Guild Wars 2

The topic is shifting from establishing a communication process and is starting to ask about very specific things to be looked at. All we are doing here is giving him enough rope to allow his masters to shut him down by asking him to discuss specific scenarios. Or he’s going to have to include “This is my opinion” on all his posts so it won’t be used as an ANet “promise”.

We are derailing here.

Gods, so much strum und drang over a long overdue bug fix.

This fixed a problem. First player in “owned” the instance and for whatever reason leaves/drops, instance over.

It’s an entirely separate issue as to if the organizer should be kick proof or if kick should require a majority.

Except I’m quoting her post from 3 hours ago.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Unable-to-Purchase-Gems-merged/4336219

Kaida.1478:

I wasn’t necesarily thinking of my main account per say.

I now have 3 accounts, my main, a spare/mule and this account which my friends have kindly paid for for me in the hopes that by the time I finish leveling with them the issue will be resolved one way or another.

Unfortunately my main account is the one with my real name information (Derp)

Granted if I cannot get the name changed I will have to considder getting it deleted as an option – I just wanted to see if this was a possibility. If it is I feel much safer with the knowledge that at least if the account is deleted my information will no longer be visible to anybody.

I know I said I only had one more question but if an account is deleted / banned does that also remove any posts that account made from the forums?

I will submit a ticket from my mule account tomorrow if this is something that can be done. Then it will be one less account to worry about being comprimised etc…

And hopefully if this is the case my HOM can be unlinked first so I can tie it up with my newest account. But I don’t want to ask for it in my ticket yet incase it just gets deleted before anything else can be done with the account.

Yes I’ll cry over the ammount of money I spent on character slots and bag upgrades but it’s a sacrifice I will have to make.

Sorry, I do tend to ramble on quite a bit don’t I?

Really appreciate your time Gaile, thankyou for the responses you are a star, I promise that was my last question and I will leave you in peace.

You aren’t getting that this isn’t the place to talk about that.

Saint.4165:

I’m not saying GW2 is the only game with bugs, I’m saying Anet doesn’t prioritize fixing bugs, just adding more content. This isn’t entirely their fault, I know that ncsoft (anet’s publisher) has been raking in the cash from GW2 and putting towards OTHER games, like Wildstar.

So you are asking about weapon skins then?

Other than the ones you get from the achievement chests, like the Zenith skins, they cost charges. But the ones you buy directly from the gem shop do come with one charge.

Don’t know about the ones you buy with BLC tickets, if they come with a charge or not.

The wiki is your friend.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Outfits

Outfits don’t require charges. But you can’t mix or max.

Standard armor comes with 1 free charge for each piece and their skins go into your wardrobe for use on additional characters.

runeblade.7514:

Still can’t buy gems.

Gaile Gray.6029:

… From what I have learned, our billing provider is working on a fix that should address this for the few folks who are continuing to have issues.

sirsquishy.8531:

Behellagh.1468:

Why does it matter if it’s “better”? Sounds like they recoded the section in the renderer that handles displaying other players.

So you dont care what they did, just if its better?

Curious from a technical standpoint only. But since none of us have detailed knowledge of the internal structure of the game engine and how it handles non-static or game controlled objects like players, any info given would be mostly meaningless.

“We’ve changed the way many of the underlying systems work, making them more cost-effective, which will reduce how often players will be seeing issues caused by performance. This is most notable in large combat situations like WvW and at the PvE world boss events.”

This sounds like a restructuring of other player information management and rendering. I don’t think it has much to do with improving multithreading, 64-bit client or any upgrade from Dx9. And if it was something like capping particles or even a setting they would mention that, so to me it sounds like it’s a substantially under the hood change that would be meaningless to describe to the masses.

Welcome to flipping isn’t easy. Guess what? It never was.

Reminds me of the accidental heavy discount of the 5 key pack last March. I doubt they will fix this because providing refunds would be a tracking nightmare.

See the link for support (only three on every page, okay fair enough one is in a pull down for Services)? Click on that. Then on the top right of the support page there’s a link called “Submit a Request”.

When I say rewards, I’m talking coin or items that players sell for coin to vendors since that’s also a source of income. I’m not talking about mats. Excess items are removed via selling to vendors, salvage or tossing them into the Mystic Slot Machine. And I guess by simple deletion.

So I don’t know what sinks remove “over a fair amount” of items or what items you are referring to.

Why does it matter if it’s “better”? Sounds like they recoded the section in the renderer that handles displaying other players.

Collaborative Development Initiative

TheCheater.5190:

no my primary complaint isn’t my inability to make lots of gold (thoug a massive wealth would be nice but nvm) my complaint is that by now It’s extremely hard to raise money and the problem is that we have both sinks AND diminishing returns and both of them is excessively severe. I perfectly understand the necessity of gold sinks in the game otherwise the risk is to have too much gold circulating BUT I think it’s not a fair politic to keep nerfing drop. It’s true that prices on tp is given by the supply but items have to be dropped prior to put them on sale and with almost every update the drop rate of nice things like T6 mats/rares/exos diminishes and as it’s clear looking at the trading post the equation “money loss due sinks + missing income given by not-dropping items = price rising on the TP” it’s perfectly verified

You can make money, but it doesn’t seem for you to be fast enough.

Any reward being dropped is “new” to the game’s economy. To keep inflation from going nuts, the various sinks need to compensate a fair amount of that “new” income flowing into the game. That’s why they can’t open the reward tap. That’s one reason they but the kibosh on any player activity that is bringing in to much “new” income compared to their targets.

As for highly desirable but rare items, their prices are more associated to the wealth gap in the game. Only the players who both desire and are one of the wealthier can afford it. That’s low supply meeting demand. If instead of a TP we had an auction the prices will still be high with only the most wealthy among us being able to afford it.

Kohlteth.3715:

I dont get the silence when a major competitor (blizz) is doing everything they can to show gamers what they DO have in the pipe so to speak to keep customers, is it because anet actually have nothing in the pot to show ?

WoW is hemorrhaging players. There is a new expansion to sell.

That’s why we Blizzard is hitting the air waves. If ANet had an expansion you could buy they would be telling you all about it hoping you will fork over some money. Except that’s not what funds GW2, so we get Evon blog posts to hype up what’s in the Gem Shop.

Do you think Global Guilds is going to attract new players? Or anything in the feature pack if they told us what was planned to be in it 3/6 months ago? Would any of that news cause you to open your wallet, some for the first time, and buy some gems? Of course not.

Note they didn’t say it was fixed yet. It’s now in a third party’s hand.

Except it’s not as you craft or buy a legendary and you find or MF a precursor so acquisition isn’t synonymous. You can’t craft a precursor and you can’t throw items into the MF and get a legendary.

Difficulty to acquire is maybe synonymous. Disparity between supply and demand certainly. But not acquisition.

250 gems is a bit over $3 but I think the minimum purchase amount is $10 which is 800 gems.

BrotherBelial.3094:

leman.7682:

Grebcol.5984:

“Martin Kerstein and Kate Welch " Woooott they are gone?

As of today’s news.

Where did you see this?

If you want more “official” word.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/08/24/two-senior-staff-members-depart-from-arenanet/

Do they have a new game to show? No. So save money on booth space. NCSOFT’s big news is WildStar, not some 2 year old game. Which is NCSOFT’s modus operandi when it comes to these events.

Dat patch was a bit over 60MB. Launcher patch only a couple of meg at most.

If I were you, days when a major patch, one that’s announced a head of time, head for free wifi. I don’t think I remember seeing a follow on/fix patch over 100MB.

You can only change servers once every 7 days however.

Yes, I know that. I didn’t want to spend all day looking for a better example. Too many times when I was crafting that I didn’t spend the time to realize the so call profit was wishful thinking, that the supply already far exceeded demand and that break even was doubtful. But you can’t trust demand either. You need to bring up the TP to see what the demand/price entries are and see if they aren’t vendor+1c or a minority of the reported demand on items without a vendor price (1c bid stuffing).

That’s my word of warning on the subject of crafting. Once bitten, twice shy.

Yes, I did the edit so quickly that it didn’t register as an edit.

I do stand by that sell off post. My intention there was to show that the overall sell off didn’t occur in an hour or two but over 3+ days, even though it does appear that a substantial amount of the sell off did occur over a span of a few hours but one or two days apart.

Nobody bought 2 million at 7c “instantly” and is now selling it at 30c.

Yes, but it’s a legitimate caveat when one required element is difficult to obtain, relative to acquiring it off the TP. Plus the warning that simply because there’s a low sell price that would imply a huge payoff doesn’t mean it’s a legitimate price.

http://www.gw2tp.com/item/41711-sentinels-soft-wood-warhorn

I imagine that some novice flipper was attracted by it’s profit margin of over 63,000%.

But as for crafting it’s more often like this.

http://www.gw2tp.com/item/13553-amethyst-gold-earring

Where the GW2Spidy reported cost is 33.68s and high bid is 33.83s. Good luck selling it at 64.74s GW2Spidy has as low sell offer for the 21s profit.

Mystic.5934:

Behellagh.1468:

never mind, I’m an idiot.

I hate when I spend like 20 min writing something really elegant and referenced, then realize it doesn’t need to be said or I misunderstood what OP meant. I’m not sure why/what you’re redacting, though?

Well I was talking out of my depth. While I’ve seen a delay when attempting to sell to quickly, I’ve never seen it while buying. Except I never buy to many things at one time, quickly while you state you have. Your experience exceeds mine so I’m in no position to disagree with your delay assertion on buy.

It’s alive … IT’S ALIVE!

Honestly? A nearly year old thread to necropost in?

sirflamesword.3896:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

JoluMarti.9165:

Players really want:

• New Dungeons/Fractals
• New Dungeon/Fractal Rewards
• PvP modes/maps
• Guild Halls (GvG)
• New Legendaries
• New Weapon and Armor skins (No RNG)
• Precursor Crafting

Actually, I don’t want any of those things. I do want Living Story.

Guess what? People aren’t asking them to stop doing LS, you literally would lose NOTHING.

Developers time is a limited resource. As one basketball coach said when asked why player X doesn’t get more time, “who do you want me to pull out to put that player in?”

Erukk.1408:

Flytrap.8075:

Tell that to the people who keep upvoting me.

Doesn’t mean much in the end, since there is no downvoting in these forums that I know of. It only shows that your statement appeal to a certain group of people, and it in no way shows that your statement appeals to everyone.

And since you have a broad range of complaints, some only needs to agree strongly with one to induce them to up vote you.

Marketing needs a thesaurus. Plus they need to realize that as of late the player base has become somewhat sensitive to over promised, under delivered “features”.

Don’t poke the bears.

Outfits partially “solves” two of the complaints I see here. 1st is non-weight specific and 2nd is unlimited transmutations. Of course the draw back is the lack of mix and match.

Then the question is how does the amount of content found in one GW campaign measure up to the amount of content GW2 had at launch?

A few things I got from the OP.

1st, he didn’t see the announcement that the precursor hunt got back burnered.

2nd, he doesn’t understand that rewards from dungeons/events can be inflationary unless sinks are also part of the equation.

3rd, prices on the TP are based on supply and demand. Yes ANet can control the sources of supply and can influence demand by making an item that needs X material to craft but that’s it.

Basically his primary complaint is his inability to make lots of gold quickly due to all the restrictions put in place to keep the injection of new gold and items under control.

Flytrap.8075:

Vayne.8563:

I’m sorry did Anet advertise expansion level content 2 years ago? I was playing 2 years ago…like the day the game launched in headstart and I don’t remember seeing expansion level content advertised at launch.

You must have a bad memory then.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/09/18/guild-wars-2-to-get-consistent-free-updates-expansion/

For a more direct link.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Guild-wars-2-content-update/86706

But guess what? Plans change. It’s the fact they don’t make it clear that plans change that causes problems.

That said they did deny a patch after it got reported that one was coming during NCSOFT’s investor calls, twice even. Since then it’s been maybe someday.

Ayrilana.1396:

It’s players leaving alts in Malchor Leap and continually farming the same five nodes every few hours that has caused the elder wood log prices to plummet and bring foxfire clusters into the market. If they did not do this then we’d likely see neither.

I get enough elder wood logs from salvage, there was never a shortage on T5 mats.

never mind, I’m an idiot.

It’s only profitable if someone buys it at that price.

Ignoring the legendary weapons, the two beaded weapons require a karma bought material (1575 Karma each) that you need to unlock the seller, plus it’s a pain because you need to click 75 times per Sun Bead. The high bid for those two items are in the 30-35s range.

The other four require dungeon bought items as one of the ingredients which is why the coin cost of mats is so low.

LordByron.8369:

few months after the game was released gems were 30 silver for 100.

Ha!

I say again.

Ha!

It was over 30s 5 days after the exchange went live. Over 40s in 22 days and over 50s in 30 days. At two months it was 78s per 100 gems. At three months it was 2g per 100 gems.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I don’t know. I guess it’s just really strange for an item that has been in the same place for 2 years to jump so far seemingly overnight. (Was it overnight? How long did it take?)

79 hours, 1.795 million. There was three notable sell offs.

First moved the price fro 8c to 10c in 4 hours with a drop in supply of 540,000.

Two days and 497,000 drop in supply the price had only moved fro 10c to 12c.

Then in two hours 334,000 was removed and the price went from 12c to 20c.

23 hours later with only 49,000 supply drop, with the price was steady there was another two hour period that withdrew another 375,000 from the market. Prices went from 20c to 26c.

So in 8 hours about 1.2 million was removed, 709 thousand in 4 hours. A bit under 5,000 stacks in total. 10 stacks a minute on average, 12-13 stacks a minute at peak. More than doable since if they were buying at low sell it’s just entering 250 and clicking buy each time.

So I guess a single entity could do it. Boring 4 or 8 hours. The first buy off would have cost 432 to 540g. 2nd buy off cost 400 to 668g. Last buy off would cost 750 to 975g.

So roughly 1,900g. But they would have to dump nearly 750,000 at 26c, 630,000 at 30c to just break even.

But the thing is since the last obvious major drop buy off, supply only dropped some 97,000. Except for one 40K of sell orders over an hour there hasn’t been a major bumps in supply in 5+ days. I guess you could spread out some sell orders and “automate” sell orders to be made as previous ones are fulfilled one stack at a time at the inflated price but I can’t see a single player thinking they will profit off of it. Price may have jumped to 30c but it’s back down to 26c. It’s tough to liquidate inventory AND keep the price high enough to recover your costs. And I’m not even taking the 15% into account.

Nobody is making a killing on this. They didn’t buy 1.75 million at 8c and sold it at 30c.

On the contrary, mobs not near a heart/event are more likely to have bonus XP up to 3x or so from ones that are killed along paths players tend to run along. If XP and leveling is your goal, kill anything you run across that’s red.

Why do people believe it’s always a single person that cause these massive changes in supply or demand?

ANet chooses. They know what may be possible to do and at least keep it from becoming a shouting match down here.

AVM.5746:

Just wondering if anyone called them out on it…

Don’t know. But if they did they can’t talk about it. :p

Copy the copy folder from the old computer to the new one. Make a shortcut to gw2.exe. Run it. Only problem is the size of the dat file.

32-bit app. Loading all geometry, textures and sounds from the HD. Somewhat limited multithreading. The very first zone when you log into the game will load to completion before enabling the rendering. After that you get partially loaded zones where you can at least run to a portal or bring up map view to WP closer to your objective.

Or do you want to wait 4 minutes every time?