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That’s fair, and I do see that point. As I said, I have no knowledge of the odds we are discussing here. Honestly, in my personal opinion if the drop rate is somewhere around 1-2% I think that is about right. Keeping it that rare makes it more special for the lucky folks that end up with on at the end of the holiday. Now if it was ME that spent $20 and was disappointed, perhaps I would be singing a different tune (in all fairness). Lastly, thanks for replying in a calm logical way Not all of these threads are going in that direction, so cheers to you.
I think the point MOST folks are trying to make isn’t that they want their money back, but that odds this low dissuade them from wanting to spend money in the future. I love the crap out of this game, but I’m not likely to buy more keys any time soon — problem is, with a large enough group of that mindset, ANet may wind up seeing some decline in financials
The counter argument to that I guess would be, if the odds were too high, then those that bought a bunch of keys would wish they didn’t since their cool new skin X is being worn by half the population. There has to be a balance. I don’t know the real numbers here for the odds on BL chests, but the fact that plenty of people have already gotten skins from them would tell me that it is high enough as is. Just my $.02 and I do see what you are saying, I would just prefer they remain rare.
I am writing this to remind you that you have a choice when playing GW2. Your whinning is driving me insane!
No one forced you to purchase keys for BL chests. It’s your choice! As in real life, no one forces you to purchase lottery ticket. It’s your choice!
No one forced you to grind the mats for legendary items (legendary weapons, Halloween weapon skins, and more coming up.) It’s your choice!
You don’t have to pay $10-$15 monthly subscription to play this game, so you don’t have to force yourself to attend events, grind mats to make the monthly subscription worth. It’s your choice.
The word “Rare” means RARE! And I do appreciate the low % chance or the long, tedious grinding. The items will neither be considered as “rare” nor “legendary” if majority of players could obtain the items easy and quick. This will raise the value of the any accounts that could obtain Legendary items.
I am casual player. I have family, working full time. I admired any player had legendary or rare weapons that I ran across. I recently just finished the Jormag’s Breath sword for my thief and I am proudly using it. If the Jormag’s Breath is easy to obtain, it would be boring to even put it on any character. Again, this was my choice to grind mats for the sword.
I bought gems to upgrade bank slots, inventory. It was my choice!
Just like in real life, it is your choice to save all the money toward expensive car such as BMW, Mecerdes, Lexus, et.c or you just want something with an engine and 4 wheels to carry you to work and back home.
At the end, it is you who chose your own destination. It’s your choice!
I enjoy playing this game. Keep up the good work ANet!
Well said, I’m tired of people whining about not getting RARE items. Wouldn’t it be a shame if everybody walked around with the same Halloween skinned items?
+1’d
Glad i farmed one of these bugged doors to get plenty of candy corn for my monthly achievement and more before it was “fixed” to the grind-state Anet apparently wants it to be..
I thought the actual Trick or Treating concept was really cool, and had a blast knocking on the doors that were working correctly …
People get too hung up on efficiency and forget about fun sometimes.
Oh I didn’t know you could actually trick or treat, where are the trick or treat(able) doors at?
It is AWESOME!
Start out in LA and get yourself a trick or treat bag and a candy powered (ghost finder) something. You will use this device in your scavenger hunt. It is, as named, powered by candy though, so you will need to go out in to the world and get some candy corn. Candy corn can be obtained by killing baddies that come out of haunted doors throughout Tyria, or mined like any other node (copper etc) throughout all of Tyria as well.
I wont give any spoilers to the scavenger hunt here, as there are plenty of guides out there to find if you want.
Also, don’t forget to pick up your free devil horns in the gem shop. Happy Halloween.
I thought they did an amazing job, and I’m not in the habit of just backing ANet without reason. I have been tired of PvE for a bit now and WvW for us at SF is awful this week due to a huge mismatch, so I’m thrilled that they gave me some awesome decorations with some awesome events to keep my interest. So to stand by my statement of not just backing ANet without reason, I’ll say this, ANet, what a fantastic job you did with the Halloween events/decorations, I love it! But I will also say, PLEASE fix the free world transfers, it’s killing WvW (Not saying that’s why we are getting stomped, just saying it’s an obvious issue).
Just six and a half hours longer at work until I can go get me some more candy corn!
Very good news indeed, thank you, I look forward to seeing the result in game soon
Despite my whining about bots here on the forum, I’m very happy that Guild Wars 2, a game I enjoy very much, has an active staff behind it that will respond to the community when concerns are raised. Keep up the good work! Automated anti-bot IMO is where it’s at, as it will address a large majority of the bot population. I know that botting will always be a cat and mouse game, but the automated system will keep less mice in the game.
I kittening love this game!
Unfortunately there are bots all over, and even once reported they remain playing 24/7 for more than a week. The bots by this time get the gold they need and sell it, after more than a week of 24/7 farming they have more hacked accounts if/when a ban ever occurs. The message ANet is sending is, botting is worth it.
How do they have more hacked accounts? That makes no sense. In the case of hacked accounts Arenanet are addressing the issue by tightening security and other measures: see Mike O’Brien’s latest blog post on the subject.
Through brute-force methods and obtaining lists of passwords from other sites. The same way these groups always do… this is nothing new.
The point is that botting of itself doesn’t result in more hacked accounts – that’s a seperate issue that has to be dealt with by putting security measures in place.
Oh and be careful about posting videos of botters here, as that could be taken as showing how an exploit can been done. Just intended as a friendly warning as that can lead to an infraction.
Thanks Roqoco, I won’t post anymore of them. I think the point has been made, so I don’t see a need to keep uploading more videos or screenshots.
Just to be clear, my overall tone in these is probably more pessimistic than it needs to be, just upset about the matter because I do enjoy the game so much. So, less pessimism, more optimism from me
No Roqoco, Temper is correct here. It is quite clear that anything negative against ANet, justified or not, you are going to take issue with. I will not be arguing with you on this matter, just try not to be such a fanboy and think for yourself. There are now 10 of these bots running all together, clearly they are gaining more accounts quicker than ANet is cleaning them up, that means they profit. That means it will continue. This all upsets me BECAUSE I LIKE THIS GAME, if I didn’t, I wouldn’t care about the invasion of bots.
NinjaKnight, these were upgraded to smartbots it would appear…
Uploading a new video now, also there are now 10 of them running together. We are coming up on 48 hours of this. There is virtually no anti-bot in this game, and I don’t know that “virtually” need apply here.
Uploading a new video now, will post here and update OP once the video is up. Bots getting smarter, ANet getting dumber.
Guess I will have to change the title to read something more accurate like “Reporting bots for DAYS!”
They are all still here raking it in, killing the experience for honest players. Wish you guys cared.
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Over 24 hours later and they are still there. Thanks for letting this game sink guys, I was actually looking forward to playing this one for years to come. At this rate, I doubt there will be many humans left within 6 months… Sort your kitten out guys, at least reply to these posts and let us know you are doing something, because right now it’s obvious you guys don’t care. GM team eh? Yeah…. right… What is the response time, 3-4 weeks? That will show those gold sellers huh! Well, it will show them how profitable it is to bot and sell gold in this game. Why even attack D3 or WoW at this point when it’s pain free to screw over the economy in GW2.
Unfortunately there are bots all over, and even once reported they remain playing 24/7 for more than a week. The bots by this time get the gold they need and sell it, after more than a week of 24/7 farming they have more hacked accounts if/when a ban ever occurs. The message ANet is sending is, botting is worth it.
How do they have more hacked accounts? That makes no sense. In the case of hacked accounts Arenanet are addressing the issue by tightening security and other measures: see Mike O’Brien’s latest blog post on the subject.
Through brute-force methods and obtaining lists of passwords from other sites. The same way these groups always do… this is nothing new.
Unfortunately there are bots all over, and even once reported they remain playing 24/7 for more than a week. The bots by this time get the gold they need and sell it, after more than a week of 24/7 farming they have more hacked accounts if/when a ban ever occurs. The message ANet is sending is, botting is worth it.
There is little to no anti-cheat in this game. Likely Bot Wars 2 will eventually have more bots than humans playing. Sad but true. My guild has reported bots, and they still see them in the same spots 24/7 for over a week!
Been reporting these guys all day, but they continue to rake it in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oTd95skcyM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyeTkJyhgiw
I would gladly start paying a monthly fee if it meant Anet would care about the quality of this game. As it stands now, there is no point in them fixing this stuff, they have your money. At least if there were monthly dues they would have some money to motivate them fixing this garbage.
Are bots okay and I didn’t get the message?
Yep these bots continue and since Anet is doing nothing about Bot Wars 2 they seem to actually just be adding more. Here is a video of the SAME bots but now they have multiplied. I’m going to buy Borderlands 2 now. You win Anet, you got my money. I’m not asking for a refund as I’ll still play dungeons with my friends, but wow, do you guys care at all? Bots ruin the game and your lack of response in and out of game speaks zounds about your level of give a kitten.
This is so annoying. Informed my guild mates who promptly informed me that bots they have reported over a week ago continue to play 24/7.
Hope this isn’t the future for GW2 Anet…
Sean, glad to hear I was not the only one this happened to… so that wasn’t a glitch? He is supposed to just sit there for the last 85% of his health? When that fight started I though, man, this is going to be rough. Then he just sat there and let me afk kill him.
Wow, reading these posts… I was a bit upset about the changes made, and I’m sure we will eventually find a middle ground, but posts that include “Hope your game finishes sinking and you some how some way get sued” and the variations on “I’m quitting” are just silly. Let’s keep it realistic here.
Thank you to all that pointed out their issues with the changes and presented reasonable alternatives to the actions taken on dungeons. Posts like these are going to help us find a middle ground with the developers. I don’t need to go in to detail on how I think we could fix the fix as many good ideas have already been presented.
If you want to be taken seriously, post your concerns and thoughts on a realistic solution.
I very much look forward to seeing what sort of middle-ground the developers come up with, assuming we are not going to stick with the current system that appears to have upset many (although 14 pages isn’t much considering the size of the community). Maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but please (ANet) consider some of the thoughtful suggestions that have been made.
It’s not just you. At this point dungeons usually cost money to run (OK, in reality you still make a little after selling loot, but not as much as you would have doing most anything else besides a dungeon run). I’m hoping this will be fixed, but at this point, you have to pay for a shot at getting dungeon tokens.
Some in my guild no longer want to do dungeon runs because of this. I don’t think anybody is leaving (yet) over it, but for now I will have to pug the dungeons until they balance the reward vs the difficulty and time spent.
The content is not created to be done with pugs – You can just leave now.
Agreed, which is why I’m disappointed that these changes have encouraged many in my guild to stop doing the dungeons. You are proving my point, or just missed it?
Some in my guild no longer want to do dungeon runs because of this. I don’t think anybody is leaving (yet) over it, but for now I will have to pug the dungeons until they balance the reward vs the difficulty and time spent.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one hung up on this: “they’ll do about 3-4k damage to a DPS focused player, but you should have anywhere between 15-25k health..”. DPS focused and 15-25k HP do not go together. I’ll admit right now, I was doing CM story speed runs and the reward for the difficulty was definitely off balanced in favor of the players doing this speed run over and over. While I applaud the effort to fix it… you broke it. Now it isn’t even worth doing.
Not all of these threads are going in that direction, so cheers to you.
