Guild Wars 2

Mr Ko Killer.7206:

I could care less that you could sell Trib runs to people, that isn’t the issue and shouldn’t even be at this point, it’s the fact you have to exploit to sell in the first place that’s more irritating than anything, and it bugs the hell out of me anet condones it. A week and a half ago I was the happiest I had been on this game since the last time SAB came out, and now it’s just turned into me being annoyed once again by Anet and getting the SAB skins in a legit manner has absolutely no value anymore. I mean ya you can say Anet said it’s ok so its not an exploit, and that is a load of garbage. It’s like saying oh, well Mommy said its ok, but its still wrong to punch little Timmy.

Like I said before, if it was intended people could join your party, I would not care people can just buy their achievements for the bland infusions. It’s the fact that I sit here and play a game that i constantly hate those that made the game in the first place because of inconsistent and pathetic decisions.

I could sit here and continue to farm the skins legitly, but even if I so proudly display any of these skins, it just bugs the hell out of me that i know random people and even friends will just notice the skins and say, ah, he probably exploited for those skins/infusions anyway or question if i exploited it or not since that’s what most of them are doing anyway, just like any one person does when they see The Eternal title and go “ya know, they just bought the title anyway.”

I always said, if they can somehow, someway, screw up SAB for me, then there is absolutely no hope left in this game.

Pretty much this, I like to collect stuff that isn’t easily accessible, though I may not not necessarily show them. But now it is all moot, because people are more likely to assume that content which require effort are just “bought.”

What’s next? Simply buying raid skins with gold at a vendor? It’s only slightly less effort than going through a middleman. Heck, if the end game is “fashion wars” then this is the start of P2W.

Chris Cleary.8017:

It does trivialize the skins some, but this isn’t any different than the skins from purchasing a raid run or a dungeon run (which we also are ok with).

I disagree, as there is a fundamental difference. For raids and dungeons, they are designed to be played with others, and as such there are expectations that some players with lesser performance can be compensated for.

For SAB Tribulation, there is no such compensation; and as such, this greatly cheapens the skins, and in addition, Moto’s infusions.

As aforementioned, SAB is now reoccurring – so the skins will continue to be available for those who wish to pursue it. So in my opinion, the bug should be fixed ASAP in order to preserve the value of the skins.

Confirming that guesting on the server works. Note – even though you can get on the same (…) map without guesting (automatically puts you with your guild members), you still absolutely -must- guest to receive the rewards.

I’ve had this issue get worse in the past 2 weeks. (if it bugs again, then this week will be the third)
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Background: On 4/19/14 – first week of the Feature Pack patch – I did all 4 missions with my guild, but only received credit for the Bounty and Rush (none for Challenge / Puzzle); I thought this may have been related to the daily achievement reset – which I did also suffer from:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Merged-topics-Achievement-bug-no-chests-dailies-stuck/3924559

So I opened the tickets:
557149: Guild Challenge – No Commendation / Chest Rewarded (4/19/14)
557132: Guild Puzzle – No Commendation / Chest Rewarded (4/19/14)

Since the daily reset was “fixed” within a few days, I thought the problem would have been fixed; but on 4/26/14 – I did all 4 guild missions again, yet I received no rewards at all from any of them; thus I opened the following ticket.

574281:Guild Missions – No Rewards (at all) 4/26/14
A 7:20pm – completed Ghost Wolf (Rush), no reward chest; received karma for event completion
B 7:52pm – completed Skritt Defense (Challenge) – no reward chest; received karma for event completion
8:18pm – completed Skritt Defense (Challenge) – 4th time (this time ours), previous 3 helping other guilds (should get credit anyway), STILL no reward chest
C 8:47pm – completed Skritt Puzzle / Proxima’s Lab , no reward chest.
D 9:11pm – completed guild bounty – Trilla, no reward chest

To this day, #557149 has not been addressed, nor has #574281. (Other than the standard – high ticket volume, escalated automated response)
However, for #557132, I received responses from 4 different GMs, each telling me to open a bug report in-game (which does nothing, nor does it give you a ticket #), or just… do nothing. I inquired about the loss of chest rewards / commendations, and received a more or less “sorry, sucks for you.”

While I am pretty sure they are unlikely to change their responses, I am disappointed since they did not at least acknowledge that the loss of 6 GM boxes (9 commendations) particularly stings, as it is a weekly reset.

I also tried to negotiate (probably silly in hindsight), by stating that since I have 3 commendations in my wallet (and are missing 9 from this whole fiasco), then why don’t I just buy an ascended accessory through ArenaNet? Since mailing ascended items IS possible, I offered to have them just take 3 from my wallet (along with the difference gold), so I’d be paying for the item in full anyway.
Furthermore, I noted that this would have no impact on the economy (unless I choose to sell the item for… what, 3 silver?), and I am effectively giving up on whatever bonus items that may drop from the chest, only the wanting the static rewards (commendations / gold).

Of course, the answer was a pretty curt “no.” Which was disappointing, because I thought this was a reasonable and quick solution.

Would totally love an invite!