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Waiting for the hate mails…. Don’t collect outfits so just deleted it as its a no thought gift… would rather have had a choice/tick box for reward as we all play differently…. P
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Only been playing GW2 for just over a year but in all honesty when I read the “wear it with pride” comment in the play for free news letter… My first thought was if I see anyone wearing it I will just think “sucker you paid for that suit”.
Maybe its just me as I do not buy outifts, minitures or pink fluffy bunnies
Why oh Why did you not put it out there for ideas on what should be free and get feedback that made players feel like part of the system…. And then you could have asked what would people like… an outfit… laurels… materials…. wvw levels…… and offered players a tick box option maybe…
As this outfit is just a bit/byte in a program its, simply, easier to give us all the same thing….but why…. We all play differently…. and, again, a choice of rewards might help restore confidence in the system….
Maybe there would have been less “bad feeling” comments.. after all its not been to long since the whole raft of comments on the “giving the GW2 free with GW2 heart of Thorns”
Nevrmind was short…. even for an Asurian he was short…
Daemon with a blade and take the eye out of a gnat at fifty paces with his pistol…. but still short…
So the events of the other day were a bit of an equaliser to him and a toothy grin replaced this usual grimace for a while.
The reactor in Mectrica was going mental again with all sorts of creatures being spewed out at random…. causing havoc on the poor technicians… they have enough to deal with with the bio clouds so being torn apart by some suddenly appearing griffin, or bear, does not help them get the job done…
So in come the hero’s…. beast like Charr… slender Sylvari….. Warrior Norn….. Humans and the ever resourceful Asura…. most of them bigger than Nevrmind…
They come to defeat the Fire Elemental…. they come to defend whats left of the reactor against the daemon that rises out of the chaos caused by the explosion…..
And little Nevrmind just runs around trying not to get tripped over….
“Can’t you see me, you ugly lumps of wasted bit space…” he thinks " I’m trying to get some materials n coin here for my legendary…" as he lops the head off a bear that took a fancy to his leg…
The, ever hopeful, Clean 5000 starts his run at sucking up the bio clouds…. so some of the hero’s stay to protect him from the inquest’s efforts to shut him down… but most just lope off to the main chamber and have a “lets jump up and down session”….. waiting for “C5” to get there…..
The first room C5 runs into spawns several Mk1 robots who do a very good Pete Townsend impression by whirling away…. the bodies fly away to smack into the walls….
Nevrmind thinks “more into Brian May” runs in…. takes the feet out from under the robots…. while the others pile in with swords and hammers flailing….
Next few rooms repeat this and then we get to the Elemental fighting area… C5 as usual blows a fuse and then blows up into the Fire Elemental itself…. fifty feet of flame whirling around spewing out little fireball tornado’s that sap the life force out of any they touch…
The jumping up and down boys now jump in and hammer everything they have at the Elemental…
There’s spell casters with books of power over their heads…. Archers with quivers of a thousand arrows sending a blazing hailstorm and Char blunderbusses blowing great holes in the flames…
Nevrmind, just, dances about with his little pistols…. muttering…. mumbling…. bet I get another useless spirit shard for this….
And all the while the Fire Elemental is weakening…. weakening… until, with a final whoosh, he is defeated….. We all run about and heal those who have fallen…. and then into the treasure chest for the grand prize….
“Great” says Nevrmind “more stuff my class cannot use”
“Still… can break it down for the materials n sell the better stuff on BL for gold I suppose”…. Being many months away from his Legendary…
“Steam creature… " he thinks “kitten nearly forgot about him…. secondary Boss to kill…” so he runs up to the force field to join the “lets jump up and down” brigade again….
You got the key… no you got the key…. has anybody got the key….. How many times had Nevrmind heard that routine…. anyway someone had the key and the force field drops…
Jump into the void… hit the floor running… and beat the crap out of the Steam Boss… not hard to kill but can be tanky if to many jump down with you…
Get a nice sword from the boss and a rare amulet from his chest…
No time to waste as the “I’m outta here” text pops up and the portal awaits…
Nevrmind hangs back though as if you jump out to soon its just a mass of bodies when you reappear… but… but… Glitch… the Steam Boss pops up again.. with about 20 of us left…. Brilliant… all pile in again and Nevrmind has a bit of fun with a heart seeker move that has him leaping into the air for the killing strike…
Boss dies and we get his chest again… but not boss chest… fair enough I suppose… but we also don’t get portal…. no portal… “I’m outta here” pops up again so Nevrmind jumps anyway…
Falling.. falling… still failing… quick cup of tea…. reactor floor coming up fast… and…. and….your dead….
Nevrmind looks up at all the other hero’s falling down about him…. smiles and thinks… “I might be small….. but you look just as funny as I do falling down here…. Be a waste of a revive orb to miss watching this”
But all good things must end so he portals out to a way point for re birth…. and he kept that grin right up until a Charr tripped over him….. “mutter… mutter.. mumble…. hate this game….”
Played my reverant today and agree that giving us all that useless stuff just shows how little thought went into “i know lets keep our long term players happy” … Totally understand not being able to keep – trade – forge… the free stuff but cannot understand the "nothing will be saved NOTHING no matter how hard you try…
Played a little WvW – came across a good bunch so took towers and camps etc – gained a level… swaped chars and level gone…. still did the work…. still did the time…. still died a couple of time and for what…. nothing…. not a happy bunny…
liked the Rev… did not like having to stand and wait while the others took care of the long range stuff… liked the healing/ help you can give others.. but really dont like not getting my level that was properly earned…
Agree with another post.. this is Alpha stuff not Beta..
Wonder how many people bought, like me, HOT just for this weekend…
Well off to play my “normal” char so i get to keep what i win…
Will still make a Rev at a later date as fun to play… even with the visual overload…
Still not as bad as little hearts floating everywhere… laters
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Posted by: Pug.9784
Not searched for this as list is getting really big now..
Anyone else worried by the SUBLIMINAL MARKETING tactics used by anet on the “Buy HOT” page, on any platform…….
It allways opens up with the Ultimate highlighted. they do not need to do this….
Why not just highlight options as you curser over them….
Also only one payment line proudly showing “only” £79.99
Why not three lines – one for each option..
Oh I know why……
SUBLIMINAL MARKETING…..
Amongst other things I am a trained industrial engineer and its suprisingly easy to guide “which one should I chose” in a “useful” (read – your own words here) direction
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Posted by: Pug.9784
Copy and pasted from the email anet sent me to say “buy this”
The Ultimate edition of the game includes all of the above in addition to 4,000 gems. The Ultimate edition will not be available as an upgrade and must be purchased as a full game package.
The wording makes me belive that the other options ARE available as an upgrade so where is the UPGRADE price not the expansion price…
They are talking about being able to upgrade from the standard edition of the x-pac to deluxe which can be done via gem store. However, players will not have to option to upgrade to the Ultimate edition.
https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/94582027-Heart-of-Thorns-Pre-Purchase-FAQ
If I purchase the Standard or Deluxe editions of Heart of Thorns will I be able to upgrade to Deluxe or Ultimate later?
You will be able to upgrade to Deluxe in the gem store, but the only way to receive the Ultimate edition is to buy it from buy.guildwars2.com or in-game.
My comments are still simply about the wording in the mail.
Ultimate is in the gem store… so you can upgrade from there, as implied by the “in-game” quote.
All three options have the core as a freebee so new players get two games and vets only get one, whichever way you look at it thats unfair.
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Posted by: Pug.9784
Copy and pasted from the email anet sent me to say “buy this”
The Ultimate edition of the game includes all of the above in addition to 4,000 gems. The Ultimate edition will not be available as an upgrade and must be purchased as a full game package.
The wording makes me belive that the other options ARE available as an upgrade so where is the UPGRADE price not the expansion price…
Really, its only worth getting ultimate or standard. Deluxe is whatever because you can upgrade from standard to deluxe via gem store. Apparently these items won’t be limited
I agree about standard/ ultimate due to the 4000 gems being equal to the price difference. but my comment just simply is that anet used the word upgrade and there is no upgrade price.
HoT Price Feedback + Base game included [merged]
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Posted by: Pug.9784
Copy and pasted from the email anet sent me to say “buy this”
The Ultimate edition of the game includes all of the above in addition to 4,000 gems. The Ultimate edition will not be available as an upgrade and must be purchased as a full game package.
The wording makes me belive that the other options ARE available as an upgrade so where is the UPGRADE price not the expansion price…
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