Guild Wars 2

Well if you bought it from the official page (and NOT a retailer), yes. When you will create your first character, you will receive your items.

I know that Guild Wars 2 is only 4 months old but… it’s already 1/3 of a year!

Well, anyway, for those who don’t know, Guild Wars had a tradition ; characters had birthdays gifts so every year of existence of your character, you had a box popping in your inventory with a random mini from the set of each year ; this was the main source of minis in the game.

Obviously, now, in Guild Wars 2, the main source is the Gem Store ; so, if developpers are reading us, why not giving them ideas for those gifts, if they decide to keep the tradition?

I had personally an idea that sounds pretty good in my head ; let’s see if it sounds as good here… I was thinking about putting in each birthday gift all the minis of the events of the year.

For example, the first gift would contain the Mini Karka, Reef Drake, etc… It would solve many problems ; the Mini Karka price would avoid getting over 9000K gold, and it would be a good occasion to sell them again ; you could put the gifts permanently in the Gem Store so that the people who are not satisfied with what they got inside their free gift can get another. And the new player who haven’t an old character can buy some too.

But it’s only my idea ; so, guys, what would you like to see inside a birthday gift?

Red Falcon.8257:

Some people will tell you GW2 is pay 2 win, grindy and whatever is the current complaining excuse.
800 hours in, none of the bull running around here is true.
Game has quite a few bugs but that’s about it: there is no other major issue flowing in the game, the rest it’s just people with nothing to do and playign the forum crying game.

Did you just come to say this?

Become yes, it’s probably growing too grindy and P2W and this is what we are trying to determine here. Of course the 1-79 levels of the game are awesome and wonderful, otherwise we wouldn’t be so sticky to this game, but it seems badly handled in the end, and again, we are trying to discuss a flaw in the economic model.

Eli Stormstrike.8637:

I think it’s too early to tell whether GW2 is moving towards P2W, so far it has been following the same model as GW1, with minor changes, so my hope is that they won’t allow short-sightedness to ruin their chances at long-term prosperity.

I think that GW2 was meant from the beginning to become different than GW1.

GW1 had a very simple strategy ; proposing a better deal than a monthly fee to get more popularity. Sacrifying some benefits per player to get more players.

Then GW2 came with, I think, a very different approach ; using GW1 popularity to get its players, proposing a worse deal than a monthly fee, and hiding it of course.
That way they started using the Gem Store to get as much money as they can from each player without fearing not having players, since they had at least GW1 players. Then the game became very popular and they definitly had no problem with the number of players. So, well, they decided to milk players until they reach our limits.

Currently, they are trying some RNG strategy in the Gem Store : putting boxes with not necessarily something useful inside, so that they can get a maximum of money from us. Obviously, and I think they know it, it won’t last more than 3 or 4 months… After people spend 50-100$ in boxes and get, months by months, all disappointed, selling items directly will become more profitable and I think they will.

Oh, well, you see, GW2 is different on every point from GW1 on this. I don’t know who from NCsoft or Arenanet was smart enough to develop this strategy but they did ; they directly exploited GW1 and their new popularity to build a safe spot without being afraid to lose too much players. I think that we can’t change much things in this case…

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

Why don’t you stop talking about stuff you don’t know about?

The only ascended gear that’s out right now is backs and rings. Do you work for Anet? No? Then you have no idea how the next set of ascended gear will be obtained.

The only thing you can buy with gold to get a stat advantage is the ascended back. The rings are only from running level 10+ dailys, so only the backs can be obtained with gold. And they are not “hundreds of gold.” You can get one with as little as 17 gold. And if that’s too much for you then you still have an alternative. You can buy one with 1850 fractal relics.

I WISH you could buy power with gold. I have 50 gold sitting in my bank with nothing to do with it.

As you say, the back is 17 gold but as I learnt to know Arenanet these last months, there will probably be enough pieces like this to reach one hundred gold.

And 1850 fractal relics, sorry, but I’m not sure I want to do 300 fractals to get one back piece. It’d be much faster to farm 17 gold, I think.

And, NO, you don’t wish you could buy power with gold… There would always be someone to buy more power than you. And if you can’t do anything with 50 gold, well give it to me I’m sure I’ll find some use for it…

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

Is a bought level 80 better than my hard-won level 80? It isn’t, so I don’t really mind. If someone wants to spend hundreds of dollars for a shortcut and some shiny pixels, it’s fine for me, as long as he does not have a stat-wise advantage over me.

That is where Ascended Gears comes ; they represent power and you litterally need hundreds of gold to get them, while someone can get them much faster with real money. While you will be trying to get the needed gold, those people will be more powerful than you in areas like WvW. Isn’t that unfair?

Legendary weapons are, I have to admit, only skins. Yet, those are a main end-game goal for players ; is it really fair, to sell them this way? And is it really profitable for Arenanet, since crafting a Legendary Weapon was probably my long term goal and it became worthless to my eyes as soon as they started popping on the Trading Post?

Note to Mod : This is NOT a thread for the only sake of complaining, this is a legit question that, I believe, deserves to be discussed here, on the official forum, and it can become a constructive debate.

Let’s say it clearly. The deal was ; you buy the box, and then you don’t pay a monthly fee to play, but we will own an in-game store selling cosmetic items such as skins and minis for real money, just as we did in Guild Wars 1. We said ; deal.

The question of today is ; is this deal still fully respected? Let’s make our arguments constructively ; what can we buy with real money in Guild Wars 2 today?

Let’s say it directly, the fact is that, you can convert gems to gold, and therefore, you can buy gold with real money, although we have to admit that we have also an advantage ; we can convert gold to gems and therefore, buy things in the store for free ; but does it justify the opposite conversion? And is it really an advantage, at the current conversion price? I don’t believe so.

But let’s come back to our main problem ; you can buy gold with real money. Is gold cosmetic? What can you do with gold?

- With a few dozens of gold, you can easily use speed-leveling via crafting, getting a level 80 character in only a few hours.

- With a few thousands of gold, you can buy a Legendary Weapon via TP, and therefore you can easily get one without achieving anything else than being rich in real life.

- Ascended Gears, which are not fully released yet, will be required to spend a lot of gold (and therefore possibly, let’s remind it, dollars) to stuff your character to maximum power, and therefore isn’t that like selling “power”, although we still have to play somehow fractals to get the account bound ingredient?

To resume all this stuff, you can get a level 80 character and a legendary weapon in this game without killing a single mob. You will also be able to stuff your character faster than others via buying gold when Ascended Gears will be fully released. This seems like a complaining point of view, but this is truth, nobody who thinks a logical way can deny it.

So I ask it again ; is it still “cosmetic”? I used a lot of rhetoric questions in this post, but actually some of those are not so rhetoric… What do you think about all this stuff?

Time to debate!

Oh well, $80 for a bell :S

Oh, yeah, and Grentchs trying to waste the party in an epic come-back

But I have almost no hope

xerca.6135:

It is in GW1. And the Grentchs and such are probably not around because the Gods are not. No battle between Dwayna and Grenth anymore.

And why can’t they come back, just for Wintersday? as Mad King did?

I really hope that this stuff is coming next year for a new Wintersday story, because I’m already tired of Skritts… I want Grentchs to attack Tixx’s Workshop so I can bash them!

No, this isn’t another Gotye parody,
This is just me wondering:

Where are the Grentchs? Why are they replaced by some ugly and annoying skritts? Where are the Brrrls? Freezie & Grentchus?? Where are the fun Wintersday quests? Where are the hardcore solo missions with snowballs skills? Where is my solo dungeon with a 0.02% mini quaggan “that-everyone-wants” inside chest? Where are the candy canes weapons? The candy cane shards? The wintersday gifts with actually something useful inside?? Why did all the lore had to be replaced by a stupid asura toymaker? Where is even our GW spirit? The wonderful atmosphere? Our 100% free stuff? …

Why did you have to change everything?

Yea, no HoM and now this.

…they truly love collectors.

And why not a grawl and a quaggan, together?!

Melchior.2135:

Keiran.1896:

Guys, you are fools, this is the Witch Hat that was given for free during Halloween.

No reason to complain.

Interesting, if so. Can you point to any official confirmation of this, or screenshots or whatever?

Well, Witch Hat, Wizard Hat, just think like a developper.

EDIT: Said nothing. Not the sames.

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/29260/gw108.jpg

Thought the Wizard Hat seems crap, while we have a real sorcerer one.

Guys, you are fools, this is the Witch Hat that was given for free during Halloween.

No reason to complain.

Yea, new game…

Just logged in GW1,
Opened my birthday gift,
Got a little mini freezie. Smiled, cried, thought of how minies are handled in GW2, and
Logged off.

So, just in case you haven’t noticed, they have just released the Wintersday video and there’s a new section dedicated to it.

In this video, you can notice:
- Some heavy decorations in LA and a dedicated zone with a jumping puzzle.
- Mystic Forge has been, once again, transformed.
- At least one golem floating around per city – and snow.
- A new costume? (0:20)
- A quaggan with a christmas hat! (most important part).

Happy -almost- Wintersday, everyone!

If the Ancient Karka can loot precursors/exotics/rares/20-slots bags I can easily see birthday presents popping on my characters

No, the Karka is going to come back with a trollface and fly in the sky just one time, for you.

The heroes of the movie would take arrows in the knee from risens all the time and they would fall off a cliff while trying to mine some orichalchium

Then they would lag in LA to farm fractals and finally go in WvW for no reason and get all pwned by a thief.

Here’s best size you can get.

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/169696wintersdayvideo615x384.jpg

Looks like a beautiful event zone & jumping puzzle.

Your post “PETITION TO REMOVE FRACTLE FROM MONTHLY” was infracted.

Note from Mod: Please remember that petitions are forbidden on these forums.

But hell, /sign

Hahaha!

I looked who shared the wintersday picture on Facebook. And on someone’s share, a girl who doesn’t seem to know GW2 said: “Is this somekind of new movie? It looks scary!”.

Gretl.3156:

Just wanted to inform about the chest – got none so far, Far Shiverpeaks (EU), half past 9. Wasn’t able even to teleport to the final event area during that whole day,so I hope you guys will review your database/scripts and etc.

???

If you have not participated in the event, you can always wait. You won’t get anything.

StingLiN.5486:

Atteneded /looted /no mail

Is it really worth it to say such obvious things?

I just want a similar feature in GW2 to collect my skins / achievements

I think there will be a free hat in the Gem Store as always, if you don’t want to miss it, just train someone you know to log-in, open gem store and grab the item

I can’t stop thinking about riding a wolf in WvW or flying over one of these amazing Tyria landscapes, riding a dragon. Please! Is there really no way it can happen?

I understand that some things like jumping puzzles and vistas would have to be re-designed because of this, but really, it would be worth it!

Mounts are not just for “stupid boys” and “noobs”, it’s amazing in WoW and it would be FREAKING AWESOME in a game with graphics like Guild Wars 2!

MouseTrap.9813:

A christmas hat, 500 gems and a minipet

You can almost be sure there will be a free hat to grab in the store, as they did in previous events. And if there’s a mini-pet, it will probably be in the Gem Store.

Number of sales, it’s somewhere between 2 and 3 millions (they have reached 2 millions in early september, just after release).

Current players, nobody knows, the only answer I’ve read is “it’s top-secret”.

So, I opened the Karka Box this morning, and, for once, I felt rewarded and happy in Guild Wars 2. An useful 20-slot bag and a few exotics, that was kinda awesome!

And then I was thinking, “Wintersday is the ideal time for this kind of gift. Why wouldn’t there be one?”. Let’s suppose there will indeed be one. What would you like to see inside?

I’d love to get one or two (or three) of the following:
- A 20-slot Wintersday Bag.
- A few exotics.
- Some shiny precursors.
- A special Gem Store ticket: pick an item worth between 1-500 gems in the Gem Store for free.
- 2-5 gold.

And more important, this should be mailed to EVERYONE to avoid complaints and distribution glitchs!
Any more ideas? Arenanet Santas are there so tell them what you want!

Wait, we cannot even get it inside the Gem Store? Just put it for like 100 gems, respect your players

I don’t want to be seen as a kitten but – is there any way to make sure that you are really using the money for charity and not to buy x thousands gems? I know that some people have no heart – and I hope that I’m stupid to have doubts and that you have one.

“Bots are back!”

They have never leaved. Go in Wayfarer Foothills, enter the Svanir cave at south. Always 3-15 bots there.

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!

Guys, I asked support to look more deeply into my case because I was disconnected and did not receive my rewards even yesterday evening. I received the general answer saying distribution was over, etc. etc…

I logged-in this morning, one mail: KARKAAAAAAAAA BOX!!!

EDIT: Thanks Gaile it’s probably from the new script. I’m happy now!!

RedBaron.6058:

gillius, you missed a huge event…today they had a script running sending chests by mail to everyone that participated in Lost Shores final event and got no loot due to technical reasons.

If you want to know what happened read the hundreds of posts about it..:)

We perfectly know what’s going on We just won’t stop spamming about it until it gets resolved.

RedBaron.6058:

The other half will go to TESO in 2013..:)

Yea no thanks, when you lose faith in Arenanet, you lose faith in all videogames

So, let’s make a list.

- Many bugs, especially in Orr.
- Ascended Gears.
- Lag makes Karka Event unplayable.
- Karka Final Events bugs and 75% people disconnected.
- You fail to compensate our rewards.
- Lag is getting bigger and bigger in general on the game.

Oh and let’s add:
- Lies, in answers of every point.

That will cost you half of your players, sir.

Same. Disconnected and didn’t get my mail. What’s going on?

Queensdale. You can take around 20.000 completely different screenshoots there.

And yea I love the place you showed too

Just put a chest in LA with the reward inside…

You failed twice. If you can’t give it to the right people who have participated (I did) then give it to everyone. Just use your logs and don’t let people who have already opened a chest open it.

Debsylvania.7396:

It’s too soon to do this. It may take a few days before they’re able to get the script to process for every server. You’ll have people saying no and then posting later to say yes. This kind of polling is fundamentally wonky anyway, so it’ll be double wonky!

Can’t find the thread back (probably merged) but a guy, after complaining at support, has shown the answer saying that everyone that had the glitch received it, and that the script is over.

EDIT: Just check the merging thread. Everyone who complains receives it.

Attended/No loot/No mail

Ethics.4519:

Keiran.1896:

I was disconnected too during the boss. No reward, no mail.
And those people abusing the chest, opening it several times during the event.
And those people getting 2 precursors per chest.
And those people receiving the mail after opening the chest.
And those people receiving 2 mails instead of one…

I had lost faith in Arenanet, and that just achieved me.
You just burned the fun I had in this game like an old paper.

I understand that it’s up setting not to get the reward, but if you based your fun in this game on getting a chest drop then I feel completely sorry for you. You are welcome to play any game you want, but GW2 does not encourage this type of fun.

No, the game was growing boring. I wanted to come back to get this reward, and maybe get a bit of faith back like everyone and play again… and I did not get it. Arenanet is failing in everything, even in courageous attempts to help us. This is how it achieved me.

I was disconnected too during the boss. No reward, no mail.
And those people abusing the chest, opening it several times during the event.
And those people getting 2 precursors per chest.
And those people receiving the mail after opening the chest.
And those people receiving 2 mails instead of one…

I had lost faith in Arenanet, and that just achieved me.
You just burned the fun I had in this game like an old paper.

Got disconnected during final boss and got nothing.

And those people receiving the mail even if they have opened the chest during the event or not participated at all.

No, no reason to complain.

Halo.8976:

My chest was bugged, I din’t receive a precursor.

It’s about 7% drop rate I think.
So, no glitch. Sorry.

Don’t forget to clear your mailbox guys (:

Efistia.9521:

Do i need to post a ticket to get my reward ?

No, you just need to open your eyes bigger and read the message again.

Moose Rooster.4927:

Does any of this apply for people who got Hurricaned?

No.
1. They don’t have such logs.
2. It’s for those who PARTICIPATED but got disconnected.

Atomictrex.1406:

Does this only apply to people with connection issues? I didn’t have connection issues but I wasn’t able to get to the chest due to it vanishing after I rezzed and was on my way back from the nearest way point.

You still have a chance. Taking logs of people who participated in the event (→hitted the boss) and didn’t open the chest is probably easier.

I just logged-in.
One mail – OYEAAA EXCITED!!

Gold Seller.