Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone.
Vincire, thanks for posting and bringing this to our attention. Naturally this is an important issue for the community and our team is aware of it. I will take note of the feedback you gave here and pass it to the team.
I will also proceed to lock the thread.
Thanks.

This was a response to a post about the possibility that ANet’s security might have been breached. Am I misunderstanding this or are ANet saying yes they have been breached and are aware of it?

If they have been breached they need to make it clear as some people store the CC details with their account for purchasing gems.

Please clarify what you meant with the above response ANet?

Banning people who receive gold in mail is a really bad idea. I play with my fiancée and we frequently mail each other large quantities of gold or materials and we would be wrongly identified as gold buyers using your method even though we have spent over $150 on gems since the game launched and never purchased gold. (We used the gems to buy bank upgrades, inventory upgrades, black lion keys, primeval armor and minis, dyes & boosters).

Having staff dedicated to each server and receiving reports about bots then actually observing those bots is a far better solution. Banning without observing behaviour first hand is only going to get real people caught in the net.

My fiancée and I frequently head to our favourite events to farm when we are not in LA or Dungeons and might do so for several hours whilst we are waiting to get a party for CoF. Furthermore, you underestimate how long real people stay logged on. I work from home and my fiancée is in college (so currently on summer vacation) we are both logged in game from the time we wake up until the time we go to bed (waaay over 12 hours) – that doesn’t mean we are bots.

Interesting article and intelligently accurate. ANet/NCSoft should know by now that the economy is the foundation of any MMO and if they don’t keep control over the economy the game will die.

I would love to see a documentary about the gold farming industry. We all hear stories about Chinese sweatshops with hundreds of people making a few dollars a week in wages to farm MMOs and I am surprised that no-one has infiltrated this world and made a documentary about it yet (we saw it with Walmart, Nike etc.)

The sad fact is that whilst ANet refuse to compete with Gold Sellers (Gems for Gold rate is very low compared to $ for Gold from third parties) the Bots will only increase and the economy will continue to tank.

What a lot of people fail to understand is that yes it cost 60 bucks for an account and if a gold seller is banned they lose 60 bucks but that doesn’t matter because even if they buy every account (and there is a lot of speculation that many of the accounts they use are hacked so not bought) it only takes a couple of sales of gold to make it worthwhile buying new accounts each time they get caught.

Also it is important to note that these companies are doing nothing illegal, which is why it is impossible to shut them down. There is no law which says they cannot sell virtual assets or currency for real world money – only the game company’s T&C which are not the basis of law, merely a contract for which the penalty for breaking is a ban.

All MMOs need to control the economy and if that means seeding it for expensive items to keep the price down or buying massive quantities of low priced items to bring the price back up, then that is what they need to do.

Eve Online have one of the best economies in the MMO world and that is because they take the economy very seriously, if I recall they even hired a professor of economics to manage the economy issues for them?

Bots are killing the GW2 experience and economy – ANet needs to fix the problem before it is too late.

Cisza – if what you are describing is correct then the Salvaging Tools are definitely broken because I have -never- had Totem, Vial of Blood, Claw, Fang etc. from salavaging any weapon or any armor with any Salvaging Kit.

Zahdane – See above.

Again, everything I have read regards tier 6 crafting materials (Orichalcum and Gossamer) as Rare for the purpose of salvaging and the evidence from actually salvaging supports that.

For the purpose of salvaging it is my understanding that all T6 mats are classed as Rare Materials. That is certainly the impression I have from the many posts I have read on these issues.

Over the past couple of days I run some tests for Mystic and Master Salvaging Kits attempting to salvage “Rare Materials” from Green Lvl 80 Light Armor.

According to the description of the salvaging kits they should yield 25% return for Gossamer Scraps – out of the many hundreds of items I have salvaged using these kits (over 500 in the last 24 hours) I am seeing a yield of less than 3%.

Now before anyone starts trolling that it is 25% per item – I am fully aware of how statistics work, I used to teach inferential statistics at university – but over a larger sample the rate should start to approach 25% that is how the laws of statistics work – 500 is not a -huge- sample but it is large enough that I should be seeing more than a 3% yield.

So my question is, has anyone got any data contrary to this or is everyone finding that the salvage rate on gossamer with master and mystic tools is incredibly low?

On a side note, it is a really annoying test to run because you have to confirm everykittensalvage with an extra click.

Also, please don’t do the whole “but greens will yield less than yellows which in turn will yield less than golds” trolling either because I have tried smaller numbers of yellows and golds and found similar results but they are entirely too expensive to do a larger test on.