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Ticksy
9 years ago
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Cannot import GW1 characters

Hello Will there ever be a transfers charachters option again? Seems like a lot of players would like this to happen Thanks!
  • realitysquared's avatar
    realitysquared
    9 years ago

    As pandareno1999 stated, February 28th was a hard deadline due to some undisclosed technical reason; PopCap had been optimistic that they'd be able to extend the deadline but ultimately it couldn't be done so anyone joining the game from this point onward will need to grind out all of the characters the hard way.

    Luckily all of the characters from Garden Warfare are present in Garden Warfare 2 so the only character that you're truly going to miss out on will be the Unicorn Chomper which could only be unlocked through the Loyalty Reward program which checked your GW1 Player Rank which has now ended.

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pandareno1999
Hero+
9 years ago

Ron was either giving you a runaround, or he doesn't even know what he's talking about.  I've had similar experience with the help desk.  

February 28 was a hard limit for transferring characters from GW1 to GW2.  This has been known for quite a long time.  If the help desk people don't know that, then I'm gobsmacked.

You can get the marine biologist agin, but you'll need to get him through sticker packs.

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Anonymous
9 years ago

So I have like 1000 hours in the 1st game finally found out about the 2nd game from my kids and bought it for them after playing the trial because the game said we could import everything from the 1st game.  Then come to  find out the game actually wont let us because we missed the deadline to do so? Then why does your trial version talk about importing everything from pvzgw1 still? This was the reason I decided to buy it for them because they already had so much unlocked. It will take 1000 times longer than the 1st game to unlock everything and they are stuck with basic characters with no upgraded abilities vs fully upgraded other players who have huge advantage over them online. And no one ever plays the welcome mat version ever.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    How do we get ability upgrades anyway? Haven't found a single one spending like 3 million coins. Used to be in the sticker packs to change things like type of bomb you use or heal station etc.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      9 years ago
      @malacar21 wrote:

      How do we get ability upgrades anyway? Haven't found a single one spending like 3 million coins. Used to be in the sticker packs to change things like type of bomb you use or heal station etc.

      There are two types of upgrades. Stats upgrades like weapon ammo, HP, reload time and so on. These used to be in sticker packs in GW1 but are now earned for ranking up a variant. (Sadly, they are variant specific, so you have to unlock addition HP on Basic Sunflower and Fire Sunflower for example.)

      the second type of upgrade, the ones I think you are talking about, still come from packs. They are quite rare unfortunately. (Many are Super Rare so 35k packs are the best odds of finding one.) I have spent over 8 million coins and bought 285 35k packs (the version that gives both sides) I still don't have all the alternate abilities. (And no, I am not talking about RUX abilities in case anyone is curious.)

      As for grinding to unlock things again, I don't want to miss lead you, GW2 is FAR more time intensive than the original. There are some tricks to reduce the grind but even with these it is a very long haul. (Which is why I don't understand why things are time exclusive in addition to insanely grindy. Its like they want players to earn the right to enjoy the game.)

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