Curse

Djinn Effer · Jun 02, 2005, 10:35 PM // 22:35

I believe it has become self evident by now that everyone needs more than the limit of four characters on their account. Deleting our hard worked on characters just to experiment with other classes and/or builds is simply not acceptable. I'm making this petition in hopes that Guild Wars will consider making a change to allow us 8 characters, which seemed like a reasonable number - being one of each class and a little experimentation. If you would like to participate please post below with one of your character names and when I e-mail this to Guild Wars, it will have everyone's name listed under signed by. Now, I realize making a petition for a game change may seem a bit over doing it, but I want them to listen and I figure the best way for that is showing that their customers all want the same thing.

Put your character name below:

Bgnome · Jun 03, 2005, 01:49 AM // 01:49

moved to sanitarium

Lampshade · Jun 03, 2005, 03:17 AM // 03:17

/signed

Shall Lighbringer

TheIrishman · Jun 03, 2005, 03:34 AM // 03:34

/signed

Steven the Irishman.

zman_acura · Jun 03, 2005, 04:10 AM // 04:10

you are very right

Stev0 · Jun 03, 2005, 04:20 AM // 04:20

/signed.

The only downside is 4+ times the amount of coin and valuables floating around. Can this be a good or bad thing?

Rhunex · Jun 03, 2005, 06:32 AM // 06:32

I'd rather keep it at 4, if it goes any larger than you start having massive problems with people who use ebay, and other online stores. Also, it's really not too evil to have 4 characters, just pick your 4 favorite professions(meaning you ignore 2) and have them as your main characters, because later in the game you are given the option to change your secondary, so each character can then become 5 different characters(provided you do the quests) and total, that'd be 20 characters. Plenty of variability across 20 different characters...and if you get bored with 5 of your characters, delete one and create a new primary profession and play it that way. Also, it makes it harder for people with macros to operate, mainly because people can't set up 1 of each profession and 2 pvp characters through macro and have things done while they sleep. There's a lot to consider when making larger accounts, and one of the most material things would be with the servers. I'm not 100% sure, but I think that your GW characters are held on GW servers. The power to use these servers is given to us for free, and I would be happy if they gave us all one character, because it's not every game that does things like that. So...not all their customers agree to having 8 characters, and these are just a few reasons, and I'm sure there's others.

eA-Zaku · Jun 03, 2005, 06:34 AM // 06:34

I have a lot of opinions on why the character limit should stay at 4...or else be lower than 8. Eight, IMO, is a real big stretch. But I don't want to upset the original poster...

In these kinds of "petition" threads, where you really aren't asked for your opinion on the matter, is it okay for people to come in and state why the petition should NOT be signed in a civil manner?

RTSFirebat · Jun 03, 2005, 07:12 AM // 07:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by eA-Zaku

I have a lot of opinions on why the character limit should stay at 4...or else be lower than 8. Eight, IMO, is a real big stretch. But I don't want to upset the original poster...

In these kinds of "petition" threads, where you really aren't asked for your opinion on the matter, is it okay for people to come in and state why the petition should NOT be signed in a civil manner?

aye, I only use 1 slot, since I only have time for one character class, but I do agree that maybe increasing it to 8 is one thing, but why not increase it to 6 maybe? That would be a bit more fair.

Xinaya · Jun 03, 2005, 07:19 AM // 07:19

Four is plenty. There's no reason for power-players to get that much more of an edge on us casual people. And as previously mentioned by someone very reasonable -- you pay no monthly fee, if you really need more characters, what's another 50 bucks for a second account?

RTSFirebat · Jun 03, 2005, 07:25 AM // 07:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xinaya

Four is plenty. There's no reason for power-players to get that much more of an edge on us casual people. And as previously mentioned by someone very reasonable -- you pay no monthly fee, if you really need more characters, what's another 50 bucks for a second account?

$25 if you buy it in the UK

Celes Tial · Jun 03, 2005, 08:57 AM // 08:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xinaya

if you really need more characters, what's another 50 bucks for a second account?

I'd pay that for more character slots if both accounts shared the same unlocked skills and items. But the second account would lack everything I already unlocked, so I'd have the same problem again.

4 would be fine if it was reserved for roleplay characters, and if PvP test builds did not count towards it. However, as it stands now, I have a Mo/Me, W/N and E/Mo as roleplay characters - seeing as I NEED one slot for PvP test builds, I can never play a ranger, and I dont want to delete the other RP characters I invested so much time in. It would be less painful to delete RP characters if they could be re-created at level 20 (with access to explorable areas) and with all skills that were already unlocked.

MaglorD · Jun 03, 2005, 09:48 AM // 09:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Celes Tial

I'd pay that for more character slots if both accounts shared the same unlocked skills and items. But the second account would lack everything I already unlocked, so I'd have the same problem again.

Guess you may really have to bite the bullet and get a second account. In any case, even if the accounts were linked, if you played a Ranger in your second account, you'd still have to play through the quests/missions to get him to lvl 20. Unless I'm mistaken, the skills available to him would also have to be acquired through the usual process even if they're unlocked for PVP, unless you only want to PVP with your Ranger.

Great Gjl · Jun 03, 2005, 09:54 AM // 09:54

Don't forget to mention you'd have to buy all the expansions TWICE

(if you plan on getting them that is, which I don't doubt if you're willing to pay twice the amount for a game just to have more character slots).

6 Characters please. There are 6 different primary professions for crying out loud.

/Signed, for what it's worth.

Burem · Jun 03, 2005, 10:00 AM // 10:00

Yeah but with 6 professions you can have 3 characters and use all the professions and have one slot left to switch out PVP characters in.

CtrlAltDel · Jun 03, 2005, 01:55 PM // 13:55

bump it to six slots

Vusak · Jun 03, 2005, 02:01 PM // 14:01

/signed

Dreliel Quiverquick

any increase is good: 5, 6 ,8, 12 whatever, just need more slots please.

kalaris · Jun 03, 2005, 02:07 PM // 14:07

Actually an Anet Rep said in an interview that with Expansion, comes more slots, With patience More slots for characters come...

They'd have to do some serious upgrades for character slots to be added, and since the game is free, they only get a large leap in new revenue with expansions, so when expansions come, we'll get more slots, it makes sense.

Rhunex was quite right, there are 4 slots, so pick 4 mains you like, I mean there are only 4 good main classes, y'know since everyone says Necros and Ragners(spelled wrong on purpose) Suck=P

ArenaNet does listen to the people, its kinda wierd playing a game where the company does that, last game I played, World of warcraft, the company (Blizzard) Seemed to go out of its way to ignore people.

Sly FoX · Jun 03, 2005, 06:31 PM // 18:31

Four is fine for now, be lucky you have that. You forget this is a free game and funding isn't flowing in constantly. They have to pay to store our characters and two more slots could be a million more characters. I agree 4 is frustrating, but you need to understand if they could afford to give us more they would. Maybe when the expansion comes out they can up it using the money that it brings in. But for now it should be left at four, it might not be enough, but it is the most for now.

Loviatar · Jun 03, 2005, 06:36 PM // 18:36

*not acceptable*

and if they dont bow to your demands will you flounce off into the sunset?

4 is plenty
/NOT SIGNED