and this is a problem?
Yes, player manipulation of the market causes trouble for the wider playerbase. It’s one of the reasons for cutting down RMT in an online world. They tend to inflate the prices which in turn causes grief for genuine players.
genuine players? who is to determine who is genuinely playing the game and who isn’t?
now i don’t spend copious amounts of time hanging out with evon, but does that make me any more of a genuine player than someone who does?
lol. no logic in your post.
I was talking about RMT. RMT aren’t genuine players, they play to earn money and make a profit off the game. They camp spawn locations and inflate auction house prices which causes grief for the actual players. The new move by Anet will counteract the efforts they have taken to prevent this activity and now will cause those who spend money on their game to control the market in the same way. THAT was my point. It was very, very clear. I’m sorry you were unable to understand it.
will the skins be tradeable? if so, there will be tons of people stockpiling. even if they do sell them, they won’t be worth much for quite a while.
Yes, but as other skins will be added and obtained in this fashion the number of each skin on the trading post will thin out, increasing rarity and therefore increasing the price.
and this is a problem?
Yes, player manipulation of the market causes trouble for the wider playerbase. It’s one of the reasons for cutting down RMT in an online world. They tend to inflate the prices which in turn causes grief for genuine players.
One set of skins isn’t going to tank the economy, the SAB skins didn’t for example.
It won’t be one set, it says future weapon sets will also be obtainable this way.
i like some of the skins though i rather open anything else instead of BLC (black lion chests) so i’ll be running the events quite often. 5 keys for 450 gems… no thanks
Except for the next 2 weeks you have a greater chance of getting a skin. This means people will stock up now while their chances are higher and sell them later, when the event is over.
The Black Lion boxes will have a chance to drop scraps which can be traded for new, sellable weapon skins as of the Cutthroat Politics patch. The description also seems to indicate that future weapon skins will roll out this way. Now, as it is extremely rare to get keys through normal play this means players will have to either grind out the first few levels on a new character like crazy until they finally get a skin or go with the more likely option of buying them from the gem store.
The issue here is that we already know that a very small minority of players make regular payments to the gem-store and an even smaller sub-section of those buy keys (The general consensus among players is “death to rng!”). There will also undoubtedly be a very small amount of players willing to invest the time and effort it takes to farm that many keys though character recreation as it would take away from the main game so much and most of us have lives to get on with in-between play.
Considering the rarity of the skins, the time and effort it would take to acquire them and/or the amount of real-life money it would take, this means that the skins will undoubtedly be very expensive on the trading post. When you also factor in the demand (If that rapier is in, then it’s gonna be expensive) then this is going to have a profound effect on the trading post and in-game flow of currency. This means that those players willing to invest the time or money on black lion keys to sell the skins on the trading post will now have a huge amount of control over the currency. These players now get to control the market by investing more real-life money into it.
Welcome to Tyria. It’s like real-life, but ruled by pirates.
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… And your point is what?
That is the point actually. Living Story chapters chaining into one another. When Dragon Bash was going on, did anyone foresee where that would lead up to now? Now there’s the possibility of one of two counsel members chosen, two distinct paths which can branch down to two distinct stories. Maybe Evon Gnashblade is actually corrupt and influenced by the Consortium and if he wins there’s thoughts on exposing and ousting him, where if Kiel wins he could work towards a path of revenge or simply kick back and run the Black Lion (yeah, right…).
It’s playing out like they said… chapters of a living show, wait ’til next week!
When I commented the first time the brackets (LW is playing out like they said) were not in the title…
I’m not saying that we can’t make improvements to the living world story telling. I’m saying that we should get as much storytelling into the game as possible, but I see no need to dismiss the lore blog posts just because they’re not in the game.
I don’t think this is necessarily the issue anyway. The blog posts are great, but we are finding that we have to read them to know what’s going on in-game. The game should be giving a better explanation of the storyline than it is. With the recent changes to the teams however and the lengthened production schedules of each release I am confident we will see improvements. I figured the releases we have seen so far have been more experimental than anything.
Just to make this clearer though. Regarding the recent release, when the merchants arrived there should have been a bit more explanation from Magnus about them, and when we get to the zone we should have been met by Ellen and a Merchant representative who also held a discussion giving us an idea of what was going on. We should then have had a cutscene where Evon is interacting with someone as well to flesh out his being there a bit more, or maybe a discussion with Ellen who gives us some back-story on him after she spots him and wonders what he is up to.
Actually, they don’t necessarily have to be cutscenes, they can be conversations that play every so often like the quaggan’s magic trick, however cutscenes are a little more immersive and would probably do a better job of just giving us the basics. There’s no reason why other looping convos couldn’t happen on top as bonuses to look out for.
So what i’m saying is that the story just needs some clearer presentation in game to start us off, and we can hunt for all the extra bits ourselves (like paying attention to npc’s songs/ soundbites and reading bits of info we find etc and reading the blog posts).
Troll threads on this topic are getting a little out of hand
Not on the forums, no. If Anet wants to write some actual characters and give them actual views like the OP describes that would be great, I would probably be one of the few who actually reads them but they are just cardboard cutouts atm with a few lines and the barest hint of character. Anet would have to write their butts off if they want people to actually vote in character.
Having said that the OPs request is reasonable and something I would actually like to see, and my snarky response was inappropriate, so I apologize. The braying #vote kiel/#vote Evon rubbish is already seriously getting on my nerves, Im probably going to play the next two weeks with map chat turned off to avoid it but thats no reason to take it out on somebody who is getting into it.
This is one of the most respectful comments I have ever read on a forum
Fractals are short anyway. People are expecting too much.
Seriously what is correct?
Everybody seems to write it differnt….
That was pretty easy, right?
A seat would not have opened if Theo’s second had not also died.
Of course, which leads us to wonder whether Evon or Kiel are involved in some way, or even Magnus as far as Kiel is involved. They may even be a victim to some scheme themselves. Ie, someone may want one of them on the council for whatever reason and knew this would create an opportunity.
Still, why the Ashfords specifically….?
Mai even sat over his body pretending to be a medic to ensure she had done the job right.
That’s not exactly true. Mai was offering to help the Charr representative, not Theo Ashford.
That’s weird, in my instance she was kneeling next to the human body.
Take a look: http://www.guildmag.com/cutthroat-politics?fb_source=pubv1
Back during flame and frost, one of the Ashford was killed. Then again during Dragon Bash, Theo was assassinated. Mai even sat over his body pretending to be a medic to ensure she had done the job right. We also have reason to believe that whoever is really leading the Aetherblade (High likely to be this “Scarlet” character) was also behind the Flame and Frost attacks. Don’t you think it’s a little suspicious that the Ascalon Ashfords keep losing people in all these attacks?
I have to say though- well played Arenanet for riling everyone up so much about the current political affairs. It’s really interesting, amusing and even heart-warming to see everyone taking to the forums so passionately to preach their favored candidate. Especially with your staff members poking and teasing in some of the threads! It’s also interesting to see how quickly they have become distracted from the rest of the ongoing affairs. It’s just like a real-life political campaign.
I’m going to vote for whoever I think will keep this city on an evon kiel.
Oh you!
http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/1/1/8/7/6/5/3/oh-you-93067263235.jpeg
We can’t assume. We can, however, hope that they won’t tease us with two and only ever deliver one.
You should stop hoping that. It’s not a true choice unless you give something up. I mean, that’s probably why they are saying they will build from scratch the new fractal based on the choice. Go with Abaddon, kiss goodbye reactor and I am okay with that. Because then more permanent choice and better IMO.
Nope. Won’t stop hoping. :P
Remember. This isn’t an individual choice. It is up to the masses. You just gotta hope the masses agree with you to get the option you would prefer.
Both are very tempting options. Saying ‘you will never know what the other option would have been’ is quite cruel to lore-fiends.
I personally prefer Kiel on the council, but I would prefer to see the fall of Abbadon. So no matter what I choose, I cannot win.
Aww… Take a more optimistic approach and say that no matter what you choose, you DO win. You either get Kiel and the story develops with her in power, or you get the fractal you want!
People whine about rng boxes, supports a political figure head that makes them and is selling them for a small discount…. WHOOSH
I’m more surprised that this is even a factor for people. These discounts only last one month, I’d rather vote based on the long-term repercussions like the fractal and the way the story will develop, thus bringing in new content depending on who got the position.
The waypoint thing isn’t even worth thinking about. It’s a temporary discount for one month. Why would you vote on a permanent council spot for a one month discount on an already cheap price? I’d rather vote on the permanent addition of a fractal and the possibility of the story going forward depending on who gets the seat.
It’s strange that this thread is full of people all saying “The vote is obviously going to be for Evon, boohoo” (paraphrased a little there). When you consider that all the threads related to the vote have more comments saying “I’m not voting Evon, I hate his stupid RNG sales” and this one has nothing in the title that would have drawn more players from one particular camp yet there are more who clearly want Ellen to win (Lots of comments complaining that the vote is clearly going to fall in Evon’s direction) I fail to see why those players are complaining? I don’t think I’ve seen any threads yet that are favoring Evon. Is this just normal anxiety over their vote not winning?
… And your point is what?
A lot of people think Scarlet may be Livia
They said themselves they were experimenting before and were on very tight schedules. Now they have expanded the team and given each one up to 4 months to develop content it will get bigger and bigger.
Mister E…von Gnashblade?
You… You did it… You actually did it!
Maybe reinstall the game, and do one heck of a deep virus scan.
On a lore subject though, I wonder if Charr are romantic?
There is a Charr female NPC near the mystic forge. She is a merchant I believe. I walked past her yesterday and she said something along the lines of, “I hear Rytlock Brimstone has yet to choose a mate, I wonder if I could be the one” (Badly paraphrased).
Update: My sanctum model is now working, but the Journal still does nothing… Was it only usable during the event itself? That seems completely pointless. Also, if they give us an item every event to view a cinematic it will just fill our inventories…
The real-world reason for the collapse is that they were not allowed too many Canthan elements because the design of GW1 had offended some of the countries where they drew their ideas from. The collapse was thought up because they didn’t have time to change it and it represents an idea that “fell through”.
I think there is a bit too much focus in this thread on what the sylvari believe compared to other races and whatnot. The point OP made is that she is aware of all of that, but in her personal experience she had not witnessed any opposite sex sylvari couples and wanted to know where she could find some. There have been some good examples here but any non-personal story examples would be really good as well (Like the guy lamenting his lost love mentioned further up)
The thing I don’t get is why we don’t have axes? We can go for the assassin look through weapons and armor, The rogue look and the pirate look, but not the bandit look even though there are bandits all over Tyria? What If I want a big, dumb, brutish Norn bandit to stomp around and steal things, swinging his axe as he goes?
The super jump randomly flies off in any direction, the dash sometimes never ends and you keep tumbling, even if you press it to stop it, and the lightning pull overshoots, undershoots (stopping halfway for no reason) and sometimes makes you roll along like a rollerbeetle on landing
People are always vocal about the game modes they don’t like to play. Wouldn’t it have been better to allow people a choice of pvp or pve chest considering you can take a skin in pve and make it pvp only it would have fit with this theme of choice, no?
That aside, you may have been given a lot of items you won’t use, but you were also given permanent stat boosts, laurels, gold and probably some mystic forge stones which aren’t the easiest to come by and will be important for PvE items.
My miniature sanctum does nothing no matter where I use it. First I tried in Labyrinthine cliffs, then I tried again at Lion’as Arch later on. I’ll try it again tonight.
Marjory’s has not been working since before the update but I forgot to come here and post until I noticed my sanctum model doing the same thing and it reminded me.
Interestingly, I know Marjory’s was working. I happened to create a new character the other day (Still got my main though) and i was getting 100% in divinity’s. Happened to pop into the tavern and speak to Marjory on the new character, and it has not been working since. I don’t know if that is related, but could it be that the new character somehow overwrote the progress of the older one?
The skills aren’t based on wind, (ok one is) they are based on elements. An Earth skill would have worked for this reason. Not sure why they didn’t do one. The wind aspect comes from the floating city and the people living in the sky etc. Also throws back to past lore in many ways
EDIT: I just realised I used the word aspect at a bad time. What I was saying is that the skills were not based on winds, but the wind part of the title comes from the fact that they fly around in the sky o it refers to the directsion (N,E,S,W) like everyone is saying. The skills are separate in this respect referring to the sun, lightning and clouds all in the sky.
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My journal has stopped working. It worked the first time I used it and I watched the cut scene again, however when I click it now it says “You cannot use that command yet”
Also, the miniature of the obsidium sanctum or whatever doesn’t work. It says double click to view it but nothing happens.
936,382 likes, with not much happening in the last few days.
Shame, I would have liked to know what super special item(s) they came up with for this.
Has anybody ever said anything about a deadline?
Yes, they want to reach 1 million by the end of July: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/community-news/are-you-one-in-a-million/
So that’s kinda failing… Awkward.
Reckon they will just postpone and give us the reward when (IF) they eventually hit a million anyway?
We are also discussing this in this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/bazaar/Kiel-vs-Evon/first#post2383390
Frankly, my vote is on Evon. He seems like the kind of person that gets things done.
Ermagurd!
I hadn’t seen those vote badges before…
Thank you for posting this!
Yeah I have a feeling there won’t be a vote, and Ellen will get the position, But I actually prefer Evon and I’ve only seen him speak a short line in a cutscene.
Considering this particular story is about who gets a seat I just felt that having a vote would be good. Or at least have players pick who to help secure the contract, then tally up how many helped Evon and how many helped Kiel. The highest could then get the seat and this outcome treated as canon to the story.
Mesmerizing….
Will we be able to vote on who becomes the next council member? In the real world, people in those positions are usually voted in by the public. If you want to make player actions have an impact on the world, then this would be the perfect start to doing so. In terms of lore, our characters are a large part of the society inhabiting Tyria. I can’t really think of any reason why this wouldn’t be a good course of action…
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Are you a UK player by any chance?
My friend had 2 NCSoft accounts because she played the EU client for Guild Wars and later went on to play Aion but created another account to do so (it was a few years later so she didn’t realise). Anyway when she started playing Guild Wars 2 she accidentally linked her new US NCsoft account instead of the old UK one.
Who says Charr can’t wear capes?
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110809065356/kingdomhearts/images/1/17/Beast.png
Quaggans were originally a joke placeholder by the design team, called “poo-bags”. They were never intended to be added to the game, but someone took a liking to them and they ended up evolving the idea into an actual race. It says this in the art book that came with the collectors edition.
Well, in GW1 they gave characters a minipet when that one is turned 1, 2 etc years old. Also, i think at the 5th GW birthday, they gave everyone a free ACCOUNT BANK TAB (aka xunlai tab).
So can happen, but no likely this early.
We will have minigames for sure.
Yeah that reminds me, I should really log in and see what minis my characters have earned since I last played lol!
I hope they keep the character birthday trend going, that was a really nice feature of GW1.
OK, I missread this. So no no no and no. There should be a celebration, ingame thing, just like all the other living story stuff, and that’s all.
Well that’s pretty much a given, but what would you like to get out of the celebration? The last few have given us skins and miniatures.
Small
1) A free bank tab for all accounts.
Giving away at least 22.5 million dollars worth of unlockables (based on 3 million sales as of January) is “small” to you?
I think you misunderstood my meaning of small. The larger additions are things that would take lots of programming and testing. The smaller ones would be really quick to implement.
So Guild Wars 2 released on August 28th 2012, meaning we are roughly 7 weeks away from the first anniversary of the game. This means we can almost certainly expect some form of celebration, but I was thinking it would also be nice if all the players were given some sort of freebie as a thank you. Then I thought, why not make a post on the suggestions forum to see what everyone else would like to see in the first anniversary of the game?
Some ideas I had:
Small
1) A free bank tab for all accounts.
2) A celebratory Miniature.
3) A title.
4) An achievement (I have a suspicion they already have this planned however, and that the new system will mean everyone gets some sort of reward for unlocking the achievement)
Regarding the achievement and title I’d rather see those alongside other benefits, as alone they wouldn’t feel like much.
Large
1) New skills for all classes.
2) New permanent map.
3) New dungeon.
Of course it’s a bit late to suggest large bonuses, but we never know what they could be working on…
What would everyone else like to suggest?