Guild Wars 2

For those who couldn’t be here, all you missed was a cutscene. I don’t want to diminish the quality of the cutscene, it was awesome! But missing it will have no bearing on your ability to enter the instance left behind after the cutscene ended.

It is a group instance, fyi.

As far as I can tell so far, the only thing you might have missed is the cutscene of the Mad King coming out of the ground where the Lion Statue is (or used to be). Fear not, for those who missed it for any reason. The instance is there now and that is the important thing. You can get a group together and do it later

Snix Spoonman.3871:

It’s really starting to get annoying that some people are trying to validate the cash shop by comparing it to a casino or lotto tickets.
Yes, we all know casino’s have games of chances, we all know that lotto is a game of chance. And we all know buying BLC keys are a game of chance.
But is everyone missing the point?
This is a video game with a PEGI rating of 12, and an ESRB rating of T, “real money” gambling should not be encouraged in a game with these ratings.

“Titles in this category may contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, blood, simulated gambling, and/or frequent use of vulgar language.”

This is the official stance on titles with these ratings, the key here is “Simulated gambling”, a substantial portion of people buying these keys were buying them for the chance of a skin, and probably wouldnt be interested in buying the keys for any other reason, this is an encouragement to “real money” gamble in a game that is not ESRB or PEGI rated to reflect this.

I understand why people are getting angry at the whining about feeling ripped off, but i also have sympathy for these people. It essentially wrong for “real money” gambling to be in a game of this nature, and attacking people who feel ripped off serves no purpose. People have a right to be feeling upset over something that should not be in the game. Keep the gambling to “simulated ingame gambling”, this game is wildly and legally available to 12 year olds here in the UK, did PEGI or ESRB realise real money gambling would be involved when ratings were given?

The odds of receiving a skin were never given, although I suspect most people knew the odds were fairly low, but there was a lot of people parting with hard earned cash without having the fullest comprehension how much of a gamble this would be.

So please folks, if people are feeling ripped off and need to have a rant and a moan, let them, don’t flame and attack them. At end of the day they were duped out of their money as no information from ANET of how much of a gamble this would be.

The difference with Lotto, Casinos, Horse Racing tracks, are that they are regulated, and are obliged to provide the odd’s and probabilties, and also age restrictions. So comparing GW2 to these is way off the mark.

This is a game available for purchase from 12 year olds, that encourages real money gambling with no regulation and no information on odds. People have the right to moan.

I been a long-term Anet supporter, and have backed them verbally and also with purchases for years now, and I will probably continue to back them. But no more with my money as I cannot support this philosophy they have introduced into the cash shop.

And I would suggest those that are angry and upset at feeling ripped off to lock their wallets up too as at the end of the day this is a game for entertainment purposes, and if being ripped off is souring your experiencing so badly, then do what I am doing, spend money elsewhere.

The game is supported by people spending in the cash shop, flaming and attacking people who are pumping money into the cash shop is not constructive. So when someone is ranting about feeling ripped off, give them a bit of support rather than attack, as this game will only survive as long as people are spending.

I, for one, am not comparing the Cash Shop to the Lottery. I am comparing the keys to open chests to the Lottery. BIG DIFFERENCE. You know what you are getting with most of the goods in the Cash Shop. But you DON’T know what you are getting when you buy a key to open a chest. THAT is what is like playing the Lottery.

Yesterday on my server (Tarnished Coast), Queensdale was the zone to be in for access to the Mad King’s Realm. Even if they aren’t up yet, there is an event chain that ends with the doors appearing everywhere that lead to the MKR.

Try going to Queensdale. You should see a ton of pumpkin doors. If not, just wait a bit for the events which make them available.

It might not even BE an item. It could be a title.

Saraccogiorgio, east coast of what country?

If you spent triple digits on gems, that was your choice. ArenaNet is not responsible for your choice. If you spend a bunch of money on Powerball and your numbers don’t come up, do you go around saying that the Lottery is to blame? Random number generators are random. Choose to gamble on randomness and there is a good chance you will lose.

Edit: Voloman, are you aware that it is entirely possible to buy 100 $1 lottery tickets and not recoup ANY of your initial investment in winnings? Just because there is a one in five chance of winning does not guarantee you WILL win anything. Learn about probability.

Once you have attempted the puzzle so many times, you almost know instinctively where you are and how you need to move. The presence of large characters should not impede your ability to do the puzzle.

People just get frustrated after many failed attempts and unfortunately they want to blame something else for their failure.

Well I doubt it will be anything too valuable since many people cannot be online at that time for various reasons.

My guess is a special title.

Yeah I would like to see clarification. I have the Halloween Huntin’, Halloween Events completed, Trick or Treat bags opened, and Mad King’s Clock Tower achievements all completed but Emissary of the Mad King only shows 3 Halloween Achievements completed. Shouldn’t it be 4? Unless one of those special event achievements doesn’t count toward the Emissary of the Mad King achievement…

Title says it all. Just curious if anyone knows.

I am sympathetic to the OP but to say that ArenaNet hates Asians is just wild hyperbole.

Sylvari
Thief
Level 80
No boosts

Keep a good attitude and keep trying!

Well, just read another post saying they are only found in Queensdale, Gendarren Fields, and Kessex Hills. Oh well.

Still enjoying the event!

After doing the Mad Memoires scavenger hunt, I went to Sparkfly Fen to finish exploration of that zone. I didn’t see a Haunted door anywhere. After perusing a bit of the forums, it sounds as if they are only found in the low level zones. I could be wrong, just looking for clarification.

In my opinion, I would like to see them in every zone.

I have not come across a haunted door yet. Other than going to the scavenger hunt locations, I spent most of my time last night in Sparkfly Fen. Are the doors ONLY found in low level zones?

Wow…I am astounded at the OP’s inability to understand what was going on. I never read the developer blog post regarding the event but I was able to figure things out without Googling.

Yes, at first it was chaotic and I wasn’t sure what to do. But I decided to READ the tooltips of the skills I had while transformed into a costume. I toggled the costume brawl and started attacking other transformed players. I noticed a little counter above my skill bar and I READ the tooltip. I also took notice of how the counter responded to my attacks. Figured it out all on my own.

Then I went to LA and talked to the little Asuran with the big pumpkin icon over its head. I read the dialogue and …oh look at that! I got mail that further explained how to proceed. Using trial and error and reading tooltips, I figured out how to use the scanner.

I will admit that the scavenger hunt would be nigh impossible for a player who had not explored much of the maps or was not very high level. I read the clues given and was able to find all but one without any outside help because I have done a lot of exploring.

But come on, OP, it wasn’t NEARLY as bad as you say.

How is in-game currency being drained from the economy? One player is selling and another is buying. Isn’t that just moving the currency around?

This is a minor gripe, but I get annoyed when I go to list something and see that someone is offering 1c for it. I mean, even if I WANTED to be generous and sell it for 1c, the system doesn’t ALLOW me to sell it for less than vendor price. So wouldn’t it make sense to make it impossible to OFFER less than vendor price?

I am going to be so depressed if this happened because I had the survivor bug where it was stalled at 85,400 experience but all the other achievements were done. :-(

I replied in another thread about this but wanted to respond here as well. I am stalled at 85,400+ xp. Had I known that using recalling to the main city, logging out, or even using waypoints in the same zone could break progress I would have just camped at one spot. Going to bug it in game and hope for a fix before the end of the month.

I have this issue as well. I am stalled at 85,400+ xp. There seems to be so many things that can disrupt it. This is the only achievement I am missing to get my monthly achievements and I am very dismayed that I may miss out on it.

Has anyone gotten a dev response anywhere about this?

But once you consume them, they are at your disposal forever…isn’t that a good thing?

Best filter ever!