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It is rather funny that all the defenders evade the simple problem:
Total RNG with a chance at nothing sucks. END of story. It was a stupid mechanic back in 1999 in Everquest a game built on camping and grinding, and it is a stupid mechanic in GW2 a game released in 2012.
Let me put it like this:
The 2012 version of Everquest 1 – ALL nameds drop at least one item of use. The devs of the game realized killing mobs to get nothing was not fun, nor has it ever been fun. It is sad that GW2 devs don’t realize this. They fail at loot tables. They make it either too easy (exp token system) or too frustrating (Fractal RNG drop rate).I have YET to hear any viable defense to RNG other than “you don’t need it”, but that is hardly the point.
Edit: To me the “you don’t need it” debate sounds like saying Corpse runs and dropping all items on you body is a good idea, because if you don’t die you don’t have to run!
They did realize it.
I don’t know what the hell happened to them.
Hey, I made my Sunrise on the 28th and even though I’ve had it equipped since then I never got my achievement (the one you get for equipping a legendary) and the account badge in the character select screen remains blank. Since this weapon literally took me months worth of effort to create this bug is extremely disappointing to me, and it seems like something that should be easily addressed.
Has anyone else had this issue?
Please help me with this matter.
As per the Hitch-hikers Guide.:
DON’T PANIC
Seriously, whenever the BLTC has some issues this happens. Just be patient and your orders will arrive in due course, just… not instantly. I’ve seen it happen plenty of times before.
Whatever you do though don’t attempt to buy multiple copies of something just because it didn’t come through! – I’ve also seen that happen and it’s never pretty.
As NealCaffrey articulated, this isn’t strictly true.
This is isn’t the first time this has happened. On September a bunch of us had our gold eaten by the TP too, and we never got that gold back. We all submitted tickets and we all got the same copy/pasted “You’re screwed, we don’t care and won’t do anything about it” response. I expect Anet to ignore this issue just like it did back then.
I feel sorry for this new batch of victims, and urge you to advise everyone you know to stop using the TP during this period of instability.
Why does the heavy armor we can get from CM look like old rusty garbage, while the one the NPCs wear is polished and nice?
Is that an oversight or is there an actual reason?
Well, worse comes to worst their price will spike during the early stages of the next Halloween assuming the skins are featured and the spotlight is on them again. If they’re not featured again then they will inevitably rise in price over time.
Because given the ability to scale and such, it’s impossible to make these “captured skills” impossible to use in the WvW setting?
Yeah, I mean it’s not like Guild Wars has ever had Elite PvE only skills that you had to obtain from the world or anything like that.
“So I guess you still dont understand what Guild Wars is about”?
Really? When this was one of the things that characterized Guild Wars?
That would be a horrible reason.
Getting the precursor is actually the hardest part. A legendary weapon isn’t something you should be able to get in a week.
Not really, the Karma and the Badges of Honor are the hardest parts, with world exploration and skill points a distant third and fourth. The rest can be gotten by converting gems to gold, making it more of a legendary credit card bill.
Heh. It’s a bug. Try relogging and you’ll see.
What does it matter how much gold other people make in an online game? does the amount of pixels another person has have any effect on your gameplay?
Please, dont deflect the question and answer it in a non dismissive way, I really want to hear your opinion.
I’ll try to explain this to you, I hope you understand.
Let’s say that one of my gameplay goals is to craft a legendary. They require a lot of expensive stuff, like mats and precursors. If other people with the same goal as me make an inordinate amount of money more than I do not due to legitimate efforts but due to A.net oversights like these, then they effectively make it harder for me to reach my own goal. Since they have more money they can afford to pay more for precursors and mat than I do, so the items will be priced according to what they are willing and able to pay.
Since the supply is the same then that means that even though we might put in the same amount effort, I have to wait until everyone who benefited from A.net oversights to get whatever they want before I get to have it.
Agreed.
And yet people still complain about it…
Obviously, some people are just impossible to satisfy, honestly the game would be better without them. I’m amazed ANet even gave in to the complaints in the first place, since they weren’t a fair complaint in the first place. After this the people who complained have no right at all to do so again, really.
Yup, that’s just it. The game would be better off without people who were willing to give oodles of money to A.net. I’m sure less money will help make the game better for everyone.
Thank god, that Epic chest thing had the potential to REALLY backfire as well.
It’s your choice to read expressions of disappointment and legitimate complains about Anet’s business practices, too. See how that works?
There’s no need for holiday fun stuff to be “rare” and “legendary”. We already have those.
Opened around 80 chests. No weapon skins at all. The skins are already going for at least 40g on the TP, but we all know that’s just going to get more expensive.
This isn’t fun nor is it rewarding.
Opened around 80 chests. No weapon skins at all. The skins are already going for at least 40g on the TP, but we all know that’s just going to get more expensive. This is all rather disappointing to be honest.
Opened around 80 chests. No weapon skins at all. The skins are already going for at least 40g on the TP, but we all know that’s just going to get more expensive.
After 20 emails, mainly back and forth from ANet and me getting switched to several departments. I finally got refunded my gold for the lost transaction. It took nearly a month, but I am content.
Can you share with us the steps you took to get this satisfactory outcome?
Has anyone that had this issue actually gotten their gold back, either from the TP or a GM, or at least gotten another answer past the initial “wait 7 days” response?
I can see an argument being made this may be different in Eve… but I am unsure about vendor pricing there and how it may affect the economy at large.
That argument can’t be made in EVE. While there are no vendors in the traditional sense there is still a floor price in the form of insurance (or more correctly, insurance fraud). But then again that game has an economy and systems that are miles ahead of this one either way.
Moving the minimum buy/sell price up won’t change the fact that you can’t profit from items (crafted or otherwise) everyone is selling and no one wants to buy. I don’t know why people keep trying to suggest other wise. The economic problems this game has is not because of the TP, it’s because of loot design and distribution and the way crafting works.
That’s exactly what I’m saying. And unfortunately, the people with the largest bankrolls are botters and gold sellers. They will exchange massive amounts of bulk, even at the smallest increments of profit, thereby closing the spreads and driving the prices down.
I’m not disagreeing with you. It’s just that I’ve seen some people, mostly those who clamored for it in the first place, reacting to this change as if it were some egalitarian measure against “rich TP fat cats” and pro “the people”, so to speak. But it isn’t. It’s fair alright, but fair is not the same thing as egalitarian. This actually skews things towards the rich and will help them get richer, and they’ll have an even easier time accomplishing this now. Daily trading and/or being a TP savvy regular player had no barrier of entry, now they’ve been effectively neutralized as that income has shifted to much richer players.
Oh, I have no qualms about the change. It’s understandable and ostensibly fair. I’m just saying that this shifts the advantage to those with a good bankroll, and there’s probably a decent overlap with those who benefited from the previous system. So as long as they adapt they’ll continue making quite a bit of gold, a bit slower than before but now also less labor and reaction intensive.
People who dealt in lower quantities will be the most affected, as they will have to undercut/outbid, or sell/buy to/from the market makers (those with the patience and gold to become so). The vast majority of said people weren’t day traders, however, they were regular players.
This change benefits people with enough capital (like myself) and allows them to essentially become market makers in a given commodity. Actual players and small time traders will be the ones more impacted by this, not the proverbial 1%. In fact, this change reduces my workload quite a bit.
FIFO work and is fair as long as the supply and demand are reasonable levels. What happens is when supply exceeds demand greatly or continually exceeds demand so that the price drops down to the floor and remains there, the higher prices never sell. However this doesn’t stop them from being able to sell as they simply list again at the floor price and with FIFO the item eventually sells. Which leads to the biggest problem with the TP the floor price is at a loss vs selling item to the vender due to the TP fee. So the solution to that problem is to enforce (like the do with the vender floor price now) the floor price at vender +15% fee + 1c so that minimally there is a 1c profit over selling to the vender. Remember junk will still be junk and not sell but at least anything worth anything to anyone else will sell eventually and at least then we can not feel cheated just to offer up something we think others would want when the vender offers more for it. And if we list junk we should learn to not list those items or similar items in the future. If we don’t then it is our own fault we are throwing coin away on the fee.
That’s not a problem with the TP or LIFO vs FIFO, that’s a problem with the design of the game and the loot distribution. Enforcing a higher floor price won’t fix anything, it will just move the floor for garbage items +15%.
I’ve been trading on the TP as usual since it came back up, and I can’t help but notice that the LIFO behavior for small order appears to be gone. Can anyone else corroborate?
This suggestion is completely ridiculous. The basic TP still has periods of instability and has eaten a lot of gold and you want them to program multiple subsystems to track currency, items, income, debt and credit rating? Even if the idea were neat (it isn’t), implementing it is just unfeasible and far more trouble than it is worth.
Just did a quick comparison on a German gold selling site I’d consider “trustworthy”.
I’d get 10g for 13€.
13€ via gems on the TP would result in about 4g according to gw2spidy.Comparing this to the EVE PLEX mentioned above which I’ve used a lot in both directions (money to ingame currency and ingame currency to subscription fee):
You get a little more than 500m ISK for one PLEX. One PLEX via game time code costs 12€.
The site I’ve used above would sell me 500m for 10€.This matches my observation in game: No one buys ISK from gold sellers.
The thing is that EVE actually has desirable things to exchange ISK for: subscription time. All the stuff sold for gems (except for the slots) is garbage.
I don’t think you’re doing your math correctly. All of the gold spam I’ve seen advertises gold at a fraction of the price compared to the gemstore.
Right now, at the gemstore, $10 nets you 2 gold and change. If you go by what sellers are spamming the same $10 nets you almost 10 gold if you buy from them. That’s a significant difference.
The banning and the risks still apply though, if not the ethical connotations.
Compare it to SW:TOR
There is no comparisson. SW:TOR is not an MMO, it’s a single player ex-subscription-based flopped romance simulator with focus on voice acting, close-ups of horrible art style and bugged graphics, all built upon a prototype single-threaded engine which needs to run on 2 processes. No game, regardless of how bad it can be, will ever come close to thekittenthat EA served to blind Star Wars fanboys.
Though you do have a point, at least in their stories, you get your own starship and NPC to have sex with. Excelsior!
Yet it still has superior stories. And since all the story in GW2 is exposed and experienced mechanically the same as in SW:TOR (ie. voice acting, personal instances, and even SW:TOR’s are more seamless) the whole “it’s not an MMO” excuse doesn’t fly. GW2’s story has no excuse to be this bad.
They should’ve canned the whole “this is your personal story” “this is my story” spiel if it was just going to be this disappointing garbage. If they did not have the talent or budget to do something better than mediocre they shouldn’t have bothered trying to hype it.
The prices on the BLTC are so screwed up that, risks notwithstanding, if you want to buy something that costs gems (like character slots, deluxe upgrade, bank slots, etc.) it’s actually cheaper real money wise to buy gold from a gold seller and convert that gold to gems and use those gems to buy what you want.
Does that not seem ridiculous to anyone else?
ZenNo it isn’t.
Yes it is. That’s like saying the main characters of Lord of the Rings all experienced the same story because they all ended up in Mordor.
Of course the ending is the same. That’s the whole point. They never said the whole story should be different, and it doesn’t have to be.
And at the very least, you have much more influence on things than you did in World of Kittencraft.
I thought this was supposed to be “innovative and revolutionary for the genre” not just “better than World of Warcraft, in some aspects”, so why do you keep comparing it to WoW? For all everyone here likes to rag on alleged WoW fanboys they sure seem obssesed about it.
Compare it to SW:TOR which, for all its faults, actually managed to make interesting, varied, way more interactive and far more personal stories. Just extremely superior to GW2’s in comparison. In fact, having played both and seeing what can actually be done with stories in the genre, GW2’s is not only lackluster, it’s cringeworthy. It gives you that sense of shame you get on behalf of others when they make something so mediocre that you wish they hadn’t even tried. I like GW2, I like it despite the “personal” story, not because of it.
So yeah, it’s not “nitpicking” and it’s not “compared to any other game” either.
There are also a number of powers and traits that effect “you and your allies”, which I’d guess means you and your party members.
Nah, that’s everyone.
That list is garbage. It’s the worst list I’ve ever seen. It reads like a deluded fanboy trying way too hard. People should be embarrassed to refer to it.
Unfortunately I choose to buy Mists of Pandaria and will continue to play WoW. I say unfortuantely because I, like many other players that have played WoW, was looking to move on.
many WoW players have in fact moved on to GW2 and are not looking back. GW2’s release tanked WoW’s xfire numbers and theyre not coming back up. im sure they will for MoP, but i also doubt you’ll see GW2’s server pop decreasing. GW2 has its own dedicated fanbase.
thing about some WoW players is that theyre totally addicted to the carrot on a stick. this is why WoW will never die: its hooks are deep in you. if you truly just enjoyed pvp, beautiful visuals, balance, dynamic combat, interesting crafting and customization – you’d be all over GW2 for a long time. unfortunately, youre not after these things. you NEED stat-based gear progression. oh yes you do.
Really? It’s already dropping. Only time will tell how much, especially next week.
I understand there are issues right now with the TP. So far I’ve been an avid user of it when it’s been up, and most of my money has come from it, but right now I’m in a precarious situation that has hindered my gaming goals because of whatever is going with the TP. Before the TP started having problems and going for maintenance I put up a bunch of buy orders. I even took a pic when I did (attached in the ticket I submited #120921-000818 , it includes all the buy orders and the total amount I had left after them, you can compare it to the amount of gold I have now minus the gold I I’ve made in the process of leveling and completing a couple of zones) , because I wanted reference of how much I was paying for each mat for when I sold them later.
Then at some point as you know TP went down for a long time, but I busied myself with playing the game. I got more coin, finished a zone, lots of events, gained 5 levels. I was still out playing when it came back up momentarily, during which I saw that a bunch of my orders had filled and were indeed in my pick up tab, but a good amount had not, so I cancelled those orders. I also put some gear I’ve found on sale. Shortly thereafter the TP went down again until got fixed for good.
When I went to pick up everything at a TP guy I got the mats from the buy orders that had been filled, but I never got the gold or the mats for the orders that had been cancelled, which was a lot of gold and a considerable portion of the total I had. I also believe that I didn’t get the gold for the equipment that I sold, but I’m not 100% sure.
I know that I will probably be told to wait, but it’s been quite a while now and I’ve had successful sales since then, but I haven’t seen the gold I’m missing at all.
So now, I’m missing a lot of gold that I had saved up to buy equipment for when I got to 80 and quite frankly I don’t know what to do. Please help me.
I understand there are issues right now with the TP. So far I’ve been an avid user of it when it’s been up, and most of my money has come from it, but right now I’m in a precarious situation that has hindered my gaming goals because of whatever is going with the TP. Before the TP started having problems and going for maintenance I put up a bunch of buy orders. I even took a pic when I did (attached in the ticket I submited #120921-000818 , it includes all the buy orders and the total amount I had left after them, you can compare it to the amount of gold I have now minus the gold I I’ve made in the process of leveling and completing a couple of zones) , because I wanted reference of how much I was paying for each mat for when I sold them later.
Then at some point as you know TP went down for a long time, but I busied myself with playing the game. I got more coin, finished a zone, lots of events, gained 5 levels. I was still out playing when it came back up momentarily, during which I saw that a bunch of my orders had filled and were indeed in my pick up tab, but a good amount had not, so I cancelled those orders. I also put some gear I’ve found on sale. Shortly thereafter the TP went down again until got fixed for good.
When I went to pick up everything at a TP guy I got the mats from the buy orders that had been filled, but I never got the gold or the mats for the orders that had been cancelled, which was a lot of gold and a considerable portion of the total I had. I also believe that I didn’t get the gold for the equipment that I sold, but I’m not 100% sure.
I know that I will probably be told to wait, but it’s been quite a while now and I’ve had successful sales since then, but I haven’t seen the gold I’m missing at all.
So now, I’m missing a lot of gold that I had saved up to buy equipment for when I got to 80 and quite frankly I don’t know what to do. Please help me.