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i keep saying to my friends that our heroes act like a bunch of bullies all the time.
I know, right? We run through, slaughtering people nonstop, never accepting surrender. What really gets me is when bandits or pirates say “Now I’ll never…” when they die. How many of those people were just trying to make ends meet in a troubled time! Not to mention the continuous and needless culling of non-violent animals in the wild. Or hopping into an ogre farm and killing all of them for some grapes. Joking about stabbing someone in the chest (which seems like a weird way to kill plant people) is hardly the worst thing we’ve done.
So….following your post….we, might as well, now go and kill all people in refuge camp, because we are, obviously, mad psychos, even worse, than Scarlet.
There is a line between story and gameplay. Its obvious, that we have to kill/farm to get anything in this game. But it doesnt mean, that we should abandon our moral standards.
For all you know, when you ran into that ogre/grawl camp, it was a refugee camp for them. Their village was destroyed by a disaster or other “adventurers”. They are trying to rebuild and you see them as an evil race. The other sylvari “adventurer” killed their family and destroyed their home so they attack you for trespassing in their refugee camp. But you were just defending yourself, when you walked into their camp, aggravating them. Good thing you didn’t make any jokes about this… would have been wrong…
Or, in response to all that wildlife you killed or hostile races, you just saw a wild animal or guard and walked into his/her/its personal space, and were shocked when it acted hostile to you. Of course, after doing this several hundred times, you might have begun to expect this, and try and walk around them. But that takes time, and they were in your way…
Ascended weapon crafting materials
in Super Adventure Box: Back to School
Posted by: Craven Mage.8203
I hope that I can trade my captain commendations in for these new materials!
Also during the dragon bash festivals, none of the captians would take my commendations, whats up with that? =p
The only area she seems to ignore is Rata sum and azura areas. She was also trained by azura, she is probably an agent of the azura and they should be destroyed!
I want to thank Anet too!
All this free content and the game hasnt even been out a full year. That is really fantastic. I haven’t really seen many games do that.
All the events have been great! My favorite was the first southsun event with the invasion of the island and the epic karka battle at the end!
The problem is not RNG or that you can use gems to get it. The problem is that Anet has restricted the ability to sell tickets on the trading post. Halloween and Xmas events allowed items to be freely traded.
Say a country or union restricted the trade of an item, let’s say diamonds. The EU or US prohibits a person from buying a diamond, people can only acquire diamonds from mining. Are people going to run out and mine diamonds? In real life a black market would form, people would sell them illegally to those that want it. With the increase in price, people might run out and mine diamonds. In a video game you can’t from a black market, people who wish to purchase a rare resource can’t do it because it has been restricted. This essentially de-values in game gold, as you can’t use it to purchase the items you want.
If weapon tickets were allowed to be sold via trading house then this would essentially encourage a transfer of wealth. Bob is a new player and has 5g total, he gets a weapon ticket from a coffer. Bob looks on Trading post and sees weapon ticket go for 100g, and sell the weapon ticket. Bob, a new play, now has 100g. This was possible because Steve the hardcore gamer has piled up 500g from farming. He wanted a skin and he wanted it now, so purchased for 100g. Direct transfer of wealth completely based on luck of getting a weapon skin.
I have seen this happen personally for myself during Halloween and for my friend during xmas. If you get lucky and find a rare item or drop, you make a lot of money. And this is more efficient than trading money → gems <→ gold. It takes money out the equation for most people, which can hurt profits for Anet.
Anet does want to make people happy and they want people to keep putting money into Trading post. A happy customer is a frequent customer, but these to ideals are at odds with each other and will conflict. If everyone could purchase an item, it would not be rare or exclusive, and sales would decrease. If very few people can get it, then it is to rare and sales will decrease. They are trying to find the sweet spot, where there is just enough to get people coming back for more.