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The stupid run animations that drop Char characters to all fours is simply unbearable. None of the NPCs use this animation, by the way – they can run just fine on two feet. Apparently only player characters are deficient in this way.
The bug is that there is a jumping puzzle in a PC game.
Someone found out that killing a horse was worth 5xp. Now they’re extinct.
If, in any MMO, there are any loot drops that are better than crafted items, then crafting is effectively stillborn. Sadly, this is a lesson that seems lost on almost all of them.
Crafting is something most MMOs just add as a pacifier to the tiny crafter niche. Their real bread & butter will always be the power gamers who prefer to get everything off defeated boss monsters. To that affect, they will continue to make epic loot better than crafted items, so that their main customer base doesn’t have to resort to having to deal with those icky crafting freaks.
SWG had the best crafting system ever. EvE still makes crafting the foundation of it’s game as well, even if it is a bit simplified. No fantasy MMO, however, has ever really put much effort into crafting professions nor shall they ever. There is no reason to when 99% of the their playerbase is far more interested in having a bigger dragon to fight or bigger gazongas on their elves.
Just how it is.
Considering that I get at least three of these e-mails per day (due to Chinese hackers constantly trying to guess my password) – and I know that I’m not alone, here – I honestly wonder if changing passwords will even make a difference against such a determined effort to break into our accounts.
Sadly, I’m guessing that nothing can really be done to put the boot down, being that almost all MMO server hosting is done in China now. Prosecuting them would simply lead to reprisals.
Still, that is no reason for the GW2 team to consider increasing their own security. How hard would it be to link accounts to a “Country of Origin” and simply auto-reject any log-in attempt that comes from somewhere else? I seriously doubt there are enough jet setting GW2s playing on laptops from their company leer jets to make protesting such a measure into an issue.