Ashantara.8731 Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 (edited) 21 hours ago, Svarty.8019 said: No, there's a permanent one on the top left of the screen. AFAIK, only for people who don't already own all expansions. Edited November 23, 2022 by Ashantara.8731 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen.2907 Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 22 hours ago, Svarty.8019 said: No, there's a permanent one on the top left of the screen. Most frustrating. Are we sure that it is permanent? Is it possible that it is a temporary ad for the black friday sale? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svarty.8019 Posted November 23, 2022 Author Share Posted November 23, 2022 2 hours ago, Ashen.2907 said: Are we sure that it is permanent? Is it possible that it is a temporary ad for the black friday sale? Yes, it's there permanently, temporarily. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftFootpaws.9134 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 (edited) 6 hours ago, Randulf.7614 said: I love how they design a UI to be free of clutter, then eventually add adverts.. To be fair though, it’s not a true guild wars advert until a full pop up about it appears in the middle of the screen advertising the sale with some npc loon shouting at you: ”BY OGDEN’S HAMMER, WHAT SAVINGS!” (Warning for screen flashing in this video.) --- Anyway, the user interface isn't really free of clutter, in fact it can be extremely cluttered at some times due poor decision making, like how in parties your buffs can go all the way to the end of the screen on larger UI setting, or how your own buffs can go way behind the minimap on any setting. If anything they need to do a pass to declutter the UI. Edited November 24, 2022 by Mariyuuna.6508 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 10 hours ago, Mariyuuna.6508 said: (Warning for screen flashing in this video.) --- Anyway, the user interface isn't really free of clutter, in fact it can be extremely cluttered at some times due poor decision making, like how in parties your buffs can go all the way to the end of the screen on larger UI setting, or how your own buffs can go way behind the minimap on any setting. If anything they need to do a pass to declutter the UI. It was a tongue in cheek reply. The ui was designed to be clutter free, but yes that ship sailed a long time ago 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungrul.9358 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 (edited) I never understood why GW2's UI wasn't as customisable as the first game's, considering they're the same engine. Now I know! Wouldn't want to give users the ability to remove the ads! To be honest, I thought they would have learned their lesson after the permanently highlighted Black Lion icon a couple months back. But nope. ANet must like the feeling of standing on rakes they themselves have placed in the grass. Edited November 24, 2022 by Mungrul.9358 bequals!? 3 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 5 minutes ago, Mungrul.9358 said: I never understood why GW2's UI wasn't as customisable as the first game's, considering they're the same engine. Now I know! Wouldn't want to give users the ability to b=remove the ads! To be honest, I thought they would have learned their lesson after the permanently highlighted Black Lion icon a couple months back. But nope. ANet must like the feeling of standing on rakes they themselves have placed in the grass. Reminds me of that similar scene in the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy film.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debesyla.7102 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 17 minutes ago, Mungrul.9358 said: To be honest, I thought they would have learned their lesson after the permanently highlighted Black Lion icon a couple months back. That was a bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 4 minutes ago, Debesyla.7102 said: That was a bug. or was it labeld as a bug because of all the backlash. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungrul.9358 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 I'd be interested to see a source where ANet acknowledge it was a bug. After an, admittedly cursory, search of Update Notes and the Bugs forum, there's nothing official I can see explicitly stating this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treacy.4067 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 2 minutes ago, Linken.6345 said: or was it labeld as a bug because of all the backlash. And the point still stands because they didn't learn from that backlash regardless of whether it was a bug or not. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elricht Kaltwind.8796 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Mungrul.9358 said: I'd be interested to see a source where ANet acknowledge it was a bug. After an, admittedly cursory, search of Update Notes and the Bugs forum, there's nothing official I can see explicitly stating this. Why wouldn't it be a bug though? It doesn't really follow logically that they would want the gem store icon to be permanently highlighted, then there would be no way to draw attention to sales and new items etc, which is the entire point of highlighting it, since the highlight would become meaningless noise ignored by everyone. It really doesn't make any sense Edited November 24, 2022 by Elricht Kaltwind.8796 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debesyla.7102 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 3 hours ago, Mungrul.9358 said: I'd be interested to see a source where ANet acknowledge it was a bug. After an, admittedly cursory, search of Update Notes and the Bugs forum, there's nothing official I can see explicitly stating this. https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/114812-game-update-notes-may-10-2022/#comment-1657321 Quote Fixed an issue in which the Black Lion Trading Post icon would be visible during cutscenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 6 hours ago, Mungrul.9358 said: I never understood why GW2's UI wasn't as customisable as the first game's, considering they're the same engine. Now I know! Wouldn't want to give users the ability to remove the ads! To be honest, I thought they would have learned their lesson after the permanently highlighted Black Lion icon a couple months back. But nope. ANet must like the feeling of standing on rakes they themselves have placed in the grass. It would be pretty weird for them to design the game with limited UI options so they could have adverts onscreen, then wait 10 years to use it. If it was deliberate I'd have expected something the first time new items were added to the gem store (around Halloween 2012 I think). Also if they wanted to do that they could make some parts of the UI customisable and others fixed. It's more likely the two are unrelated. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casualkenny.9817 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Objectively subjectively speaking, I found the font and highlight of the line of text ugly. It should be collapsible into an unobtrusive icon on clicking. All ads should become unobtrusive upon interaction. Annoying ads are highly counter-productive and immersion-breaking. Spoiler I'm just joking about the immersion part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DD39C89C-1C46-4F28-BDB7-49 Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 10 hours ago, Mungrul.9358 said: To be honest, I thought they would have learned their lesson after the permanently highlighted Black Lion icon a couple months back. 9 hours ago, Mungrul.9358 said: I'd be interested to see a source where ANet acknowledge it was a bug. After an, admittedly cursory, search of Update Notes and the Bugs forum, there's nothing official I can see explicitly stating this. 6 hours ago, Debesyla.7102 said: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/114812-game-update-notes-may-10-2022/#comment-1657321 6 hours ago, Debesyla.7102 said: Fixed an issue in which the Black Lion Trading Post icon would be visible during cutscenes. So they confirmed that the icon was bugged during cutscenes, but nothing about permanent highlight of the icon during gameplay. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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