Guild Wars 2

Cool, thanks Electro. Grats on the blue blades, Lilith

I was stoked that the watchwork sprockets were on the TP and not too expensive, but then I looked at the crystalline dust. Yikes… lol

D’oh! I should have spotted that. Thanks Lilith!

I was trying to obtain http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Advanced_Spinal_Blades to use with my character when I hit lvl 80 soon. I currently have Quad Spinal Blades and foolishly spent gold on the TP for materials. Had a busy week at work and now the Battle for LA event is over. I’m shy exactly 50 Blade Shards and am unable to advance the spinal blade pack any further… I think.

Is there any way to substitute something for those remaining 50 shards? Some kind of mystic forge stone/coin maybe?

Thanks in advance!

Karizee.8076:

Ooh, I’ve got a video too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ytzOmjzfKM

That lawn @ 0:18 needs some love…

Okay, that was funny.

Behellagh.1468:

Been waiting for this sale.

So who’s laughing at my “buy a few gems every day” philosophy now?

That’s not a terrible way to do it, really.

sounds like sandwichmancer should have a chain skill:

(1) Atherosclerosis
→ (2) Deep Vein Thrombosis
→ (3) Myocardial Infarction

applies cripple + burning

The cake is a lie!

colesy.8490:

In all seriousness though, grats to the OP, the most expensive dye I’ve ever got was worth like … 23s.

It doesn’t make sense to talk about “worth” of a dye once it’s been used/learned, unless….

… can we sell used dyes????

Hmm… what if players were lootable?….

I’d give it some time. Someone on the ANet staff has to farm enough gold to then go through the TP and buy out all the vendor trash, one by one. :P

I did the Molten Alliance facility while guesting on Tarnished Coast and had a great experience. The server was bustling with people and my group was both friendly and considerate.

My home server (Henge of Denravi) isn’t terrible but it’s often times empty in the PvE maps. I only run into a couple players when there’s a champion mob spawned somewhere.

Behellagh.1468:

Now that that’s fixed the pitchfork and torch side of me wonders how the original original pickaxe style animation along with the extended gathering time ever made it pass the design phase. Did they just lob the task to the newbie in the dev pit with no guidance other than “just look what was done with the molten pickaxe”?

As a software developer myself I’m not a fan of overly detailed design guidelines but it’s as if the person or persons who worked on it never gathered with a sickle before in game or looked up how a scythe is used.

My working hypothesis is the original animation was done up as a placeholder and nobody ever circled back to do it right.

I never worked on a commercial video game, but here’s my hypothesis:

For the most part, the game engine is code-complete meaning that new content is just a matter of scripting/animations/artwork. Except for critical bug fixes and any new features or optimizations that come down the line, the team ideally is not touching the game code at this point. In fact it’s risky to do so. Depending on what tools they have to aid content creation, it might be a trivial task to put together a gathering tool once the artwork is made available. Maybe it doesn’t even require a programmer’s involvement.

(cue Anthony to tell me how wrong I am)

I don’t know if it would sit well with the game’s ESRB rating. Depicting real-life gambling (not talking about RNG items) is questionable. I kind of wish the game had a mature/18+ rating so that maybe we could have in-game casino huts or tavern poker matches.

Geotherma.2395:

skinnyb.5920:

Bright.9160:

the people that work on fixing things like right-click targetting are not the people that design Animal Hats and the likes.

I just find this to be an extremely poor counter argument. Those people working on the useless stuff can very easily be reallocated to more useful projects.

Put Animal Hats and Karka Queens on hold. Stop with the new stuff and go back and polish existing content. What happened to the “massive” dungeon revamp that only managed to graze Ascalonian Catacombs? What about a functioning guild panel? A LFG tool? 10 months in and this game still has massive holes.

Yes have the surgeons go flip the burgers, swap the burger flippers with surgeons. But don’t stop there, grab the guy who maintains air traffic control and swap him with a NYC taxi driver… Game may have holes, but so does your understanding of how programming and teams work.

So between the artists and the programmers, which would you say are the ‘burger flippers’?

Quaggans kind of resemble cannon balls…. hmm.

ChyrosNX.1834:

/*
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void cameraAttackInteractSoSmartYouWontTouchItFunction (...) {
   // insert super complex code here that nobody wants to touch it
}

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I just had to touch it.

SmileyCute.8539:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Disabling right-click to attack/interact is certainly the safest first approach to this issue. There are two problems, though. Anytime you have camera-look and targeting on the same input, you will have conflicting behavior. There isn’t a bug that targets are randomly selected, but rather the game trying to be smart at recognizing clicks versus camera movement. Even when you think you’re perfectly clicking on a target, most of the time you’re also moving the camera a tiny, tiny bit. There is a small threshold that determines whether your tiny movement should actually be a target selection. Lowering this threshold will reduce the chances of this happening, but is one of those numbers where we need to sit on it for a while to see if it ‘feels right’. The problem could also be solved by completely separating the different functionality of selection, auto-attacking, and camera movement. However, completely splitting those is not something we’re prepared to work on at the moment as it is a much broader-reaching change. I hope this helps clear up what’s happening and what steps we’ll take to change it. Thank you again for all the feedback!

void AllInOneSmartCameraAttackInteractFunction(MouseCursor mc, MouseButton mb) {
	if (mc.movement <= TINY.BIT) {

		// FIX: Ugly workaround but quick fix
		if (mb.WhatAmI == mb.RIGHT_CLICK && Settings.DISABLE_RCLICK_ATTK_INTERACT == true) {
			return; // IGNORE
		}

		doAttackOrInteractTarget(mc, mb);
	} else {
		doCameraMovement(mc, mb);
	}
}

Couple bugs with this logic:

It throws away valid camera movements that are below the threshold when Settings.DISABLE_RCLICK_ATTK_INTERACT is set. I think the camera movement itself should still be processed, regardless of whether or not something is being selected.

Also, if there is a small camera movement (<= TINY.BIT) with no associated right-click, this code would automatically cause a target selection.

Can’t imagine it’s much better for the Charr, either.

Just want to point out that colors don’t look the same on different computers/displays. Everyone is going to see a slightly different shade of yellow than what you see. I have two displays both color-calibrated to the same specs, but it still looks different between the two. Also, it renders differently in Firefox vs. Windows image viewer vs. Photoshop, etc.

Anyway, someone will probably pin it down!

Hubcap.8417:

ITS UP .. GAME TIME

rofl

SirusDibley.3716:

oh and we need an award for 500 login attempts , a good name please people.

Avenger of the Unauthenticated

Pedra.4381:

Arrow.3856:

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Arena Net got attacked by a Blizzard SPY who shall not be mentioned, who sneaked his way into Arena Net and chewed off the wires to the servers. The culprit has been caught and is being questioned

But since the first thing he stole was their stealthing technology, while they know he’s in the building, there’s not a kitten thing they do about it.

But then he realized he’s not a Mesmer and he can’t portal himself out. Trapped!

Woohoo, I am logged back into the forums again. Game’s still down, though.

So next time I see a Salvation Army collection box I should drop in a gem card…

So now internet connections and gaming PCs are common among the poor?

Facepunch.5710:

I’m getting all the game content I want from launch and updates and I have no interest in these mini pets and limited time weapon skins.

^ This.

rizzo.1079:

Crap

No that’s dingleberries.

Astralporing.1957:

because, no matter how bad it is, it’s still better than changing it into a casino.

And you’ve decided this for everyone, even those who bought the game for its promise of being subscription-less?

Borked.6824:

Capitalism is not a new term, and we know that even if millions suffer and a dime is made…it will prevail.

Oh boy…

Woah woah woah…. stop right here.

Why are we trying to change GW2 into a subscription game?

What’s the point of auto-switching to combat gear when taking damage? I see that as an unnecessary protection and definitely immersion-breaking. If I’m in town clothes, I expect that my stats are reduced to base, as if I’m wearing no armor (‘cause I’m not). If I get hit, so be it. It’s up to me to try and recover.

Gibson.4036:

dinominator.9862:

Gibson.4036:

3. People want to be unique in a game played by hundreds of thousands of players.

Some people want to be unique in a game played by billions of players. It’s called real life.

And has infinitely more variables to work with.

But thanks for setting your apple next to my orange.

If you say so.

It’s not all squeaky-clean and eco friendly. Pretty sure I’ve come across sludge and oozes in Queensdale and neighboring areas.

Gibson.4036:

3. People want to be unique in a game played by hundreds of thousands of players.

Some people want to be unique in a game played by billions of players. It’s called real life.

Chopps.5047:

I always wondered if the face on that statute is one of the male devs. Because that would be hysterical. The concept art doesn’t show it but if you go to the actual statute and look closely at the face, you will want to pull and Ace Ventura finckle and einhorn. If it is legit. and not a joke, I apologize to the dev who worked on the art. It looks manly I don’t know what else to say. :p

You’re right, the in-game statue is not true to the concept art posted here.

killcannon.2576:

Uh…they grow in a land ruled over and controlled by a megalomaniac undead dragon, who wants to suck all the life from the world, cared for by undead farmers who desire nothing better than to tear your face off and use it for a handkerchief, fertilized by 300 year old cattle and the blood of victims too foolish to leave the place alone.

I’d say they taste like rainbows…yep definitely rainbows.

I’m not even going to ask what you think Orrian truffles taste like:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Orrian_Truffle_%28node%29

o.0

Lightning.8397:

On the RNG issue, I think the issue is pretty well laid out – consumers should know that they should not engage in the RNG chests, but ultimately sufficient numbers do to make RNG chests the more profitable venture and as long as that remains the case..

I’ll submit that some consumers should perhaps not engage in the RNG chests. What all consumers should be doing is assessing their own financial situation and weighing their purchase priorities.

morrolan.9608:

The reality is totally different and the extreme RNG and gambling boxes is a part of it. This is why people are angry at anet, they bought into the marketing and trusted anet based on their rep with GW1. That trust was misplaced and anet have been revealed to be just like most other game makers and publishers.

Good lesson to learn. No one should expect a duck to quack like anything other than a duck.

morrolan.9608:

dinominator.9862:

I just reviewed the manifesto and didn’t find any reference to RNG. All they promised was “no monthly fees.” Where did you read that?

Where did you read it the blog was taken down?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_Design_Manifesto

and

Maz.8604:

dinominator.9862:

Maz.8604:

People who defend these practices want the games they play to succeed regardless of how the company in question behaves, because they have some investment. They either want the game to have more players, be more successful so it will stick around for a long time, get more development, release expansions, etc, etc.

It’s not fair to say that players who are not in the same bandwagon as you with regard to wanting to get rid of RNG item sales are motivated to turn a blind eye to unethical practices. That’s reaching too far, IMO.

I wager that most people who bought the game were hoping to be buying into a successful game. The game promised a subscription-free model, and that’s what we expect. We have to trust that the publisher can figure out the necessary monetization practices to keep it that way and we have to expect that they are out to maximize profit for themselves and their investors.

What I will agree on is that some people do have a gambling problem and that’s the only gray area where I think players have some good reason to criticize it.

But please don’t make a villain out of everyone that doesn’t agree with you by painting them as fanboys. That’s passive aggressive and weakens your persuasive essay.

I never said that those not with me are villains. There are those that are apathetic one way or another. I refer specifically to those who shout down at the others fighting against RNG. Those who defend the practice.

Even your post just now. You expect the game to succeed, you want it to succeed. The question ultimately becomes under what conditions you want it to succeed. And what conditions are you willing to see it eschew maximizing profit to maintain some integrity.

You say that as if there is no validity in defending it. If RNG is the difference between continuing to have a subscription-free game with content updates of the same caliber vs. not, then that’s a good reason.

I’m not saying that’s the case because I don’t really know. In fact none of us do, but it’s food for thought.

I could make the argument that subscription games without RNG are even less fair. In those models I have already pre-paid for items that I may never get. Additionally, it takes time to get them which translates to money spent on game time. There’s even RNG built in because I have to keep doing dungeons and looting bosses etc. in hopes of getting something. Therefore even in games like WoW we were buying RNG items!

At least with the gemstore I have a choice about 1) what to buy, and 2) whether to spend more money or just time (gems with gold) since the price of the game was fixed.

Roybe.5896:

why not call for a gamewide boycott of gem purchases for a x week period?

I actually made a post yesterday (forget which exact thread) where I said that talking about it on the forums won’t change anything. I agree that an in-game response from players would be more effective. That would require a large number of players coming together for this cause, and that’s where we’d really see how much support and opposition there is.

Dante.1508:

You’re right they are more slimey, but they don’t try and hide it and say things like they did in manifesto and then do a 180 when the game is released, you know they are slimey and you live with it or don’t play their games…

What Anet did was lower than those others in my opinion..

I just reviewed the manifesto and didn’t find any reference to RNG. All they promised was “no monthly fees.” Where did you read that?

Maz.8604:

People who defend these practices want the games they play to succeed regardless of how the company in question behaves, because they have some investment. They either want the game to have more players, be more successful so it will stick around for a long time, get more development, release expansions, etc, etc.

It’s not fair to say that players who are not in the same bandwagon as you with regard to wanting to get rid of RNG item sales are motivated to turn a blind eye to unethical practices. That’s reaching too far, IMO.

I wager that most people who bought the game were hoping to be buying into a successful game. The game promised a subscription-free model, and that’s what we expect. We have to trust that the publisher can figure out the necessary monetization practices to keep it that way and we have to expect that they are out to maximize profit for themselves and their investors.

What I will agree on is that some people do have a gambling problem and that’s the only gray area where I think players have some good reason to criticize it.

But please don’t make a villain out of everyone that doesn’t agree with you by painting them as fanboys. That’s passive aggressive and weakens your persuasive essay.

Astralporing.1957:

dinominator.9862:

What’s the alternative? You can offer the cosmetics as a straight purchase, but then everyone has them and they’re completely worthless.

This is an example of mindset that is completely alien to me. I just don’t understand how something might look better or worse depending on how many people has it. How? The item in question does not change at all.

It doesn’t look any different, but its perceived value diminishes when it becomes too common. I’m not saying I agree with the mindset but there’s some truth behind it.

laokoko.7403:

dinominator.9862:

laokoko.7403:

They also said there’s no expansion this year.

I wouldn’t expect one this year. WoW launched in 2004 but they didn’t release B.C. until 2007. WotLK came in 2010.

Please stop talking about how games are 10 years ago.

It’s just speculation. I don’t know how ANet will really do it. I just hope it isn’t too fast.

Pretty sure hair already exists.

laokoko.7403:

They also said there’s no expansion this year.

I wouldn’t expect one this year. WoW launched in 2004 but they didn’t release B.C. until 2007. WotLK came in 2010.

Mkalafut.1273:

Creeper.9360:

The RNG chests/lock boxes are in every free to play mmo under the sun now, better get used to it. Do I like it? Hell no. I refuse to buy them even though I’ll never get the cool looking items. If there is one thing I really despise about this game it is the RNG.

Yes they’re in every free game. But the difference is those other games likely have new content added to them in addition to the RNG boxes. All we get from month to month in terms of new weapon or armor skins is from the RNG cash boxes. That’s a problem.

I thought they announced plans for an expansion pack? That’s really where I’d expect new armor/weapons.

What we aren’t hearing is the other side; the players who don’t participate on the forums and enjoy the RNG. It’s possible that enough people actually enjoy “gambling” in GW2.

It shouldn’t be overlooked as a possibility.