Guild Wars 2

Kalendraf.9521:

…The red heart is typically a symbol for love. Placing this symbol on a weapon could thus be interpreted as “I love to kill” or “I kill those I love”…

Suddenly, I was reminded of Joker and the duality of man…

These ladies could use the Lovestruck weapons.

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So I finally got around to checking out EotM and there is an “achievement” for basically committing suicide …

Lovestruck weapons with questionable symbolism? Nothing mischievous about the love heart.

Better than all the illuminati symbolism that’s plaguing the music industry tbh.

Let me try to explain this from a different perspective…

If a gunmaker IRL were to produce a fully functional firearm with a big red heart on the barrel, and then began advertising it a couple of weeks before Valentine’s Day, what kind of message would that send? Would that product simply be viewed as cute and inoffensive? Would people be lining up to buy them because they looked cool, or possibly to give as gifts to their loved ones? Perhaps I’m in the minority for thinking this way, but I suspect the gunmaker would instead be publicly reprimanded for marketing such a product.

I realize that GW2 is just a game, and that the weapons in the game aren’t real, nor is the killing. However, it is the reality as seen from our characters point of view. Would they condone the Black Lion Company marketing such items?

The decision to add these Lovestruck weapons to the game seems ill-conceived to me. IMHO, a better design for these would have been something incorporating a rose motif, such as modified versions of the Verdant weapons. At least that might have made more sense from a lore perspective, and it would have avoided the heart symbol all-together.

Some of these weapons look absolutely amazing, except for the Heart…

Kalendraf.9521:

However, it is the reality as seen from our characters point of view. Would they condone the Black Lion Company marketing such items?

I think you’re mistaking this game for one that values immersion and cohesive lore over income from novelty items.

Backward Sass.6791:

These ladies could use the Lovestruck weapons.

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Omg it hurts to laugh this much…..

Romantic Love
Moral and Spiritual purity
Self Sacrifice
Sexual love
Life Essence
Centre of the soul
Wellspring of Courage & the Will
Etc.

lots of symbolism. Take your pick

Kalendraf.9521:

Let me try to explain this from a different perspective…

If a gunmaker IRL were to produce a fully functional firearm with a big red heart on the barrel, and then began advertising it a couple of weeks before Valentine’s Day, what kind of message would that send? Would that product simply be viewed as cute and inoffensive? Would people be lining up to buy them because they looked cool, or possibly to give as gifts to their loved ones? Perhaps I’m in the minority for thinking this way, but I suspect the gunmaker would instead be publicly reprimanded for marketing such a product.

Manufacturers make guns in pink and there are all kinds of cutesy gun parts available that are decorated with hello kitty, hearts, or whatever. Google pink gun, pink handgun, gun with hearts, etc. There doesn’t seem to be much uproar about it other than from people that have an issue with guns in general. From reports, they seem to be growing in popularity.

http://newsok.com/valentines-day-sales-of-pink-pistols-and-other-handguns-rise/article/3647926

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1368541/Hello-Kitty-pink-paintwork-How-gun-manufacturers-targeting-female-market-girly-purse-pistols.html

Personally I love these new skins and plan to get a few of them! <3

Thelgar.7214:

Kalendraf.9521:

Let me try to explain this from a different perspective…

If a gunmaker IRL were to produce a fully functional firearm with a big red heart on the barrel, and then began advertising it a couple of weeks before Valentine’s Day, what kind of message would that send? Would that product simply be viewed as cute and inoffensive? Would people be lining up to buy them because they looked cool, or possibly to give as gifts to their loved ones? Perhaps I’m in the minority for thinking this way, but I suspect the gunmaker would instead be publicly reprimanded for marketing such a product.

Manufacturers make guns in pink and there are all kinds of cutesy gun parts available that are decorated with hello kitty, hearts, or whatever. Google pink gun, pink handgun, gun with hearts, etc. There doesn’t seem to be much uproar about it other than from people that have an issue with guns in general. From reports, they seem to be growing in popularity.

http://newsok.com/valentines-day-sales-of-pink-pistols-and-other-handguns-rise/article/3647926

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1368541/Hello-Kitty-pink-paintwork-How-gun-manufacturers-targeting-female-market-girly-purse-pistols.html

Pwnd with reality.

Karizee.8076:

Vol.7601:

How about the dolyak abuse by using them as transports in WvW?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChG0_ThxdJc

That. Is. Brilliant.