Guild Wars 2

The bot-only server would be a nice holding place for accounts until their rightful owners recover them, though.

That would be a side-effect of using Cider.

Enoch.1058:

It has to do with how your security settings are configured, not where you are installing it. You don’t want to protect yourself from malicious software, change the setting (administrator password required)

This has nothing to do with GateKeeper! GK stops programs from running at all with a normal launch if set to its strictest mode and the app is unsigned. None of the security settings apply in any way whatsoever to installing an app in a custom location. That is the domain of permissions. And you always have permission to write to your home directory.

Any installer which pops up admin verification in a .pkg installer also changes the group permissions so that the installed files are owned by admin users, which is quite annoying when the files go in your own directory.

Logsi.2031:

Pull your finger out Apple and give some better OpenGL certification!

Apple are at full OpenGL 3.2 with Mountain Lion, and have promised 4.1 during the lifetime of that OS. I just wish they’d hurry the kitten up before another big cat is due.

(Fun fact: Their shader level implementations are independent of GL implementations, so it might be ahead or behind once the 4.x update comes along.)

mastershke.8145:

There are no in game GM’s. They cant go in game to monitor them.

Maybe there are. Maybe they can log in as disembodied entities who can watch without you ever knowing they were there. I know the GM clients for other MMOs have features like that, so a developer or administrator can log in without having to create characters for visual observation.

Treating the whole market the same is part of what makes Good Old Games popular. They have the right idea – despite being a European company they base all prices in dollars. Probably makes it easier when they pay the US companies for licenses too :)

I’d only accept a 40% price difference (what it amounts to after calculating exchange fees to Euros, since we don’t use Euros here) if the company had a business presence physically in the country. Setting up a store which sells digital products to another country costs nothing extra; there’s no toll gate where they pay Internet tax for the bits to cross the border. Everything gets here without the government getting involved. Half the countries in Europe (at least) have no more buying power for the average citizen than the US anyway.

Just in the past year the Euro has fluctuated wildly – it’s been at 20% more value than its lowest, and is now right in the middle of that. Neither dollar nor Euro has been particularly stable against my currency either.

There shouldn’t be an installer, just an app to drag wherever, for something simple like a game. It needs no external resources, just its own files.

Cider, being based on Wine, is a weird beast. You can get worse, same or better performance, seemingly for no reason. For running the core game, it’ll work, but it feels a little dirty

To be truly awesome it would need to be native, though. Look at the WoW client, which has built-in movie recording that works smoothly. Things like that would need a whole lot of extra care if they merely ported a Windows feature in Cider.

And as noted above, using Windows shortcuts is painful. Some keys I set up for OS X global functionality might collide with common MMO shortcuts using control instead of command.

Buying gems doesn’t really eat so much into their revenue. Every gem seen on that market has been bought by another player.

1€ = $1.31. In addition to these skewed prices, some companies will add VAT on top. VAT is not something you bake into the price with exchange rate. Accounting generally requires each item separately. Those who operate out of the US can easily charge only dollar prices without taxes to every country which has a trade agreement with the US (this includes many EU countries). Even Gamestop manage to handle this better than ArenaNet and Valve!

You’d be ten times as rich if you didn’t pick cooking :P

@Arsenal: Reviving people until they only have their underwear left is what you should be doing, though. Grief a bot – revive it. Again and again. Or why not give it a gift axe if you’re an elementalist? Others have told stories of sending bots off cliffs that way :)

It’s often smart to bundle up bans into mass-bans. They might spend some time gathering data on exploits and bots first, which could be useful in banning them later. And in case some exploiters have found several they abused, but ArenaNet only banned them for one they saw, they also don’t know which one caused them to be banned :)

WatchTheShow.7203:

What’s even funnier is if an item would sell at an NPC for 30 copper, and someone is trying to buy the same item for 15 copper, it won’t let you sell it to them.

Even funnier than THAT is when said item is something like tin, which only a complete idiot (or someone quitting crafting) would buy from a vendor to sell at a loss ;)

Deleting characters is especially weird in GW2, where you can try everything a class has to offer with just one character.

My highest character of the 8 I have is 22, and holds my one gold piece. I expect to double it today by just selling what I have on the characters. I spent the other gold I made from the TP on the 3 extra character slots. I’ve also given up crafting, due to the excessive undercutting enabling me to get nice gear so cheap (if I don’t stumble upon something even nicer as loot – loot is fine at the low levels). I harvest, mine and chop down every resource I come across, and sell them for some reasonable profit. I get rid of everything I can’t use on any character now or within 3 levels.

I’m in a non-EU country, and we don’t add VAT. Except for e-books. So yeah, it’s not right to use a one-size-fits-all tax when some of the countries they sell in don’t collect the taxes they charge.

EU != Europe, just in case anybody’s wondering. There are around 180 countries outside ;)

I’m not even in the kitten mood to kitten play because of all the spam. Every kitten time I log in there’s a pile of kitten spam from some kitten gold seller. I hope the mass-extermination of the spammers comes soon, and that it involves furious kittens.

Yeah, this is ridiculous. A popup box about not being able to contact someone should be perfect too.

Personally I think banning China would solve a ton of issues (and I say this as someone with Chinese relatives on both sides of the family). They can have their own servers. Every city is a constant stream of spam already. I have to block a ton of frickin’ goldsellers to even read anything other people say before it scrolls off the page. This is like WoW at its worst. Ban China. Ban the hell out of it. I don’t care how unfriendly it seems.

I miss all those filters too. I also think “Only show available” should default to on.

Nekroseth.5186:

I tried Enginer, but i found it terrible. Its ok in pvp, but in pve its extremely boring. In first like 15-20 lv you have 2 weapons mostly.

How is that even possible? If you do skill challenges you should have your flamethrower and grenades pretty soon, well before 15. Engineers have more quick-switch weapons than the other classes when done right.

But like others say, it seems you don’t enjoy this game, really.