Guild Wars 2

ferr.6403:

uknortherner.2670:

Nobody wants to see a 12ft tall norn ride a 6ft tall dolyak.

I would

My 2ft tall Asura says otherwise!

Oh, it’s another one of these threads. Charr and Asura. I rest my case.

As others have pointed out – a huge thread already exists on this. For future reference, don’t waste your time with the forum’s search function as it has been broken for nearly a year. Use Google and put “site:forum-en.guildwars2.com xxx” (no quotes) where xxx is your search topic, i.e.: site:forum-en.guildwars2.com Cantha .

Quite a few one-post wonders with a heavy reliance on Google Translate in this thread, with a few regulars who should know better goading them on.

Yes, but unless players are aware it’s there in the first place…

Now that we’ve seen the new wardrobe system in action, with options seemingly even more limited and expensive before (especially town clothes – goodbye mix and match), I think it’s time to revisit the toggle visibility option again for boots and possibly the other remaining parts as well.

As I’ve pointed out in my previous comment, in other games, just because there is an option to hide everything it doesn’t mean that you will see a load of naked people running around. This is certainly not the case in two other MMOs I occasionally play – LOTRO and Rift. Sure, you get the odd 12-year-old idiot who seems to think it’s “mature”, but most people seem to prefer playing chars that are capable of keeping their clothes on.

To me, there seems to be little point in having Sylvari bioluminescence, Norn body tattoos or fancy Charr fur if you can’t actually see any of it! It’s a bit like spending an hour customising your character’s face only to hide it behind a helmet the moment you enter the game.

Seeing as this game is supposed to be about appearances, I would like to see the devs at least pay some attention to threads like these once the dust has settled down on Megaserver and nerf issues. No, I’m not saying we must have the option to toggle visibility on everything(though I’d like to think that the GW2 community is far more mature than the Rift community), but it would be nice to have the options available, if only so that my human elementalist can look the same as the trainers in DR and Queensdale, or my Asura doesn’t have to squash his odd-shaped feet into something that was clearly designed for humans! At least give us the option to toggle footwear visibility.

Code.8615:

I noticed none of that on PS at all.
Not anymore than usual anyway.
Curious.

It was pretty much like that half an hour ago before I logged off. I think it had started off with a row over the train. Either way, I won’t be wasting any more time with map chat except in WvW.

Probably about the same as before, but with map chat now permanently switched off. Megaservers has basically destroyed the community on Piken Square with the general conversation in Queensdale this morning consisting of homophobic slurs, 4chan-style trolling, foul language and casual racism. Thanks a lot, Anet.

Taygus.4571:

Just wanted to add, Ireland is also a multi-national language country ..with both English and Irish being spoken here.

Heh, so’s the UK, with Welsh, Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic recognised as official regional languages. There’s also Scots, though that’s just a broader Geordie dialect!

Oh, and there’s also Manx and Cornish which are starting to regain ground in their respective regions though they’re not official languages yet – probably due to the fact that’s there’s only 300 or so speakers of each and no real push made for official recognition.

There’s already a thread on this, so why start another?

I have no thoughts. The patch will go up when it goes up. End of story.

Khal Drogo.9631:

How is ESO generic? There are so many quests, far more than GW2, involving multiple storylines that are beyond a children’s storybook and deal with mature content and have much more quality voice-acting – not to say GW2 voice acting is bad but its sparser.

Oh yes – loads of FedEx quests and not much else. Artificial barriers preventing the player from truly exploring the world of Tamriel (the very essence of EVERY ES game) and some of the most laughable, phoned-in voice acting I’ve heard in years.

Khal Drogo.9631:

Whereas in TESO, new zones and new dungeons are rolled out at the end of month for people who level cap very quickly. This is within the first month of launch. Whatever your criticism of Zenimax, they dont sit on their behind.

The wonders of a triple-dip payment system – box, sub and cash shop (not to mention an entire race locked behind a paywall). Of course they can afford to churn out new dungeons to grind every month!

@Nage: Except, what we’re getting isn’t a global server. I can’t play alongside US players from an EU server. In GW1 I could switch between regions at will and this is not what’s being offered here.

Blocking generally doesn’t work. A blocked person can still have:

- Emotes appear in your chatbox (and we all know how easy it is to harass people this way)
- Visible comments in guild chat
- Access to your whereabouts (they can see which map you are on despite being blocked)
- The ability to join your party in a PUG setting

It’s the equivalent of having a locked door in the middle of a wide open field.

As a non-RPer who resides on an RP server (Piken Square) for the immersion it offers, I’m also deeply concerned about this megaserver implementation. I am part of my own guild (just me and my alts – it was the only way to stop the guild invite spam) and see no reason to join another guild just in the hope that somehow it will be enough to ensure I will still be around RPers when I go off adventuring – besides, I would be denying an actual RPer a place on that guild.

PS is a friendly server in general from my experience, but I have guested to other servers over the last week or so to check out the different communities on them. One in particular was highly toxic, and that was just in Queensdale – bad language, casual racism and homophobia being par for the course. I don’t want to waste my free time with a “community” like that.

Unless a system is in place where you can set a priority flag (i.e. RP, Server name), then I can see this ending up being one big mess from tomorrow.

Sergoros.4398:

uknortherner.2670:

Katsuki.1674:

2 or 3 presets and I don’t mind use gems to unlock extra

Don’t give Anet more ideas on monetising basic QOL functionality.

Well. If they wont get more money of it > they just wont bother. So yeah. U have to throw a bone for them too.

You don’t play poker by showing your hand before laying down the bets. All too often, one or two people will chirp up and say “I will pay for this” when it comes to basic functionality – emotes, dance moves, GW1 skins and so on, and unsurprisingly, Anet places all of these things behind a paywall.

We’ve all paid for this game. Those of us who refuse to pay again and again should not be treated like second-class players because we expect better from a developer that brought us GW1 – a game with no subs and (until the final years) no microtransactions. Want money from me? Then bring out a full-on expansion pack like the previous games. Don’t charge me extra for basic functionality!

Developers are increasingly adopting a me too attitude in the gaming industry: Bite-sized DLC at expansion-pack prices, microtransactions in full-price games and it seems consumers are increasingly being brainwashed into thinking that any of this is justified out of some misguided belief that they owe these developers more than the price of the box.

Katsuki.1674:

2 or 3 presets and I don’t mind use gems to unlock extra

Don’t give Anet more ideas on monetising basic QOL functionality.

Who is this “we” that the OP speaks of?

Astral Projections.7320:

In prison are you? The Asura are a rational people. If you are in jail then you deserve to BE in jail.

BAD DOG! Go sit in that corner!

Isn’t this the same Asura who also imprisoned a chicken*?

*I think it was a chicken, but I’ve not been in Rata Sum for ages.

I’m more concerned about the loss of town clothing in its present form. Instead of giving us vendors who can sell us the same town clothing the NPCs wear, and allowing us to mix and match pieces, it seems that now, town clothing will be even more restricted, even less flexible (no mix and match) and Gem-store only.

Dusty Moon.4382:

I disapprove of the ‘champ’ trains mindless zerging just for leveling.

It’s no different to endless dungeon speedrunning really, except it’s open to everyone, and not just moaning 10k AP elitists in full zerker gear.

A R W E N.6895:

why don’t we get armors that we can actually obtain by playing the game, clearing content. And not via the cash shop and farming brainless gold to trade to gem to get the armor.

QFT.

chemiclord.3978:

I think what you’ll find from the “no dueling” crowd isn’t so much that they are against dueling as much as they are against OPEN WORLD dueling. I personally fall in that crowd, as I have found open world dueling tends to encourage some annoying behaviors that I’d rather not have to deal with and runs contrary to the cooperative nature that the open world in GW2 is designed to encourage.

Now a dueling arena in a controlled environment in capitol cities or a rebuilt Lion’s Arch where players could spectate in real time? I’d be down for that.

Same here. Also in the past, some people have made it clear that they want to see open-world duelling as a starting point to getting open-world PvP/GvG.

Give me an option to block all duel requests (including a deny and block option for persistent offenders) and they can do as they want.

Personally, I’d rather see public duelling arenas with the option to place bets on either dueller.

The funny thing is, in Rift, where you can literally have your character run around naked, I’ve rarely seen anyone do so. I expect the “novelty” of it wears off very quickly.

Danikat.8537:

I think Ultima Online was trying to go a step beyond that with calling them Avatars – implying that your character is you, just in the game. But that’s never really worked for me because my character isn’t me, although we have a lot in common we’re very different in some ways too. Which is good because a story about me, even in a fantasy world, would be really boring.

The Ultima series of games referred to the main character as the Avatar – the saviour of Britannia (and mass-murderer of children if you played the later games!) and in its transition to an MMO, it probably made sense at the time to refer to all players in that world as Avatars as they all came from outside the world of Britannia (if that makes sense).

dancingmonkey.4902:

Azure Moonfire.7493:

RicosLegacy.8231:

-Make Commander Tag account Bound

I agree.
Also, I daresay that they shouldn’t be obtainable for gold. There should be a way to earn them that’s more related to what they’re actually intended to be used for. I’m not sure how that would work exactly, but the current method for obtaining them is just silly.

Didn’t they already state that this was coming in the next update?

A Google search suggests nothing of the sort.

In my experience, people used the words “toon” and “char” to mark a complete separation between the player and their on-screen character.

lordkrall.7241:

Vlad Morbius.1759:

I’ve prepared myself to be underwhelmed, sick of being disappointed to be frank. I don’t trust the spin anymore, Anet is fast becoming the new Fox or CNN news of MMO’s.

You can’t really blame ArenaNet for what others hype up though.

ArenaNet themselves have said nothing at all about any information coming soon, it is strictly MMORPG.com that has been hyping up this new information.

Indeed. Also, there’s a lot of mindless speculation and over-hyping of said speculation in this thread coming from the same people who will complain on Tuesday when none of the content or features they imagined make it into the game.

Then they’ll blame Anet for it.

The underclothes will never be toggleable due to the game’s Teen rating.

This should’ve been in the game by default.

LumAnth.5124:

Stinky Feet!

Would do good for all races though. I can’t see a use for my Humans but someone will

Charr in particular will probably like this

You do realise that feet only tend to smell because there’s nowhere for the sweat to go when you’re wearing shoes? It can’t evaporate so it settles back onto the skin again. Try wearing leather gloves all day in the heat and you’ll find pretty much the same thing happening with your hands.

Anyway, I would like to see such a toggle option as well as at least it offers more visual customisation with limited armour pieces (and now, non-existent town clothes) . No self-respecting Asura or Charr wears shoes. Nor it seems, does Queen Jenna and most of the Grove plantlife.

Edit: Just realised that my post came across as aggressive when it wasn’t meant to be. In short, yes to more toggle options.

Oranisagu.3706:

uknortherner.2670:

Oranisagu.3706:

why are people so fiercely against mounts? I mean, I think I haven’t seen a single reason in this thread except people screaming no louder and louder.

There has been plenty of reasons given over the last year. Just because none of those reasons fit into your mindset, it does not make them any less valid.

wow, reading comprehension at it’s finest. if you would have bothered, you could have seen that I did in fact give several reasons why I think mounts are not a good idea (or investement of developer time). but this thread didn’t have any reasons at all before, just statements like:

OMG, no, NO, no, NO, NO MOUNTS!!!!!!!!.

Having gone back and read the rest of your post, I apologise. It’s just that your opening sentence has been used so many times by people on the pro-mount side, that my brain automatically ignores anything else they have to say as usually, they go off on a rant about “carebears” and start citing WoW as a good enough reason for their argument. Admittedly, in many cases though, their posts starts and stops with “I have seen no good reason not to have mounts.”

Oranisagu.3706:

why are people so fiercely against mounts? I mean, I think I haven’t seen a single reason in this thread except people screaming no louder and louder.

There has been plenty of reasons given over the last year. Just because none of those reasons fit into your mindset, it does not make them any less valid.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

I pug a lot. I mean, a lot. I mean, I rarely do anything other than pug, due to a hectic schedule. And I can count the number of times I’ve been anonymously kicked from a group: 0.

Whenever I see one of these threads, I always think there was something more going on.

Or you just got lucky. I stopped doing dungeon runs a long time ago because of a combination of kicking and elitism.

Dungeons need a single player mode, even if it’s for the story path alone, or hireable heroes to fill in the gaps when you haven’t got enough mates online to accompany you.

Xillllix.3485:

Its good for normal PvE rewards. Otherwise there is no new guild missions, game modes or WvW improvements.

Yes, because it’s a feature patch, not a content patch. Why are people finding this concept so difficult to understand?

As for the OP – It’s a stupid question. The patch has not yet gone live so it is neither a success or a failure.

You have the broom. There’s your mount.

Nerelith.7360:

Is this the 3rd or 5th or 7th thread you have started about Mounts On gw2? I swear I keep seeing you post the same thing over and over, as if it were the only time.

Answer no. Just…. No.

Going off his posting history, it’s actually his first mounts post.

Oh, for Grenth’s sake…

It’s just a shame that there’ll still be no additional visibility toggles for armour pieces going off that blog post.

1) This has nothing to do with GW2.
2) The only version of One Piece aired in the UK was that 4Kids abomination, so unless people over here had watched the fansubs or imported the Funimation DVDs from the US, their view is going to be somewhat jaded, and…
3) This has nothing to do with GW2.

Jamais vu.5284:

uknortherner.2670:

Anets’ biggest mistake it seems was creating these forums in the first place. Those people enjoying the game will probably never bother posting here, so all that’s left is a lot of noise from people who think the devs should cater solely to the conspiracy nuts, gankheads and the so-called “hardcore”.

That would fix the actual problems the game has how? Or was your post just some fanboy venting?

Ah, yes, the usual conspiracy nut standby – the “fanboy” scapegoat. If my answer is not to your liking, or vaguely appears to support the game wholeheartedly, then I must be a fanboy.

Anets’ biggest mistake it seems was creating these forums in the first place. Those people enjoying the game will probably never bother posting here, so all that’s left is a lot of noise from people who think the devs should cater solely to the conspiracy nuts, gankheads and the so-called “hardcore”.

I recall seeing a resource gathering pack of some description a few months ago on the Store and I nearly fell off my chair when I converted the gem price to real cash. For £45, I could buy several great indie games and still have £20 left over for a few pints and a curry. Why would I fork out £45 for a collection of flashy-looking convenience items locked to one character?

The fact is, we need a wardrobe system where all purchased items can be retrieved if they are accidentally deleted. I lost a cosmetic item because I forgot to unequip it from one of my alts before deleting that character – luckily I hadn’t wasted any real money on it, just in-game gold.

Medens.4960:

Legendary armour is coming eventually, and you know that…

Presumably you have some proof of this?

Oh, another race change thread.

Umut.5471:

Player housing
Marriage
Mounts
Harder gameplay

These are the best features of korean mmos, I think euro/american mmos need these too.

Other than harder gameplay, none of those other things are “needed” in GW2.

Celestina.2894:

uknortherner.2670:

Ugh, just no.

I don’t want to be bombarded with marriage requests every time I log in because people get turned on by simulated breasts or are too stupid to realise that in-game characters are completely separate in terms of gender, orientation and age to the people playing them.

This isn’t match.com.

This implies a lack of marriage system prevents people from giving you unwanted attention anyways.

I couldn’t count the amount of times I’ve received whispers from people saying they’d "stick it in my kitten if they could, and other …….charming……….messages.

I know what you mean. I’m male and I’m currently running four characters in this game: a level 80 female Human necromancer, a level 21 female Sylvari mesmer, a level 10 male Asuran engineer and a level 20 male Norn ranger. Guess which one gets all the unwanted attention?

There’s a lot of bored 12-year-olds out there it seems.

Ugh, just no.

I don’t want to be bombarded with marriage requests every time I log in because people get turned on by simulated breasts or are too stupid to realise that in-game characters are completely separate in terms of gender, orientation and age to the people playing them.

This isn’t match.com.

Dehvi.1435:

Well I think that Dueling in Open World is an absolute MUST HAVE. It would make the game just so much better and I can’t actually understand why some people do not want it. Please A-Net add add add!

People have stated their reasons quite plainly but you have simply chosen to ignore them.

Personally, give me an auto-decline option that’s enabled by default, then I don’t care what you duel-obsessives get up to. Also, a decline-and-block option should put paid to those people who cannot take “no” for an answer.