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And the earlier you express that, the more time they have to fix what people don't like. Isn't that a good thing?

... I'm not really excited by what I'm seeing in them. Realizing it's probably not possible to get ANet to change their design at this point, I write this on the off chance that it might have a chance of happening within the time that's left until release and that ANet demoing skiffs at this point is a disguised way of checking peoples' opinion on them. I'm also curious about what other people would have come up with. I think that a really cool way of doing skiffs would be to have them act as a building platform. That way you could truly get your own personal skiff. Currently it only looks like they change skins, like mounts, which isn't really what I had hoped. This has showed up in some games and quite excites me. So building a skiff, you have your frame of the boat. It comes with a basic hull and deck, which you can change for more exciting hulls and decks. Then on top of that you get to place some walls in certain areas if you want. Perhaps make it longer through an extension, trade speed for size make an upper deck on your walled area. All the dyes you have collected... Yes! Paint the walls and hull of the thing! Each building piece would have its dye slots for your dyes. On the deck you get to place your neat furniture. Remember all those thrones that you've bought? You get placeable copies of those too! Place some lanterns on the walls, perhaps between some placed poles. Maybe some fish nets? Hang up some fish to dry, decoratively of course. Place seats for your friends to sit on. Skiff your guild around on a fishing trip, if you can fiddle in enough seats to fit em all! In short, It'd be a really nice feature with a more customizable and feature rich skiff in my opinion. Easy to implement? For sure not. But maybe, with some luck, perhaps a dev has already thought about it and started doing mockups and stuff, but didn't get time to finish it. And maybe if people think it's cool they would get to finish it! People, think of the customizability of this! ANet, think of the monetizability of this!

And neither am I doing that is I am never mentioning "all people" or anyone in general. I am even mentioning "I feel". I also feel, from the air of your post, that you are trying to, deliberately or not, downplay peoples' opinions in this thread, especially with your pre-amble. Yes, there are a lot of repeats. Because people in the thread are disappointed and want to express that. Are you expecting there to be a single post about it? I'm not sure what you're after there. You're replying to my post, which is an opinion about the current state of things. Replying to me is fine, it's a public forum, there's nothing wrong with it. But I wonder what you're trying to accomplish? Are you trying to change my mind and have me be happy with how things are? Because I won't be and I can't be through a reply on a forum thread. I would imagine that this is the case for most of the other people as well, as I'm sure that I can't change your opinion about being happy with your birthday gift. It's based on the contents of the gift of course and how you perceive it, not on what people say in the thread. You have -a lot- of replies to people too (which I haven't read, and won't comment on further than the amount). Voicing your opinion as an entry in the thread, counter to other peoples' opinions, is naturally good. But I'm just not seeing what you're expecting to happen here.

I'm not going to demand anything, but yes, I am in fact complaining about free stuff. Before, the gifts have actually been quite fun and a bit exciting. This year it's just.. meh. It's free stuff, sure... But compared to before, it's just meh. It's not only about celebrating that your character is 1 year older, even if that's a big part of it. It's also about celebrating that Guild Wars 2 is one year older... And we aren't really celebrating it to the same extent as we've done with the older gifts... Not nearly I feel. The gift feels like one of those sort of gifts you would get repeatedly after the game has ended its lifetime and has gone into its maintenance phase. It disappoints people who were excited. And that's a bit sad. That's all.

I'd like an AE86 Trueno

To work with what Taril.8619 said,CD Project Red announces their problems and explain that they have to delay things to make them better and how and what the causes are.(Partly) Because they have great communication, people are understanding and keep loving them.Yes, some people will whine about how something "was promised" a year ago and didn't make it in time.But you explain why it happened and what the plan is and the majority will be good with it.Even an "We are currently having internal problems that we are trying to resolve and we sadly can't talk about them right now." is better than silence. Especially if the explanation comes when it's available.It was good that ANet told us that they can't safely have voice actors do their job and that voices would come later. That is communication and resolving problems. But as explained by others earlier, there are so much more that needs to be talked about.

There's still no official reply on this, is there?It would be nice to know what is happening with all this, if anything.

Yeah, you could try to send a ticket to support about getting a refund. But this long after, it could be harder.If you're in Europe, there are usually laws about products that are broken that you may be able to point at.

@"Astralporing.1957" said:True. But then i do not believe they were interested in player feedback even in the beginning. The whole system was clearly designed to not take player desires in regard, and its prime purpose was not to offer a QoL upgrade. The main goal was monetization, so from the very beginning, they weren't interested in any feedback that was not about them getting more money out of it. While, honestly, this more and more what it seems to look like, there is still value in showing that this isn't something that dies out by itself.Somewhere will be the developer that sees this each day and thinks "Man... this system really isn't as it should be." and "I wish the management cared about the players and didn't put the monetization first, after all they're who we are here for and if they are happy, they stick around and give us money."And eventually, those devs may talk to each other about how things are and what they like and dislike and eventually they may challenge the management on it.Or, it may not happen.But at least as long as they see discontent, there is the chance that someone may do something about it.If it just dies, then nobody will care.

It would be kind of a Chocobo from FF... One would almost think that that would be why I mentioned the yellow color.

Just want to poke my head in and exclaim that I hugely appreciate this form of communication.I though, regrettably, also want to point out that it would be great with this form of communication on the build templates as well.

Still no response from ANet about the bigger issues, huh.That sounds promising...

A Moa raptor skin.Would do a wonder for the yellow dye business.

Thank you!These are some nice improvements assuming care is taken to implement them in a way such that they don't become distruptive in other ways. However now there have been 2 replies (which is good) without any word about people's concern over the monetization and other major issues (which is not as good).It'd be very nice if we could have a word on what is planned to happen with that.I get the "when it's done" or "when it's done enough" idea, but these are issues that could maybe be expedited a bit, for the sake of calming people down and preventing people from leaving and/or spreading sadness.

Appreciate that these 3 points being talked about.But other very important ones raised in the thread are still unanswered.Especially what has been called the "Monetization fiasco" in other threads.It kinda feels weird to make a post here and not even mention them.Because that kinda makes me feel they are ignored.And I imagine others feel the same as well.

Don't be EA, Blizzard or Bethesda please. Those are the kinds of companies we love to hate.Be like CD Project Red.Be transparent, be non-scummy.Then people won't love to hate you, but will love to love you instead.As for the link equipment suggestion, not bad. Would be nice to be able to select builds and equipment for being the main set for a certain game mode too.But that all of course depends on templates being made consumer friendly first.

The goodYay, build templates!Yay, less things in inventory! The wtf?300 gems for storing 59 bytes of information that I would happily store locally on my PC to easily get an unlimited amount of build templates. Because why not really?500 gems for unlocking a single 'nother equipment template tab? Sure, I get that the tab means I get to store things in it, which is neat. But seriously? Don't you think that that's a -bit- too pricey? This is PER CHARACTER too.500 gems for unlocking a few slots to save build templates in? As stated before, let me host those 59 bytes on locally on my PC and have an unlimited amount of them. This is too expensive. The...You're showing on Facebook how bad it was before this system. How many clicks it takes.You know how much people have wanted this because of how neat it was in GW.Then when you log in, you see that you only get 2 equipment templates for a character.There are 3 game modes that all require different approaches to builds, Fractals, Raids and WvW (I won't even count general PVE).So essentially you're going just short of what people need.Whether this is intentional or not, you've done it so that people are to get used to using the templates, but they're going to feel that they're missing out that one slot for that last game mode. This "forces" them to buy the last slot because of how inefficient they would be otherwise. Final thoughtsBuild templates should be free and locally stored with unlimited slots with the option to store a few online for the convenience should you move to another device.Equipment templates should have -at least- one template for every game mode and -at least- be unlockable account wide and not character wide.But really, it should just be free, because a player should never feel obligated to buy something when their mates are nagging on them about how long they take to equip those items and how they're making them wait because they don't have all equipment templates unlocked.It's a quality of life feature.Quality of life features makes it easier to play the game, easier to enjoy it and easier to stay playing it without getting tired of it.That is something that should unlock spending in other places that doesn't matter for game play (in such a high degree that templates do).

I did buy a pack of 10 skin tickets.I do regret doing so.I got some nice skins out of it and I'm actually happy with my haul (naturally unhappy with what I didn't get, like the star griffon, but it was a nice haul).So I don't regret it because I got a bad haul. I regret it because I fed into a system that is anti-consumer and really rather disgusting.I didn't think of it then and that was dumb of me given that I watch about every rant TotalBiscuit puts out and agree on most of it.I only saw the skins I wanted, and I suppose that's the point of the system.So I hope to atone for that by adding to this thread. This system is very anti-consumer and disgusting.The saving grace is that you can't get duplicates, but that's not enough.It's gambling and it shouldn't be there.I can't tell you to remove and rollback it, because I bought into it (which was dumb) and then this post would lose its value.But I don't want to see this bullshit done again.

My black mage asura requires a suitable mount.A yellow-dye-able Moa mount skin for the raptor would be nice and not infringing on any copyrights because it's already a GW2 thing~Also it'd be brilliant and give ANet a lot of gil... I mean gold.Kweh.

Steel Series Rival 300 is my current mouse.It feels good in my hand and I like it and it's customization options.Set speed and acceleration curves and customize what buttons do.It has pretty shiny LEDs that you can customize patterns for depending on which game you play or which "mode" the mouse is in.Set different options depending on which game or program and it'll switch automatically.I assume though that most gaming mice have features like this nowadays, so Steel Series is probably not alone. But when picking a mouse, I think it's best to go to a physical store and feel them out.Check which fits best in your hand and which has a good weight for you.(Then of course you don't have to buy it in the physical store, but can order it online if you so prefer).