Guild Wars 2

I found out last night that the dataminers on reddit omitted a few interesting upcoming items that you can already see through the preview system. It’s my understanding that items related to the economy are not yet reveiled by the dataminers. Therefore, you haven’t seen them yet.

However, if you fumble around with the preview codes, replace a letter here and there, you get to see quite a bit. I’m just wondering, from a player perspective, whether the devs are OK with that. Especially since the last incident where certain preview codes caused an entire server to shut down. I linked the codes on an empty channel, so in my case I don’t think this could have even happened, but I’m unsure what Anet’s policy is on this.

My follow-up question would be: if it is OK to fumble around with the preview codes, is it also OK to share the resulting knowledge (ie. new upcoming items) on this forum?

As long as you don’t crash the server, I can’t see anyone caring. It’s not like there is a line in TOS saying don’t mess with the preview codes. ^^

Edit; I’ve seen threads on information from data mining, the only one I’ve seen closed was a thread discussing data mined unreleased patch notes.

So did you find anything good/interesting? (and got a link to the reddit thing with the original codes? I don’t know how to really navigate reddit)

skullmount.1758:

So did you find anything good/interesting? (and got a link to the reddit thing with the original codes? I don’t know how to really navigate reddit)

Yes, I think so. Nothing too shocking, but some new items will – I think – affect the prices of certain items on the TP when implemented.
I used the ascended armor preview codes on reddit, and started playing with the letters.

Buttercup.5871:

skullmount.1758:

So did you find anything good/interesting? (and got a link to the reddit thing with the original codes? I don’t know how to really navigate reddit)

Yes, I think so. Nothing too shocking, but some new items will – I think – affect the prices of certain items on the TP when implemented.
I used the ascended armor preview codes on reddit, and started playing with the letters.

Affect them how? Increase or decrease their prices.

A bit of both. Some items will very likely increase in price. You don’t see the price increase yet, but you already see a sharp jump in demand since the last patch (up to 25x the demand compared to before the patch). This increase is illogical; I’m pretty sure it’s the result of speculation based on knowledge of the new item. Some items will not spike as hard as they otherwise would, due to the release of the same new item.

anet would have to ban 99% of gw2 players if using chatcodes like these was forbidden xDDD

and yeh changing letter is fun
linking over 240 stacked twilights always makes people rage xD even though stacking legendaries isnt even possible

Orangensaft.7139:

anet would have to ban 99% of gw2 players if using chatcodes like these was forbidden xDDD

You mean like that code that showed a weapon of type Spear? (was posted by DragonSeason on twitter a couple months ago now, I think)

Buttercup.5871:

A bit of both. Some items will very likely increase in price. You don’t see the price increase yet, but you already see a sharp jump in demand since the last patch (up to 25x the demand compared to before the patch). This increase is illogical; I’m pretty sure it’s the result of speculation based on knowledge of the new item. Some items will not spike as hard as they otherwise would, due to the release of the same new item.

Ugh, this is peaking my interest, I kinda want to know what the new item(s) are.

As a speculator, I really should start datamining. I hear it’s easy.