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[Column] Guild Wars 2: Ready to mount up?
SBFord
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Guild Wars 2 isn’t always serious. There are plenty of ways for players to goof off with large collections of minis, or throwing food at others while wearing a costume! Players have even spent a lot of time mastering the instruments, playing songs for the digital world to hear! Players have done all of these things, even while wearing Charr plush backpacks! Ya, the game has some pretty silly things, but why do so many people get mad when you mention adding mounts to the gem store?
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The reason why, is in the comments here already; apparently you can write "no speed boost, not about getting around faster, not to make the world 'smaller'" however many times you want, and worded in a million different ways – somehow people still just talk exactly about those things.
I think it's some sort of complex stemming from the fact that GW1 didn't have a Z-axis. Somehow the playerbase is conditioned to argue against these sort of things, go figure.
Just add them to shut people up and take their money.
No speed bonus just pure cosmetic and removed once you enter combat.
No idea what the big pull is for mounts in a game that has plenty of passive movement skills and way points all over the map.
mounts felt great when MMOs used to have vast expanses of nothing in the environment that you had to traverse
now all maps and zones are built to be as convenient as possible in that regard, mounts just seem to be something for jack offs to show off
get rid of em
adding mounts to the gem store is ok because the game relies on the gem store.
HOWEVER, that must not be the only way to get cool looking mounts.
PLUS, adding mounts to the game must come with a significant decrease in the amount of teleport waypoints in every map. Make them scarce and only for some key points to teleport.
I wouldnt mind having ground mounts in GW2, sometimes i get tired of walking everywhere and i only use teleports to t ravel long distances like from LA to Orr and stuff like that. Other than that i use Asura gates whenever possible.
Im up for a Dolyak ride.
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I love mounts, not even for the sake of travel but just to have them. They are great for RP players too.
I really don't get why there are no mounts. If them gem store had mounts their sale for gems would go up significantly.
Would be even cooler to be able to tame mounts. Speaking of taming - what the hell is with the Ranger taming...run up to an animal and 'charm' it. Quiverless archers? Wtf Anet?
Originally posted by Arskaaa
"when players learned tacticks in dungeon/raids, its bread".
Plus mounts are just fun! Especially so if the can be leveled and customized. Really ANet how many weapon and armor skins do we need.
as for leveling enjoy the beautiful world and learn your class in open world and get world completion at same time. again nooooo to traditional mmo stuff, LEAVE US ALONE PLEASE.you wow players.
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if they would add mounts to WvW they should disable porting in return.
"going into arguments with idiots is a lost cause, it requires you to stoop down to their level and you can't win"
Why do people never read the articles they post replies to? He specifically says cosmetic mounts, not increases to speed.
That being said, I disagree with it. Put in flying mounts and make them 300% player speed! :P
Anet seems to kill immersion all the time, although ironically, their environment is amazingly immersive. They ruin it by introducing silly things, such as: charr/quaggan plush backpacks & hats, sunglasses & glasses, baseball caps, SAB weapons & items, and now bobble-heads. Don't get me wrong, i'm not against fun/silly items, but the level of absurdity of these things, is too extreme, and overall, it just ruins immersion, and doesn't belong in a fantasy world.
Why bring up immersion? Because all those items i listed, already ruin it, and waypoints destroy immersion everytime anyway, and mounts would actually enhance it. They could've found a nice balance and integrated both. They could reduce the amount of waypoints, since there's so many anyway, and mounts could be used in cities/hubs.
As always though, someone will raise their opinion against mounts, declaring that "waypoints are already here, so there's no need!", and yet, that argument fails everytime, when the positive arguments of immersion, convenience, and traveling are brought up to counter it.
Furthermore, traveling in GW2 basically comes down to switching out talents & signets, for swfitness boons. It's really ridiculous seeing champ trains blazing from champ-to-champ with 50+ people all having swiftness boons.
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