Guild Wars 2

Sorry if I am late to the party, but I was busy for a bit with RL stuff …

ANet: If you would like to create a second dagger for the blue lightning effect of the Mystic Forge than more power to you. But to just change the art after 6 months with no notification is just stupid.

You made no attempt to say this was a bug to be fixed … there was no warning when I spent 100 skill points (and 2 transmute stones) that I wasn’t actually buying what I wanted when I forged the bloody things. Your own wiki site showed the red lightning effects which is how I decided to create it in the first place.

So , in essence, you advertised falsely what I purchased and since I paid real money for the transmute stones I used to copy the art to a weapon with my stat distribution I have a very legitimate complaint. This is outside the realm of ‘fantasy’ money … you took real money from me.

Doesn’t the Inquest dagger have the same look as the original (bugged) Mystic Spike, and is much easier to obtain?

Yes, the Inquest weapons are the red version of the mystic weapons.

Though, flushing that much resources down the toilet for a weapon that was bugged still seems like a legitimate complaint. I would’ve suggested filing a CS ticket rather than complaining here. I don’t know how much they would help, but they SHOULD be willing to since this is an earnest mistake based on their own mess-up.

lol

Read the ToS.

Anything you purchase or acquire within your account is subject to change without warning at ArenaNet’s discretion. Your account is, “in essence”, a rental.

That’s how developers keep people from making any “I want my account data” BS if they ever shut down the game or ban players.

And anyone and their mothers know that the wiki site is a player-driven database.
Some data is bound to be flawed. That’s not proof of false advertisement.

Game skins aren’t even what they advertise about. They advertise about the game.
And in any game, there are bound to be bugs that fool players into wasting their effort. That’s what you paid for.

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I understand the frustration of having one of your items changed after having an absence, BUT your issue really has zero legality here.

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Edit because I don’t care to push this thread up

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LOL, you think that the factor of currency matters here?

If someone were to take it that far, the case would be immediately thrown out because it is a trivial matter of a single pixelated item being altered.

You know nothing of how the court rooms work. A judge has the power to deem the case not worth pursuing and prohibit you from ever bringing it up again because of its triviality.
You paid $60 for the game alone, your currency is not attached to the items you acquire, but the access to the game itself. There is no false advertising occurring here.

And in case you still don’t understand what that means, I’ll spell it out for you:

Your claim has no validity in the eyes of ArenaNet OR the Government.

Grow up and focus on things you can actually control. Like player demand, ArenaNet is still a business and duty-bound to listen to what customers want.
But silly legal accusations like this is not one of them. :P

DreamOfACure.4382:

lol

Read the ToS.

Anything you purchase or acquire within your account is subject to change without warning at ArenaNet’s discretion. Your account is, “in essence”, a rental.

That’s how developers keep people from making any “I want my account data” BS if they ever shut down the game or ban players.

And anyone and their mothers know that the wiki site is a player-driven database.
Some data is bound to be flawed. That’s not proof of false advertisement.

Game skins aren’t even what they advertise about. They advertise about the game.
And in any game, there are bound to be bugs that fool players into wasting their effort. That’s what you paid for.

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I understand the frustration of having one of your items changed after having an absence, BUT your issue really has zero legality here.

(Taking a tangent from the OP here as it has nothing to do with the suggestion)

On Wiki Site: The site is under the network domain of ANet, moderated by the staff of GW2, and officially supported by in-game commands. It isn’t your standard Wiki.

On Legality: That argument goes right out the window once real currency gets injected into the mix. The currency used was US legal tender, not some in game imaginary resources, and subject to taxation on the transaction. Commerce laws trump contracts between two parties, else things like prostitution would be legal, and since these transactions qualify for taxation they fall under the domain of those laws. Why do you think blizzard is so kitten careful with its in-game auction house.

In short, the government doesn’t really care what a EULA/TOS says if anyone was ever willing to take it that far.

Legally he is right. You have no power. But that should not discourage you, anet does alot of crazy(and sometimes downright stupid things). But they sometimes(and on very rare occasions) backfile the bad and replace it with the good and old. So if you can create a following, start a petition, and bring this to someone’s attention. WRITE A LETTER IF YOU MUST. At the least anet should offer you, the option to choose which one you wanted, since you had worked so hard for it.

Again, anet does crazy, and insane things at times. We can all point to that special PVP only scholar armor that was IN THE BETA, but never released in the game. And now is only a pvp armor. See they do crazy things…One day they may actually release that cool skin to the rest of us players. 1 day!