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In watching recent BWE #3 videos, players opening their "Mail" on successful completion of a Renown Heart were often not aware they had been awarded some amount of cash (copper coins). Though the "Take All" button is present in the lower right corner of this dialog box, the players expressed confusion since it wasn't obvious there is anything to take. Some even thought it was a bug.
I attribute this to the very small size and lack of any indicators (highlight, sparkle, animation, etc.) of the cash reward text. Furthermore, it's rendered towards the bottom center of the dialog screen and the font color does not contrast strongly with the dialog screen's background (it's a copper color overlayed on a mottled brown). This lack of calling attention to the reward was causing many players to completely overlook it.
I suggest a simple change to make it more obvious to players they have been rewarded some coins for having completed a Renown Heart. Larger font, higher contrast color, animated color shift, animated rotating coins, or an animated sparkle to the text and/or coin icon would all go a long way towards increasing the visibility of the coin reward and decreasing players' confusion when opening this dialog. Just placing the coin reward closer to the "Take All" button would improve the odds a player will see it. Anything to make it obvious to the player; "Hey! Look! You just earned some coins."
Thank you for reading.
Guild Wars 3 perhaps 02:03, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
