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Posted by: Lévis.5489

Lévis.5489

We will get Asuran experiment gone wrong #3 943 113 913 instead of the sealing of the god behind everything in Guild Wars 1 .

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Posted by: Vayne.8563

Vayne.8563

How much are you actually going to save ? Even if it was a 100% reduction (doubt it will), what kind of traveling do you even do that will save you a few golds ? Do you like to WP back and forth from Rata Sum all the way to CoF ? Do you somehow manage to jump to every meta event multiple times a day ?

If I were to imagine that everyday I’d pay the same WP fee I did today, I would barely be near 2g…

Let’s assume you’re teleporting around for 1 gold/day. That’s still ~30 gold saved in a month, whereas the discount on keys is worthless to players who don’t want/need them. Quite honestly, it’s very stupid to implement a bonus that is free while the other requires you to invest real life money in order to benefit from it.

You don’t have to invest real life money since you can buy gems with gold.

Funny, I barely have any gold to spend and I am definitely not going to waste that little bit of gold on worthless keys.

Sure but other people have lots of gold. So if you’re poor, it doesn’t change the truth of my statement.

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Posted by: Navzar.2938

Navzar.2938

I waypoint a few times a day, so maybe around 20s. Times a month is 6g. Assuming I’m on the low side, I can understand double that. Heck even if you spent triple that, that’s still only 18g. You’d need a very large discount to make that saving worthwhile.

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Posted by: Gene Archer.8560

Gene Archer.8560

We will get Asuran experiment gone wrong #3 943 113 913 instead of the sealing of the god behind everything in Guild Wars 1 .

And you’re the reason I voted Kiel =D

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Posted by: shedim.8504

shedim.8504

How much are you actually going to save ? Even if it was a 100% reduction (doubt it will), what kind of traveling do you even do that will save you a few golds ? Do you like to WP back and forth from Rata Sum all the way to CoF ? Do you somehow manage to jump to every meta event multiple times a day ?

If I were to imagine that everyday I’d pay the same WP fee I did today, I would barely be near 2g…

Let’s assume you’re teleporting around for 1 gold/day. That’s still ~30 gold saved in a month, whereas the discount on keys is worthless to players who don’t want/need them. Quite honestly, it’s very stupid to implement a bonus that is free while the other requires you to invest real life money in order to benefit from it.

You don’t have to invest real life money since you can buy gems with gold.

Funny, I barely have any gold to spend and I am definitely not going to waste that little bit of gold on worthless keys.

Sure but other people have lots of gold. So if you’re poor, it doesn’t change the truth of my statement.

Yet Kiel’s bonus provides something for every player, regardless of their income, interests and how long they are playing ths game. Everybody is using the waypoint system but not everybody is willing to spend money on keys, especially with the rather underwhelming stuff you get from chests. Another tonic or crafting booster? Beach please!

Bonus for everybody>bonus for wealthy players.

I’d rather have the Abaddon fractal but the Charr’s bonus is just plain useless.

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Posted by: lordkrall.7241

lordkrall.7241

Sadly way too many people simply vote based on the rewards rather than for the story/logic/future.

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Posted by: Vayne.8563

Vayne.8563

How much are you actually going to save ? Even if it was a 100% reduction (doubt it will), what kind of traveling do you even do that will save you a few golds ? Do you like to WP back and forth from Rata Sum all the way to CoF ? Do you somehow manage to jump to every meta event multiple times a day ?

If I were to imagine that everyday I’d pay the same WP fee I did today, I would barely be near 2g…

Let’s assume you’re teleporting around for 1 gold/day. That’s still ~30 gold saved in a month, whereas the discount on keys is worthless to players who don’t want/need them. Quite honestly, it’s very stupid to implement a bonus that is free while the other requires you to invest real life money in order to benefit from it.

You don’t have to invest real life money since you can buy gems with gold.

Funny, I barely have any gold to spend and I am definitely not going to waste that little bit of gold on worthless keys.

Sure but other people have lots of gold. So if you’re poor, it doesn’t change the truth of my statement.

Yet Kiel’s bonus provides something for every player, regardless of their income, interests and how long they are playing ths game. Everybody is using the waypoint system but not everybody is willing to spend money on keys, especially with the rather underwhelming stuff you get from chests. Another tonic or crafting booster? Beach please!

Bonus for everybody>bonus for wealthy players.

I’d rather have the Abaddon fractal but the Charr’s bonus is just plain useless.

On the other hand if they switched the bonuses they were offering, Evon would have won FOR SURE. It’s still closer than you’d think…52 to 48.

I think that’s precisely what Anet was looking to do. Make people choose sides. Get people involved. If they made it so that both candidates had equal value other buffs but different fractals, they’d have failed in what they tried to do.

Just from listening to people, I’d say this was a successful gambit. And it could have gone either way.

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Posted by: Star Ace.5207

Star Ace.5207

Well, as I mentioned:

Kiel pluses:

-Human (players relate to humans)

-“Hero”

-Waypoints

-Asura lore lovers will probably like her Fractal

Cons:

-No Abbadon Fractal

Now for Evon…:

-Abbadon Fractal

Cons:

-Charr (not for me, but for many players)

-Merchant

-Black Lion keys seen as a symbol of company greed (I voted Evon, but myself don’t want to buy Black Lion keys, EVER.) Not that I am against them being sold, however; it’s just nothing I am interested in at all.

To me both bonuses are rather useless (cheaper WP can be seen as “nice” but wholly unnecessary), and I don’t do much Fractals, but for lore’s sake, would have taken the Abbadon Fractal. And since I know human nature was going to intervene (and even though there’s nothing wrong in voting for/preferring Kiel), I just went for the predestined underdog. I don’t think there will be last minute voter’s rescue for Mr. Evon, sadly-the humans who don’t even know too much about the rewards will probably go for cheaper WP and what they can relate to the easiest (plus who really likes greedy merchants of any provenance? Human hero vs human merchant would have favored Kiel just as easy.)

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

i am pretty sure they are adding both abaddon and reactor fractals regardless who wins. it’s just which one is going to come out first is being determined now.

I think they mentioned something about wanting the players feel like their votes matter and will not be developing the losing fractal in an interview somewhere.

Player’s who don’t pay attention to the main site or forums likely don’t even know about the new Fractal, which I wouldn’t be surprised if more than half the players have no idea about the fractals. So for all they know the only thing coming out of the vote is someone winning an election.

Well if you speak to the characters in-game they will tell you what they’re offering. They could also ask any other player. If they don’t take the time to do that then chances are they don’t care what the outcome is. Like one guy I spoke to who cashed in enough tokens to get his achievements and then deleted all the others.

How much are you actually going to save ? Even if it was a 100% reduction (doubt it will), what kind of traveling do you even do that will save you a few golds ? Do you like to WP back and forth from Rata Sum all the way to CoF ? Do you somehow manage to jump to every meta event multiple times a day ?

If I were to imagine that everyday I’d pay the same WP fee I did today, I would barely be near 2g…

In my case anything I save on waypoints is infinitely more than I’ll save on keys. Unless you get extremely lucky opening a Black Lion Chest basically means you’ve got some more vaguely helpful odds and ends to clog your bank up. Even if the keys were free it wouldn’t really be worth the hassle so if Evon did win and we got discounted keys it would be completely useless to me because I still wouldn’t buy them.

Sadly way too many people simply vote based on the rewards rather than for the story/logic/future.

Actually from what I’ve seen people vote for all kinds of reasons. You can see that even in this thread.

Personally I’m voting for Kiel for a variety of reasons, (in no particular order):

  • I have no interest in keys so even though I don’t WP often cheaper WPs are the better deal.
  • I feel like there’s more to explore with the asuran fractal than the Abbadon one. I played GW1 and I agree it’s a good story, but we know most of the important details already so it would just be filling in the gaps whereas the Thaumanova Reactor is largely a mystery.
  • I have no basis for this but I suspect Kiel on a council of pirate captains would lead to more interesting stories in future as her politics and beliefs clash with theirs than adding another selfish businessman.
  • I like Kiel more than Evon and she is the one my characters would vote for. Even my charr characters wouldn’t trust Evon.
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Posted by: cassius.5809

cassius.5809

What if it turned out these stats stating Kiel was winning were actually part of the storyline, Kiel was actually rigging the election and Evon was actually winning based on actual player token submissions?! Boom!!

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Posted by: Sleel.8365

Sleel.8365

I wish they would have given us the best of both world and stuck Abbadon with the Human, people can obviously relate to a human more than a Charr.

Couldn’t care less. Can relate to not caring about fractals, don’t do em. Nor do I buy Lion Keys, so the WP discount is the only thing that tips my vote as it is the only offer that has any value to me at all.

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Posted by: Morrigan.2809

Morrigan.2809

I don’t really care about any of the bonuses myself but I voted for Kiel because my character has a history of working with her.
Evon? Shady Charr is shady.

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Posted by: sonicwylde.2906

sonicwylde.2906

We will get Asuran experiment gone wrong #3 943 113 913 instead of the sealing of the god behind everything in Guild Wars 1 .

it is actually the first fall of abbaddon, not the second, so no its not the “sealing of the god” its the first time abbaddon “fell”.

The true defeat was done during Nightfall, when Kormir became a goddess.

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Posted by: RedStar.4218

RedStar.4218

WP often cheaper WPs are the better deal.

  • I feel like there’s more to explore with the asuran fractal than the Abbadon one. I played GW1 and I agree it’s a good story, but we know most of the important details already so it would just be filling in the gaps whereas the Thaumanova Reactor is largely a mystery.

A mystery that won’t get solved by the fractal. If it was such a great mystery, do you really think a fractal would be the right place to uncover it ? Look at how incredibly short, story-wise, the fractals are. Except for the Uncategorized fractal, the others are incredibly shallow…Cliffside ? Who knows what the Colossus is, there isn’t even a tiny bit of information. Aquatic ruins ? No one knows what it is, and the devs give an incredibly vague “hint”.
You barely learn anything from those fractals.

What is interesting about TR, are the consequences of the explosion. How it happened, could be interesting, but if it’s to see that the Inquest messed something up without seeing anything new, I’d rather get that kind of information through a blog post.

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Posted by: RedStar.4218

RedStar.4218

We will get Asuran experiment gone wrong #3 943 113 913 instead of the sealing of the god behind everything in Guild Wars 1 .

it is actually the first fall of abbaddon, not the second, so no its not the “sealing of the god” its the first time abbaddon “fell”.

The true defeat was done during Nightfall, when Kormir became a goddess.

The 5 didn’t kill Abaddon the first time. They sealed him in the Realm of Torment.

Then we came and killed him.

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Posted by: Zorby.8236

Zorby.8236

lol @ some people in this thread.

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Posted by: Dante.1508

Dante.1508

quoted from facebook : ‘Exit polls show that Ellen Kiel is still in the lead with 52%, while Evon Gnashblade has 48% of the support out of 9,575,484 tokens cast’
:( looks like community favors asura blow ups.

Asuras win and the Story of their city blowing up will be epic and have some humor, Abaddon is a dusty old dead god no one knew existed till Nightfall, so not so popular..and anything to do with Kormir is bad anyway..

Plus Ellen gives cheaper map travel Nash take a little off cash shop keys BIG DIFFERENCE.

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Posted by: sbr.8170

sbr.8170

Kiel is winning because **** RNG boxes.

I REALLY hope this is the case. I have no interest in getting a discount on something I will never buy.

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Posted by: Malediktus.9250

Malediktus.9250

Vote Kiel, Evon is a crook!

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Posted by: data.4093

data.4093

I hope the reactor final boss is “subject beta” so I can say “see, people suck at voting”. Besides being against Anets RNG boxes why would anyone want the reactor? It’s only visited because of the fire ele and is largely irrelevant. Abaddon’s story is crucial to the entire game. The story and landscape of gw1/2 is tied to abaddon getting beat down. So let’s go throw the demon into the sea.

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Posted by: JustTrogdor.7892

JustTrogdor.7892

Kiel is winning because **** RNG boxes.

I REALLY hope this is the case. I have no interest in getting a discount on something I will never buy.

I’m pretty sure that is the case. I think many people see that and don’t even consider the rest of the campaign. Charr offers temp reduction on the cost of something you would have to spend RWM/gold to purchase to unlock something that you won’t know what is inside or Human female with temp reduction on WP costs that save money.

I think that pretty much doomed Evon from the start. Many people won’t bother to look at the other parts of his campaign. It would have been slightly more balanced if he was offering temp reduction on armor repair fees.

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Posted by: GrandmaFunk.3052

GrandmaFunk.3052

Calling it this early, especially within 4 points, is a bit silly.

Tons of players haven been sitting on their votes and will only use them on the last day or two.

This isn’t like real elections where it’s done by area. This is bit by bit by everyone, so we already know how the levels of support are. Only thing that makes a difference is a change in peoples efforts and stocking votes for the last day.

You misunderstood my statement. I wasn’t talking about players that already cast a few votes and have more to add for their already chosen candidate.

I was talking about what I’m guessing is a huge portion of the electorate not having cast a single ballot yet(or just the ones needed to get both achievement tracks done.)

It’s not that already polled players have more votes waiting to bolster their side at the last minute but rather that there’s a fairly large number of players that is un-polled and undecided. many will wait till the last day or two to pick a side, and many might not bother voting at all.

it’s human nature to wait till the last minute.

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Posted by: Scoobaniec.9561

Scoobaniec.9561

Seriously someone voting Kiel bc of lower wp cost for 4 weeks? No words..

Reactor #5045950532946677 here we come. I hope its will be a s…………t
Also i will be laughting hard when wp cost will be dropped by 10% olny at anyone that voted Kiel.

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Posted by: shedim.8504

shedim.8504

How much are you actually going to save ? Even if it was a 100% reduction (doubt it will), what kind of traveling do you even do that will save you a few golds ? Do you like to WP back and forth from Rata Sum all the way to CoF ? Do you somehow manage to jump to every meta event multiple times a day ?

If I were to imagine that everyday I’d pay the same WP fee I did today, I would barely be near 2g…

Let’s assume you’re teleporting around for 1 gold/day. That’s still ~30 gold saved in a month, whereas the discount on keys is worthless to players who don’t want/need them. Quite honestly, it’s very stupid to implement a bonus that is free while the other requires you to invest real life money in order to benefit from it.

You don’t have to invest real life money since you can buy gems with gold.

Funny, I barely have any gold to spend and I am definitely not going to waste that little bit of gold on worthless keys.

Sure but other people have lots of gold. So if you’re poor, it doesn’t change the truth of my statement.

Yet Kiel’s bonus provides something for every player, regardless of their income, interests and how long they are playing ths game. Everybody is using the waypoint system but not everybody is willing to spend money on keys, especially with the rather underwhelming stuff you get from chests. Another tonic or crafting booster? Beach please!

Bonus for everybody>bonus for wealthy players.

I’d rather have the Abaddon fractal but the Charr’s bonus is just plain useless.

On the other hand if they switched the bonuses they were offering, Evon would have won FOR SURE. It’s still closer than you’d think…52 to 48.

I think that’s precisely what Anet was looking to do. Make people choose sides. Get people involved. If they made it so that both candidates had equal value other buffs but different fractals, they’d have failed in what they tried to do.

Just from listening to people, I’d say this was a successful gambit. And it could have gone either way.

Agreed. I like the fact they offer different bousses but ANet’s approach seems to be rather disappointing.They should rather have released a gameplay bonus such as Kiel’s, a trading post bonus, such as the Charr’s and a fractal. That would have made a lot more sense, at least to me.

If you offer a bonus that doesn’t involve you paying currency in order to benefit from it and one that does, well, you know the rest. I guess most people voted for Kiel because of the Waypoint discount. Can’t imagine they’d rather pick Charrnobyl over fighting a deity and the fact that the Charr is just a tad behind seems to hint at that.

If only both have had a general bonus, a gemshop bonus and a different fractal…

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Posted by: Shadowmoon.7986

Shadowmoon.7986

How much are you actually going to save ? Even if it was a 100% reduction (doubt it will), what kind of traveling do you even do that will save you a few golds ? Do you like to WP back and forth from Rata Sum all the way to CoF ? Do you somehow manage to jump to every meta event multiple times a day ?

If I were to imagine that everyday I’d pay the same WP fee I did today, I would barely be near 2g…

Let’s assume you’re teleporting around for 1 gold/day. That’s still ~30 gold saved in a month, whereas the discount on keys is worthless to players who don’t want/need them. Quite honestly, it’s very stupid to implement a bonus that is free while the other requires you to invest real life money in order to benefit from it.

You don’t have to invest real life money since you can buy gems with gold.

Funny, I barely have any gold to spend and I am definitely not going to waste that little bit of gold on worthless keys.

Sure but other people have lots of gold. So if you’re poor, it doesn’t change the truth of my statement.

No such thing as a free lunch, someone paid for the gems so it still is a bonus that only applies to spending real money. The gems to gold does not change that, microeconomics 101.

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Posted by: VictorTroska.3725

VictorTroska.3725

Its not over yet anyway, I still have like 400 trickets in my bags as I dont want to constantly run back and forth to turn them in. Ill wait for last day then drop em all. I am quite sure I am not the only one who does that.

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Posted by: Auesis.7301

Auesis.7301

What I find hilarious is people thinking that voting against Evon will do ANYTHING about RNG boxes. Get over yourselves. I’ve never seen such over-inflation of impact that people seem to think they have.

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Posted by: Astralporing.1957

Astralporing.1957

I wonder how different this would have been if Evon had his own living story content before hand.

This. It was entirely lopsided in Ellen’s favour. I called it from the start.

In fact, having Evon at as high as 48% shows clearly how bad Kiel is as a character. If she wasn’t such a cliche cardboard cutout, with this much of an advantage she should have been winning by a landslide.

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Posted by: iCryptik.1496

iCryptik.1496

I like the reduced waypoint cross, thats my one reason to vote for kiel. As a WvW’er, it annoys me that the PvE’ers QQ about everything involving WvW. From the kites in the jp, to the badges for legendaries, map completion, etc.

Since WvW drops a ton of tokens, I’ll be sure to keep turning them in to support of Kiel, so I can get a laugh out of all the PvE QQ about being deprived of the Abbadon fractal.

TL;DR Reduced waypoints are great, pve carebear QQ is so sweet.

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Posted by: JustTrogdor.7892

JustTrogdor.7892

What I find hilarious is people thinking that voting against Evon will do ANYTHING about RNG boxes. Get over yourselves. I’ve never seen such over-inflation of impact that people seem to think they have.

I don’t think anyone said it would do anything about RNG boxes. Several have stated that his campaign offering discounts on BLKs does not help him much. People see buy keys with RWM/gold to open BLCs with no idea what you are going to get as not much of a benefit as opposed to cheaper waypoints which save you money. I imagine many people who don’t buy keys anyway don’t see past this and cast their vote for the other candidate. Again, I don’t think anyone said voting against Evon would eliminate BLCs.

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Posted by: cainejw.7142

cainejw.7142

Charr fuzzball or hot human chick? tough choice…the male community has spoken!

More like greedy dishonest businessman or hard-working law enforcement officer. Has little to do with male to female ratio or the gap would be much larger, as last I checked the gaming community is male dominant by much… much more than 50%.

http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/ESA_EF_2012.pdf

According to the ESA, 47% of game players are female. 53% are male. 3% is not “much much more than 50%.” That means that you should probably not assume that video gaming is a boys club.

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Posted by: Nike.2631

Nike.2631

You all realize the cheaper waypoints is for 4 weeks, right? It’s not a permanent discount.

The BL keys are on sale for 4 weeks, but at least they don’t evaporate afterwards if you opt to stock up a little.

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I wonder what your basis for comparison is…”
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Posted by: Wolfheart.1938

Wolfheart.1938

That research is skewed. It includes children and people who play on facebook/cellphones as “gamers”. In MMOs or other kinds of games for a more mature audience the % are pretty much in favor of males. So yeah, it’s still a boys club, let’s not spread misinformation.

P.s. no hard feelings just pointing out the facts.
P.p.s. I wanted Evon to win

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Posted by: RoRo.8270

RoRo.8270

This was over before it started because Anet made it that way for many reasons posted above.

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Posted by: Nightarch.2943

Nightarch.2943

Heresies. I will sacrifice your unborn children to Abaddon!

Guild Wars 2 is not a sequel to the original Guild Wars but merely an alternative story setting.

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Posted by: JustTrogdor.7892

JustTrogdor.7892

You all realize the cheaper waypoints is for 4 weeks, right? It’s not a permanent discount.

The BL keys are on sale for 4 weeks, but at least they don’t evaporate afterwards if you opt to stock up a little.

Yes but the problem is to take advantage of Evon’s “perk” you have to buy something. This will turn a lot of people off especially considering what you are buying is RNG. With the waypoint discount you benefit by saving money on something you already use. I imagine that there are many people ambivalent about the fractals and if a portion of those people don’t want to or can’t buy keys then Evon probably lost their vote.

Personally I hope Evon wins because I do buy keys and I make money for waypoints fairly easily. I’m one of those that are ambivalent toward the fractals.

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Posted by: Lévis.5489

Lévis.5489

We will get Asuran experiment gone wrong #3 943 113 913 instead of the sealing of the god behind everything in Guild Wars 1 .

it is actually the first fall of abbaddon, not the second, so no its not the “sealing of the god” its the first time abbaddon “fell”.

The true defeat was done during Nightfall, when Kormir became a goddess.

That’s exactly what i said . The 5 other gods kittenslapped sealed Abaddon in the Torment .

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Posted by: Kojiden.8405

Kojiden.8405

Unless people vote in mass for Evon this weekend.. it looks like Evon is going to lose.

I wanted Evon to win just because he was funny. Kiel is too serious to be a leader of a pirate town.

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Posted by: Amstel Steel.2058

Amstel Steel.2058

This is why I’m voting for Evon.

The story will be white knights returning peoples wallets if Kiel gets elected. The fractal is just a fight without a story. The waypoints and keys are temporary. The zerglanders getting off on carebearlanders tears is… disturbing.

I guess there is still hope for Kiel to get her throat slit to make the story interesting if she wins.

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Posted by: Conncept.7638

Conncept.7638

Charr fuzzball or hot human chick? tough choice…the male community has spoken!

More like greedy dishonest businessman or hard-working law enforcement officer. Has little to do with male to female ratio or the gap would be much larger, as last I checked the gaming community is male dominant by much… much more than 50%.

http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/ESA_EF_2012.pdf

According to the ESA, 47% of game players are female. 53% are male. 3% is not “much much more than 50%.” That means that you should probably not assume that video gaming is a boys club.

Sample size? Where was the sample taken from? Were any specific demographics or sub-demographics targeted? Polling method?

Not a single one of these is shared with the public, all we know is that it was drawn from sales records, which wouldn’t have covered the majority of this information, leaving polling to fill in the gaps, and the ESA’s word to back it up. In short, it’s just as likely a bogus statistic as not. Use your common sense.

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Posted by: Gomoratoad.9867

Gomoratoad.9867

I really wish the fractals were not part of the rewards. Or, if they must be rewards, then let the election outcome decide which fractal is built first, and get to the other one eventually. It seems pretty lame to say "Okay, here are two interesting bits of lore, now vote for the one you don’t want to be lost forever." If you have two awesome stories to tell, then tell them both, don’t withhold one from us forever just because it was packaged in with the losing candidate’s rewards.

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Posted by: Daecollo.9578

Daecollo.9578

I didn’t pay attention to the story, I just wanted less WPs.

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Posted by: Meglobob.8620

Meglobob.8620

Keil to WIN…

Cheap waypointing for EVERYBODY and a fantastic new fractal…

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Posted by: Malevil.2104

Malevil.2104

I’m realy hapy that Kiel is winning. Face harsh truth, fractal involving epic battle of 6 gods would fail hard, like Zaithan fight version 2 … Epic expetations = epic fail.

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Posted by: Penguin.5197

Penguin.5197

Keil to WIN…

Cheap waypointing for EVERYBODY and a fantastic new fractal…

Fantastically generic asura area filled with cubes…sure haven’t seen that before.

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Posted by: ASB.4295

ASB.4295

I’m realy hapy that Kiel is winning. Face harsh truth, fractal involving epic battle of 6 gods would fail hard, like Zaithan fight version 2 … Epic expetations = epic fail.

Plus, almost noone who’s still playing GW2 right now has any sentimental connection to Abaddon. Compare that to the experience of pre-nerf thaumanova a heck of a lot more active players had and you’ve got yourselves a winner.

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Posted by: Astralporing.1957

Astralporing.1957

Compare that to the experience of pre-nerf thaumanova a heck of a lot more active players had

The same experience that made thaumanova an empty area till the Fire Ele got nerfed?

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Posted by: ilr.9675

ilr.9675

Who are these fools who think a stupid FRACTAL LEVEL would ever do proper justice to the Binding of Abbadon???

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Posted by: Fernling.1729

Fernling.1729

Who are these fools who think a stupid FRACTAL LEVEL would ever do proper justice to the Binding of Abbadon???

Anet?

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Posted by: Adine.2184

Adine.2184

I only need one reason to vote Kiel. The only good Charr is a dead Charr .