Guild Wars 2

Hello guys, name’s Haasth and I got a few Guild Wars 2 shows going over at my channel.
I thought I’d share my latest Guild Wars 2 lore episode with those interested. The show is called Lore Wars and has a trading card game style to it. This time it’s about the scariest of scary, the Elder Dragons. Thanks!

Personally I’ve enjoyed my time at 80 so far by doing things for fun every now and then.

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

Thank you for your reasoned insight, Haasth.

Happy to (hopefully) help!

Every single spider with the pull/immobilize ability. Dear lord.

Illushia.3721:

And you know what? That isn’t quite the whole picture, so I’m going to clarify a bit. (Yes, I’m necro-posting, but y’all will forgive, right? )
Technically, it’s against the current Guild Wars 2 Content Terms of Use for people to make money through such things as monetizing a Guild Wars 2 video. However, we support people sharing their experiences with our game. (Heck, we <3 people doing that!) So while we want to do the right thing and accurately relay what the CToU says — because that’s often the question — we do not take action when fan sites support themselves via ads, and we don’t take action when the creators of fan videos place ads. In other words, we do not flag such videos.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Policy-for-posting-videos-on-Youtube-others/first#post182021

Basically: You can do whatever with the videos, we don’t care.

To a certain extend, certainly. Monetizing it without proper certifications is not adviced though and there’s little ANet has got to do with that. Something I wish more people would realize.

- Asura’s feet wont stick through their boots anymore.
- Zhaitan now has a tophat and tapdances.

It changes nothing and hasn’t changed anything for a long time now.

Attempting to clarify it a little here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/GW2-YouTube-Some-clarification/first#post189099

Hello guys, I figured I’d share this here as I noticed there has been quite a bit of drama going about for a while now and I, as a YouTube partner, thought I’d try and clarify it a little. The semi-lengthy post I wrote about it is here on reddit: http://tinyurl.com/935qto5

EDIT: Reddit is being a little funny. So I’ll copy the entirety of it here.
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I have been following this drama for a bit now and figured I’d try and clarify a few basic concepts. Lets get a few things out of the way.
This is not a new thing. Not for Guild Wars 2 itself or for gaming videos in general.
I am a YouTube partner, part of a network. In other words, this sounds like something that affects me. Does it do so? No. Do you see any flagged videos? I certainly do not.

As I mentioned, this is not new. This has been around for ages and most games have a policy similar to this. Guild Wars 2 has had this in their policies for a long, long time now stating that “The content must be used in a non-commercial context for private, personal use only”. ArenaNet, or more accurately NCsoft, are not actively chasing after video creators. This flagging system is caused by YouTube itself.

For this reason networks exist, there are a number of ways for content creators to earn money through YouTube. The drama that occurred here likely arose over a creator that uploaded a video, got a message (an automated one!) that his video was capable of being monetized. Awesome! But that’s not how things work.
Monetization through this automated system does not make you a partner. YouTube explicitly states the following on game video monetization: “Whether you can use video game content for monetization depends on the commercial use rights granted to you by licenses of video game publishers. Some video game publishers may allow you to use all video game content for commercial use and state that in their license agreements. Videos simply showing game play for extended periods of time may not be accepted for monetization.”
Yes, it is possible to monetize gaming videos through a number of exceptions. Minecraft is a prime example where monetization is fully allowed – by Mojang – without strings attached, a lot of indie titles have this, but in general game videos can not simply be monetized by just about anyone on YouTube and your video will be flagged and possibly pulled. Keep in mind that you can still make videos as much as you want to if you do not activate monetization and therefor just use this for non-commercial uses. (There are other exceptions that I won’t go into detail in, and admittedly am not too familiar with)

Now then, networks. There are more than you could imagine, TGS, Machinima, TGN.. Etc etc. These are a different case altogether and most –if not all – of the content creators you’ll be watching Guild Wars 2 videos from are part of a network such as these. Through these networks you are a partner and the network you are part of takes care of the legalization ends, allowing you to create game content.

I’ll state it again, this is not a new thing for Guild Wars 2. Games such as World of Warcraft, Call of Duty or Halo work in similar ways. It is tempting to simply monetize just about anything when you get these messages, but be weary. If you want to actively be making money from gaming content on YouTube – and you think you have the time required to do so – Join a network.

Does this hurt people? Doubtfully. Again, this has been around for ages and do new partners arise? Definitely. Do people still monetize their videos? I do believe so. This won’t suddenly create a rift in all that we love and care about on YouTube or Guild Wars 2 and this is certainly not something “straight out of SOPA”. If it impairs the growth of smaller channels it has done so for years now and yet channels – Heck I’m a smaller channel – are still capable of growing just fine (Mostly without earning [significant] money off of it) until they are in a position to be partnered.

You can dislike ArenaNet all you want, but this is not a reason for it.

TL:DR In essence, people are misinformed and there’s little to no reason to shout at ArenaNet over this.

Haette.2701:

Part of the problem is that you lose your weapon’s stats while you have a kit out. No stats or sigils really starts to sting later on.

Yup, it is silly and should, like many Engineer flaws, be fixed.

Hello there fellow forum dwellers! Name’s Haasth and I produce videos, of which quite a number have been GW2 related and one of the latest was a guide for the Engineer elixir gun kit with what is easily my favourite build so far.
I figured some of you might be interested in this lovely condition spreading build so here it is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf-lYhdhGNw&feature=g-u-u

It works wonders as a steady condition damage and support build for PvP and PvE.
It’s not for everyone but certainly one to try out!

CameronDunn.6473:

Hey All,

Thanks for your posts on the issues which you’ve been having with guilds. Apologies that this is impacting you.

As a few of you have pointed out, this thread refers to a bunch of different guild-related issues. I’m going to talk about the problems with representing specifically.

Here’s the boring technical details about the problem : We had a load balancing issue where many game servers were incorrectly connecting to the same guild server, causing it to be overloaded and respond with timeouts.

This has been fixed, so this problem should go away. Please let me know if you’re still seeing this problem and I’ll look into it personally.

Note that this is different to the “network error” issue when you have too many guild memberships or invites – that will still occur (and is really just in need of a decent error message).

Cheers,
Cam Dunn
Studio Tech Director
ArenaNet

Thank you for replying on the issues,
However this does not solve the game breaking issue me and some others are having in which the guild is actively broken and unable to proceed. I am including an attachment to show my view from this, I am the guild leader, and as shown I can only “Edit Ranks” which is nothing more than change the name on ranks. Every rank is essentially on the same level – leader is lacking all the functionality – and there is nothing that can be done in the guild right now by anyone.

Guild: Hasty Industries [HI]
World: Aurora Glade [EU]
Character: Haasth

Made the guild moments ago (approximately an hour) had issues creating it initially. I was stationed in Rata Sum and noticed it took a significant amount of time for it to process me creating the guild. Eventually it worked and got me in but I was unable to press “Represent” until I moved out of Rata Sum, every NPC also did not recognize my represent status after that in Rata Sum.

Happy that it worked I invited some other members and we spent resources on influence only to realize that I was unable to preform any leader functionality and my rank was similar to the member rank (it was a seperate rank called “leader” but had no other functionality other than “edit rank” which just allowed me to change rank names) the icon too shared the same one as the member rank (The damage symbol).

To sum up: The leader rank broke and I can’t actually do anything to manage the guild, none of us can, and we’ve invested a significant amount of resources – not to mention the name and tag that might be reserved – I have tested if other guilds worked by quickly creating something else and everything behaves as normal there.