Guild Wars 2

This is definitely not intended. Thanks for the reports, all. The team is aware of this problem and they are working to resolve it.

Astral Projections.7320:

Account rollbacks are restricted to a hacked accounts and one time ever for that account. People have deleted a character before and asked this. The answer has always been no.

This is accurate. We cannot make exceptions for high-level characters or for other justifications. The tools truly is used only for compromised accounts.

Sorry about the confusion folks! Curtis and I examined how everything is set up and the type of salvage kit does NOT affect the amount of Essence of Luck that you get. Please do enjoy your Copper-fed Salvage-O-Matic without any fears of it not giving you the standard amount of Essence of Luck that any salvage kit will produce!

I believe she said ‘….i thiiink…’..

Quality of salvage kit does NOT matter for finding essence of luck.

we talked.. we’re sure now.

The Copper-fed Salvage-O-Matic will work just as well as any other kit for finding Essence of Luck

Tom Gore.4035:

You have to realize people making content such as new maps are totally different people from the ones doing the backend server architechture.

Tom is correct. This is not an either/or proposition. Working on a new map is entirely dependent on designers and artists. Working on skill lag is an issue for programmers. Working on one doesn’t prevent the other from being worked on.

Tommyknocker.6089:

Stormleaf.1769:

And once they make the WvW achievements more attainable, you’ll move on to whining about the lack of especially ‘difficult’ and ‘prestigious’ WvW titles like this one.

Hmmm, well I can’t say that I would “whine” I am just stating an obvious failing of this portion of the GW2 world. However if they can add titles for such things as say, “respected achiever”, what is the problem with adding a respected yakslapper title?

As for the achievements, you could just make it so that instead of getting say 10 achievement points for 50000 kills you could get at least 50 for such a milestone! If it is possible to get this same amount for doing 16/16 easy achievement in PvE, I for one cannot see the harm in upping the rewards.

Although these titles might not be considered as “prestigious” if done in tiers I can see no harm in showing to others what you have achieved thus-far. The same goes for the “milestones” in our achievement points offering a title, even though 5000 ap’s isn’t much I see many many players touting that particular one.

edit: clarity and spelling

Last time I’m saying this for a good bit. We are going to address this system before the end of the year, ideally, and make it more in line in terms of numbers and rewards as the rest of the achievements in the game.

Niim.9260:

End of the year…. so sometime in the next 4 months, I guess that is better then soon?

One might question why adding achievements is taking 16 months, I am sure it is a technical limitation of some kind as that is the most common excuse.

We tackle each task as it comes up. Every thing we add or fix has an opportunity cost. In this case, the achievements have not been at the top of the priority list when we have had things like bugs to fix, ability lines to add, and other large projects (what Hugh previewed in the Livestream) to work on. All that being said, we are going to address this because it has become more and more problematic as we continue to add reward systems tied to achievement points and add more and more achievement points through Living World achievements. It would be ideal for us to have an unlimited number of people on the team and to be able to do everything at once. Reality is that we have the resources available to us that we do and we get as much done as we can within those constraints.

Biscuit.9270:

Where does the difference between “in-game items” and “real-world cash” begin? c:

Is a gem store item bought (for personal use, or gifted) with gems purchased with real-world cash (gem card/or credit card) therefore treated as an equivalent to real-world cash, or an in-game item?

Specifically, would it be against the rules to gift gem store items via the gem store (purchased with gems acquired with a gem card) to another player in exchange for a character name?

I understand the risk of being scammed and stuff, that is not a concern c:

Thank you!

We are unable to sanction or grant permission for such a transaction. We’re also unable to help in any way if such a transaction goes wrong. That is to say, we cannot complete a transaction or reverse a scam.

For example: we could not remove items from one account and place them on another, but we would take appropriate action on someone we can establish is a scammer. Players do occasionally ask us to intervene in unfulfilled trades — “go take my item and give it to me!” — but we do not do that. Scam prevention is one of the key reasons the devs created the Trading Post, and we expect that players will use that feature.

I do not think this transaction would result in account action, but I want to be clear that that is not a legal position, simply an observation of the details as provided in this single case.

We cannot change creation dates on characters. We do not change creation dates on characters. As far as I know there are no issues with character creation dates, only with player memories about when the character was actually created. For instance they might say, “I created Fred on Day 1. But I decided I liked Frederica better.” What they forget is that they deleted Fred and made Frederica two weeks afterwards, meaning that Frederica’s creation date is not, and cannot be, the same as that originally held by Fred.

I cannot speak for your individual situation, Nalora, and I do sympathize with your confusion. However, we really don’t fiddle with dates — we don’t even have the tools to do it (upon request or otherwise). You are welcome to contact Support by filing a ticket through the “Ask a Question” tab on that linked page but I am unsure that they will be able to assist you in this case, when the record keeping is, to my understanding, without issues or errors.

Ensign.2189:

Saint.4789:

Other then physically destroying currencies, in real life there’s no “money” sink, as mostly everything ends up having value and no money is physically removed from the economy (except the money destroyed, as I referenced above).

This game, anything bought at a vendor, anything traded on the trading post, anything that involves trading currency with an NPC is a subtraction of the currency from the economy. This means that it’s gone, it’s literally out of the flow.

If we ignore credit (which is a huge oversimplification in the real world) this is more or less correct.

In both cases the rates are related by a simple relationship:

Accumulation = Generation – Destruction

In the real world economies, as you pointed out, the rate of currency destruction is low. That means to keep accumulation low, generation must also be low.

In GW2, generation is enormous – just look at the amount of raw gold created every time you go out to play. This means that destruction must also be enormous if accumulation is to be kept in check.

The strength of GW2’s money sinks rests on the 15% TP fee – because it scales up with the amount of money in the economy. Even T3 cultural armor is only a one time sink, and only pulls a flat amount of money out. The TP fee takes 15% over and over and over again – the game cannot generate more money than the TP fee can sink.

Saint.4789:

Secondly, as player base increases, wouldn’t inflation go down as the money is spreading out.

If the amount of money in the economy was fixed that would absolutely be the case.

It isn’t fixed, though: the rate of gold generation scales with the number of players (more players farming = more players generating gold). So if you doubled the number of players, you’d also double the rate of gold generation, and double the rate of gold destruction, and with the way these things scale you’d have roughly double the amount of money sitting around in the economy.

Saint.4789:

Can someone correct me here if I’m wrong? as I understand it, unless core components of the economy change (TP fee, where the money goes when buying from a vendor), all inflation is temporary.

You’re right that all inflation is temporary – in the real world central bankers work really hard to balance money flows to keep inflation within an acceptable range. Since WWII they’ve done a pretty remarkable job of keeping inflation in a controlled range, enough so that most people kind of understand slow, stable inflation to be ‘normal’.

But it’s all temporary. In reality there are a bunch of different market forces pulling on supply and demand on a large scale, and those are all changing over time – not just when something big changes, but as people accumulate wealth and their goals and farming patterns change. Big bursts of inflation, or deflation, in the economy these days are going to be from something changing – and recently we’ve had a lot of big changes.

This is a great post.

Broadicea.8294:

Essence Snow.3194:

I stopped bothering to listen to him a while back as there is nothing of worth to gather from the words he is permitted to say to us. Kinda like the words of a fortune being meaningless as they are so generalized that they may apply to anything.

Yup, precisely. John is barely allowed to tell us anything and when he does it’s so vague and cryptic that it’s essentially worthless.

I can think of absolutely no reason why the player base shouldn’t be permitted access to basic information about the economy. His remark about the median returns from gauntlet farming is a perfect example. The median alone tells us almost nothing. What was the mean? What about gold earned by the top quintiles or deciles and the population statistics to match?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Economy-concerns/page/3#post2642294

Rennoko.5731:

DevonCarver.5370:

Daendur.2357:

What’s happening? They realized WvW is part of the game ?

Good one!

I think you just did this to add another red topic to the front page….

I see through you.

I’m going to assume that is a comment on my skin pigment and that is offensive!

See above quote.

Daendur.2357:

What’s happening? They realized WvW is part of the game ?

Good one!

Overall yes we know there’s a change in short run income for players, though it’s not as severe as speculated. No, we aren’t surprised. Yes, there are plans in place to make sure the economy doesn’t experience permanent, hyper-inflation.

As far as the median numbers go, remember that how much information I can give out on the forums is often very limited. I do my best to give you a picture that you can work with. I described exactly how to take the one number I gave out and create an accurate model of what’s happening. The uncertainty in your model is unfortunately unavoidable (but can be minimized) as I can’t always post the full picture of everything that’s happening.

Malediktus.9250:

I think its not fair that some people get double the presents. I only got 1 because of this bug.

No, a few people received a second gift. Not a lot, but a few. This was a factor of how the distribution was made, and how the fix was rolled out. It’s not an intentional double-gifting, and you got everything to which you are entitled and of course we’re sorry for any confusion that this caused.

Parisalchuk.9230:

How is this at all fair? Your giving presents out to all characters that are 1 year old, regardless of if they have received one or not. This is like last November all over again where people who may or may not have done the Southsun event can get free loot which included a relatively high rate of precursors.

While Im only missing out on a booster really, this still is crap for people who werent ‘lucky’.

Again, this was not a universal situation, only a small number would have received a second item.

Squishy.9456:

Gifts received on both of my 1-year-old characters. Thanks!

The even better news is, now that the bug’s been fixed, subsequent birthdays shouldn’t have the same problems. So double hurrah!

Absolutely! All should be smooth sailing from now on!

Tanek.5983:

Thank you for the quick fix on this.
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As for the characters that got or did not get a second gift:

When I was young there were two different ways kids in the family looked at presents at birthdays and Christmas. One way was to open your gift and focus on what you received. For the most part, kids who did this were happy because it would be something they’d asked for and wanted. (sure, there was the occasional pair of socks, but them’s the breaks )

The other way was to open your gift and then start comparing it to what the other kids got. Were the others more expensive? Did you get one item and Bobby got two? (good thing we did not have the internet to instantly check which gift was rated higher on Amazon) For the most part, kids who did this were upset in some way and enjoyed their own presents less.

I prefer the first way.

I appreciate the wisdom that you have imparted. Much the same idea came to my mind, as well.

We have some audio optimizations queued up internally that should make it into an upcoming patch.

Stay tuned!