Is there a petition for 2 new slots instead of 1?

I think it's simple. 2 new archetypes = 2 new slots needed. Why should I buy extra slots when I'm already forking out 30-40 quid for a new game already ?

All I see is “Thanks for all the support in playing Guild Wars and we are very exited about the new project and we hope you can helps us to be as successfully as the first one was, for that I will give you one more slot for you to enjoy while two new professions are added, have fun.

For me either A.net doest know how to run a business or they takes us all for fools

All of people that say that adding more slots cost money to them, but no one talks about 4+4=8 that’s chapter 1 and chapter 2 slots. Why would we get 5 slots only?

Why we would loose money then? Coz chapter 1 and chapter 2 = 8 slots. I don’t mind having chapter 1 and chapter 2 running solo I will use them for PvE mainly but its just stupid u can’t merge the accounts and have the 8 slots.

Doest anyone knows if u just buy chapter 2 can you join a Guild that was created in chapter 1?

Right now I have 2 accounts, one for PvE only and another with 2 slots for PvP and 2 more PvE, so that’s 6 PvE and 2 PvP more than enough, but an extra slot for 2 characters, not really enough with the extra slot.

I see this way if they don’t want to give 8slots for 2 accounts together then make a different price for people that have chapter 1, or why can’t u buy extra slots? They may be worried about the farmers, they can buy extra slots to store more and farm even more, if that’s the case make that u can only buy 2 extra slots per account (Cd Key) or something similar, again we all talking about slots and this 1 extra could have been just rumours, but if its not they can expect loads of complains.

Most posters are from the US so you pay $50 for a game and what u get is one slot to play with? coz your other 4 all have Fow and u dont want to delete them and want to look back at the work u have put into it. so the only option to make a Assassin, Ritualist as primary is to delete one of you beloved characters, this is what they are saying right?

All I see is they don’t care about gamers, if they did they would not force people to delete characters that they have works for hours.

And it’s funny when people say why u need more slots you can’t expect to Finnish this game with 4 PvE characters, you can see that person it’s more a PvP than PvE, and u can easy to delete a PvP and remake but not as simple if its a PvE.

Slots you have monk, ranger, warrior, ele, mesmer, necro now that’s 6 characters, 4 slots.

Ok u may say make a Monk/Ranger, Warrior/Ele, Mesmer/Necro and u have an extra one for PvP right?

And yes u can change your profession later on, but how would u do it if u want to make a Necro Primary? No matter how u swap around u can’t have all characters as primary since u can only change the secondary.

The people that want more slots are the people that play all the time and don’t want to play WoW for a reason or other the ones that don’t complain are the casual gamers or like I said the PvP gamers.

And we all know how much they love the PvP players.

My current character situation is this, (Im a casual gamer btw, very casual)
1st slot : my main man, mesmer/monk, level 20, finished fire island, almost all elites unlocked.
2nd slot : Necro/elementalist, level 20, he is at thunderhead, and have just begun to unlock his elites
3rd slot : Ranger/monk, level 20, still in the desert, 1 elite unlocked.
4th slot : monk/warrior, level 20, on fire island missions, have a few elites unlocked.

So wich of my characters should I delete ??
Im not deleting my main, he is my main source of fun, I like helping out with this guy, I do many back missions for the fun, and I use him to farm with a 55 build, but ONLY when Im strapped for cash, I would never buy FoW armor, or buy expensive weapons, I use collectors, I play like this because I hate the grind, cant stand it, I also play in CA very very rarely with this toon.

Then there are the rest of the characters, neither of whom have unlocked their elites yet, so if I delete one of them, I will HAVE to roll another eventually in order to unlock elites for their classes, why on earth would I delete a character that I FINALLY have begun unlocking elites with ??

I play casually, and I dont agree with being run, except for the droknar run, thats a great way to spice up a new char in old missions, so if I was to start all over again, say by deleting my necro, it would take me ages to get him back to level 20, and back to the elite skill areas.

Adding 1 more character slot just wont do it for me, it would only press me even harder up against the wall Im already up against now, forcing me to make an ass/ri, and I would still be faced with my current problem, no free slot for an easily adaptable PvP character.

I would agree with this statement , were it not for the fact we really didn't have any choice when we wanted to play all classes as primary ( I call deleting a character in which you invested countless hours to level it up and finally completed the game with not a viable option ). I said time and time again : you can't compare playing a class as primary class with playing it as your secondary profession ( a monk without divine favor is in fact not a true monk , because all those spells get enhanced in an incredible manner by the DF-attribute. Necro without soul reaping : same thing ,etc. ) . If we wanted to fully understand what it was like to play a class , we had to play it as primary profession .

This was impossible due to the fact we had 4 slots and 6 classes - hence the purchase of a second account .

So I wouldn't call it stupid on the part of the players deciding to do that .

Well, I play this game nearly every day and I only have 3 characters, 2 finished and one at ember light camp. So you can't be that casual

I would complete the game with your remaining characters, then decide which one of them you least enjoy playing, unlock all his/her elites and then wipe it. Do you really intend to play through the next chapter with all 4 of your players plus another 2 new ones? no casual player would be able to manage that.

No doubt having to kill an existing player is a brutal choice that people will have to make, but ANet have obviously limited our slots for a reason. That reason I assume is balance.

Hmm I "thought" I was casual at least hehe, maybe Im not all that casual then

Your suggestion is actually precisely what my original intentions were, the problem being, unlocking all the skills, while having fun at the same time, takes quite some time for me, I fully intend to delete the ranger when he is done with the most important elites, I did intend to delete the necro too, but I changed my mind on that, necros are excellent fun, and I wouldnt have the heart to delete him, and the monk was a deleteable character too, I never enjoyed the healer role in any MMORPG before, wich is also why I made it a mo/w, just so I could unlock the last skillset of the warrior, but Im finding monking to be quite a laugh, especially in PUGs, where a good monk really can turn the tide of battle, not deleting monk either.

But there is no way I will be able to unlock even half the ranger elites I would like, before the PVP event this weekend, and I seriously doubt I will have him done in time for chapter 2, I play slowly, so unless I grind him, wich I absolutely refuse, I will not delete him in time for chapter2.
Even if I do delete the ranger, I would still only have 1 slot left for a PVE character to experiment with assassin and ritualist classes, both of wich I intend to play as primarys to get to know the classes, but thats only doable if I delete my ranger AND use the extra slot from chapter 2 for PVE, and not for PVP, if I use both slots for PVE, then Im right back where I started, unable to participate in PVP events such as the upcomming one, and also unable to effortlessly field PVP characters.

I would happily pay 50 smackers for 2 extra add on character slots, 2 more slots would revive this game in so many ways for me, right now, Im with my back against a solid wall

WOW... what a GREAT suggestion! Wonderful!! Breathtaking!!!

Why don't you take that idea one step further:

Who needs more than one character anyway? Solve the game with one character and then delete the game since then you'll know all it has to offer! I mean, only stupid people ever would make more than one character, right?

Yes I noticed that as well and he must be a genius, and a dedicated PvP or he is lost, coz that’s what you do when you call people names that you don’t know.

Or maybe he just started and hasn’t been playing since day one.

4 slots over more or less 1 year, that’s like 3 months PvE with one character.

But who Cares.

heat rising...flames tickling at my feet....this thread is on dangerous grounds..

but I will add my two cents:
More than one would be nice. One is pretty much certain, but we still have a few months before the game will be release. You never know if they will take our suggestions to heart and give us what we are asking for. Until then, keep speculating, for that is all we can do.
I agree with the idea of offering the choice for players to purchase extra slots to have more charachters. With one little question though, how many can they buy? One may say 8, another may say 10.

I'd say when you buy the full game for the full price you should get full char slots. So Ch2 + Ch2 is 8 slots. Why be happy with even 2 more slots?

I mean you paid for it, right?

actually i have been playing sicne day one, and i prolly shouldn't have said ppl are stupid(i apologize) but the point was that i doubt people enjoy all four of their characters so much that delteing them would be tragic. also i just wanted tyo tell everyone something: one slot isn't wat we're getting. its AT LEAST one slot that we're getting. i'm sure its gonan turn out that we get 2 or 3 slots extra., hey maybe even four if we're lucky

IMO they should give us a slot for each profession. Anytime they add a new profession they should add a new slot.

you're completely right. If the chapter 2 standalone costs the same as the Chapter 2 for chapter 1 players, we should have full char slots.
One thing I don't understand.. Who is gonna buy a standalone?
And miss the first chapter stuff???

For me at least, it's not that I love my characters and their armor too much to delete them, it's more that each of my characters has a very specific purpose.

then install it as a full stand alone game and have your 4 slots.

I think that would be in the perfect World but not in A.net World.

All i ask is to you give me what i pay for, if chapter 1 come with 4 slots and chapter 2 come with another 4, that makes a total of 8!!!

Or make it that u can merge both chapters but pay for less.
Something like this Full Chapter 2 $50 Chapter 2 Merge Option $30, that way they can give us 2 extra slots only. if u want 8 u need to get the Full chapter 2.

WE should now be penalize to merge both accounts but encourage to do it.

What makes me think they will not give us 8 slots is coz after chapter 2 come chapter 3 and that will have to be 12 slots and so on.

and to people who say that it's no big deal to just delete a level 20 character that's already finished the game....what about those characters who's creaters spent well over 100k on armor, and black dye, and that is customized ONLY TO THAT CHARACTER? A little harder to delete those characters then, no?

*shrugs*

I don't honestly see a need for more then 2 new slots. If you are like me, which obviously most aren't, I have 2 characters I play all the time and the other 2 slots I couldn't give rats arse about, I delete them all the time. 2 would be a nice addition imo for the next chapter.

I see no real reason for me personally, to need more then that. I like what I have I play what I have, I don't care to unlock everything there is to unlock, until I feel the want or urge to do something different.

Someone needs to start a petition for more storage, or a storage acct for special holiday items. I am going to have to play on my PvE char during the preview due to a slot that is taken up by a storage character. I have nothing that is below 5k on it so erasing it is outta the question. 10 more slots for storage would be a dream come true ANet.

stupid as it may seem i think of a long term character as an investment in time and effort.

i think that there should be 2 slots but if only 1 slot i will look carefully at the new professions and add whichever one (if either) to my character list.

i may fall in love with how one plays for me and decide to get rid of an old friend for the new but i will take my time deciding on it.

note i want 2 slots but i will take what i get.

Just Noticed this again she keeps saying this for over a few months, coz i been asking that same quest everytime i meet her

Normally I don't go along with stupid online petitions, but in this case, I think one character slot simply isn't sufficient. It will probably be a full priced game, and whether or not it is linked to your chapter one account is beside the point. Players who create new accounts should, at the most, get 1 more slot, and that's only cause they'll need a PvP character. The minimum should be 2 or else the character you make for chapter 2 must be a As/Ri or a Ri/As for skill unlocks. That's boring.

i think having just 1 version of Chapter 2 release is a bad idea, i think, especially since people can purchase keys online and download everything (am i wrong about this) that there should be 2 options.

1. for players who don't have Chapter 1 at all, there should a download that includes chapter 2, and some essentials of chapter 1. it would come with 4 total slots. (or maybe also a bundle of chapter 1 and chapter 2 for like 70 bucks maybe)

2. for players with Chapter 1, there should be a Chapter 2 download with 2 or 3 new slots.

First four character slots: $15.00 each
Your fifth character slot: $60.00
ANet's math? priceless

If someone wants to experience the game fully, unlock all skills MUCH easier, or get a feel for how each class works in a team, they need to play as each primary profession. Lots of hardcore (and I use the term loosely, if that is possible) players have more than one account so they can do just that. I myself only have one because unlocking things multiple times would send me into raving, bloodthirsty rampages punctured by vicious, bitter tirades against the pain of it, but that's just me. The point of this being, two new classes, in my eyes, cannot be justified with one additional character. A/Ri just isn't that great a combination...

And for the people who do have mulitple accounts, they also get screwed with what amounts to a fifty-sixty dollar charge for adding ONE character slot. Their sets of four cost them a quarter of that. The way I see it, it's rediculous that accounts can't be merged in any sort of way. There is absolutely no reason why players should be penalized for having multiple accounts. These players surely represent a not insignificant fraction of Guild Wars buyers, as well... I've never had any sort of business education, but alienating the most profitable customers seems to me like a foolish decision.

It's been said and resaid so many times, that people would pay for additional character slots, I really don't need to repeat it. But I will anyways. If there was a way to pay $5 for another slot, even $10, (and hell, I'd probably pay $20) people would do it.

There are alot of things that I can agree with. But no matter what anet does not everyone will be happy with it (unless they gave everyone like 20 slots to do whatever they wanted with or something like that). Besides, out of all the games I have played anet is one of the few that really tries to listen to what the player base wants and make EVERYONE (or as many as possible) happy. They dont just cater to the PvP players or the PvE players (although some within the company itself might). I dont think they mind us as players letting them know what we would like to see, but I also know that us yelling and screaming at someone is no way to make them listen (at least from my experiences).

5 total accounts is too little
I have one mule that i stopped playing with. holds stuff for me
2 finished characters. Mo/w, w/mo. doing the titan quests
R/N11. at Kryta
so that leaves 1 open slot for me to make the new chars.

if i get 2 slots. i can delete my mule, make a PVP. and leave the other 2 for the new chars.


and honestly. if you are going to cry about it.
whip out 50 bucks. buy another GW CH1, use the key to upgrade your existing account. 4 extra slots at 12 dollars each

I think most people would be more than happy to pay 50 bucks for 4 extra slots...but Anet doesn't allow us UPGRADE and merge accounts!!

Also, I highly doubt Anet will release CH.2 as a stand alone game at $50 and penalize their loyal fan base (those who already own Ch.1) by allowing them to only have 1 extra slot. My guess is 8 total slots for Ch.1 & 2 owners and 4 for those who only have one of the chapters.

Well ..... RED ENGINE GO it, come thursday Im deleting my ranger, there is no way Im gonna miss out on a GW event, the last 2 events, hallowen and wintersday were immaculate, and I wanna drink in this next event too in full

Poised, if you really don't want to delete any characters before this weekend, you can use the key ANet provided to play. You won't miss a thing, the only problem is that you will lose any skills/faction you earn during the event, which is nothing you cant unlock again the first couple of days you have factions.

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Going back to the whole 2 slots issue, I will repeat what I posted earlier but nobody commented on it. How would people feel about getting 1 slot to start with, but having to complete the game with an old character to unlock the second one? that way we don't miss out on the new classes, but we still have a nice flow of old characters to keep the profession mix even...

Not really, their whining is just annoying...I'm sure they'd like to have their account come with a free crystaline while they are at it...if they are gonna leave just leave and save us all some bandwidth

More bandwidth, YESSS !! I am sure Anet will agree, leave us you noobs!! Dont even think of buying factions!!

I play PvE only so far, but am trying to finish the game with all 6 primary professions, accross 2 accounts.

L20 R/Ele - Finished all quests except final assault
L20 W/Mo - At abbadon's mouth
L20 Ele/Nec - At Ring of Fire
L5 Mo/Mes - At Sardelac - mainly a storage character

L15 Mes/R - Up to D'alessio seaboard
L7 Nec/Mo - Finished Presearing

I enjoy playing pve helping guildmates through the missions, FOW, SF etc.

I am not going to buy 2 copies of chapter 2, but hope to get at least 2 extra slots on my main account to add primary Ritualist and Assassin characters.

Deleting a L20 character is just not an option, I enjoy playing all the different classes and have spent 100's of hours getting them to L20, to delete them and then have to start from scratch if I wanted to play that class again is just madness.

4+4=8
Ideal scenario - I am buying a game with 4 slots to add to game with 4 slots, anything less and I feel they are ripping us off. This would let me add primary Ritualist and Assassin characters, also a replacement storage character and play my monk properly. Leaving 1 slot for pvp if I ever wanted to try that.

4+4=6
Gives me the 2 extra slots on my main account I need to add primary Ritualist and Assassin characters.
This would allow my to keep the monk which I hope to be able to play properly with if they expand storage.

4+4=5
I'd have to delete the monk and make a storage character on my second account - harder to access but would be able to try Rit and Ass primaries, but more importantly I'd have to make a primary monk on the Ch1 only second account - not a good situation really.

The alternative would be 4+4= (4) + (4) ie keeping the accounts separate to get all the available slots, but then I would not get to play the new areas with my favourite characters.

You're whining about whining, which I guess is a much better use of bandwidth.

the debate is between one ADDITIONAL slot or two ADDITIONAL slots for add on acconts.

you will not be getting a slot more than the total of two new professions (if that).

so a total of 7/8 is out.

if lucky we get 6

probably we will get 5.

AS FOR the standalone chapter getting 4 slots that is because they are getting the core 6 professions plus the 2 new professions for 8 professions.

if generous Anet will also give a pvp slot for 5 slots.

1 or 2 and we will find out when they have decided.

Agreed 100%, to think this guy actually thinks what he thinks is the way others should think and no one else has a right to say their opinions about why they are not going to buy the expanion. LOL If the company doesn't offer what people want they aren't going to buy it period. Plain and simple no if's and's or but's and they have every right (as they are told to do whe you email them) to come to an official forum and tell them why they are not going to buy it. But, I'm not buying it because I just find the PVE game boring, not because of lack of slots or lack of vault space, because it's just plain and simply boring to have to remain level 20 and the weapons aren't getting any increase in stats and the armor isn't getting any increase in stats. Sorry, but, to me that's just pitifully boring to keep playing a character like that just to see some new SKINS and 100 different graphical NPC's?? lol NOT!

5 slots would be feeble. I know nobody cares, but add me to the will-not-buy-if-true crowd.

1 PvP char.
2 PvE from C1.
That leaves 2 slots for C2 PvE. Great. 8 Professions to try it with, and 2 slots.
And if I ever want to try another C1 run through, I'd need to delete someone.

(Will want to play C2 from lvl1, not walk around with lvl20s from C1)

(Also, I know it's too far off to matter, but if every chapter only has 1 extra slot then.../shudder/ )

Just doesn't make sense to give existing players less for their money. /shrug/

I think the ideal amount of char slots is 1 per primary, and one for a pvp-only.

I'd like to be able to play the game with one of every char tyvm. My only way of doing that currently is to DELETE a char, or buy another copy of the game. Oh, but if I buy another copy, I can't easily transfer items, and I'd have to unlock everything again (Or delete a char on my first account, but thats what we're trying to avoid, right?) Then, when C2 comes out, I'd have to buy two copies of it.

So no, buying another copy is not a good option.

From a PvP pov, in C1, 4 char slots was fine. In C2, from that same pov, 5 will be fine.

The problem is, We don't all play PvP. Sure, all you need is 3 char slots to cover every class for the purpose of unlocks via quests. The PvE-heavy people, many of them like playing differnt chars. I'd like to see someone try and argue that a W/Mo plays exactly like a Mo/W. That would be nonsense. From a PvE pov, the ideal number of slots is at least one per primary. With the exelent ability to change secondarys, only one of each primary is really needed for a PvE player.

Since the PvE player would like more slots than the average PvP player, it is logical to side with the PvE player.

What if there were a dedicated PvP only slot? I think this would bother many PvE players, unless they already had as many slots as they wanted.

So, imho, the minimmum number of slots equals the number of primarys, while the ideal number if slots is the number of primarys plus one. Wether or not that one extra slot is a PvP-only slot makes little difference to me. After all, I could always use it as a mule if I want.

Edit:Oh, one other point:
Seperatly (Since they can be kept seperate)
C1=4 slots
C2=4+ slots
Soooo... logicaly...
C1+C2=8+ slots. At least.

6 Slots would still not be enough, and 5 would certainly be far too little. I would like to play every primary to lvl 20 without deleting, and without having all the problems of buying two copies.

I was going to stay out of this....until I saw your arrogant idiotic post. Your idiotic exaggerations does not make any points here except to show how arrogant and stupid YOU are. No one here asked for 30 slots. Or mentioned raising the level cap. Or anything else you ranted about. None of what you mention relates to anything in this thread.

It's so easy for dumbasses like you to sit back and tell others to stop whining because the problem doesnt affect you. Instead of making up exaggerations, why don't you explain to us in a logical way why there shouldnt be more than just one slot? Tell us why it's unreasonable to have a problem with only one slot when people are paying for a whole new Chapter?

And this makes no sense. So you're saying that GW doesnt have to give us slots at all? So how exactly do you play a game WITHOUT slots? Pure genius in that statement of yours.

Now, YOU stop whining and stop posturing, okay?

And as for you, before you can call anyone "stupid" you should learn to type, learn to spell and capitalize when it should be capitalized and don't type "u" and "ur" In other words, learn PROPER english instead of sounding like an uneducated 12 year old tard.

I don't know about you guys, but if I had the option of buying multiple accounts and MERGING them, I'd do it in a second.

I mean, RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO, I'd probably buy 6 accounts.

Well said. I get really tired of reading posts from people standing on the soap box of superiority. Your post summed up my feelings pretty accurately.

As for the topic: I'm sure I've voted in one of the other threads of this type but I too would like a couple more slots. Like Katari (and some others) have said I too would like 1 slot per primary character type and 1 for pvp only. I know this isn't necessarily a realistic request so I say I would be happy with 2 or 3 more slots.

The main reason I think this is a good idea is that it would give people an opportunity to learn how each primary works. It would give them a much better understanding of the game and make us a community of better players (overall).

If it ends up being true that there will be only one more slot if you buy chapter 2 and add it to a chapter 1 account, then I'm not likely to buy chapter 2. I love this game but there are other interesting games to play for that matter. It all depends on what suits your needs for enjoyment and how much you value what you're being sold. While we aren't paying a monthly fee , ANet is definitely making money on it's economic model. As patrons of that model I do believe we have a certain priveledge of communicating our desires from the product.