to leave 25% of the drive free. Part of this is to allow it’s TRIM tool room to work (TRIM basically consolidates partially filled blocks) and when a drive is nearly full, it will slow down considerably as there won’t be nearly as many free empty blocks and SSD’s don’t write nearly as fast to partially filled blocks.

Been stable for about 30+ minutes for me as well. Considering we are seeing another of our Canadian friends having this issue, it’s likely this is a backbone issue and not an ISP one, but a backbone that Comcast uses more heavily then other ISPs in the states.

I’m in Huntsville, Alabama and have Comcast and am seeing this as well. However, I do not think this is a Comcast issue. For one thing, it’s not just the game, it is some web sites as well that load slowly or not at all. Also, a friend in Calgary, who obviously does not have Comcast, is noticing issues as well, not with GW2, but with some web sites (different ones than me).

I am thinking this is likely a node issue somewhere along the network that whatever Tier 1 provider Comcast is using is likely having. That some node or router is likely used to route traffic to other locations for other people such as my Calgary friend so he sees different issues.

But regardless, there is certainly an issue happening, and it’s been happening for a while as I saw this originally around 4pm central time.

@ Kalavier

No one said anything about JOUSTING armor. The link I provided, had you cared to read it, was about plate armor worn on the battlefield. It was heavy, over 100 pounds. You and others try to make it sound as if that is insignificant to agility but it isn’t.

And given the choice of full metal plate or a tee and shorts facing a bear, give me the tee and shorts any day. I would need agility to run and the plate armor would not protect against those claws and teeth given the force a bear can bite with. One of the ways plate armor protected someone was range attacks, primarily arrows, could be deflected from the curve surface, something that is negated at close range.

Crossaber.8934:

non boob plate armor request is legit.
request realistic look is legit too.
But request the above by saying we have more skimpy armor than non skimpy armor is not okay. It is a lie. We actually have non skimpy heavy armor a lot more than skimpy one. But i agree realistic choice is very limited.

We must be clear to define boob plate =/= skimpy. unrealistic =/= skimpy. Most armor designs are not realistic nor skimpy currently.

We sure need more choices of skimpy and realistic heavy armor.

I think one of the things that people seem to miss when they call things “boob plate” is that armor follows the physics outline of the character. In most games what is considered plate armor is nothing more than form fitting spandex looking, not because they wish to be titillating, as what those complaining about that type of armor seem to be insinuating, but just the limitations of the graphics used. At least in GW2 some thickness is there, but armor still needs to follow the polygons of the characters body.

My personal opinion is those who complain of “boob plate” really just seem to be hating anything that even remotely hints of a feminine form.

Oh, and another thing about those who lump chain mail armor and complaining about it being “boob plate”, chain mail is flexible, it will form to the body’s contours. The only way you would not see the breasts defined is if it was very much oversized, which of course would be even more unrealistic because no warrior would want the extra weight for no added benefit.

Substance E.4852:

Also, for fans of hyper realism, no more giant great swords of any kind.

https://youtu.be/VNc7kHADtUw?t=51

The Buster Sword weighed 54lbs and a guy who looks like he lives in the gym was winded after a few swings.

This is an excellent point. Many of the weapons are much more unbelievable in any form of realism than any armors that are in game, yet odd isn’t it how no one complains about that.

BolkovonHarnfeldt.1372:

imsoenthused.1634:

But that’s just for those of us who know enough to find our suspension of disbelief thrown by badly designed(from a defensive standpoint) armor.

Yes, because those who can keep the suspension are only able to do so because they don’t know enough…

Edit: Next – remove Ettins and Abominations from the game because their club swings should realistcally be instakills

Also have to get rid of all Undead. I mean, if armor that conforms to the shape of the human body destroys believability, how can dead things walking around be something they can suspend disbelief over.

Red Queen.7915:

Wildkitten, a few things.

1) You don’t dress like a man, you dress like a warrior. If you only think “man” when you think “warrior”, that is no fault but your own and perhaps your upbringing. And do not assume you can speak for me when you say “we” don’t want to run around looking like men. I don’t care if someone thinks my character is a dude, I want her to look like a no-nonsense fighter first and foremost. Again, if you think that’s dude-only, that is your problem.
And armour is not everyday clothing. Saying you don’t want to dress in men’s clothes at work has nothing to do with people dressing to slay monsters, command armies and generally get a lot of violent kitten done. And even with armour, the level of style depends on whether it’s protective or ceremonial armour. The latter is the one where looks matter, but it also won’t protect you when going toe to toe with an actually armed and armoured opponent. Any warrior worth their salt won’t give a crap about looking good when it’s a life or death situation. The ones that do are the ones who end up stabbed in the stomach after thirty seconds.

2) Men are not the only people who can be sexist. That is no argument for or against anything said in this thread (I even believe you are the one who first mentioned anything about sexism, everything else revolved around double standards ind esign and ho it’s weird that the same armour set looks so vastly different depending on who wears it).

3) Your definition of skimpy and other people’s are apparently different. You don’t think human T3 light is skimpy? I do.

4) No-one here but you expressed a problem with people having opinions.

5) No-one is crying for their preferred kind of armour to be the only kind allowed in the game.

6) I didn’t have to go further than Wikipedia to see that the slow, clumsy knight in plate armour is a myth, though I certainly have done my research on this for my writing. I suggest you do a little research of your own on this topic. The guys over at http://howtofightwrite.tumblr.com have some sources under the “knights” tag, it’s as good a place to start as any. Additonally, there are countless videos of people wearing replica armour doing all kinds of stuff, including dodging blows rather nimbly. Probably not gymnast-nimbly, but I’d rather wear a suit of armour than a pair of leggings when I’m about to face a giant monster with huge teeth and claws.

1) Have you not seen the complaints in this very thread some have made about how female armor looks different than the male counterpart? I suggest you go back and reread.

2) I was not directing that at anything in this thread, but rather the overall argument that has gone on with this topic with MMO’s in general that it often breaks down to a sexist act during the debate.

3) No, I do not think that T3 human light can be referred to as skimpy. It has more coverage than the typical swimsuit. It’s getting to the point of ridiculousness that any armor that shows any skin not of the face gets referred to as skimpy by some people. Some ever refer to the heavy Carapace armor as skimpy for merely showing about an inch of mid thigh.

4) When people start lying about things, such as those who claim that skimpy armor makes up the majority when it clearly does not, than that is an attempt to shut down other people’s opinion. That’s the point of lying.

5) Many people have said that NO ONE should have that option. Some even have hinted at it in this thread, but there have been other threads here, on GW2 Guru and Reddit where people have stated point blank there should be no “revealing” armor. And that is where a majority of these threads come down to. In games where there is no choice in armor, people claimed “well give me a choice”. Well GW2 has the choice, so why has this debate over GW2 been raging even before the game was released on the subject? If you don’t to wear armor that shows any skin, you have much more choice than others do, yet there is still no happiness.

6) I think you have no clue over real armor. Have you ever seen a real person in real metal plate armor? They do not dodge around. They do not nimbly roll over the ground and hop right back up while wearing nearly a hundred pounds of metal.

http://www.livescience.com/15128-armor-drained-medieval-knight-energy.html

You are the one who needs to do a little research on the subject.

And if you would rather wear that when facing something with huge teeth and claws, then you would be the among the first to die, because no amount of armor would protect you. Might as well wrap yourself in Reynolds aluminum foil.

Kalavier.1097:

kurfu.5623:

OMG, the people getting the diapers in a wad over impractical armor in this thread are hilarious!

Here’s a Pro-Tip – if you don’t like an armor set, don’t use it.

Play the way you want, and stop worrying about how other people play.

While true, the topic of the thread is to discuss ABOUT the designs.

Yes, and what people are discussing is how they hate people have any options whatsoever.

NO armor in GW2 can realistically be described as skimpy. Yes, medium human T3 shows some underboob. Well, if that upsets people I don’t know how they function in society as any time they go to a public pool or beach they will see more of the breast than that, or that even Disney stars have on occasion showed some side boob themselves.

There are also comments where people want to say the more revealing armors are dominant, and that is simply NOT true. They may be more dominantly worn, but they are not the dominant choices. Someone else already gave a very accurate breakdown on this in an above comment.

People can not also say somehow this is sexist as the lead designer is Kristen Perry, a woman.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Kristen_Perry

Believe it or not, there are many of us of the female sex who play this game, and I daresay the vast majority of us do not want to go around looking like men or be androgynous. We like to look stylish in real life, and, regardless of how much the ignorant “realism” argument is brought in, this is a fantasy game, something done for leisure, recreation and enjoyment, and there is nothing wrong with looking stylish in game as well.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Human_female_heavy_armor

There is the heavy armors. Out of 52 total armors, 41 are complete and total coverage showing precious little skin. The only one that could possibly be called skimpy also totally covers the body but is skin tight, the Zodiac, no different than someone wearing a fully spandex cat suit. There is nothing that even comes close to the regular gaming definition of skimpy like you could see in Tera or other games.

Kalavier.1097:

Wildkitten.3872:

As for your combat comment, the full body covering armor is what is unrealistic. For one thing trying to bring a realism argument into a fantasy game is idiotic at best, but even in real life, you have armies than even in the 20th century would fight nude in certain circumstances because of the need for agility and mobility. If you want to talk realism, then skimpy armor would be a lot more realistic when fighting fantasy creatures because if you could face a dragon, someone in a bikini will survive longer than someone wearing full metal plate.

Knights in full plate armor were fairly mobile, and their armor actually weighed less then modern infantry full combat gear (IIRC).

If somebody was facing a dragon in a bikini, then they’ll die in a single hit. However somebody in full plate armor won’t have to worry about debris slicing their skin. If enchanted, even more protection is granted.

The “Agility and mobility” line comes into play is if the enemy’s attacks can and WILL one shot kill you from the start, and thus you focus on dodging more then ‘tanking’ the blows.

Have you ever seen someone in actual full plate knights armor because the fact you say they were fairly mobile suggests not. The exact opposite was true. They were very much immobile, slow, lumbering, the opposite of agile.

Flying debris would be the least of your worries if you were to face something like Claw of Jormag. You could be inside 1 inch thick metal armor and you would be one shot, and die quicker then someone who wasn’t so weighted down and had their joints free.

This is where I take issue with this whole debate. For a long time in MMO’s people screamed “give us a choice” and here came GW2 and in a way gave a choice. I say in a way, cause precious little armor in GW2 can truthfully be referred to as ‘skimpy’ and the full coverage armors dominate the fashion landscape yet people still complain about the skimpy armor demanding that NO ONE have the choice, thus showing that people who hate more revealing armor really wish to dictate for everyone.

As for your comments about the Phalanx armor, thank goodness it doesn’t look like male armor. I don’t want to dress like a man. I’ve never gone into Charlotte Russe or Forever 21 and heard anyone ever complain that the clothing didn’t look like men’s clothing. If you went by the icon and didn’t use the dressing room feature before you purchased it, then that frankly is your own fault. GW2 is one of the few games that even give some what honest representations of armor and weapons in their icons.

And for people who say that the skirt on the Phalanx is skimpy, it’s about the same length as the cheerleading skirt I wore at 14 and every other cheerleader wears. Do you go to cheerleading web sites decrying how skimpy the uniforms are?

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Guys, gotta stop listening to Marketing and do public tests on patches before they are released live. There is no benefit to not doing public testing, except that you lose some of the ‘ohh, shiny new things’ surprise for players, which I’m sure Marketing is telling you needs to happen. However, releasing things with so many bugs utterly destroys the positive effect this could have as right now, there are so many bugs, people are just so frustrated with everything.

There is another game out there that has had test servers since day one and as a former customer of that game I can say with absolute certainty it never helped one bit. As a player of both that game and GW2, patches in GW2 get released with fewer bugs and fewer major bugs than that game-that-shall-not-be-named that does have a test server.

People expect an MMO patch to be absolutely perfect upon release and it will never happen. There will always be a few nagging bugs here and there and so far Anet is doing a fine job of catching the most obvious before they are released. Never once has GW2 had to be taken down for a hours at a time due to a faulty patch.

MeGaZlo.9516:

Aberrant.6749:

imsoenthused.1634:

panzer.6034:

Ringsound.7806:

imsoenthused.1634:

Chainmail Bikini Syndrome has been a plague on the fantasy community for so many years that it isn’t going away anytime soon. Love it or hate it it’s just the way it is. GW2 isn’t nearly as bad as most games in the genre. I would love to see more FULL coverage female heavy armors though, and fewer(none) exposed skin death traps, but I can accept that lots of people don’t agree.

we are on the same boat
i would love to have more full coverage armor
an i wouldnt mind, even appreciate no korean type eposed heavy armor
sexy dont have to be showing skin, a good fit full coverage showing the perfect bodyline is way sexier than bikini

You should be happy with the status quo then since a majority of the existing heavy female armors are practically puritan in their sensibilities.

Not me, I want armor to look like armor. I personally just despise badly designed armor, regardless of which stupid fallacy they pick, be it chainmail bikini or skin tight metal catsuit.

It’s fine though, I’m used to most fantasy armor being ridiculous looking trash covered in cleave points, with zero thought given to it’s ability to actually function as armor. And that applies to most of the men’s armor as well.

So you want hyper realistic armor in fantasy games where people are shooting fireballs, turning invisible, making copies of themselves that can fight, etc. Seems kinda weird to me, but ok I guess?

I do not quite understand this point of view. If it’s fantasy world with magic so the armor here has to be ridiculous not look like armor? Is it some kind of rule? “If something not as in reality – let’s make so that everything will not be as in reality?”. How the fact that people can shoot fire from wooden sticks leads to the fact that they go into battle naked?

You have tons of choices to be covered from head to toe, more choices than those who would like to look good in a game, who don’t wish to pretend this was real. Although if you wish to speak of realism, you’re head to toe covering would in reality be less realistic than a bikini.

Carighan.6758:

The one objective part of armor criticism is how >50% of the female armor is insanely skimpy. This looks stupid for light or medium armor but downright idiotic for heavy, as there’s no way this’d be any help in combat.

Now, even then it’d be acceptable – if the male armor looked similar. For many armor types, male and female armors don’t look like they’re part of the same set. Plus as I said, it looks stupid.

Not sure what game you’re referring to, but way, way less than 50% of armor in this game could be described as “skimpy”. In fact, if you wish to compare to other MMO’s, and even real life descriptions, no armor in this game could realistically be called skimpy. Even the medium T3 human armor doesn’t show as much under boob as what you will see at any public pool or beach.

As for your combat comment, the full body covering armor is what is unrealistic. For one thing trying to bring a realism argument into a fantasy game is idiotic at best, but even in real life, you have armies than even in the 20th century would fight nude in certain circumstances because of the need for agility and mobility. If you want to talk realism, then skimpy armor would be a lot more realistic when fighting fantasy creatures because if you could face a dragon, someone in a bikini will survive longer than someone wearing full metal plate.

Prototypemind.4026:

Wildkitten.3872:

Prototypemind.4026:

I could do an entire night of raiding in Star Wars: The Old Republic without stopping to empty my bags. I can do a night of raiding in Vindictus without stopping to empty my bags. I’m sure there are plenty of other titles where I can do so. Per your explanation, I guess I’m glad that I stayed away from WoW, because it’s just annoying. I’m shocked someone showed up telling me that I should just accept it, that’s never happened before…

Then that tells me people should stay away from those two games because the drops must be awful if you can go multiple dungeons without having to sell. But really? Is going to a merchant that hard and ‘tedious’?? Just more entitle mentality. No wonder both of those games are of course, pay to win games.

P2W is not a part of TOR in the least. That is beside the point. The point is that yes, leaving what I’m doing to go vendor repeatedly during dungeon runs is tedious. If I want to log in for two hours a day to run, part of that time will be dedicated to clearing my inventory. I never have and never will find that enjoyable. Plenty of worth drops, it’s just that in both of those titles you only get relevant items while running an area. There’s no salvaging 10,000 things and randomly getting silk, leather, and on and on. If you want certain mats, you go to the areas that they are found in, so no piles of useless junk.

TOR drops level appropriate gear with rippable mods, as well as tokens that can be traded for chest, head, etc, with a chance at artifacts, and some rare mats for crafting. Vindictus drops mats that can be used to craft multiple items at a certain tier. Farm a level 70-80 dungeon, and you get mats that can be used to make equivalent level gear. Bottom line is that many don’t like the system here and there are a number of threads asking for the number of drops to be reduced.

What is strange to me is that not only do players like you and a few others refuse to even consider this, you go out of your way with hyperbole—such as the poster above acting as though I said nothing at all should drop in dungeons—rather than simply saying, “It’s what I’m used to and it’s what I prefer”. I don’t get why you wish to so vehemently oppose anything other than what you’re used to, but I accept that you’ll probably never change your mind. I admit to a bit of hyperbole myself, however, as Anet is planning to add map rewards commiserate with your characters level via the HoT update. This still doesn’t fix the item bloat of dungeons, but it is a step in the right direction. I’ll leave any further replies to others, battling the invincible white knights gets old quickly.

ST:TOR certainly does sell stat gear and items on their cash shop. I also know a lot of players who have been on both games. Vindictus has always been criticized for their lack of drops. Also, lower level drops in GW2 are indeed beneficial as you use lower level materials in things such as crafting ascended items, so they are useful.

You do realize you are complaining about something the vast majority of MMO players like, getting loot drops. I have to say I have never heard of anyone complain about such a thing. There is no way to fill up 5 20 slot bags in this game in a single dungeon run and vendoring after a dungeon run is a 20 second thing most every MMO player expects to do after a dungeon run. If drops weren’t as common, many many more people would complain. There is absolutely no such thing as item bloat in GW2 dungeons when compared to other top MMOs such as WoW.

narwhalsbend.7059:

Danikat.8537:

And yet I’ve never had the same storage problems I used to have in GW1.

I have problems in both games. I’ve never bought any kind of upgrade and I have tons of storage characters. My assassin is purely weapons upgrades!

Danikat.8537:

In GW1 I had to empty my inventory of everything I didn’t need before I started a vanquish and I’d still leave about 1/3 of the loot on the ground. In GW2 I don’t have any extra bag slots, I’m always carrying around at least 20 items and the only time I’ve run out of space is if I try to open all my bags at once after doing Silverwastes.

You should empty your bags before doing such a thing, even in GW2. Maybe you should try salvaging in GW1 like you undoubtedly do in GW2. The only real difference is that you can’t magically bank your crafting mats in GW1 or send your expensive items to the magical trading post.

Danikat.8537:

Also personally I’d find it much easier to farm 70g in GW2 to buy another bag slot than 15 gold zaishen coins to get a heavy equipment bag in GW1. But that may just be me.

Don’t forget to add another 12g for the cost of the bag for each slot.

Honestly I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining about it too much, I just dislike how Anet is always shoving the gem store in your face.

Shaving it in your face? They give you gems every 5000 AP, they sell purely unimportant stuff on the gem store. A person can play the game in GW2 and not spend a single penny on the gem store and still do anything game play wise as any other person. That is the complete opposite of shoving it in your face.

Prototypemind.4026:

I could do an entire night of raiding in Star Wars: The Old Republic without stopping to empty my bags. I can do a night of raiding in Vindictus without stopping to empty my bags. I’m sure there are plenty of other titles where I can do so. Per your explanation, I guess I’m glad that I stayed away from WoW, because it’s just annoying. I’m shocked someone showed up telling me that I should just accept it, that’s never happened before…

Then that tells me people should stay away from those two games because the drops must be awful if you can go multiple dungeons without having to sell. But really? Is going to a merchant that hard and ‘tedious’?? Just more entitle mentality. No wonder both of those games are of course, pay to win games.

Prototypemind.4026:

I have 18-20 slot bag on every default slot, yet running dungeons the fill up in no time. Things like food, slaying potions, multiple weapons because of various sigils, etc, take up space. Dungeons pile crap on top of crap into your bags. It becomes an annoyance. Fewer drops with more return per salvage would be a much, much better alternative.

Every time this comes up, Anet’s knights ride to the rescue saying that “deposit all”, or salvaging more often, etc are the answer. They aren’t. Players shouldn’t have to stop in the middle of clearing a few dungeons to salvage, deposit, vendor, and sell simply to keep playing. I doubt it will change as Anet likes the revenue from unlock slots being so costly, meaning semi-casuals will likely just dole out the real cash since they don’t have time to grind the gold to turn into gems. It was just one more bit of tedium for me, so I simply chose not to play anymore for the time being.

Wait, so you think you should be able to play through multiple dungeons without vendoring? You must be new to MMO’s because there is not a single one where you can do that with.

And it isn’t ANETs “knights” it is basic common sense. Even in WoW you have only 5 bag slots and can’t get any more than that. They have bigger bags, but no way (at least of Cataclysm) of depositing crafting materials so your bags filled up faster.

If you don’t think you need to salvage and vendor and put items in your bank after nearly every dungeon, than you have some really messed up expectations of MMOs.

BunjiKugashira.9754:

I already bought the expansions for multiple characters, but I’m all for an account-wide unlock. It just feels like a rip-off to pay 1200 gems per character to unlock the bags.

Then don’t pay it. With 5 bag slots you already have as many bag slots as most other games provide and don’t give the opportunity to increase it. We don’t need these extra 3, they are there for purchase only if they are WANTED. And yes, want is different than need though many people seem to not know the difference.

You haven’t been ripped off in any way.

narwhalsbend.7059:

Orangensaft.7139:

they have to make money somehow

There was this amazing game called GW1 which didn’t require you to pay real money or farm for days to get things that should be given to you, yet the same company that made that game eventually made enough money for a sequel!

You seem to have selective memory. While there was no purchasing of extra bag slots there was of extra bank tabs.

And why should you or I or anyone else be given it for free? What is this entitlement attitude so many like you have? If you don’t want to pay for an extra slot then don’t. You are in no worse shape than if you played any other game. In fact, you are still better off in GW2 inventory wise than practically every other game out there.

Your comment and reasoning is selfish and ignorant.

Prototypemind.4026:

We wouldn’t need 10,000 bag slots if there weren’t such an obscene amount of items to keep up with when questing. Way too many drops.

Zackie.8923:

yea man, this type of ‘cheap money-making features’ for the companies should not be in revolutionary games like gw2…

this old trick of limiting players’ experience is scorned upon universally and in fact discourage people playing other characters.

It’s rather sad how people are complaining about this issue.

This isn’t close to an example of pay to win. This game has no monthly fee yet still doesn’t require spending money on any sort of game affecting content.

This also does not limit your experience playing the game one bit. For one thing, each character gets the same number of bag slots as most other games have and those games don’t allow you to obtain more slots for more bags. For another, this game also allows you to deposit craftable materials directly from your inventory to your bank no matter where you are in the game world. Also, while bank access is a gem store item, they also drop very liberally from the black lion chests as well as part of the Black Lion daily chests you get 4 times a month. I have nearly an entire stack of them and have never once purchased a single one from the gem store. This access, which can also be had at various crafting stations out in numerous places in the game world, means bag space in GW2 is much less of an issue than in any other game and that’s if you haven’t bought a single extra slot.

It’s sad that people will find the most trivial things to complain about.

Castitalus.6359:

Wildkitten.3872:

Castitalus.6359:

Wildkitten.3872:

Castitalus.6359:

Yup, figured you know next to nothing about rp. It’s kind of hard to rp and immerse yourself when your character is running around like a child pretending to be a plane. THAT is the forced issue, the character model, the point you keep missing.

All the other examples, rpers can leave the area or take what’s presented in the story updates and use it for rp. gasp Options!

Was this game created for the RPer? No. Is Guild Wars known for it’s April Fool’s Day gags? Very much so.

As to your last line, you’re essentially saying that they can “suck it up” and change their RP. Hypocrisy on display.

Way to twist my words to try to make yourself look better. No comment on the character model? Oh wait, that’s right, you can’t make any argument against it.

Not twisting your words whatsoever. Let me quote you….

Castitalus.6359:

True, but the "suck it up’ mentality is never good.

Then you go on to say….

Castitalus.6359:

….

All the other examples, rpers can leave the area or take what’s presented in the story updates and use it for rp. gasp Options!

See, ‘Suck it up’ and ‘Take it or leave it’ is the exact same thing. It’s saying “You have been forced to deal with a change that is beyond your control so you must adapt”. Guess what, that’s life. We ALL have to deal with it. The fact that so few of y ou are so loud about it inside of a game is rather sad.

So yes, you are a hypocrite.

And in those examples you gave, everyone had options. Does this event have options? Can I have my characters arms lowered? Can I have the previous character model back? No? Thought so.

But I knew talking with you would be talking to a brick wall. Was fun entertainment though, thank you for that.

Really? So the people who wanted to RP in Kessex Hills and the change affected their RP had what options? Oh, that’s right, they had to the option to change their RP based on what the game forced them to do. Did the Living Story have the option that the tower wasn’t there? Did they have the option to turn off the destruction of the zone? No.

Your response to that has been to essentially say ‘they can suck it up and deal with the change and adapt their rp’. Well why can’t they do the exact same thing with this? April Fool’s is a notoriously funny day in an MMO. If someone is an RPer, they are well aware of this or are extremely new to RPing inside of a game. Why can’t they follow your advice on what they had to do with the zone changes and adapt to this as well?

See, you’re the brick wall. You can not even realize you are the one talking out of both sides of your mouth.

Castitalus.6359:

Wildkitten.3872:

Castitalus.6359:

Yup, figured you know next to nothing about rp. It’s kind of hard to rp and immerse yourself when your character is running around like a child pretending to be a plane. THAT is the forced issue, the character model, the point you keep missing.

All the other examples, rpers can leave the area or take what’s presented in the story updates and use it for rp. gasp Options!

Was this game created for the RPer? No. Is Guild Wars known for it’s April Fool’s Day gags? Very much so.

As to your last line, you’re essentially saying that they can “suck it up” and change their RP. Hypocrisy on display.

Way to twist my words to try to make yourself look better. No comment on the character model? Oh wait, that’s right, you can’t make any argument against it.

Not twisting your words whatsoever. Let me quote you….

Castitalus.6359:

True, but the "suck it up’ mentality is never good.

Then you go on to say….

Castitalus.6359:

….

All the other examples, rpers can leave the area or take what’s presented in the story updates and use it for rp. gasp Options!

See, ‘Suck it up’ and ‘Take it or leave it’ is the exact same thing. It’s saying “You have been forced to deal with a change that is beyond your control so you must adapt”. Guess what, that’s life. We ALL have to deal with it. The fact that so few of y ou are so loud about it inside of a game is rather sad.

So yes, you are a hypocrite.

EDIT: As to the character model, it doesn’t matter. Change is change no matter how it is forced on someone.

Castitalus.6359:

Yup, figured you know next to nothing about rp. It’s kind of hard to rp and immerse yourself when your character is running around like a child pretending to be a plane. THAT is the forced issue, the character model, the point you keep missing.

All the other examples, rpers can leave the area or take what’s presented in the story updates and use it for rp. gasp Options!

Was this game created for the RPer? No. Is Guild Wars known for it’s April Fool’s Day gags? Very much so.

As to your last line, you’re essentially saying that they can “suck it up” and change their RP. Hypocrisy on display.

Castitalus.6359:

Stark.1350:

Castitalus.6359:

Rpers would have an in character reason for being affected. Since you seem to know about rp, please, enlighten me on how you would rp this event, airplane pose, wooshing noises and all.

I think they’ll survive for one day.

True, but the "suck it up’ mentality is never good.

But you are the one who is arguing that the Kessex Hills RPer “suck it up” and move to another zone for when the Living Story happened.

Castitalus.6359:

Rpers would have an in character reason for being affected. Since you seem to know about rp, please, enlighten me on how you would rp this event, airplane pose, wooshing noises and all.

No, they would be FORCED to create an in character reason. Since you are the one making the argument that nothing should be forced that could affect an RPer, than you have to be arguing that NOTHING in the game should ever force an RP player to do something they don’t wish to do.

Or are you saying RPers have created an in character reason to every possible thing that could ever be done to the game?

Castitalus.6359:

Wildkitten.3872:

Castitalus.6359:

Wildkitten.3872:

Changes in events can affect RPers too. Should Anet take that into consideration before changing events? I have little doubt that the tower in Kessex Hills Scarlett’s forced built and the ensuing destruction of the area ruined someone’s RP. Should that not have happened either, because it was “forced” on everyone.

I had no idea that rpers were confined to Rp around Kessex Hills.

LOL I didn’t say they were mow did I. You can keep repeating that same line over and over, just makes you look foolish.

See, you miss the irony in your own argument. No, they aren’t confined to Kessex Hills, but the RPers that did RP in Kessex pre Scarlett were in fact affected by the changes Anet “forced” on them now weren’t they? Yes, they could move somewhere else, but if their RP was Kessex based, now that would mess them up.

Fields of Ruin has a lot of RPers in it that choose not to go other places. Their RP for whatever reason has them in and around Ebonhawke. Should Anet consult them before changing that zone in the future?

See, one thing Anet was VERY clear on before this game was released and anyone spent a single dollar on it, was that this would be a fluid, ever changing game world. There is also the fact that it is JUST A GAME. It is also April Fools which is a day for pranks to be pulled and “forced” on people. The vast majority of people enjoy those pranks as the amusement they are intended to be, but some of you can not. You think nothing should be done that is “forced” on anyone, but can’t even realize that things are “forced” on everyone all the time.

Wait, you mean the playerbase in Kessex Hills had an opt out feature? They were not confined to that zone for the duration of the LS event? :o

And you say I look foolish. Keep comparing previous events with this one.

You are the one who brought RPers into this. If there RP was Kessex based, then yes, their own RP would by necessity mean they were confined to Kessex would it not? If they go somewhere else, then it affects their RP correct? Yes, it does. So if you apply your logic consistently, then NOTHING, whether game play or joke related can ever be done to the game because it may affect some RPer’s RP.

Dragon.8612:

Wildkitten.3872:

First off Mr. I Want Attention By Creating a Whole New Thread and Claim I Am a Game Designer, the obvious parts of the mechanics ARE able to be turned off. The outstretched arms, well, if that annoys you or anyone else, you should really seek counseling, and I mean that in all sincerity because it shows you have deep issues to let a simple few pixels being outstretched in a game bother you.

Okay. First of all you need to read other comments before you make accusations about people and what they are saying. I specifically stated several times that I don’t believe me being a game designer makes me better than anyone else and I don’t think I even need to validate this point because it’s inherent value in the situation was only to explain my background and how I was looking at the scenario. YOU are the one assuming I am taking some personal high road believing I am better than other people. I AM NOT! Specifically because of that I prefer to not give any credentials because this isn’t something that needs sharing. I’m not trying to prove I’m better at game design than anyone so why do I need to share personal information with you unless I’m trying to say what I have done is better than what you have done? I’m saying that is my background.

You want to fling hateful words at me just to make yourself seem like you have some deeper understanding of me based upon what I have said go ahead. It has no validity in the conversation and makes you look juvenile. I’m not bothered by “a simple few pixels” I’m bothered by the fact that ANet consciously made a decision to do something inherently shortsighted. I don’t hate them for it, we all do it, I just want them to fix it! They made it so people who play a certain way cannot enjoy themselves in the game.

I agree with your second point we don’t need to let tragedy ruin peoples ability to have fun. Yes things happen all the time. We cannot stop enjoying things because that happened. I was never saying we shouldn’t enjoy the joke. What I am stating is that there are people who are offended. People have a right to be offended. It isn’t just one person either which, to me, would mean that they made a mistake, even if it was unintentional. I’m not saying they are bad people I am just saying they made a mistake and should seek to rectify it as soon as they can.

….

Regardless of what is being said I still thank you for reading and commenting on the post

Well you know what, a lot more people are affected by war and guns and other things portrayed in the game than ever could be by what happened in France. Should the wars in the game be taken out? Should the guns? You are the one making the claim that this was in poor taste and have demanded an apology for it, so if they should remove this and apologize for it, then you must think they should take out and apologize for other content that could be much more offensive to much more people.

As to the other, yes, you do present yourself as someone who is “more important” because there is no other reason to drop the line “I am a game designer”. You try to set yourself up as some form of expert by doing so which by it’s very definition means you think you have greater authority to speak on the subject. If you didn’t feel this way, you would not have said it. And no one should make claims like that without being willing to back them up.

There is absolutely nothing for Anet to fix. In fact, I demand an apology from you because your inability to enjoy a simple April Fools day prank extremely offends me.

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Castitalus.6359:

Wildkitten.3872:

Changes in events can affect RPers too. Should Anet take that into consideration before changing events? I have little doubt that the tower in Kessex Hills Scarlett’s forced built and the ensuing destruction of the area ruined someone’s RP. Should that not have happened either, because it was “forced” on everyone.

I had no idea that rpers were confined to Rp around Kessex Hills.

LOL I didn’t say they were mow did I. You can keep repeating that same line over and over, just makes you look foolish.

See, you miss the irony in your own argument. No, they aren’t confined to Kessex Hills, but the RPers that did RP in Kessex pre Scarlett were in fact affected by the changes Anet “forced” on them now weren’t they? Yes, they could move somewhere else, but if their RP was Kessex based, now that would mess them up.

Fields of Ruin has a lot of RPers in it that choose not to go other places. Their RP for whatever reason has them in and around Ebonhawke. Should Anet consult them before changing that zone in the future?

See, one thing Anet was VERY clear on before this game was released and anyone spent a single dollar on it, was that this would be a fluid, ever changing game world. There is also the fact that it is JUST A GAME. It is also April Fools which is a day for pranks to be pulled and “forced” on people. The vast majority of people enjoy those pranks as the amusement they are intended to be, but some of you can not. You think nothing should be done that is “forced” on anyone, but can’t even realize that things are “forced” on everyone all the time.

Tigaseye.2047:

Wildkitten.3872:

Tigaseye.2047:

Wildkitten.3872:

Tigaseye.2047:

You’re the one who is trying to foist this on all of us and insist we are given no way out of it.

Even though it would not affect you adversely, in the slightest, if we were.

How immature and selfish is that?

Did I make the game? No, so I can’t be foisting it off on you.

How dare Anet foist only a choice of Mesmers and Rangers and Elementalists and Thieves and Engineers and Guadians and Warriors on us. I want to play as a Paladin and a Monk!!!!

You get things “foisted” on you all the time. This is a MINOR thing. The most obvious affects are able to be turned off. The two things that can’t be you never even notice if you play the game as intended, and yet you still go on about it.

The way you complain it’s like you feel Anet should come to beg your approval for anything they do to the game.

I refer you to my previous post.

We are customers.

We have a right to our opinions.

If you don’t like customers voicing their opinions, I suggest you find something else to read, because this place will get on your nerves.

And I will refer you to my post above.

I too am a customer. Most people love this. Only a few vocal entitlement mentality people don’t. If you don’t like the fact that other customers do like it and will support it bother you, I suggest you find something else to read, because I will get on your nerves.

Yes, we are both customers.

We are both equally entitled to our opinions.

The only difference is that my suggestion would NOT adversely affect you in the slightest.

Whereas, your suggestion (that we should just suck it up, basically) DOES adversely affect me.

See the difference?

I DO like the fact that some other people like it and I want them to continue to be able to enjoy it.

I DON’T like the fact that some people don’t like it (and can’t remove it) and I want them to be given a, purely personal, optional opt-out.

Clear enough for you?

Yes, it’s very clear to me that you have no concept of what Aprils Fools is, how Guild Wars, and every other MMO handles things, and that your life is so adversely affected that your characters arms have to be outstretched for a few hours one time has got you so worked up.

Yes, it’s very clear.

Castitalus.6359:

Wildkitten.3872:

Castitalus.6359:

Wildkitten.3872:

As for the role players, Anet created this game to push THEIR storyline. I am sure they have no problem with others writing their own personal stories and acting them out, but they still have to do so in the context of what is going on in the game. During Halloween RPers are “forced” to deal with Mad King Thorn in LA, do you object to that as well? Or the hover peppermints for Wintersday.

I had no idea that Rpers were confined to Rp around the statue in LA all the time.

Some RPers in their RP only go certain places. Obviously you feel that things RPers may be affected by shouldn’t be changed. Why is that? Why should RPers have such a huge say on what is put into the game?

Rpers can chose where they rp at any given time. Rpers don’t have a huge say on what is put into the game (town clothes tonics) but that doesn’t mean that people should have this forced on them. This was amusing for a few minutes, but it grew old. Big surprise that the joke can’t carry itself for a day.

Changes in events can affect RPers too. Should Anet take that into consideration before changing events? I have little doubt that the tower in Kessex Hills Scarlett’s forced built and the ensuing destruction of the area ruined someone’s RP. Should that not have happened either, because it was “forced” on everyone.

Tigaseye.2047:

Wildkitten.3872:

Tigaseye.2047:

You’re the one who is trying to foist this on all of us and insist we are given no way out of it.

Even though it would not affect you adversely, in the slightest, if we were.

How immature and selfish is that?

Did I make the game? No, so I can’t be foisting it off on you.

How dare Anet foist only a choice of Mesmers and Rangers and Elementalists and Thieves and Engineers and Guadians and Warriors on us. I want to play as a Paladin and a Monk!!!!

You get things “foisted” on you all the time. This is a MINOR thing. The most obvious affects are able to be turned off. The two things that can’t be you never even notice if you play the game as intended, and yet you still go on about it.

The way you complain it’s like you feel Anet should come to beg your approval for anything they do to the game.

I refer you to my previous post.

We are customers.

We have a right to our opinions.

If you don’t like customers voicing their opinions, I suggest you find something else to read, because this place will get on your nerves.

And I will refer you to my post above.

I too am a customer. Most people love this. Only a few vocal entitlement mentality people don’t. If you don’t like the fact that other customers do like it and will support it bother you, I suggest you find something else to read, because I will get on your nerves.

Castitalus.6359:

Wildkitten.3872:

As for the role players, Anet created this game to push THEIR storyline. I am sure they have no problem with others writing their own personal stories and acting them out, but they still have to do so in the context of what is going on in the game. During Halloween RPers are “forced” to deal with Mad King Thorn in LA, do you object to that as well? Or the hover peppermints for Wintersday.

I had no idea that Rpers were confined to Rp around the statue in LA all the time.

Some RPers in their RP only go certain places. Obviously you feel that things RPers may be affected by shouldn’t be changed. Why is that? Why should RPers have such a huge say on what is put into the game?

Tigaseye.2047:

Wildkitten.3872:

Tigaseye.2047:

Wildkitten.3872:

Tigaseye.2047:

Wildkitten.3872:

Tigaseye.2047:

Wildkitten.3872:

The outstretched arms, well, if that annoys you or anyone else, you should really seek counseling, and I mean that in all sincerity because it shows you have deep issues to let a simple few pixels being outstretched in a game bother you.

Thanks so much for your professional diagnosis, doctor.

Because, that is exactly the part that irritates me.

Funny, because other people in my guild have more of an issue with the hat, which I would have thought would be slightly less of a problem, visually speaking, than permanently outstretched arms.

But still, what would I know?

You’re the doctor…

All we are asking for is the option to switch it off, after a while, that’s all.

It shouldn’t be a big deal – other games companies manage it, so why not ANet?

You mean option like Post Processing which does in fact turn off the most obvious parts?

And sorry, but really, if you are bothered by pixels being outstretched in a game, you really do have issues. Don’t need to be a doctor to know it, merely have common sense.

No, I obviously don’t mean that, do I?

Did you read my post, at all?

I don’t want to play with my char’s arms permanently outstretched, in the same way that some people, apparently, don’t want to play in a hat.

I’m not going to lose sleep over it, but I just don’t feel like playing like that.

That is my opinion, it is a perfectly reasonable opinion and I am entitled to it.

Yep, even the most immature, entitlement mentality individuals have a right to their opinion. Fortunately so do people with common sense.

What on earth is your problem?

How does my opinion on this even affect you?

Even if they gave us an option to switch stuff like this off, you could still leave your on, if you wanted, so who is the entitled one?

You, or me?

Who is the one complaining about what Anet does to THEIR game, you or me? Oh, that would be you. Who is the one who let’s pixel arms being outstretched bother them even though during normal gameplay it’s not noticeable, you or me? Once again, that would be you.

The simple fact of the matter every year on every MMO people complain about the April Fool’s gags. People such as yourself simply are incapable of relaxing and enjoying the joke.

OK, you’re boring me now.

Moving on…

…and in case you hadn’t noticed, we are their customers.

This isn’t their private little game.

We pay for it.

Yes, as am I, and I love what they decided to do as are most of the people.

Tigaseye.2047:

You’re the one who is trying to foist this on all of us and insist we are given no way out of it.

Even though it would not affect you adversely, in the slightest, if we were.

How immature and selfish is that?

Did I make the game? No, so I can’t be foisting it off on you.

How dare Anet foist only a choice of Mesmers and Rangers and Elementalists and Thieves and Engineers and Guadians and Warriors on us. I want to play as a Paladin and a Monk!!!!

You get things “foisted” on you all the time. This is a MINOR thing. The most obvious affects are able to be turned off. The two things that can’t be you never even notice if you play the game as intended, and yet you still go on about it.

The way you complain it’s like you feel Anet should come to beg your approval for anything they do to the game.

Tigaseye.2047:

Wildkitten.3872:

Tigaseye.2047:

Wildkitten.3872:

Tigaseye.2047:

Wildkitten.3872:

The outstretched arms, well, if that annoys you or anyone else, you should really seek counseling, and I mean that in all sincerity because it shows you have deep issues to let a simple few pixels being outstretched in a game bother you.

Thanks so much for your professional diagnosis, doctor.

Because, that is exactly the part that irritates me.

Funny, because other people in my guild have more of an issue with the hat, which I would have thought would be slightly less of a problem, visually speaking, than permanently outstretched arms.

But still, what would I know?

You’re the doctor…

All we are asking for is the option to switch it off, after a while, that’s all.

It shouldn’t be a big deal – other games companies manage it, so why not ANet?

You mean option like Post Processing which does in fact turn off the most obvious parts?

And sorry, but really, if you are bothered by pixels being outstretched in a game, you really do have issues. Don’t need to be a doctor to know it, merely have common sense.

No, I obviously don’t mean that, do I?

Did you read my post, at all?

I don’t want to play with my char’s arms permanently outstretched, in the same way that some people, apparently, don’t want to play in a hat.

I’m not going to lose sleep over it, but I just don’t feel like playing like that.

That is my opinion, it is a perfectly reasonable opinion and I am entitled to it.

Yep, even the most immature, entitlement mentality individuals have a right to their opinion. Fortunately so do people with common sense.

What on earth is your problem?

How does my opinion on this even affect you?

Even if they gave us an option to switch stuff like this off, you could still leave your on, if you wanted, so who is the entitled one?

You, or me?

Who is the one complaining about what Anet does to THEIR game, you or me? Oh, that would be you. Who is the one who let’s pixel arms being outstretched bother them even though during normal gameplay it’s not noticeable, you or me? Once again, that would be you.

The simple fact of the matter every year on every MMO people complain about the April Fool’s gags. People such as yourself simply are incapable of relaxing and enjoying the joke.