The fact of the matter is, if I see someone 2 feet taller than me approaching with a roaring chainsaw, I’m likely to call him “Sir.” Or her “Ma’am.”
If I see someone 2 feet taller than me approaching with a roaring chainsaw, then I’m facing the wrong direction.
~EW
Shocking. Simply shocking pre-judging. Just because an 8 foot Skeleton is running towards you with a roaring chainsaw is no reason for you to make negative snap judgements about him and run away! You need to take the time to talk to him. Try to see things from his point of view. Empathize. Maybe he’s having a bad day and only needs a sympathetic listener. If he chainsaws you in half its a sign you didn’t try hard enough. You didn’t reach out to him and discuss his needs, his dreams and problems.
Can’t we all just get along? :/
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As a Dreamer owner, I just wanted to say that I did not make it for you to look at, I made it for me to look at. For me to enjoy. I did not make it to troll anyone and I didn’t make it to be annoying. I love the skin, I love the hoofprint trails and I love the unicorns…it amuses me to kill things with unicorns. I get my enjoyment from a rather silly weapon and whoever can get theirs with a huge screen taking up GS or whatever legendary you happen to prefer. Lumping every one who ever made a Dreamer into one big troll pile isn’t cool…that’s not why some of us made it. It’s not my fault the noises bug you just as it’s not someone’s fault while standing in a stack I can’t see anything because of a huge GS or a Norn/Charr butt in my face.
So far I’ve managed to get 33 Candy Corn Cobs, both from grinding the labyrinth and candy corn bought off the trading post. I’m not sure I can get the remaining amount of cobs needed in time.
The price for this mini is beyond insanity.
Yeah I have thrown in the towel. After 2 days of on/off grind I had less than 10 cobs. Realised to finish off Id have to keep it up, sell all my assets and not enjoy the experience.
Not really much point in a reward in a game if it isnt fun to get. I hope Anet take on board that festivals are about fun, not monstrous grind, or balancing the economy. Im not sure I understand why it is our responsibility to clear the TP candy supply.
You basically described every “F2P” Korean MMO that floods in by the thousands. And there are reasons almost every one of them dies before anyone ever hears about them.
Some of those reasons are probably listed in your post.
Leader and sole member of the “Bring Penguins to Tyria” movement.
Seriously I take one month off from GW2, have been perusing the forums for a week and one name is precariously missing; did something happen to Vayne?
I thought Vayne on this forum was sort of like Cliff or Norm from Cheers.
Seriously the dude helped me get through Heart of Thorns and kept me from quitting the game; regardless of people’s differences with him he’s a strong mentor if you need him.
I think JP’s have always been intended to be for their own sake. When they aren’t, when they are needed for other things (see: Mursaat tokens, Winter’s Presence, and the like), there is generally unhappiness on the forums as a result. What you see as incentive, others see as “forcing” them to do JPs.
My other problem with buying a Legendary would be that I have alts with different professions so I would regret my purchase as a different alt became my flavor of the month.
it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol
That’s the thing, the trading post isn’t an auction house. You aren’t bidding for anything. It’s a list of players who want to sell items and players who want to buy items. The system assumes that all players want to buy the cheapest item and sell at the highest possible price.
List the item for the most you’re willing to spend for it or the least you’re willing to accept it for at the time you list it. Then leave it alone for at least a few days/a week or two. Chances are, in a few days, as long as your prices aren’t too high or too low depending on if you’re wanting to buy or sell, you’re orders have been fulfilled. If not, look at the current buy/sell orders. If the price is too different, consider relisting or accepting that it may be a long time before that order is filled.
You know, I’ve read a lot of posts, topics, and opinions on these forums. But this one? This one takes the cake. Please don’t bait the community. Not nice.
GW2 had a poor quarter as we found out but that by itself doesn’t mean the game is dying.
Could you not simply have called the thread “Why I like the game less than before”. It wouldn’t be so sensationalist and it would actually cover the content much better.
It’s a game forum. The truth is not to be found here.
I was soooo noob I thought the pebbles dropped by the elementals on the Queensdale dam were a big deal. “Wow. I bet you can farm and sell these”
Me and a friend got a transformation tonic from somewhere and flew as owls through the swamp area in Queensdale. We were moving fast to avoid the mobs because we were underlevel and were trying to avoid the scary level 15 mobs.
We ventured into Kessex at one point and there, in front of us, was a level 24 deer.
3 of us. One deer. The odds were in our favor! We attacked!
Results: 2 dead players. One fleeing player. One angry deer.
We went back to Queensdale.
I remember showing another noob guildie “the moves.” Look! You can run around when attacking! You don’t have to stand in one spot." (Runs in a circle to demonstrate). “You can dodge!” (Dodges).
What are your war stories?
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I’m happy about this. I bought the 2000 gems bundle to get it back when it came out and I’m glad other people can buy it without the bundle. As always Anet didn’t disappoint me. I know happy customers are good for the game and a healthy game population which is happily playing benefits me and everyone else. ANet’s business practices make me glad they think of other people besides those who can afford to spend 2000 gems on one purchase.
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I don’t get why people treat pixel stuff as it were real. I’m a convinced Anet sold me a game to have fun with, not a bunch of trinkets and coins to hoard…
“Only problem with the Engineer is
that it makes every other class in the game boring to play.”
Hawks
Considering any character used after the failed patch became corrupted…I lost nothing. I regained the use of my main character which is far greater than anything I could have farmed/achieved in that 2 hour stretch.
I’d have to disagree with this idea due to the fact that you’re missing out on a whole other perspective. I.e players who have earned these skins or have had the money to afford them feel a level of prestige amongst the community. Some skins signify ones hard work or even just basic participation in events that took place before newer players started to arrive. Please stop pushing for the idea of “everything for everyone” because that’s not how mmos should work. If I played gw2 at launch and got an exclusive skin during a one time event it means I invested time to obtain this item and would be degrading if it was just handed out to new players. It’s just a matter of loss of prestige.
This is also coming from a player who never had any fancy back wings or jet packs or horn tonics or whatever. I just belive people are entitled to exclusive skins because there is sentimental value behind them.
As someone who played all the betas and was present for Halloween 2012, Fire and Frost, and Southsun I can attest that it did not take time or effort to obtain these “exclusive” skins. It took RNG. I played the heck out of the first Halloween because I enjoyed it, but never got one of the Halloween skins. Half of my guild mates got precursors during Southsun, but I did not. And I farmed the Molten dungeon like nobody’s business but still never got the molten backpack. Getting these items does not mean you played longer or better than anyone else, only that the die came up for you. Furthermore, since many of these skins are purchasable on the trading post, there isn’t even any prestige involved. So what, exactly, is the point of denying people the ability to earn these in game?
If p2w isn’t about power you can buy with money but about whatever you decide it is, then I’ve decided that buying fashion from the gemstore is p2w. If someone has bought an armor set that I don’t have and that’s not currently available then he won over me because…. Fashion Wars 2! If a cosmetic item is put on sale and someone buys it an hour before me then he won also because he was more beautiful than me for that hour.
So you see, once you decide to change the meaning of p2w from the real meaning to fit your grievance of the day then you head into nonsensical territory.
Buying convenience or time (or fashion) isn’t pay to win. Not even in a small amount.
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It is Wolf looking over the young pack below.
Raven is high above the clouds soaring, high above and seeing all.
Leopard is hiding; far too sneaky for us to ever see them lest they let us.
And Bear is hibernating.
I disagree with this completely. Just because people don’t tag/apple up doesn’t mean they don’t help. I’ve seen plenty of people post in map chat for help to have several people reply and help them. Gw2 definitely has a great community at its core.
Yet anyone who has tagged up knows that chat warriors are out there and is probably a reason many don’t tag up. Personally I still enjoy it but trolls will attack any mistake you make really. The majority you helped are usually silent.
As a RL Blackjack dealer, I’d point out that the first three rules are very good rules to follow in any gambling what so ever.
Consider everything gambled lost, and thus don’t gamble what you can’t afford to lose.
Of course, you’re very welcome to forget the third rule when playing at my table
Please, put some fun back in the game instead of endless numbers games.
Now describe how to put fun back in the game in a way that replayable, and something that’s fun for a substantial number of people.
Edit: all you said was “I don’t like.” That’s not constructive or useful to the devs. What they want to hear is, “I suggest that the game have this for this reason”. They have no idea what you consider fun that would be good to put in the game and have sufficient replayability to be worth their time and money to work on.
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