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"D3 AH bad for game" What about BLT?

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You lost the goal of my post. I wasn’t suggesting a better way to know market movements. I was explaining what “price written on stone” means.

This is what we need. Names of buyer and seller, and price written on stone, discussed and decided by the community, not surely by “the famous richest”

What you seem to fail to understand is that prices are decided by the community. Items sell for a price that both sellers and buyers are willing to conclude a transaction at.

If I try to list an item for double the price that someone is willing to pay, then I won’t sell the item and will have forfeited my listing fee. Conversely, if I put in buy orders at a price no one is willing to sell at, then they will never be filled. Remember, the other participants in the marketplace provide competition for people who wish to engage in excessive price-gouging. With names, I could enlist my competitors to help me keep prices high for our mutual benefit.

Price is not decided by any community. I can log now, buy the last 5 precursors and resell them for double/triple, right now. And it will be undercut a spit maybe attempting to steal my customers. I just buy again his weapons, keeping my price. Tell me again it’s a community decided price.

But if you make a “rare” item more common, via adjustments to the drop mechanics of Dragon Chests or from RNG of the Forge, then these items wouldn’t be rare anymore.

The underlying problem isn’t the TP or the people who use the TP to sell their goods. It’s the people who really want said rare item, but can’t afford it, so they complain or yell “manipulator” at every corner.

Adjustment must be made with both side helping: the community discuss prices. Anet read and actively do real time something.

I can convinve this community to do his part. I cannot help about the Anet side.
They are not interested to help us, seems.

Rise, my friends. Let them know we are tired of manipulators.

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"D3 AH bad for game" What about BLT?

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That website collect the current price , it’s update nearly real time.
That price is heavily discussed on the main forum, expecially if it raises , discussing the reason. And the company reads those threads too, making adjustment if needed, even doubling or making half the drop rate of the source. The community and the company both works together to keep the market stable.

So far, noone on this community is helping, nor the company cares of us at all.
Guys, is this one your idea of “TP is awesome, and better than others like Wow AH”?

As you said, people is willing to pay. How? Because they have a source of gold, turboruns of cof. Cut their legs, and tell me if they still want that price
Clearly, droprate must be adjusted too.
Still it’s Anet help what we need. Clearly, noone is expecting any.
John Smith is not reading my posts, telling us if i’m right. (I am, we all know).
At best a mod is reading my post waiting when can be deleted and infracted.

Rise my friends, take back your game. We are tired of those mysterious rises and manipulation, and noone know who is doing it.
We want names on TP, and Anet help.

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"D3 AH bad for game" What about BLT?

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I’m familiar with the websites but never used them when determining what price to sell things for on the AH. In fact, for some items that I traded frequently I would often price at above the current buyout price as I knew that mine would sell eventually anyway.

Other posters have given you reasons why including names may be a problem, but the biggest one for me would be the opportunity it would create for price collusion amongst sellers.

Did you ever play on a low-population server where a handful of people controlled the supply of certain required items (such as crafted gems) or worse, some items were just not available at times?

This happened because every server have his “internal economy”. Be sure, your price differs a spit. Try to sell that item for double price, then tell me if you sold it

I answered yet. Price colusion cannot happen. Everyone will see the name of everyone buying and selling. Every name of who is manipulationg ectos, precursors, legendaries , T6 mats etc will be “under the light”. And when this famous name is recurring buying at low price 5 precursors/T6 mat stocks and reselling them at triple price, everyone will be aware of it, those name on “blacklist”. The community must fight and dig them, reselling at the old same proper price decided by the community and perfectly visible (even on an external website like the 2 website i linked).

Even WoW took years before this system was stable and accepted by the playerbase. At beginning, they was on the same boat. NOone knows the price of nothing, everyone scamming each other.
Than, one day, someone discovered the fire: those website became the most popular, price was know, community accepted as resonable, perfectly clear even for newbies.
As you see, you cannot play any collusion when everyone know you’re the scammer ruining our game. At best, you will end up not selling not even copper ore.
When 0 is your gain, tell me again how many resources you have to keep scamming the community. Clearly, Anet must help us, cutting the legs to the money source, and increasing the droprate of what is creating this mess.
Time by time, everything will go back stable.
Until the community truly wants it.

With the TP, you can see the price that people are willing to sell items for and the price that people are willing to buy items for without referencing an external website. Using your example, if I want to sell an item I will see that the price of the current lowest seller is 67g 57s as well the price of the current highest bidder (likely to be higher than 5g in this case). This price information is available to everyone and not just to those who know to check a website before selling stuff.

You lost the goal of my post. I wasn’t suggesting a better way to know market movements. I was explaining what “price written on stone” means.

This is what we need. Names of buyer and seller, and price written on stone, discussed and decided by the community, not surely by “the famous richest”

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"D3 AH bad for game" What about BLT?

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Both website are not an auction at all. Both website are the most famous community runned website where every single WoW player would know the price of anything. To not being scammed, and not be marked as a scammer. Nor selling something worth 67g 57 s for 5g with no idea of the value of something.

“Price is written on stone”.

This is a perfect sane market, a perfect AH. Our TP is missing auctions and bids, noone knows why, but that’s an other story.

So far, most of the playerbase posting on this forum is not happy of the current system, puzzled of who is maouvring the market.

Let’s pretend names from Anet, then tell me if things are still the same
Not a surprise most are panicking now we ask names, expecially some serial-scammer sharks

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@Lucas Ashrock: I don’t know which version of the WoW AH you used, but it was never one I saw implemented in that game over many years of playing.

Prices were never “written in stone” except by people (or groups) attempting to control the various markets they were involved in. There was no blacklisting for attempting to sell stuff for 1c higher than your competitors. Although the names of serial price-gougers did get out into the server community, it was not an instant process and I’m unaware of any of them being forced to “flee” a server due to a bad reputation (as most of them used an alt to list their items).

There are potential improvements that could be made to how the TP operates in this game, but mimicking the one from WoW would be a backwards step IMO.

Tell me, while you was playing for all those years, noone ever linked you those website

http://www.wowhead.com/item=41611

http://thottbot.com/item=41611

Tell me, do you see the buyout price on both page? Tell me, do both price match? Now guess why and who wrote that price. Do you know how to sell thing fast? Undercutting a bit that price. Not surely raising it, you would be the clown of the day, and people whispering you “Hey bro wake up, the price is 62g 57 s, who you think to scam

A hint: those are the famous “price written on stone”

TP is better than WoW AH? An evolution?
Let’s start with names of who is playing our market ruining our game.

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Fused weapon drop rate data

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Let’s see what the average will be

Statistically inaccurate

Surveying forums leads to massive biases including Sample Bias and Response Bias. In this case there are at least 3 other biases not being accounted for off the top of my head.

Maybe so, but “I spent $200 and got nothing” is all I need to know not to buy any keys. No fancy math required.

Yep. Funnily it doesn’t stop the entire playerbase to gamble, ruining this Anet attempt to make money, changing how things works, here.
“You’re the only one ruining yourself”

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By showing names of people who are listing Buy or Sell Orders, that’ll make it easier for people like me to target them in bidding wars. For example, if there’s something who undercut me, I’ll remember their names, and purposely undercut their goods being sold or outbid their Buy Orders. And the best (or worst) part of it all is, it wouldn’t be considered “griefing”, as I’m able to buy or sell things for whatever price I want.

So long story short, your idea is a bad one, because it opens the chance for abuse. TP works fine the way it is.

Enjoy your target, you will have to fight quite a lot of players

Lucas,

There are millions of players using the TP every day. Every one with a guild wars account uses the same TP. Can you see why it would be impossible to “blacklist” anyone?

Do you have a vague idea of how many millions accounts play wow?
Curious, the system i explained worked for years and years, perfectly.

You say that you want the precursors to be 50/90g. There is a very limited amount of precursors on the market, if they where that price anyone that wanted one would be able to afford it straight away, and the waiting list for precursors would be years if your plans where implemented.
They are the price they are because there are players willing to pay that price for them.
Imagine Joe has got a precursor today as a drop, why should Joe sell that precursor for 50g to Tom if Jane is willing to pay 500g for it?
Is it fair for Joe that he looses out okitten0g just because Tom can’t afford it?

What you are asking goes against everything that society is based upon.

I don’t want nothing. I just made an example using resonable numbers where powerselling doesn’t exist and who attempt to raise the price is instakicked on his back, and tagged as powerseller. His marketing immediately ruined, noone buying anything from him. Funnily on gw2 you cannot simply “escape” on an other server where noone know you , so you can scam some more idiots. Here when names pops and you’re on a blacklist, better buy a new account and behave

That would only work if Anet increased the precursor drop rate to ensure that everyone would be able to purchase one. If they did that you would also not have to dictate prices because the market would adjust itself and the prices would fall according to the supply.

Obiouvsly.

The only reason it works now is mainly b/c of cof p1 and trading. If those 2 did not allow for such high levels of amassing gold, then it would definitely not work since the ability to gain gold elsewhere is not nearly on par….ie the system only works b/c of those and for those.

Clearly not just we need to restore the entire system, but clearly we need the help of Anet and their so claimed economists.
Obiouvsly a stupid weapon who is just 1% of the entire process of a legendary must have a WAY higher droprate. Also, CoF speedrun must be nerfed and the dungeon fixed. AC way more hard and challenging than what we already have (a miracle happened), Cof more challenging and harder than AC (it’s a higher lvl dungeon after all, isn’t it ). Clearly both gold sources works because of speedruns, so put an end of them , way less gold on your stash and tell me again people is willing to pay the actual price

As you see, not just i should convince a community of sheeps to wake up and be part of their game, contributing on a sane economy marking prices on stone and blacklisting “famous names” , but also convince the Anet dev team to work appropriately.
So far, the second task is way harder than the first, as proved

Let’s start with names. Slowly, we will build a sane market without collusion and famous names organizing a marketing, buying our stuff to scam us.

Take back your game, kick out those sharks.

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"D3 AH bad for game" What about BLT?

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I don’t see the problem. With sharks kicked out from the system , and price decided by the community, written on stone, the entire economy will stabilize.
Everything will be perfectly clear and visible. Who sell who buy, why that price. Who clearly is acceptable to be a bit higher than mats by mats. A resonable discussion made by the gw2 community on the main forum (this one) is needed about this “bit more”. And clearly the community medium resonable price must be the one online.
A precursor for 900-1000g? Forget it Make it 50g/90g at best. 100g is the scammer, tag him, don’t buy nothing else from him, he’s a powerseller, make him public, warning the community. This is how wow works, and how survived to the kid of the day thinking to be smarter than others.
So far WoW survived from years till today on this kind of economy, having the most succesful, enjoyable , and rewarding AH the world of mmo has never seen. What was worthy, was well paid. What was “bot-farmed” was common and cheap.
Clearly the price of base mats was quite variable and with particular spikes, expecially when a new expansion was online. Our crafting is commonly know to be a waste of time to even be 400, isn’t it
And obiouvsly if an event (Christmas, new content etc) bring us a reason to increase the price, that’s AGAIN discussed by the community and a new price appointed, commonly approved as resonable.
TP is better? Let’s start by names, and cleaning a bit this market from those manipulators. Time by time, everything will be just better.

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Fused weapon drop rate data

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After 131 chests, this is how I feel like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU

I FINALLY GOT MY TICKET!!!!!!!!!

Trick was to stop opening it on my Warrior and open it on my Ranger like my friend did. I am now superstitious enough to believe Rangers get better drops and chests have DR when opened on the same toon.

So was it worth it? HELL YEAH! (Though I do not advise anyone make the same mistake as me.)

As promised, my storage:

Hehe i was live when this guy got his ticket. A yell of glory with caps on whisp lol
Gz bro, enjoy it
So far, you was lucky, “just” 131 hehe

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Please make SAB permanent [Merged]

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Do one good thing , Anet. This time at least Keep it permanent.

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I must say, great content. So far, at least with 8 bit games, Anet released finally a great content. Please keep it permanent, i guess is the last thing who would keep me interested ingame (until i get the reward, with 50 bubles). And maybe later, considering how long is the content, until one day save the princess
Make it permanent please.

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I pity you bro Update us

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"D3 AH bad for game" What about BLT?

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Yes, i know. The famous manipulators. Time to put an end on it.
And avoid them and anything they sell.
Mark prices on stones. Discuss real time with the community any minimal variation of the price and why, about anything, like wow ah do. On this very section.
Dig manipulators. If an alt is used to keep up, will be useless.
Price will be community driven, manipulation will not last.
Simply providing names on the TP clients of buyers and sellers.
Anet must give us names. Or shut down this BLT tool at all.
After all, they are proud to be a realistic market , right? Real market have names.
And scammers don’t last long. We cannot apply laws, we can apply a “community” pricelist. And “kick out” those sharks.
Be part of the game you bough. Put and update price on wiki or any other community website dedicated to it, so it’s clear and written on stone even for a newcomer.

Results? A way better game, more enjoyable, a sane market.

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So who exactly chose the actual precursor price, tell me.

The “community-driven” marketplace.

It’s been discussed to death by both the community and the Anet economist how precursor markets are not monopolized.

I would love to read this thread where the community accepted the actual price and constant limitless growth and what the economist said to explain it.
Also, the core of my post was “we want names, buyer and seller, we want to know who is doing what, who is manipulating prices even buying low priced items reselling them at minimum price of his choice, about the TP manipulation in general”. Mark them, destroy them, not buying anything from those scammers anymore. Target them, put an end on this abuse.

Far miles from the “awesome” term. Nor a gaming industry interest or proof of nothing.

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Gem store gambling

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I mean, let’s be honest. I love this game. Why else would I keep playing it?

(Besides addiction – those dailies sure have worked a number on me)

But seriously. I’ve been a strong proponent of Guild Wars 2 from the start, and that won’t change any time soon, despite the little paper wings I give my little digital dollar bills, as I abandon them to Abaddon’s Maw (see: the TP).

It actually reminds me a bit of Facebook. You know how everyone loves to hate on Facebook (but keeps using it anyway, warning everyone they’re going to delete their account a bunch of times, instead of actually doing so)?

Well, every time Facebook changes their design, or adds some shady new privacy feature (or lack thereof), there’s a mass rumbling, threatening a mass exodus. And what happens?

Not much. A few groups pop up (which is a deprecated feature in Facebook, actually – tinfoil hat material, that) boycotting it. A few websites publish angry articles (often Gawker – at least, back in the day). And then, people forget. The fifteen minutes of fame and anger have passed, and the internet is off searching for the next big shame pinata.

Pretty similar here, I think.

Before long we’ll forget how bad the drop rates were for Fused weapons (until the next chest-skin-drop event, where we need to reference past chest-skin-drop events), and will find something else to complain about.

And to some things, the team will (graciously) listen. To some things, they won’t.

That, as a consumer, is our lot in life.

And, as Good Riddance reminds, “Just learn to be a good consumer – you’re now a number, you’ve no longer got a face.”

Seriously though. Kittens and fluffy bits of fur aside, great game. Love it.

My luck with RNG? Not so much…

tl;dr: Drugs are bad, Beer is Great, RNG is Bad (except when it’s good).

Your post perfectly describe and answer me why this kind of gambling RNG new items are kept released as much thousand posts was calling this company greedy, a shame, etc. Instead of quit and log once in a month at best (as i did , pretty disgusted), most of them is perfectly online. And keeps posting their disgust, lol
So far, Anet saw (and perfectly know) how thing works: your post explained it perfectly. A sheep will remain a sheep. It will never learn to drive a car

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Fused weapon drop rate data

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0 keys, 0 tickets, and am proud of myself.

I wish there were more like us

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"D3 AH bad for game" What about BLT?

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Everyone can access to the price , a community driven price accordingly to the rarity, meaning ingame for certain reasons, popularity of something from a community driver website, nearly real time price.

I’m confused. But the GW2 TP does all this.

So who exactly chose the actual precursor price, tell me.

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GW2 TP is awesome. Not only is it good for our game, it’s good for the industry.

Good for the industry? Sorry.. which industry? Gaming industry maybe? Because well, the wow AH would teach a lot to the gw2 tp. For istance, there isn’t one single manipulation of nothing on wow. Prices are “written on stone”.
Everyone can access to the price , a community driven price accordingly to the rarity, meaning ingame for certain reasons, popularity of something from a community driver website, nearly real time price. Variations? Minial to nothing, and a community issue heavily discussed about “why this item should have this price, why now is higher” etc. Even on main world chat , everyone will be able to find an answer by someone.
A single attempt to scam someone overpricing 1 single copper would mark you on your server as a pathetic scammer. And your name, visible on the AH, will be remembered, ruining your market.
Talking about this, considering how many players (the majority) doesn’t find at all so “awesome” the gw2 TP, why we cannot see who buy and sell anything ingame?
Guess what would happens: we would finally discover who is manipulating famous objects like precursors, and well, his “marketing scamming around” will be marked , well know, and ruined real time, as soon as possible, everyone being far from him not buying one single base item. Exactly what happens to Wow ah, attempting to be “the smart guy of the day”. You’re ruined real time on wow in a few minutes until you have to escape from your server , desperate, hoping the next one noone knows you.
As the OP was attempting to discuss, this TP is absolutely something bad managed and wrong, ingame. Clearly our hope to see it disappear , is hopeless.
Even the WTB WTS on gw1 was well driven, price was well know, scams was rare and for fools. At worst, the scams was technical during the transaction by distracted users giving away money for an object with the same icon not reading carefully what he was gonna buy , and some other minor technical scams. What i see about the gw2 TP is the Anet way to skip all those issues, leaving to this system every item transaction.
(Was fun to read the famous bug of the TP duplicating items, i admit)
At least, program it in a proper manner. Beginning from vendor and buyer names.

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Weird room in AC

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You just found the famous uncompleted jp of AC, just a dev sandbox left wrongly open at launch, never fixed.
Still wondering how so many months have been passed and still that sandbox area is accessible to players..

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LIST of Chest Drops: Named Weapons

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I still believe it’s a rare bug triggered by last patches, soon removed. Am i wrong?
Feel free to make a research and a list.

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What happened to Refugee Fivel?

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Or maybe preemptive action before a lawsuit ruins them for good.

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Fused weapon tickets and BL Chest drop tables

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I can see not putting the weapon tickets in up to this point as a reward. But if a ticket isn’t included in the final reward, it is going to be really unsatisfying.

Though, I’m figuring at best there will be another karka-style event where a few people get precursors or tickets and the rest of us who are unlucky get some green items and a bag. Kind of jolting realizing the whole living Living Story thing is essentially a big commercial for the skins you can only get by gambling with chests.

You got it right. Anet clearly love us as gamblers, pretending to fool us we are “shaping the world” doing a stupid bunch of DEs and little stuff, repeatable too, hehe
They are insulting us making way more money using gamblers than if we had a monthly fee, go figure

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'Lost & Found' Problems

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Curious. I found it yesterday under the snow, wayfarer foothills, near the giant wurm waypoint. Considering i didn’t play any part of f&f at all, i didn’t knew what it was, but having rare text. Is it so rare and hard to find? I guess when picked you have to wait a respawn, and every time you walked near it, was picked yet, even without a reason, by someone.

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Hard Mode - With unlockable modes

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I like the hard mode idea, and the challenge it would bring.
But i don’t like to be able to do all orders. Would make me feel lost about what i chose and why, and the feeling to have done something cool reading and hearing the dialogues of my order, and where i was. Beware, i skipped all the story nor reading one single line from beginning to the order choice and after it. Completely boring. Also, i chose Vigil , i don’t even know why. Nor i have any feeling nor involvement with it ingame at all. Story mode is what usuallly playing a fantasy mmo i spend the most of my time , immersive attitude. Tsk.
For sure, i agree about a proper reward and pact armors (even making the dev’s life easy giving us back the starter armor, exotic/ascended set). Reward, such an improper word on this game…

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[SPOIL] Future Flame and Frost dye packs.

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I’ll never understand why they do not sell them directly.
In my opinion more people would buy these things (skins or whatever) , if they would have a reasonable price and were sold directly (you pay for what you definetely get).
I will never buy anything (especially not for real cash) to have only a chance to get a certain item.
They could be clever and have a nice gem shop where people would love to spend money, but they do it another way… -.-

And yeah, the dyes look fine, but not that good to throw my money away for a chance to get them. ^^

Rememeber what a casino owner told me long ago:
“There isn’t a better customer i can dream more than a gambler”

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[SPOIL] Future Flame and Frost dye packs.

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Enjoy the RNG using your gems, i pass

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Not a great idea for such a young MMO

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It reminds me of Square Enix’s attitude of “we don’t care if you dont want it, we’re gonna make it and you’re gonna like it”

Be used, here it’s worst they don’t even answers to us here at all lol

Yes OP , this is the plan, more and more repeatable DEs, with some bigger or smaller repeatable behaviour, instead of clean bugs and improve the world we have yet.

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End every event with a "karka-like" chest

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Perfect reason because i didn’t do the tiniest part of this F&F content. I don’t need karma for sure. Where is the reward, title, reason to log again on the game and even do it.
Is it at least tracked doing all events, giving me any kind of award?
Tell me.
Ohh wait, maybe we will get a title above the head, yay..
A precursor after all the time wasted doing those new DEs huh? pff..

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So... will it really be "Living World" ?

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To me difference is when an old map completely (or at least few maps semi-completely) changes.
When I can say …

  • Oh look, a Dragon came to this area and really made a mess here (all new Vistas/Hearts/PoI ) …That’s new

You really would want new Hearts? And… That would also mean all previous hearts disappear… That’s not fun at all – why would you destroy something to never come back? And what about my map completion achievement? Would it reset? That would be bad. Would it stayed as it was? Also bad… Why to bother with more hearts that does not count to map completion?

When isle of fire or any new map enlargement will be released, can you explain me why you have map completition with a 100% , the star on login and the reward, while who log later when expansions are online have to do the triple of the work? Why you have 100% map completition if you miss half of the new map released , logging back 2 years later? Nothing changed and you are worthy of map completition valid just during the period you logged. Idiot design huh?
Yes, the entire map should be dynamical and even no more available or expanded.
This is a living world.
That Johanson’s post was just a PR announcement, i quoted him asking explanations, don’t expect an answer

This is major problem of the game right now… There is no sense of achievement in the game.

Correct.

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Make our personality matter!

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Totally agree. An other content completely bad designed and without a minimal sense.

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"Super Adventurer Box" achievement category.

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It’s still in doubt if was an April’s fool joke. Also wondering if those 8 bit games are copyrighted, clones or what. World 1, zone 3, hidden rooms, uhm…we jump.. super mario huh?

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Baby Devourer

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Is this game planning to cater children, girls and who find content “cute”?
Don’t misunderstand me, i like the baby quaggan (not surely wearing one with my necro, let’s not add it glitches with my armor lol) , i loved the wintersday toys (spawned the mini plush griffon 2 times). But seriously.. a fantasy mmo , we would ask a mini Shatterer , uber dark and cool shiny weapons, etc and we talk about baby devourer and asking Anet to give them to us.. jeezz….
(My son love it, he’s 9yo).

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Living World => different on each server?

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Some of us (me included) was talking about this topic. As Electro pointed on this thread, i doubt you will never see anything like this on gw2. Would be a real living world, shaping the world around you. Don’t buy PR announcements, they are just a bunch of preprogrammed repeatable DEs At best (assuming was planned) we would see a worldwide update at the end of this new content cycle, as a justification of why it was online. Regardless if you logged or not , nor did the DE or chatting on LA.

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Is it reasonable to make more DE's?

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The plans you’re talking about are just the map bigger with more continents (isle of fire etc) then slowly makes the map bigger, year by year. Assuming the uber amount of bugs will still make the game playable adding even more stuff and content.

The “changes” you’re talking about are mostly fix and or adjustments reading the disappointment focused by the community. A design fail fixed.

Considering Anet promised to us customers expansions for free forever , yes we want new areas, new dungeons etc on a regular basis. For free. Constantly. Bug free. One new dungeon per month too. Other famous mmo online do it, like PSO2.

Customer’s rights, we paid this client and based the purchase on what the company promised to the customer. Clearly (as we saw about “we don’t make grind games” and other fake promises) wouldn’t surprise me at all we will be forced to pay to get some “new content” adeguate and needed by the bored and disappointed community this forum populates, opening more threads of disappointment then happyness.
One thing is open a thread asking “something else”, one thing is focus a big disappointment most of us can see and agree.

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Mystic Forge for precursor

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Some reported curious anomalies, getting different weapons as a result of 4 other weapons. Dunno if it’s a bug.

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Changing The World... Really?

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If you wait a few years, maybe your last post will be online for real.
A big event maybe, or a chain of big events, attempting to keep the bored playerbase interested on something new and worthy to be online. Don’t ask about loot, would be a funny topic lol (but ye, some karma lol)

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Is New AC dying?

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Weapons skins, i guess. Stats of some of them are good too, for certain class and specs.

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Do You Want CoF P1 Farming to be Nerfed?

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Uhm ye, pretty fancy fight. Sometimes we had to leave them, not always every pug was able hehe (But it was always “accidentally” lured haha ) Impressive how was more boring deal with a giant into arah then lupi lol

So, an ETA about a new worthy Cof?

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^^Easy there is no final chest on a path until that dungeon path is cleared. Flag set when no mobs remain, chest appears.

I can already see every pug clearing whole arah.

My entire set was a whole clear, even the tiniest enemy was killed , every pug run. Ahh good old days when people wasn’t skipping.. real worthy players to wear the armor..

^^Easy there is no final chest on a path until that dungeon path is cleared. Flag set when no mobs remain, chest appears.

Superb idea. No reward until 100% of the dungeon is cleaned.

Please increase gold benefits of other dungeons instead of changing difficulty of COF. Time spent should equates to X amount of gold in chest or gold from a mob. Assume groups are average, meaning any group of people. Also, lower the amount of money by 3-4 silver per chest. This will fix the issue.

This idea is awesome if you add tokens too. Would put an end on people kicking players near last boss, abusing of the kick system

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[Continue Coin] farming

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I really hope it’s an April Fool’s joke. There would be something extra funny about it causing people to sit and farm something before we even know anything about it as is typical with MMO communities, only to have it be a colossal waste of time.

Well it’s definately related to April 1st. If you change your system time to April 1 then login to guild wars, at the character selection screen there is 8bit music instead of the normal.

Don’t tell us we didn’t warn lol Few hours more..

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Mystic Forge for precursor

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Except when an underwater precursor pops lol

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[Continue Coin] farming

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I think I have 4 so far and will keep collecting them… but i keep looking over my shoulder… worried this is all part of a huge April Fools joke… Those new weapons in the pvp locker are so sweet and my first thought was we’d have a chance at them by reaching the end of the super adventure box. But what if all we get at the end are starter weapon skins?! Ahh! Regardless, this is all very exciting and I can’t wait to see what’s inside that box!!!

I would HEAVILY lower my expectations, if i was you..

So far, a funny name for an item, and a funny idea

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As a player of the first Guildwars...

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I would love to see chanta too 250 years later With an Asuran city looking like Akihabara, haha

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Mystic Forge for precursor

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No doubt, if the random precursor you get is nothing more than more cash instasold, for you Keep going, after all you’re having fun, and the result can lead a lot of money.
Why not? Sometimes i do it too.
Some work hard praying their god every day just to get their preferred weapon, hehe.
For those players i wouldn’t suggest random rares with a random result

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Still getting griefed every other dungeon

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My armor and title was made by pugs
But this is long ago, when great / good players was online, and before this kick-before-the-end plague was spreading. I wish you the best luck, or just take a break/leave, if you’re not able to find a constant serious group/friends.
Your request was made by day one for 7 months billion times, Anet just ignore us.
The game is programmed to have the guy on cinematics as leader, and his buddy as kicker near the end, that’s all. I guess the resources needed to reprogram the entire core would be so long , hard to accomplish and filled of bugs (not that much skilled team, as proved hehe) to have just left ignored this request by the dev team long ago.
Robert Hrouda told us to report them, and support team would investigate and ban players having this behaviour. Do you want to read my last ticket about this topic and how the support answered? I had to push having Robert personally answering me about the issue, promising an investigation.
So far, open a ticket and be pushy remembering what Hrouda told us, should help to clean a bit the playerbase removing trash.
I suggest to take screenshots, and if possible a dialogue. Sometimes the duo attempt to flame the guy soon kicked, attempting to use it as a justification. Press quickly the print screen button. Will help. If silent , and suddendly kicked, you’re out of luck. Even investigating, the support team doesn’t help. Even if they are “serial kickers” hehe.

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Fractal Staff seems dull

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Hehe, i bet the OP would have sent his one to you

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Fractal Staff seems dull

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Hehe, it’s soulbound , sadly

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Looking forward to the end of cof boostruns, all paths. I hope they will make the dungeon, finally, uberhard , fun and exciting and impossible to be completed fast.
I’m surprised after 7 months we still have to deal with those gold grinders.

what i want is, a transparent red or blue barrier behind every “trash mob” in every dungeon, until those “trash mobs” are dead.

I forgot how many times i was asking to Anet to put walls or any other solution on every dungeon to force an end to skipsruns. I like your idea.

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Fractal Staff seems dull

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Ye, we lack of good staff skins. Final rest and Bifrost are the only one appreciable. The crossing is not bad, too. I was expecting way better from the fractal staff.

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Is New AC dying?

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Honestly, i was expecting way worst, i hope it gets harder and better. Fighting , not speedrunning to last boss. Not a surprise turbo grinders left, and now is not easy to find groups, lol. Not so much efficent to grind gold and tokens for ectos=gold now huh?? Haha, i hope it gets WAY harder and exciting as deserved, a great dungeon.

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