Guild Wars 2

then perhaps providing a receipt would be required for the upgrade … but even still most retailers have a no return policy on online games due to the one time use nature.
is there nothing they can do to tell retailers to stop selling the core then? especially since it is now technically free.

Walmart has it

I was in walmart the other day and noticed a woman with both GW2 and Gw2:HOT in her cart. After talking to her a bit I discovered that she was buying it to play with her boyfriend and thought she needed both because they were both on the shelf.

I told her other wise and she was quite happy to have been saved 40 bucks.
In another thread I asked about nearly this exact situation if someone buys the original core game retail now that HoT has launched they should automatically get HOT as well (assuming they paid full price for the game I know in this picture it is actually 10 dollars cheaper but another local store has them side by side for the same amount.)

I would love to see a data dump on guild hall claiming if nothing else to look up what number our guild was (we waited till Saturday at reset)

one of my favorite talking points about guild wars has always been the level ramp and how it levels out and makes for a much nicer leveling experience but the mastery exp seems to ramp very quickly … level 2 required 500k level 3 requires 1M.

Im not threatening to quit not seeking a refund and not really complaining…
just sad to see one of my favorite points not carried on.

ok not going to read this whole thread right now but I just want to toss this out there. for 10 gold each me and as many friends as it takes will join your guilds help you get your halls and then leave you to enjoy it.

Thanks the the responses. Tho this does raid the question, If someone buys a core game at a retail store for the full price, (My local walmart still has a couple copies on the shelves for full price) will that copy get auto upgraded to HoT as it would have been purchased after the point in time when the full purchase was for HoT alone and that simply included the core.

Back when the game went on sale I purchased a copy to save until my daughters birthday in September. I have never set up an account to go with it so right now it sits in my email as essentially nothing more than a cd key.

I find myself wondering how are new account creations being handled. If we create an account now to go with this unused Key will it be given the privileges of a full account even tho it does not have HoT

I know this conversation has carried on without me a bit but I shall none the less respond to all aspects

Ruhrpottpatriot.7293:

There is a great deal of security issues in your proposal.
1. You are asking the members to give out their api key. Never do that. Granted api keys are not passwords, but they should be kept a secret nonetheless. An exposed api key can still be harmful.
Consider the following: You have a website where the user can input his api key and get informations about his account. Now your website is hacked and the hacker gets hold of the api key (leaving the problem of unencrypted private info out of this). He now can systematically check which account has an authenticator, and which not. He will then hack the ones without additional security.

As Lawton responded that is the purpose of the API, however that being said when I build scripts I go to great lengths to protect data and as such any stored API would be encrypted itself. and more than likely I would program such a system to not actually store anything but the encrypted API so that if any api was found connected to an account without said protection then they system would use the api to collect character info and send only me an email. Having the system built this way would make any compromised data virtually useless to anyone.

Ruhrpottpatriot.7293:

2. Providing such info via a public api is a no go, for obvious reasons.

Actually I fail to see what would be so obvious about this.
First of all since we have the ability to choose what is exposed by what API Key then it comes back to trusting who you give it to.

But beyond that the info of weather or not a person has an authenticator wold not be really that helpful to hackers. If you look at how most hacks occur, many times it is achieved by fishing for login info via scam mails. This method provides them with login info but not character info or account name. These are the two things they would need to compare against API info to be able to check if there is an authenticator.

Other hacking methods include the hacker getting your email login info and discovering that you have a game account then going to the game and requesting a password change once the password change email is sent they go to your email click the change password link. and enter a new password for you. Then go get your stuff.
Now last I knew in order to change your password in GW2 you needed to use a ticket and the method of verifying your ownership of the account included display name character names or list of guilds. ALL of those things are already in the API.

Now if there exists a hacking method that would provide easily cross referenced data that they could use against a database of API Keys to eliminate accounts with authenticators from the list. Why would they spend the time or processing power to check for it when that same time and check could be spent logging in and since the goal us usaly to get in and out with the hacked accounts goods as quickly as possible it seems to me that it would simply be a waste of time.

Also I for one have never kept the fact that I use two factor authentication a secret, in fact I tell everyone I talk to about it in an attempt to persuade them to make use of it as well.

Ruhrpottpatriot.7293:

Yes, this is a problem for the guild overall, but it is a problem you have to live with. There are best practices for such occasions, such as giving guild banks access only to trusted members or let your members know why an authenticator is better.

I have seem guild banks raided by hacked Guild leaders. My own guild was recently raided by a hacked officer who has been a long standing trusted member who happened to mess up and fell prey to a fishing email.

Lawton Campbell.8517:

Anyway, I passed the idea to optionally restrict access to the guild banks to members that have TOTP enabled to the guys who work on the guild stuff — I think it would be a nice feature to have, the API just isn’t the right place for it.

All previous comments aside I respect your decision if in fact it is final. I also thank you for passing the suggestion on as while building something via API access would solve the problem for me personally I think globally for all guilds a simple button offering to restrict all access to the bank or individual tabs in it to those with authenticators. would be a much better solution and greatly lower the incidences of guild bank pillaging. As well as adding in daily limits to withdraws such as no more than 5 items per day for this rank and separating gold withdraws from bank access and allowing limits on that as well.

I would love to see a simple bit of info available in the API to tell weather someone has an Authenticator on their account.

After a recent hacked member emptied our guild bank I long for the button from wow that allows you to give permissions based on if a player has two factor or not.

so basically I would like to be able to have a script that those who want guild bank access would provide their API key and it would check to see if they have an authenticator then repeat the check daily and if someone removes it it sends me an email to let me know to remove their bank access.

Sariel V.7024:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Behellagh.1468:

Gaile Gray.6029:

lordkrall.7241:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Oh yes. In answer to the question, store updates will be coming out soon, but likely not today.

Again, thanks for your patience!

What are you doing up at this hour?!? :o

I’m in Brighton, England, for meetings with my EU team members. Then on to EGX Rezzed in London Thursday through Saturday.

Well that’s explained the extra U in rumor. You are probably posting from one of their machines and their spell check “fixed” it for you.

Actually, I used to live here, and for me “armour” really does have two “u’s.” I have to consciously remove the second “u” in all sorts of words. (One of the founders of ArenaNet gently told me we needed to go with “armor” back when I first started writing website content.)

Where does the second u go in armour? Armouru?

1. the “u” in the word
2. the “u” in the armor (you in the armor)

Anet with all the work that needs to be done around LA why would you steal this poor mans tools and make him air hammer, The poor guy just stands there pretending to chip away at the rock day in and day out. I mean I think this guy is a trooper and has an amazing work ethic. Please give him a chance to show that he can work safely with a pickaxe … or at least give the poor fellow a different job.

if I remember right there is the ability to make the game play custom music that is not only been around since about launch but also officially supported built

yep here is link http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Customized_soundtrack

wow that is a huge ripoff of the gw2 personal assistant http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2drawa/introducing_the_gw2_personal_assistant_overlay/

Beldin.5498:

Because maybe nobody knows what you are talking about. I don’t see that the bows
you posted are maybe asymetric, so i don’t know what you mean with “backwards”
and especially i never saw bows that fired arrows into my back.

the names are backwards … the ones labeled recurve are actually long bows and the ones labeled long bows are actually recurve bows

and yes I am hoping for a simple rename

wow 156 views and no comments … am I the only one here who practices archery in real life and is bothered by this?

Most of the bows listed as Recurve or Long Bow are backwards, see the image below for identification of the types of bows then check any number of bows in game that are labeled as either Recurve or Long Bow.

http://ghh.com/archery/ComparasonOfBows.jpg

Really Red? you post about us and that’s all you have to say?!

Have you seen the original post I made about the guild?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/guilds/4-guys-a-girl-and-a-guild

Next time post more betterer!

I’ve wondered if the Surface would run GW2… thanks for sharing.

Malkavian.4516:

I don’t think that reason justifies the need for a first person view. If anything, the game is meant to be played in the third-person.

I agree I think dodging in FPV would be terrible… also first person really does make it more difficult to know where you can dodge to…

and Im pretty sure jumping puzzles would be down right impossible while in first person view.

you say you want first person view to take better pictures… I want it to walk around in an 3d environment either way neither reason actually improves the quality of game but instead gives us something fun to play with.

Well they have said many times that they might…. but also we are watching time pass in the game and a revamped PS might work better with the world changes than the old one did.

1. Oculus Rift.

That is all

Alright Ill add a bit more. in the recent interview they talked about how beautiful the game art and world is. I want to walk through it, I want to look around the world and be fully immersed in the way only the Oculus can provide.

or at least be changed.

At this point the personal story takes new players across Tyria and raises them from a nobody to local hero to honored member of an order and all the while helping the members of the original Destiny’s Edge work through their troubles and come back together by way of a series of story dungeons. and finally a commander in the force that proved that the Elder Dragons can die.

And that is great it was a long journey and an epic trip, it really felt like we were growing in the world.

BUT…

How does the personal story go for a new race… imagine through the living story Mord attacks the Tengu and they decide to join in the fight. They open the doors to the Dominon of the Winds to us and we are allowed to make new Tengu characters.
What would their personal story look like.
In the beginning it would look the same a lowly commoner raises to local hero and umm … why would a tengu coming out to fight mord care about joining an order… so that part goes away … and forming and joining the pact well they are fighting mord not ziatan so not so much there either. and since they are coming out to fight mord the ziatan story is already done and destiny’s edge is back together so not alot of need for them to go through the dungeon story modes either.

So do they need a totally new personal story? or will the living story that brings them out from behind their walls become their personal story.

OR is it time for the personal story itself to go or at least be reworked perhaps a new branch of personal story that takes new characters on a similar path until the orders then have the orders simply helping with dragon troubles world wide. and thusly send them through fireheart and frostgorge instead of Orr then their final portion is the living story at the current time. as for the dungeons have them somehow do the story mode as a way to investigate destinies edge’s past then have DE1 introduce them to DE2 so they have an idea who these people are.

Weather it is something akin to my idea or another method I think it could be time for the personal story to be overhauled in the way it works to allow better involvement of any future races and new toons in general.

I use a program called caps unlocker. it automatically unlocks my caps lock every time I press caps. Thusly making caps lock a usable key on the keyboard for other things. but I have discovered that I cannot bind things to caps as when I try nothing shows up in the window. Am I missing something or was it simply assumed that nobody would ever want to bind caps?

Is anyone else hopeful that the feature pack will also see updates and improvements to the API?

Myself and the other officers in the guild are attempting to clean up our Roster and are kicking people who have not been online in over a month without telling us they would be back and trying to send them mail telling them why they were kicked and they are welcome back if they become active again but we want a cleaner roster list. the problem is there is like 20 people and while kicking and mailing we keep getting suppressed for excessive messaging. I really wish there was a way around messaging like its ok for guild leaders or officers to email anyone on the roster without getting suppressed.

Long ago I purchased a copy of the game just before it went on sale. I opened a ticket and support was able to resolve it to my satisfaction. I would definitely open a ticket and explain all the details of the timing and source of your purchase and ask if there is anything they can do.

wait did you say raidcall? who uses that?

you know WoW has that … every guild I was ever in in 2 years of playing ignores it. As near as I can tell most games that have it see it ignored by most organized groups

Just pointing out that I called the feature pack before I saw anything about it perhaps even before it was posted. Here’s hoping my other ideas pan out.

Darkorical.9213:

see Im kinda looking at it like this … this is the mid season finale of LIVING STORY. Which doesn’t mean necessarily that its the end of game updates. I’m actually hoping to see something like this happen.

In two weeks instead of another living story update we will get a 2nd anniversary thing. (August 26th)

2 weeks later we will see a feature update, and maybe SAB returns to give them time to iron out any bugs from the feature update. (September 9th)

Another 2 weeks and we could see the end of the WvW season and a update to ready for the next season. (September 23rd)

Then October 7th living story returns with the beginning of fall.

see Im kinda looking at it like this … this is the mid season finale of LIVING STORY. Which doesn’t mean necessarily that its the end of game updates. I’m actually hoping to see something like this happen.

In two weeks instead of another living story update we will get a 2nd anniversary thing. (August 26th)

2 weeks later we will see a feature update, and maybe SAB returns to give them time to iron out any bugs from the feature update. (September 9th)

Another 2 weeks and we could see the end of the WvW season and a update to ready for the next season. (September 23rd)

Then October 7th living story returns with the beginning of fall.

So you are saying its trash because you can exploit it in to being a free trip across the map?

That is nothing compared to my collection before they made it so boosters wouldn’t effect liquid. so right before they dropped the change I used every booster and went on a drinking binge.

This was back in the day when karma came mostly in jugs. I had just about every daily (1 each) and monthly(10 each) for the first year stored up and the extras from smaller bottles as well

I am among those who want First person view but only because I plan on getting myself an Oculus Rift for Christmas and would love to use it with GW2

so a couple months ago I made this thread
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/500-244-issue-with-collections/first#post4024442

basically the issue is that if you have purchased an upgrade for collection slots so they hold 500 instead of 250 and you have over 500 and you link the stack the amount number is wrong.
This isn’t a huge issue but recently it lead to some confusion while attempting to sell a large amount of mats to a guildie.

(also I envision a certain amount of fun when linking a 500 stack of Ectos.)

Since they have again restated the rules about necroing posts I am starting a whole new topic to ask if there is in word on this getting fixed.

the only thing I noticed was the screen seems darker.

So is the OP insinuating that we may venture to the ….. “Underworld” Dun DUN DUN!

Trahearne gets curious and is certain he can glean more info from Omadds device than the player and in a fit of arrogance enters the machine and goes just as nut-so as Scarlet resulting in us having to kill him then cover up his faults a-la 2 face in the batman movie.

On one hand great idea on the other…
What if you forget to turn it off when you are in LFG and someone tries to PM you about a group.

Or you see someone with an awesome skin and you whisper them about it and you never see their reply.

Or you are in WvW and another Commander wants you to go take a couple points on one side of the map while they take some on the other, and you have no idea because they can’t PM you

Or your Random PvP team turns out to be an actual competitive team looking to fill their recently vacated last spot and they like your style.

see my point?

I know, I’ve seen them that is why I was hoping to see something fun in regards to the guild tag issue.

Alright many of us saw the mobs and npcs with guild tags the new patch fixed that but I really think Anet missed a fun chance with the patch notes

instead of “NPCs should no longer appear as representing a guild.”
they could have posted something like
“Quelled the NPC uprising and closed their guilds and steps have been taken to insure against future uprisings”

I see these housing posts all the time… Am I missing something? I’m pretty sure housing has been in the game since release. but instead of a single house we get a whole section of a city that we get to add to. Right now it is only resource nodes that we can buy and add to it but its there. I would love to see them start adding more things we could add to our home instance’s but as for a different house where I can go play Sims inside GW2 no thank you I’m good with what I’ve got.

so I purchased the upgraded collections so I could store 500 items but when I link them it shows 244 … it also shows lower numbers for other amounts over 255 … at 256 and 257 it links the item in singular format ([Glob of Ectoplasm]) after that tho it seems to raise in tandem 258 -2 259 = 3

trying to go in arah keep getting this error
and its our entire party so Im certain its not my machine

not sure about the rest of the post but I too wished for the same thing after a disconnect during a jormag battle

What if OP is actually Anet dev in disguise and posted their actual wish list to find out what is most important to us players…

Personally I enjoy the immersion afforded by this game, I enjoy the escape from reality so yes it does bother me to see such things in the game. In fact long ago I posted a very similar thread pointing out the racism in the game.

AKA I agree with the OP

I noticed something interesting today while surfing around the forums. When someone complains that something in game may be offensive or upsetting, such as this thread about the comments made about Scarlet ( https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/escape/SPOILER-Jokes-in-bad-taste ) or my own log ago thread about the racism in game ( https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/A-question-about-racist-comments/first ) a large portion of the responses are “It’s just a game get over it”

But then we turn around and have threads where people complain about something breaks their immersion in the game like this one talking about accessories ( https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/I-dislike-immersion-breaking-accessories ) or this thread complaining about the interface itself as immersion breaking ( https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestion-Turn-off-individual-UI-elements ) to those posts I see very few “It’s just a game get over it” replies.

So it makes me wonder what is more important to people immersion and the feeling of living in the world created by the game or just playing the game as it is and taking everything included with it as just a game.

I was wondering if the API included the leader boards specifically the achievement one I think it would be neat to have on our website a ticker showing peoples achievement points.

I did not find it but I also did not find it listed in the suggestions and assumed I wouldn’t be the first to ask for it. so I’m posting here

I for one would love to see Gems as rewards for things in game … given the cost of things (200-1000gems) I would love to see something like
Champion chests and regular fractals offer like a chance of 1-5 gems
Dungeons offer a chance of 5-10 gems
Dragons and big fractal bosses offer a chance of 8-12 gems
While there is no denying the ability to do these things for gold then buy the gems with the gold. There is just something about the idea of getting gems from a chest. I think this would defiantly add incentive to complete dungeons, fractals and dragons again.