Does this kick come with a popup window calling out an error code starting with 7.11?
If you really want to do a swap, I don’t see how you could do it in less than 3.
One to give character #1 a temporary name, because at this point you can’t give it character #2’s name.
Then one to change character #2’s name to the original name of character #1, which has become available at this point.
Then one to change character #1’s tempory name into character #2’s original name, which has become available at this point.
By the way, I would also welcome a few more ways to use obsidian shards. They’re also stacking up quite fast lately.
I can back up that fact. Go ahead and buy out your blueprint, I’ll make some gold when I post mine to fill the hole.
You’ll find that the entire supply of those blueprints is not on the tradepost. I know this for a fact.
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How is Anet supposed to remove the gold? And punish those who buy except by seeing who received gold from a known gold seller account and take the gold.
Checking to see if people didn’t touch the in-game emails that carry the gold would be a start.
If I understand all of this correctly, the OP still has a mail carrying 300g untouched in his inbox, and ANet took away 300g from his wallet. People who buy gold usually use it.
To be fair, we have no idea how many people who haven’t maxed their luck would rather feed it to an eater-item. (If only to get rid of the stuff with less clicking.)
The old system was silly. Sure it was good for you. You didn’t have to do anything to get the reward. Of course people liked it.
You had to play. I don’t that any more now.
But that didn’t make it good. People are calling the new system lazy, when the old system was even lazier. Dodge X number of times? Gather anything? Seems to me people just want free stuff.
As opposed to parking a character in each city for doing vistas and gathering in the home instance, then doing 1 or 2 WvW tasks that take 2-5 minutes each, without contributing anything to the game mode or even acknowledging the presence of other people? This is the laziest, least involved version of the dailies ever. 10-15 minutes tops to gain 10 AP, and if I don’t think I can do it that fast, just log off without even trying. These dailies took the gaming out of the game.
And you know, the log in rewards now are better than the daily rewards before the change.
Yes, ridiculous, lazy, and unsatisfying.
All people are missing out on is achievement points. If those points are important, they’ll take the time to do them. If they’re not completely 100% attached to only doing PvE that’s about 10-15 minutes, each and every day.
And by the sheer tedium of it draining any desire to continue playing after. Magnificent.
Way to miss the point.
Before you logged in and played and got the daily. Now you log in and can ignore the daily if you so choose, because the rewards you get are better. This gives you more freedom.
And most of the time, I use that freedom to immediately log off. The old dailies enticed me to play. The new ones don’t. The new ones remind me that the game has taken a turn for the awful. Standing on a roof in The Black Citadel on one day, standing on a roof in another city on another day? It’s offensive to even suggest players do that for a reward. It’s the gaming equivalent of little kids offering each other a quarter to eat dogpoo.
There’s a new category of things to do that give you different rewards. Anet’s big mistake was to call them dailies. What they should have done with left the daily log in reward named dailies and changed the new system to daily challenges and everyone would have been happy, because now you’re getting more, literally without doing anything.
Challenges? Really? And getting something for not doing anything is terrible.
Then you can do the challenges as EXTRA above and beyond, but you dont’ have to, because you’re not losing anythign except achievement points if you don’t do them.
If you don’t care about achievement points, ignore the dailies. If you do care about achievement points you get 10 now fast as you used to get 5.
I care about a palatable game that treats its players as intelligent individuals instead of presenting them with stupid pet tricks that give disproportionate rewards.
Who’s inconvenienced? People who care about achievement points, but absolutely refuse to do anything but PvE. For those people it’ll take longer to get their dailies.
I don’t care who’s inconvenienced. Anyone inconvenienced by any permutation of what the game offered should get their priorities straight. The word inconvenience shouldn’t come near the concept of gaming at all. Anyone suffering any kind of inconvenience should ask himself if he picked the right kind of entertainment. When gaming content is measured by the level of inconvenience, something has gone terribly wrong.
I’ve had precursors before, but the one I just found… that’s a weird story.
I just found Howl on my necromancer. And when I say found, I mean I found it somewhere in her inventory. I keep her permanent belongings in an invisible bag on the bottom of her inventory, so the rubbish she gathers top-down stays separate from the important stuff.
I only use her to craft, harvest my home instance, and process surplus ascended materials with Princess, Mawdrey II and the Star. Occasionally, I grab and/or craft too much stuff and her inventory fills up completely. At one such time, the Howl must’ve got stuck in her invisible bag without me noticing. Might’ve happened months ago. Embarrassing.
Crafting maize balm is a decent way to get rid of candy corn if you don’t have the gobbler.
Snowflakes need a sink though, definitely.
The old system was silly. Sure it was good for you. You didn’t have to do anything to get the reward. Of course people liked it.
You had to play. I don’t that any more now.
But that didn’t make it good. People are calling the new system lazy, when the old system was even lazier. Dodge X number of times? Gather anything? Seems to me people just want free stuff.
As opposed to parking a character in each city for doing vistas and gathering in the home instance, then doing 1 or 2 WvW tasks that take 2-5 minutes each, without contributing anything to the game mode or even acknowledging the presence of other people? This is the laziest, least involved version of the dailies ever. 10-15 minutes tops to gain 10 AP, and if I don’t think I can do it that fast, just log off without even trying. These dailies took the gaming out of the game.
And you know, the log in rewards now are better than the daily rewards before the change.
Yes, ridiculous, lazy, and unsatisfying.
All people are missing out on is achievement points. If those points are important, they’ll take the time to do them. If they’re not completely 100% attached to only doing PvE that’s about 10-15 minutes, each and every day.
And by the sheer tedium of it draining any desire to continue playing after. Magnificent.
It left me wondering…
That game perfectly combines great role playing.
With what? What does it combine that with? Inquiring minds need to know!
This is really sad, revenant is less dangerous than a single wvw camp guard. I literally just spent 30 minutes trashing every rev I 1v1’ed on pure zerker necro, without ever touching lich form or death shroud.
It has no damage, no sustain and no reason to exist. Seriously watch a revenant (any spec) try to duel a medi guard….it will make you cry.
Maybe they decided to err on the side of being weak instead of being strong to avoid messing up the regular game for a weekend. Glad I’m skipping the whole deal though, revenant doesn’t sound like fun in its current state.
First, I know I’m not one to easily get new stuff and thus the getting thrown into an 80 char fully geared was mostly overwhelming for me.
I’d like to had at least the choice to start normally in the tutorial instance instead of getting thrown into LA. If there was any warning that the character would be fully leveled I probably missed it.All of the betas are like that. The weekend would not make much sense if we were just grinding to 80 so everything was unlocked to test.
It would’ve been nice if there had been a choice. Surely the low level play needs to be tested as well?
I quit as soon as I saw I started as an 80, by the way. Not interested.
That’s exactly the point. I want these people to see and understand that their negligence is costing everyone else their time. You deleted the wrong item, it’s your fault. You wasted my time, it’s your fault. If you continue asking for this feature, then you must be made to acknowledge how selfish a request it is.
No one needs to ask for the feature because it’s already there. You’re the one asking for something.
Claw of Jormag just crashed for me twice, both times when it took off after a 1st phase burn.
I’ve actually just visited the guy again. Maybe there’s an asura offering the weapons, but the one I was talking about is actually really a skritt. “Collector Terksli” is its name.
What’s funny about this, is that I genuinely believed I’d mistaken an asura for a skritt, and didn’t find that surprising at all. Heh.
There’s a skritt in the new Black Lion headquarters in LA, the place that has all the different weapon experts. Its name is “Collector Terksli”. You do need to have the tickets in your inventory, or he won’t show the weapons.
Sorry!
I only just saw this today. Here are some screen shots for the location.
If this is the ‘skritt’ in question, he looks like an Asura to me. 0.o
I’m sorry, I can never tell the difference.
There’s a skritt in the new BL building that showed me the Dragon’s Jade weapons when I talked to it with a Dragon’s Jade Claim Ticket in my inventory. I don’t have a Fused one to try, but I’d give it a shot, it’s the most likely option.
Aren’t we all equal in this game?
I guess you missed it last Wintersday.
Well, at least this new merchant will introduce some variation on the forums.
We used to only get: “OMG I threw 3,000 gold down the mystic toilet and never got anything back!”
Now we’ll have: “OMG I lost eleventytwogazillion gold and ectos at the ecto merchant!”
It’s going to be great.
I love the design, and I’d buy them all in a heartbeat, if they’d shrink them to about half their current size…
Yep, they are definitely my favorite BL set so far, but they look disproportionate on all my characters in preview. Just like most other sets, but with this set it’s more obviously wrong because they look like real weapons instead of campy christmas tree ornaments.
Yeah what a farce.. All my lvl 80’s had everything unlocked and all had spare SP’s on them… in fact one of them alone had in excess of 1000 SP’s and a stack in the bank.. now all my toons have to spend some of those converted spare SP’s to re spend unlocking stuff I already spent on previous…. unbelievable.
Also.. those shards……. All my lvl 80’s (11 of them) had 100-1000+ SP’s spare on them (plus a stack extra in the bank) so why do I now only have 960 shards to use.. the cost of the forge items haven’t been altered but the exchange rate of SP’s to shards is a complete rip off.. 1SP SHOULD = 1 shard if the item costs are the same.
No you don’t, you’re not spending a single one of your old skill points on anything. Traits and skills are essentially free now.
So why not just unlock them all for existing 80’s? Save us all a few clicks, especially with multiple 80’s.
Because, should you choose to hold off on unlocking everything, then you will need less hero points to unlock all of the elite specialization traits and utilities. You could forgo buying the things you don’t care about right now and use those points for that instead, if you don’t have any/enough skill challenges complete. They added that for the WvW crowd.
If they wanted us to have a choice in the matter of unlocking now or waiting until elite specializations arrive, they shouldn’t forcibly unlock a random mess of things. All or nothing would’ve been the only reasonable options, yet they chose the messy 3rd option that no one is happy about.
I had the same problem. I just selected some at random to make them stop, so I could settle down to read without getting an aneurysm.
I took my usual route down, which takes me to some protruding rock about halfway. It killed me.
The last sale of the core game had it going for $10. That’s exactly the price of the character slot that veterans now get. So, equal value for both types of buyers has been achieved.
By the time the next expansion arrives, prices for the current bundle will probably also be much, much lower than they are now. As long as veterans keep getting something of approximately equal value as what they already have, it’ll be pretty much a fair deal for both veterans and newcomers.
What if one of the as-of-yet unrevealed features turned out to be a character slot? That would’ve been the same thing.
This is what happens when you pay for something without knowing what exactly your paying for. Pre-purchasing brings with it this risk.
Since the most recent sale priced GW2 base at $10, exactly the equivalent of a character slot, this makes excellent sense.
Expansion + GW2 base game = Expansion + character slot.
Perfect solution.
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It’s not a bundle because there’s no option to separate the two. Neither piece has its own individual price, and on top of that, the vast majority of people who would want to pre-order, people who already own the base game, only get the “free” base game if they start a brand new account, and apply the expansion to that account.
And if you do that, start a brand new account, you’re not buying an expansion. You’re buying GW2 v2.0, which happens to have new features collectively knows as “Heart of Thorns”.
People want an expansion, which means a product that “expands” their existing account, and get as good a deal as people buying GW2 v2.0.
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Expecting more from a product you haven’t bought yet and therefore not buying it isn’t entitlement. It’s being a critical, discerning customer.
There’s a difference between expecting more from a product and expecting more because you’re a current player or veteran to the game. The latter putting some form of prestige upon themselves assuming that they deserve something more because of it.
And no one is doing that. What’s happening is that people resent being offered a worse deal on buying the expansion for being a veteran.
They added a deal specifically to bring in new players. It’s a little selfish to assume that Anet must compensate veteran players for whatever deals they give to bring in new players.
They don’t have to. On the other side of the equation, veteran players don’t have to buy what they perceive to be a bad deal. And there’s nothing selfish about refusing bad deals. When a deal is obviously looking bad, the problem lies with he who proposed the deal.
Yes, there’s nothing wrong with not buy what they feel is a bad deal. It’s different when they assume their position (e.g. Veteran) should award them with some additional perks above the standard release.
And like I said, that’s not what’s happening.
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Expecting more from a product you haven’t bought yet and therefore not buying it isn’t entitlement. It’s being a critical, discerning customer.
There’s a difference between expecting more from a product and expecting more because you’re a current player or veteran to the game. The latter putting some form of prestige upon themselves assuming that they deserve something more because of it.
And no one is doing that. What’s happening is that people resent being offered a worse deal on buying the expansion for being a veteran.
They added a deal specifically to bring in new players. It’s a little selfish to assume that Anet must compensate veteran players for whatever deals they give to bring in new players.
They don’t have to. On the other side of the equation, veteran players don’t have to buy what they perceive to be a bad deal. And there’s nothing selfish about refusing bad deals. When a deal is obviously looking bad, the problem lies with he who proposed the deal.
I can do without it. I’m not looking forward to seeing my characters buildless for the 3rd or 4th time now (I lost count). Each single character will cost me more time to fix again than I tend to play in a session.
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Expecting more from a product you haven’t bought yet and therefore not buying it isn’t entitlement. It’s being a critical, discerning customer.
There’s a difference between expecting more from a product and expecting more because you’re a current player or veteran to the game. The latter putting some form of prestige upon themselves assuming that they deserve something more because of it.
And no one is doing that. What’s happening is that people resent being offered a worse deal on buying the expansion for being a veteran.
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Expecting more from a product you haven’t bought yet and therefore not buying it isn’t entitlement. It’s being a critical, discerning customer.
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We don’t know what they valued it at, we only know that they priced it at $50.
Value and price are different concepts.
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BOGO or bundled sales on physical items involve considerations that never enter the picture with digital products, like getting rid of badly selling stock, sell-by-dates, etc.
It is absolutely pointless to make comparisons.
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Depends. If the base game is valued at $10 and the veterans pack equals more than that, new players get ripped off. Plus when they do get the expansion pack later they will have to pay for the vet pack while vets got it for free.
First off, I don’t understand the bolded text. The only ones getting the expansion pack later are the vets, and they’d be getting the veteran pack for free. New players can’t get the expansion pack later.
The base game has no concrete value anymore, because ANet doesn’t sell it anymore. Any new player in his right mind would see that he’s getting a fabulous deal getting a AAA game as a bonus. People having a problem with my scenario should be considered not being in their right mind, and you can never account for people not in their right mind.
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Maybe you didn’t notice, but both groups of buyers get something for free in my hypothetical scenario, one of them still something of far greater value than the other group. And it isn’t the existing players getting the greater value.
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Unbreaking the forum. Don’t thank me.
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Why do we need to sacrifice ? Why instead does Anet not have to make a compromise ?
A compromise would’ve been so easy, even profitable if done the right way.
Something like this:
- Free base game for new players, free “veteran pack” for existing players.
- Add “veteran pack” to gem store some months after release like they did with the digital deluxe update for the original game.
- Profit from all those new players who can’t live without the veteran pack.
- More happy players.
The “veteran pack” can be a character slot and one or more unique shinies.
You realize that everyone WILL buy it or not buy it, right?
A statement that logically evaluates to true does not void the desire for discussion.
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I don’t understand. What “same sale”? The addition of the base game? You still technically get it. But if you choose to create a new account the expansion is locked to that account but you would still get the “same sale”.
And you’d have bought an “expansion” that wasn’t an expansion, leading to the argument some people here are pushing that HoT isn’t an expansion but the new basic game.
Basically, you can buy it as a complete game, or as an expansion. One of those options offers more than the other. It’s no consolation to people who want an expansion that they can get better straight up value for money for buying a new game. They want an expansion.
I’d like it if I could buy every expansion feature separately, even at prices that would add up to more than the $50 expansion price if I bought them all.
Because I wouldn’t buy them all, not nearly all.
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If it really costs them nothing, why wouldn’t they give it away to the whole world?
Imagine, them giving away 6 billion core game accounts. Surely that would cost something? Obviously it does. Each and every active account costs them something. That cost per account is subsumed in the $50 you need to pay to get it for “free”.
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I find it kind of a brave move to bet so heavily on new players when so few of them stick around, according to statistics. I’d hedge my bets and look after the veterans too, they’re a proven thing.
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You did NOT pay Arenanet in advance so they owe you a personal butler that brings you three years worth of updates on a silver platter. You paid for Guild Wars 2 in it’s vanilla state. Nothing more, nothing less.
Have you lost touch with reality?
I did pay ANet in advance on the clearly stated promise that the game would be continually updated. And I did get three years of promised updates on a silver platter, like they promised, all because I made that initial purchase that carried with it the explicit promise of updates. It’s not something I made up, it’s how ANet marketed the game. And they kept their promise, good on them!
What kind of person are you, besmirching ANet’s good name by implying differently?
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lol, they haven’t delivered any “content” for months now… and even when they were “delivering” content in the form of living story episodes, you seem to be forgetting the weeks long “breaks” they were taking
But when you got something you got it for free. Stop complaining about free stuff.
You got it for free? I had to buy the game in 2012 to get it. No wonder you’re so protective of ANet, they apparently gave you the game for free.
Yes, I did not have to purcahse anything from Living Story season 1 or season 2. I got it for free.
When you paid for the game you paid for every update, up to and including season 2.