Guild Wars 2

Inverse.2967:

Please reconsider adding more vendor tabs to the Black Lion Specialist to keep all sets available, they are staying in the game data anyways.

You’ll just have to wait and see what’s in store

Hey!

This was intended, we regularly have to make room for new sets.

There have been mentions of this since the December patch, but nothing concrete has come up. It doesn’t happen to many people.
Maybe there is something different about your hardware, or the type of match you were playing in, or the specific data attempting to be shown on the scoreboard.

Uhh, I’m pretty sure that’s a bug. Right now we display items that have been looted or bought off the trading post. Should add “bought by a vendor” as another way to get on the whitelist.

There is a conversation going on about this, but no decisions have been made.

New build just went live that includes a fix for this issue, if you are still having problems please post.

Fixed

Have fun guys!

rahidz.1406:

I take the optimistic “soon” reply to mean “whenever the next patch rolls around” (so about a week or two at most), especially since the bug seems to have been identified and fixed, just a matter of rolling it out.

“soon” is always a release

We try not to hotfix the game unless we have to, and usually we only hotfix during the week of a release. After that week it gets tougher.

4/28/15 – April 28 Release Notes
Release Notes:
NEW FEATURES AND CONTENT
Expansion Beta Loot Drops
Mordremoth is stirring, and the nearby areas of Dry Top and the Silverwastes are feeling the effect. All events and creature drops in this area now have a small chance to drop a Portal to the Heart of Maguuma item that will qualify the player’s account for an upcoming Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns™ closed beta test. These drops will continue for a week or longer to collect a strong player base for the test.
BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
Profession Skills
Engineer

• The engineer’s turrets are now affected by conditions and critical hits.

BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
New Items and Promotions

• To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the original Guild Wars, we’ve updated the Black Lion Weapon Specialist’s inventory.
  • The new Balthazar’s weapon set is available for one Black Lion Claim Ticket.
  • The Chaos weapon skins inspired by the original Guild Wars have been reduced to one Black Lion Claim Ticket each for a limited time.
  • The Tormented weapon skins inspired by the original Guild Wars have been reduced to one Black Lion Claim Ticket each for a limited time.

• Black Lion Chests have been updated. Keys are available in the Special category of the Gem Store for 125 gems.
  • The Mini Snow Owl has been added as a rare drop.
  • The Mini Hawk has been added as a rare drop.
  • The Mini Raven has been added as a rare drop.

• The following items have been removed from Black Lion Chests:
  • Custom Arena Time Tokens
  • Lion’s Arch Commemorative Dye Kit
  • Lion’s Arch Survivors Dye Kit
  • Mini Super Monkey
  • Mini Super Spider
  • Mini Super Bee Dog
  • Mini Super Yeti
  • Mini Super Raccoon
  • Mini Super Banana
• With the coming of spring, the baby miniatures are returning. Mini Piglet and Mini Orange Kitten are available in the Toys category of the Gem Store for 400 gems each.

Oooh, that’s tempting, but I only have a few more hours. I’m going to keep that idea in my back pocket for the future, though. I’d love to collaborate with our Lore Forum members — they’re a fantastic group of people!

I’ll be doing fan events in the future; who better to ask for a few ideas, hmmm?

Not a bad idea, Randulf. But if I do, some ArenaNet staff members will see it and they’ll then know the answers!

Let me see if I can think of a work-around.

Today’s project: Come up with Guild Wars trivia for the ArenaNet staff. This is going to be extra challenging!

To add on to what Xanatos mentioned, we will be extending prizes to top 64 instead of top 32 with this change. I’ll need to go over the rewards on Monday, but at a minimum, you can expect a Llama Mini for making it to the second round.

keykat.9734:

So I put the wrong email in the account part for the survey, is there a way to change that? :<
I don’t want to be kicked out of the contest just because I entered homail instead of aol on accident
Is there some one I can contact or am i just out of luck?

If you are one of the randomly-selected winners, I have a pretty good idea we’ll be able to reach you via the e-mail address you put. We may need information to verify that you have a Guild Wars or Guild Wars 2 account in good standing, but beyond that, I think we can synch that up and get you your prize. (The same applies to others who made have made the same error.)

I’ll be posting a list of winners (by display name) so that’s another way we can coordinate all the information to make sure the winners get their prizes.

BunjiKugashira.9754:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Questions about regional/national eligibility have arisen in the past, so we have included an article in our Knowledge Base to address such questions: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/28147436-Contests-and-Tournaments

It would be wonderful to be able to offer this contest is all areas of the world, but unfortunately, as explained, that simply is not something that we are able to do.

I can’t view the link. It says:
“Sie haben keinen Zugriff auf dieses Thema.
Sie haben keinen Zugriff auf diese Seite. Wenden Sie sich an den Kontoinhaber dieses Zendesks.”
You don’t have access to this topic.
You don’t have access to this page. Turn to the account-owner of this Zendesk.

In that case, let me simply quote the Knowledge Base here:

Contests and Tournaments

Am I eligible to participate in a Guild Wars 2 Contest or Tournament?

Each contest and tournament is bound by specific eligibility rules as outlined in the official announcement of the event on our website. Contest and tournament rules are reviewed by legal counsel in various regions in which we have access to such professional reviews. Residents of countries in which we do not have legal counsel are not eligible to participate. In addition, residents of a country, state, or province that has legal restrictions on such events likewise are ineligible to participate. If you are ineligible to participate in a contest or tournament, please check the rules for future events, as eligibility may change with an upcoming event.

The amulets will be rebalanced to compensate for the loss of stats originally gained from trait lines.

This is probably as good of a place as any to mention that we’ll also be using this opportunity to rebalance PvP’s celestial amulet to be slightly less effective. We’re probably looking at a 10%~ decrease in overall stats, but this number can change as we draw closer to releasing the core specialization changes.

Not quite a record, but pretty fast! I think ToL1 or ToL2 had something like 312 teams sign-up over the course of a month (so we have plenty of time to get there).

For ToL1, we were planning for 8 total teams and a contingency plan to extend to 16, haha.

Serophous.9085:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Guild Wars was released on April 28, 2005. In celebration of this milestone, we’re offering a contest: 10 questions for the 10th Anniversary, with, you guessed it, 10 winners!

Prizes? Of course! We have some tasty Guild Wars swag we’ll be sending off to the winners, each of whom will be randomly selected from those who answer all 10 questions correctly.

Head over to our contest page here and take your best shot at the answers to questions based on Guild Wars history, from characters to geography, good guys to bad.

We’ll post the legal stuff (rules, eligibility info, etc.) in a forum post immediately below this invitation.

Now, don’t waste a minute! The contest ends at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on April 28, 2015!

Huh, so GW1 was released on my birthday….
Do i get something special then?

A hearty “happy birthday” greeting, mayhaps?

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

@ Gaile, problem solved: see above (might be usefull for other people).

Nice, thank you so much Phoebe!

And yes:
Account name = email address used to access the game
Display name = name you see in the forums, like Gaile Gray.6029

Be sure you enter these fields properly and you’ll be good to go!

Congrats fellow engineers. ^^

Luvpie.8350:

I love how they had to lax the ‘requirements’ for WvW rep because everyone that cares about WvW has been infracted at one point or another

The parameters for involvement in the program have not changed at all; we’ve simply made them clearer by expressing them outright. We have never had a “You must have a 100% perfect record” policy because we understand that the occasional slip of the fingers or overly-heated comment does not mean that someone would be a bad specialist.

Fuzzion.2504:

Throw in a free GW2 T-shirt and I may consider.

vespers.1759:

How many gems does one get for “volunteering”? And don’t say none because we all know the answer is never none.

These are volunteer positions and do not involve compensation, that t-shirts or gems.

Vegetation.6419:

I would like to add that the new forum specialist should not be a known whiteknight nor a known whiner because in either case no improvements will be made. In one hand, there is no problem or improvements to be made to wvw and on the other hand everything is bad and the game os running to its doom. Please pick someone in between. Thank you.

If you can find the person that no one calls a “white knight” or a “whiner” I’d be amazed. There are few people who aren’t branded as one, or the other, or both!

I have updated the Forum Specialist thread and posted in WvW that we are seeking two (2) forum specialists for World-versus-World coverage.

We’re continuing the Fansite Specialist Program, which has brought and will continue to bring in a wealth of helpful feedback for the developers to review and consider as they are working on the existing game and on the Heart of Thorns expansion.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Oh and I liked the question where one of the answers was a misspelling. I had a professor that did that once on a true or false question where he spelled the name of a historic figure wrong by one letter and asked if the person was responsible for their creation. I looked at it for like 5 minutes trying to figure out if the professor made a typo. He didn’t and if you answered true you got the question wrong. Pure evil. HAHA

Evil? No, no, I assure you that was not the intention.

Soren.9316:

I knew it! Josh really was behind the searing! =p

Well, I wouldn’t want to confirm or deny such a rumor…

Yours is the first report of any issues, Phoebe. Can you please PM me with the addresses you are trying to use? I then can discuss with Ramon, who was instrumental in setting this up and whose technical expertise in Survey Monkey exceeds my own. Ramon is away for the weekend now, given that it’s past dinner time in Europe, but he and I can converse on Monday and try to figure out why you’re having difficulties.

The contest runs through Tuesday night, and there’s no advantage to entering sooner, nor disadvantage to entering later, so I feel sure we’ll be able to figure this out in time for you to participate.

No Peter, I’m terribly sorry, but you cannot enter. This is for our players, fans, followers of the game.

~ insert mutter about “rascally team members” here ~

:D

Are you getting any crash dialogues? What does your crash look like? Do you have the option to submit to ArenaNet?

Yes, we will be at Games Convention in Cologne. No additional details are available yet, but we’re looking forward to it!

Wait, I can’t enter?

Boggs.6482:

I just joined my first competitive team this week, and we’ve been testing comps and learning each others playstyles in ranked. Don’t quote me on this, but this week I believe we’ve only face 2 premades running the same guild tag, a few premade pugs (lol), and the rest have been pug groups.

I actually just posted on the forums looking for teams to scrim, because with such inconsistent matchmaking, we have no way to judge or skill level and improve. We don’t want to fight pugs. We’re queued kitten men on voice com, and we would like to fight another 5 man on voice com without having to spend hours on the forums :’c

(Please don’t shoot meh down, Justin. Don’t tell everybody how noobish our team is and how perfect your algorithm is.)

Sorry, but I’ve got to shot yeh down, Boggs. Since we can’t detect voice coms, I can’t include it as a factor in matchmaking.

We do have some knobs that we can turn to increase competition for teams, but we have to be careful because a premade team does not always imply more skillful play.

Flumek.9043:

Josh (Davis aka Grouch) is the messiah of pvp.

Here is Justin (ODell) , the wizard who programs your bad loot & and matchmaking. He can also cast a curse on you which does +400 ping.

Hey now… you can blame me for matchmaking, but I had nothing to do with loot.

Coedeax.2567:

So excited! Brought back quite a few memories answering those questions. Thanks Gaile!

Loved putting this together. I’m the biggest fan of our games, I swear, I get all sentimental at the drop of a hat. Well, a Guild Wars hat, anyway.

Merrydew.4079:

April 28th also happens to be my 42nd Anniversary… Both Hubby and I play GW2… Does this mean we get extra points?

Oh shucks, I don’t think there’s any way to do that. However, may I send major, major hugs to both of you? (My husband and I have been playing GW and GW2 together for about 13 years now!)

<3 <3 <3

Aye.8392:

I’d love to see some of the answers that people gave to their fondest memory. Copy paste them here!

Oh, you can be sure I’m going to use those! I am not sure right now if I’ll mention display names when sharing, but the sentiments expressed will be shared with the entire ArenaNet Team and we will share some of them in the forums, as well.

I really am looking forward to what players have to say. I <3 the entire 10th Anniversary buzz!

Trevor Boyer.6524:

After hundreds and thousands of matches, it is very visible that your MMR system functions as this:

• Ten players que at the same time
• High MMRs are 10, low MMRs are 1
• The ten players qued look like this: 10, 6, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1
• System tries to balance two teams from these MMRs
• Result looks like this -> RED: 10, 4, 3, 2, 1 --- BLUE: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2

This is not how the system works. The old solo queue worked like this, sort of.

You can find more details on matchmaking here:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Matchmaking_Algorithm

The current system is more likely to produce a result like this…
Red: 10, 5, 4, 3, 2
Blue: 6, 4, 3, 2, 1

Which could be argued is less fair, but really because MMR isn’t the only factor this is an oversimplification.

Questions about regional/national eligibility have arisen in the past, so we have included an article in our Knowledge Base to address such questions: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/28147436-Contests-and-Tournaments

It would be wonderful to be able to offer this contest is all areas of the world, but unfortunately, as explained, that simply is not something that we are able to do.

10th Anniversary Sweepstakes
Official Rules

*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. *Open to registered forum users, 18 or older, who are legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including District of Columbia), Canada (excluding Quebec) and Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus , Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom. Employees, agents, officers & directors of ArenaNet, LLC (“Sponsor”), its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates & advertising & promotion agencies (collectively, “Released Parties”) & members of their immediate family (spouse, parent, children, siblings & their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) & persons living in the same household, whether or not related, are not eligible. Void where prohibited. Subject to all applicable federal, state & local laws.

*HOW TO ENTER: *Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time (“PT”) on April 24, 2015 & ending at 11:59 p.m. PT on April 28, 2015, (7:01 a.m. UTC on April 24, 2015 and 6:59 a.m. UTC on April 29, 2015) (“Sweepstakes Period”), to enter, follow the link within the “10^th^ Anniversary Contest” post on the Guild Wars 2 Forum and submit your answers to the ten (10) questions posted (“Questions”). Submission must include a valid e-mail address to facilitate winner notification. In order for your entry to be eligible, you must answer all Questions correctly, as determined by Sponsor, in its sole discretion. Entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. PT on May 1, 2015. Entries generated by script, macro or other automated means or by any means which subvert the entry process are void. Limit one (1) entry per person. Multiple entries will be void. Entries become the sole property of Sponsor.

*ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: *Entry must be entrant’s own work product & not be offensive or inappropriate, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entry that it determines, in its sole discretion, is not in compliance with these Official Rules.

RANDOM DRAWING: Potential winners will be selected in a random drawing on or about May 8, 2015* *from among all eligible entries received. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

*WINNER NOTIFICATION: *Potential winners will be notified via e-mail from an ArenaNet staff member to the winner’s forum account & will have 72 hours from notification to respond to Sponsor. The failure to respond to such notification or a potential winner’s noncompliance with these Official Rules may result in disqualification, & at Sponsor’s sole discretion, prize may be awarded to an alternate winner.

PRIZES (10): Each winner will receive a piece of Guild Wars swag such as a t-shirt or pin, not to exceed US$25 each. Maximum Total Approximate Retail Value of all prizes: US$250. Prizes are awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied. Winners are responsible for all federal, state & local taxes as well as any other costs and expenses associated with prize acceptance and use not specified herein as being provided. Winners may not substitute, assign or transfer prize, but Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to substitute prize (or portion thereof) with one of comparable or greater value. All prize details are at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Limit one (1) prize per person/Forum Account /email address.

GRANT OF RIGHTS: By submitting an entry, each entrant grants to Sponsor and its licensees, successors and assigns an irrevocable, perpetual, unlimited, royalty-free, fully paid-up license to reproduce, distribute, display, exhibit, exploit, perform, edit, create derivatives of, & otherwise use the entry & all elements of such entry, together with any other material, and the name, user name, city & state of residence, voice, image and/or likeness of entrant, in any & all media now known or hereafter devised, in any manner, in whole or in part, worldwide, without compensation or notification to, or permission from, entrant or any third party, for any purpose whatsoever, including without limitation, for purposes of advertising or trade.

GENERAL CONDITIONS: By participating, each entrant agrees: (a) to abide by these Official Rules & decisions of Sponsor & judges, which shall be final & binding in all respects relating to this Sweepstakes; and (b) to release, discharge & hold harmless Released Parties from any & all injuries, liability, losses & damages of any kind to persons, including death, or property resulting, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from entrant’s participation in the Sweepstakes or the acceptance or use of a prize. Released Parties are not responsible for (i) lost, late, incomplete, damaged, inaccurate, stolen, delayed, misdirected, undelivered or garbled entries; (ii) lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, or other connections, availability or accessibility or miscommunications; (iii) failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, lines, or technical failure; (iv) jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions or computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties; (v) other errors or difficulties of any kind, whether human, mechanical, electronic, computer, network, typographical, printing or otherwise, relating to or in connection with the sweepstakes, including, without limitation, errors or difficulties which may occur in connection with the administration of the sweepstakes, the processing of entries, the announcement of the prizes or in any sweepstakes-related materials; (vi) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the sweepstakes; or (vii) injury or damage to any person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in this sweepstakes. Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of the sweepstakes or the Guerlain Page, who act in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or who are in violation of these Official Rules, as solely determined by Sponsor, will be disqualified & all associated entries will be void. Should any portion of the sweepstakes be, in Sponsor’s sole opinion, compromised by virus, worms, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or other causes which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play, or submission of entries, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the sweepstakes & if terminated, at its discretion, select winners at random from all eligible, non-suspect entries received prior to action taken or as otherwise deemed fair & appropriate by Sponsor.

WINNERS LIST: Winners list will be posted on the forum following the end of the sweepstakes. Sponsor: ArenaNet, LLC, 3180 139th Ave SE, 5th Floor, Bellevue, WA 98005.

Guild Wars was released on April 28, 2005. In celebration of this milestone, we’re offering a contest: 10 questions for the 10th Anniversary, with, you guessed it, 10 winners!

Prizes? Of course! We have some tasty Guild Wars swag we’ll be sending off to the winners, each of whom will be randomly selected from those who answer all 10 questions correctly.

Head over to our contest page here and take your best shot at the answers to questions based on Guild Wars history, from characters to geography, good guys to bad.

We’ll post the legal stuff (rules, eligibility info, etc.) in a forum post immediately below this invitation.

Now, don’t waste a minute! The contest ends at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on April 28, 2015!

10th Anniversary Sweepstakes
Official Rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to registered forum users, 18 or older, who are legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including District of Columbia), Canada (excluding Quebec) and Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus , Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom. Employees, agents, officers & directors of ArenaNet, LLC (“Sponsor”), its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates & advertising & promotion agencies (collectively, “Released Parties”) & members of their immediate family (spouse, parent, children, siblings & their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) & persons living in the same household, whether or not related, are not eligible. Void where prohibited. Subject to all applicable federal, state & local laws.

HOW TO ENTER: Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time (“PT”) on April 24, 2015 & ending at 11:59 p.m. PT on April 28, 2015, (7:01 a.m. UTC on April 24, 2015 and 6:59 a.m. UTC on April 29, 2015) (“Sweepstakes Period”), to enter, follow the link within the “10^th^ Anniversary Contest” post on the Guild Wars 2 Forum and submit your answers to the ten (10) questions posted (“Questions”). Submission must include a valid e-mail address to facilitate winner notification. In order for your entry to be eligible, you must answer all Questions correctly, as determined by Sponsor, in its sole discretion. Entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. PT on May 1, 2015. Entries generated by script, macro or other automated means or by any means which subvert the entry process are void. Limit one (1) entry per person. Multiple entries will be void. Entries become the sole property of Sponsor.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Entry must be entrant’s own work product & not be offensive or inappropriate, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entry that it determines, in its sole discretion, is not in compliance with these Official Rules.

RANDOM DRAWING: Potential winners will be selected in a random drawing on or about May 8, 2015* *from among all eligible entries received. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

WINNER NOTIFICATION: Potential winners will be notified via e-mail from an ArenaNet staff member to the winner’s forum account & will have 72 hours from notification to respond to Sponsor. The failure to respond to such notification or a potential winner’s noncompliance with these Official Rules may result in disqualification, & at Sponsor’s sole discretion, prize may be awarded to an alternate winner.

PRIZES (10): Each winner will receive a piece of Guild Wars swag such as a t-shirt or pin, not to exceed US$25 each. Maximum Total Approximate Retail Value of all prizes: US$250. Prizes are awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied. Winners are responsible for all federal, state & local taxes as well as any other costs and expenses associated with prize acceptance and use not specified herein as being provided. Winners may not substitute, assign or transfer prize, but Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to substitute prize (or portion thereof) with one of comparable or greater value. All prize details are at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Limit one (1) prize per person/Forum Account /email address.

GRANT OF RIGHTS: By submitting an entry, each entrant grants to Sponsor and its licensees, successors and assigns an irrevocable, perpetual, unlimited, royalty-free, fully paid-up license to reproduce, distribute, display, exhibit, exploit, perform, edit, create derivatives of, & otherwise use the entry & all elements of such entry, together with any other material, and the name, user name, city & state of residence, voice, image and/or likeness of entrant, in any & all media now known or hereafter devised, in any manner, in whole or in part, worldwide, without compensation or notification to, or permission from, entrant or any third party, for any purpose whatsoever, including without limitation, for purposes of advertising or trade.

GENERAL CONDITIONS: By participating, each entrant agrees: (a) to abide by these Official Rules & decisions of Sponsor & judges, which shall be final & binding in all respects relating to this Sweepstakes; and (b) to release, discharge & hold harmless Released Parties from any & all injuries, liability, losses & damages of any kind to persons, including death, or property resulting, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from entrant’s participation in the Sweepstakes or the acceptance or use of a prize. Released Parties are not responsible for (i) lost, late, incomplete, damaged, inaccurate, stolen, delayed, misdirected, undelivered or garbled entries; (ii) lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, or other connections, availability or accessibility or miscommunications; (iii) failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, lines, or technical failure; (iv) jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions or computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties; (v) other errors or difficulties of any kind, whether human, mechanical, electronic, computer, network, typographical, printing or otherwise, relating to or in connection with the sweepstakes, including, without limitation, errors or difficulties which may occur in connection with the administration of the sweepstakes, the processing of entries, the announcement of the prizes or in any sweepstakes-related materials; (vi) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the sweepstakes; or (vii) injury or damage to any person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in this sweepstakes. Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of the sweepstakes or the Guerlain Page, who act in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or who are in violation of these Official Rules, as solely determined by Sponsor, will be disqualified & all associated entries will be void. Should any portion of the sweepstakes be, in Sponsor’s sole opinion, compromised by virus, worms, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or other causes which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play, or submission of entries, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the sweepstakes & if terminated, at its discretion, select winners at random from all eligible, non-suspect entries received prior to action taken or as otherwise deemed fair & appropriate by Sponsor.

WINNERS LIST: Winners list will be posted on the forum following the end of the sweepstakes. Sponsor: ArenaNet, LLC, 3180 139th Ave SE, 5th Floor, Bellevue, WA 98005.

Guild Wars was released on April 28, 2005. In celebration of this milestone, we’re offering a contest: 10 questions for the 10th Anniversary, with, you guessed it, 10 winners!

Prizes? Of course! We have some tasty Guild Wars swag we’ll be sending off to the winners, each of whom will be randomly selected from those who answer all 10 questions correctly.

Head over to our contest page here and take your best shot at the answers to questions based on Guild Wars history, from characters to geography, good guys to bad.

We’ll post the legal stuff (rules, eligibility info, etc.) in a forum post immediately below this invitation.

Now, don’t waste a minute! The contest ends at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on April 28th!

How creative. How fun! Love LOVE this game.

We’re so glad you shared it with our players.

Now, back to trying to not die on the third jump!

I think we need to hire motivational speaker. Those workers are not getting the job done. I mean, some of them show up for work without tools!

Oh no, we can have additional account if we wish. No prohibition against that. I had 11 accounts in the original Guild Wars.

As others have noticed, I play—every day—on my personal account. My goal is to get Dreamer, so I’m farming my little heart out.

Each ArenaNet staff member has a personal play account. This may be a new account created upon joining the team, or a previous account that the team member had before s/he joined the firm. Some team members also have a separate account for official business, such as forum posting. (That’s the one I’m using right now.) A few of us have a third account for playing, but we use that account in such a way that we do not impact the game economy in any way. (This is super helpful for player events, and the “no economic impact” makes it clear we can’t come to an event and hand out precursors. )

I think it’s safe to say that we all love the game!

Updated 23 April 2014:

We are currently seeking the following Forum Specialists:

Two (2) specialists to cover the World-versus-World Subforum

We feel that having two specialists, as we do for PvP, provides us with excellent feedback and offers a varied insight into the relevant subject.

If you are interested in learning more about the position, please see this this thread.

Hello! Your description suggests that you are using the Streaming Client. The circle icon you describe (see attachment 1) is used in a couple of different ways: in map loading screens it’s there to tell you the game is continuing to work on loading the map, elsewhere it is typically an indication that your client hasn’t downloaded a piece of content yet and that it is being streamed-in in the background.

If you are using the Streaming Client, can I ask you what your Content Streaming setting is currently set to? You can find this in the Options Panel (normally F11 or by clicking the gear icon found in the upper left). Scroll to the bottom of the General Options page. It’ll be under the heading Streaming. (Attachment 2.)

As an example of how it appears in the wardrobe, please see attachment 3.

If you are not using the Streaming Client, could you describe the inputs the game appears to be ignoring?

This puts you in violation of international copyright law. Please remove this merchandise immediately.

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Cindas.6149:

I went to the Super Bowl this year (Patriots/Seahawks)!

The Seahawks were short two people, so they pulled me and another random person in from the stadium to play with them.

We did a great job, I had fun; but the other person didn’t. He didn’t know the plays, couldn’t hear the calls well, and couldn’t keep up with the others.

. . .

This analogy assumes we don’t do matchmaking when combining the 4 players with the 1. Since parties get a slight mmr bump, the solo players is often more skilled than the others. Yes, if those 4 are using voip or party chat, the solo will be left out of some planning, but there shouldn’t be a large skill discrepancy. This is the consequence of allowing any party size to queue, but in my opinion is far less of a problem than splitting up the community.

Hunter.4783:

However why do i even have to WORRY about being matched vs premades while queuing solo?

The fact that im getting premades on both sides means that there are more flaws in the system, not less. Its just that for these past few games i happened to get the “better” premade or it would be more losses than that.

Why do you have to worry?

If a 4+1 versus a 4+1 is an even match, why shouldn’t we make it? There is no right or wrong answer here, just curious as you seem to not think this is a good idea.

I’ll answer your questions, because others might have them.

Here my question:
- can i get banned for sending stuff to guild mates, and after a couple days, they return the stuff (replacing what i send them, usually time gated stuff)?

I don’t see how you would get banned for this.

[i]- can i get banned for crafting stuff on my alt account and sending the result to my main account (i got one alt account from discount back in HoT’s announcement)?

If this is specifically the case, no.

- can i get banned if i played on internet cafe which happen to have another GW2 player?

Yes. This is more of a situation of a shared network where users that are on the same network may catch a ban by association if one of the accounts running on that network is bad. Generally this can be cleared up on appeal, but it’s been known to happen.

- can i get banned if i send 10-200g donation to fellow guild member via guild bank for server transfer purpose?

Not likely to happen, it’s very possible that if you do for a large number of users you may get flagged for review, but it’s very unlikely that we would not be able to pick up on your actions immediately.

- in case i got banned after this post, can i get know reason ( and what do i have to do, to get explanation of my account termination), or it’s strictly Arena Net’s employee only?

There are “extreme” cases where someone may get their account banned for posting on the forums, but forums and game access are seperate, they very rarely talk to eachother about bans.

- what are stuff i do, that Arena Net can categorize as RMT (obviously i know selling and buying gold is illegal, i even block and report people for that)?

Yah, I’m not going to answer that question. Sorry, but it’s very safe to say if you are RMT, you kow you are RMT.

Here’s a good read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_economy

As for this:
“I am feeling lazy today, a ticket just in, another RMT appeal case, the system algorithm quite accurate, no need for further investigation, here down the ban hammer, say good bye to all your hard works, we don’t care what you’ve DONE or NOT DONE, after all, no loss on our side.”, is what i speculate is in concerned party’s mind.

What?