Guild Wars 2

It seems rather obvious that the Consortium Mobile Crafting Station and Consortium Mobile Mystic Forge were originally going to be amongst the Super Adventure Box rewards. (Admittedly, the second of those isn’t nearly as blatant; it’s the Crafting Station that makes it plain as day.) I’m not sure who was supposed to be fooled by the name change. I’m not sure who it is at ArenaNet that imagined that the majority of the player base really is that stupid. It’s actually kind of funny in a way. That is all.

So I pointed this out to someone in map chat they looked at the crafting station and said that the Consortium must be stealing designs. I’m not sure if I buy the idea that that was the intent for these items all along, but I guess I’ll have to accept it as plausible.

Honestly, I don’t really care about these particular items one way or the other. It just seemed kind of absurd if anyone who is at all familiar with the SAB rewards was supposed to not notice.

So it sounds like you’re none too thrilled about it, but the fact that SAB was a timed event removes your ability to consistently farm and buy them. It’s a convenience item, and none I don’t have a use for to be honest. It be funny if Moto is an employee of the consortium. Maybe they can add in Consortium Ads into the game to assist to the myth and mock ads in video games at the same time.

Acidicore.3264:

So it sounds like you’re none too thrilled about it, but the fact that SAB was a timed event removes your ability to consistently farm and buy them. It’s a convenience item, and none I don’t have a use for to be honest. It be funny if Moto is an employee of the consortium. Maybe they can add in Consortium Ads into the game to assist to the myth and mock ads in video games at the same time.

Nah, I wouldn’t have spent bubbles on them anyway. As I said, I have little use for them. It’s just as soon as I saw it, I was wondering, “Who do they think they are fooling with this?”

If the consortium was a gigantic company competing with the BLTC and stealing designs and ideas/revenue from the smaller company, would all this make more sense? Just gonna leave it at that ^^

So… a bug or limited time to develop the items meant that they weren’t ready in time to release with SAB. Therefore the only choices are to redesign the entire appearance of the items (and thus delay their appearance in the game AGAIN) or throw out the entire idea? They aren’t trying to fool anyone, when new content is released every month sometimes there are going to be things they have to put off until next month.

Nah, what you should be asking is why is a Consortium product on the Black Lion’s offers list? Isn’t the Consortium trying to compete with BL?

Lokheit.7943:

Nah, what you should be asking is why is a Consortium product on the Black Lion’s offers list? Isn’t the Consortium trying to compete with BL?

I think that is only because of the limits of the engine.

Because of the design… I think they used one of Moto’s solid holographics.

tolunart.2095:

So… a bug or limited time to develop the items meant that they weren’t ready in time to release with SAB. Therefore the only choices are to redesign the entire appearance of the items (and thus delay their appearance in the game AGAIN) or throw out the entire idea? They aren’t trying to fool anyone, when new content is released every month sometimes there are going to be things they have to put off until next month.

I’m trying to figure out by what zig zagging path of rationalization either of these scenarios necessitates a name change.

Signet of Forums.4397:

tolunart.2095:

So… a bug or limited time to develop the items meant that they weren’t ready in time to release with SAB. Therefore the only choices are to redesign the entire appearance of the items (and thus delay their appearance in the game AGAIN) or throw out the entire idea? They aren’t trying to fool anyone, when new content is released every month sometimes there are going to be things they have to put off until next month.

I’m trying to figure out by what zig zagging path of rationalization either of these scenarios necessitates a name change.

Because SAB is not active this month. So they use the items they have available now with the current theme. I don’t see a problem here.

But it’s only the style of the SAB-items. Why do you think the items should have been there last month? Except for the style they have absolutely nothing to do with the SAB.
And the SAB is there – it’s only offline now. But since last month it’s a part of the lore. So why not use Moto’s technology to create new items?

Niyo.5920:

But it’s only the style of the SAB-items. Why do you think the items should have been there last month? Except for the style they have absolutely nothing to do with the SAB.

To be fair, none of the “SAB style items” have anything to do with the SAB, as you can’t use PvE weapons or backpacks in the SAB.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Niyo.5920:

But it’s only the style of the SAB-items. Why do you think the items should have been there last month? Except for the style they have absolutely nothing to do with the SAB.

To be fair, none of the “SAB style items” have anything to do with the SAB, as you can’t use PvE weapons or backpacks in the SAB.

I know. Did I say something else?