Why do i get the feeling “You have two weeks to claim the final reward.” means something along the lines of Fractal/dung tokens u get for each event = buy something from the Santa merchant before it disappears for good!?!?
Anyway, precursor/no precursor/exotics etc etc, im happy to just participate in the festive events, only happens once a year!
besides theres still exp, gold and karma from the events so not like your losing out on much..
They cannot cater to ALL time zones/locations in the world to where players are situated all the time for all events, but i believe this is the first major event they have attempted to cater for at the least.
I am exceptionally glad that all the days from each cities events will be playable/repeated once Trixx gets to Lion’s Arch – i believe this is Anet’s way of saying “hey you missed the first flight, but don’t panic theres plenty to come soon”.
The Karka/lost shores was terrible timing for me, but i think they obviously took all that info on board with this event.
I would love to be up at 5am to see trixx fly that giant thing into the cities (no crashing!, cos if theres a crash i would of loved to screenshot them!) but i guess thats just something i will miss. hopefully can catch the weekend fly ins.
+1 Anet – good to see your all trying to cater to your player base different locations.
The Market!
Ahahahahahaaaahahahaaaa….
Your joking right?
People were speculating about chocolate bar’s and cinannnenenem crap and blah blah being used and this and that… all i can say is – thats how markets work, people start speculations of higher demand of certain items and what happens, prices go up. could of sworn chocolate bars were alot cheaper – even when stopped from karma vendors and became drops only…
I for one thank Anthony for that lovely juicy bit of information – he didn’t have to say anything! For those that tried to buy off the TP increasing prices for certain items/ingredients and speculation – that was a risk you knowing took. Now that its official that its totally different than expected – all i can say is – Tough! you took the risk – you lost – oh well!
lol@Crushnaut
I always saw the F2P models followed the very similar line as Pay-to-Win models. Having played a number of F2P MMo’s i have found that all of them are the same/similar. You Pay, you Win. making it more of an incentive to have those so called “free” players end up paying in order to gain some sort of advantage than those that spend nothing – i know cos i’ve done it myself in several games.
However i have payed $60 here and without monthly subscription would like to refrain from putting in more RL money due to whatever reason – many to list for all of us. If i wanted monthly subs – i go play with that hacked infested junk they call WoW. However, i would be stupid to say that some part of that $60 is not supporting the dev’s. of course it is, hell theres even some profit in that $60 for anet – their not stupid they price it at $60 to factor everything in – thats how a business selling a product works, it needs profits from their business to survive otherwise bye bye Anet in 1 years time. But hold on, how many copies sold to date? how much $$$ is that? So go have a kitten else where if you think im not supporting Anet when by not putting in RL $$$.
However to get back on topic – i can recall that Anet did say they would “Step in” when they felt that Gold→Gem prices would become out of reach for most casual/normal player not putting in +6 hours a day to farm gold. hey what happened to all the bots! that gold been confiscated or what? or is that jacking up the price too?
Imagine being so excited to have just bought the game, you thought i’ll make my 5 characters and then start playing only to find out, crap i need to farm heaps of gold to get another character slot cos i want to play another profession – oh just delete one and replace it with a different profession. Hell no! i got OCD and cant do that, gotta play them all.
I have played well over 600+ hours and am still going strong with my 7 chars, however if Anet do not step in when it becomes too crazy, then it will be tough for those starting out which always needs to be factored in especially when your giving out free trials…… only problem is when they think its getting out of hand – longer they wait – the better it is, kinda double edge really..
Providing too many details is slightly ruining events for me
in Wintersday
Posted by: FuriousPop.2789
LMAO!
When i first started reading this i couldn’t help but not laugh….
Seriously!? you want less information – could of sworn last week all i knew was the start date of wintersday – Dec 14th. The info we got – something happening in each city…
Hows that for ya? too much? not enough?
Last i checked you had to click on a link to get MORE information – so if you didn’t want it, dont click it.. doesn’t get any more simpler than that…or better yet, avoid the websites/forums… hell when i log into the client i dont read the update and just click play! (unless its a patch update with profession changes).
Information will always be open to interpretation – it is one of the most difficult things to judge since some want more and others like yourself want less, walking on eggshells doesn’t mean none will crack…
I for one am glad that Anet decided to give as much as they have. But all i keep seeing is toy this and toy that! I’ll just be happy to kill some mini lego men and watch their pieces pop off!
Sometimes my computer just reboots for no reason…
No it doesn’t
Haha, if only.
To be clear, I want ALT-F4 fixed. I just want a 1 – 2 min DC timer like every other MMO. If I disco during a 1vX I’m of course fine with you guys ravaging my motionless, helpless thief.
Lol, i totally forgot about that.
+1 for DC Timer
Good suggestion!
Very interesting plan……
For those that suddenly disconnect – yes will be a pain indeed.
For those that intentionally hit Alt + F4 – enjoy!
However for those that do disconnect suddenly due to PC issues – i mean my GPU’s tend to crash once a blue moon due to my setup – for the 1 off here and there, im happy to suffer the consequence, however on a regular basis would be very costly and frustrating.
All i can say is – if your machine is crashing whilst in combat – might be time to either upgrade or reduce effects from the settings menu.
Hopefully i read this correctly and its only occur’s when u have been hit, not just running around, once combat started.
So if you have started combat and DC, then ouch! Hopefully most of you should dc outside of combat which is what Anet is thinking. seems odd to always DC during any skirmish in the game unless something wrong with ur GPU drivers.
Disconnected from internet/PC crashed – surely Anet will have enough smarts to detect if IP gone all together or just closed the client…….
I really hope that once a city got a visit, the toys / events / activities stay there until the end of the holidayevent. Otherwise I would have to log in everyday which I won’t be able to. I’d miss tons of fun events :-(
This reminds me of the one-time Karka-event, I hope this time it’s different :-/
If you miss any of the days in a specific city, you can re-play that days event all over again once Tixx arrives in Lion’s Arch. He will let you do this the entire time he is in Lion’s Arch, from his arrival there until the Wintersday event comes to an end.
Thankyou Anet for this^^
Otherwise i will be finding it very hard to wake up 5am to be there at the same time Trixx arrives at each city each day..
I hope that the drops/drops rates/loot are the same as for when he arrives to each city than it is when doing the events when hes in lions arch, i dont want to be short changed again like what happened with lost shores……..
Thanks heaps for the info!!!
Linsey,
Please just answer me this…in relation to the forge.
Do the Precursors crafted at particular in game time yield an increase chance of success?
Or just any time has the same chance and only the items placed in dictate the % chance of attaining a precursor? – think you have already hinted this in your first response/page..
If the time in game gives a % of chance increase i reckon thats unfair due to their names, dusk/dawn of course simple, however venom of rage (trident), how am i suppose to attempt that? when its high tide Or low tide!??? (bad example, but you get what i am saying, better one maybe Shortbow – the lover of rage)
PS. if you actually answer i dont see much changing game wise, all i see you giving is me and some others some more sleep instead of having to stick around for a particular server time to attempt a craft in the forge.
Thankyou in advanced,
(edited by FuriousPop.2789)
I like that idea of….
Attain 1 gift – increased drop
2 gifts – more increased drop
etc etc….
but hey, how many players will just run around with like what, 10 gifts in their inventory getting more precursors!?
If your going down that path then yes the item will need to be acc bound.. but that seems to be one of the better suggestions i have seen since reading about 10 topics on this precursor business…
I really can’t wait to get into WvWvW and see 50 players running around the screen with sunrise/twilight/legendary…. oh wait the server just crashed…. ahhh welll…..
Leave it as a drop and we’re good, stop messing around with it. It was already stuffed up from when players attained them via forge from lvl 70 rare’s. you fixed that, so……………..Next!
And no……. i don’t have a precursor if you think i sound like someone who has, i’ve played my 400+ Hours and happy to spend many more hours playing this game, enjoying it so much… and yes still hunting for my precursor, let lady luck be kind and i get a drop somewhere!
hey look at that, no post since introduction of daily/monthly achiv karma bottles!
+1 Anet