For context, I got advised by the game support to write a topic on the forums, because I've sent a support ticket first, so here I am.
I was thoroughly enjoying my time playing Guild Wars 2 until I unlocked gliding. I am a person with both mental and physical problems and having glider turn on while holding down space is - frankly - infuriating to the degree of triggering my mental problems. Last time I played it ended with a fist slam into a keyboard, and I'm an adult person that never, ever does something even remotely close to that. I was baffled, annoyed and now am sad that there's no option of either turning this off, rebinding gliding or whatever other possibility there may be for it. I am not an avid gamer, quite the opposite, my hand coordination and muscle memory is way worse than average, so I have gigantic problems even with "simple" vistas, not even jumping puzzles, with glider activating if I happen to hold the space bar a tiny bit too long, at which I'm not focusing on – if I had to focus on that, I'd have to actually look at my keyboard while pressing it. Which I have to do pretty often doing pretty much everything, not just playing games.
Even my husband, who is much, much more of a gamer than I am, does not like this, though he manages to slowly "learn to just tap", which is not an option for me, I lack the skill or the focus (so PLEASE REFRAIN FROM SAYING THIS). And even that, accidental activations of glider still disturbs his jumping activities a lot. So just imagine what it does for me. I am aware that for vast majority of people this kind of issue wouldn't even be fathomable to exist, however I'm definitely not alone with this problem - it's just greatly enhanced for me due to my issues.
And I'd really like to still play, as the game is generally very enjoyable for me, made me feel fun and just overall "happy chemicals".
Seeing one of the newest news posts from ArenaNet about movement masteries in the game also felt like a slap in the face for me, because of this quote:
Yeah, the method of pressing jump mid-air to activate it is more than fine, but it would be reaaaally nice to mention the second method, which while useful for sure, is definitely not as fine as pressing jump again mid-air. Really, just a toggle "[X} Glider activates by holding jump" if you don't mention it works like that in your own promotional article…
I've a pretty big plea for that quality of life option in terms of glider, either an option to turn it off, turn of "hold to glide" or something. I'm aware that it's not something done instantly, but I'd really appreciate that - and looking at what I've seen googling the topic - I wouldn't be alone in that, as I've seen threads like this one as old as 2016.
I even asked support for removing my glider mastery progress, which unfortunately they cannot do.
Unfortunately we both with my husband don't have any living worlds yet, we came back to the game after very long hiatus so… Not that I wouldn't like the rewinder, it's unobtainable for me right now. Thanks everyone for positive responses:).
