Path of Fire, the upcoming expansion for Guild Wars 2, has caused the first mini-scandal. The developers want to ban the material storage for certain crafting materials and push players to sell them.
So far, not much has been heard about Path of Fire, the second major expansion for Guild Wars 2. But at least it has already led to a medium-sized shitstorm on Reddit. Since a controversial design decision by the developers became known, numerous players have been complaining online.
The reason for the discontent is the removal of storage options for certain crafting resources in the upcoming expansion.
Guild Wars 2 – Materials go into the inventory, not into the crafting storage
When Community Manager Gaile Grey presented a controversial decision by the developers on the Guild Wars 2 forum on September 18, the first negative comments quickly followed. It is about the fact that certain crafting materials from Path of Fire cannot initially be collected in the crafting resources storage.
This separate inventory is actually meant to collect and organize the vast amounts of different components for crafting. Once materials are found, they can be easily transferred to the resource storage with a mouse click, freeing up more space for useful loot in the inventory.
Without the material storage, everything would soon be filled with iron ore, leather, flax, and edible mushrooms. Since there is a lot of crafting stuff in Guild Wars 2, some players have even invested real money in expanding the crafting storage to hoard even more materials.
Guild Wars 2 – Hoarding materials harms the economy!
If it is up to the developers at Arenanet, this hoarding of certain new materials should partly come to an end soon. Because players allegedly always let all materials disappear into the material storage, valuable resources are being deprived of the internal economic cycle.
This was already the case in the last expansion Heart of Thorns, when hoarding flax caused a genuine scarcity that would have been entirely unnecessary. Therefore, the developers believe that players will rather sell their materials and bring them into the economic cycle if the stuff takes up valuable inventory space, instead of just decaying in the material storage.
Storage ban – Players are not happy!
As expected, the majority of players from Guild Wars 2 are angry about this decision. After all, some have paid good money for an expansion of the material storage. Furthermore, they feel constrained and patronized when they are forced to sell their materials, although they would actually prefer to store them.
After all, there are players who want to expand their guild halls and need tons of materials for that. The once-rare flax was required in large quantities during the HoT period for upgrades – among other things for guild halls – so players preferred to use it themselves instead of selling it.
Additionally, ArenaNet has not yet announced which materials will no longer be manageable in the material storage in the future.
Arenanet reassures: this measure is only temporary. At a later date, they intend to open the storage again for all materials. Given the dissatisfaction of the players, this could very well be sooner rather than later.
You can find all currently known info about Path of Fire at the link provided here!
