… in your announcements. You’re overusing it.
And it’s never really exciting…except SAB.
SAB is always exciting.
I know some are concerned about whether ArenaNet is communicating with you and listening and responding to your feedback. As you saw with yesterday’s announcement, we do. All of us at ArenaNet play the game with you, chat with you and read your forum posts, and work on the things that we think will most delight and entertain you.
We’ve set a clear policy in the past year: we don’t talk speculatively about future development. We don’t want to string you along. Creating fun is an uncertain business: sometimes things work out and sometimes they don’t; sometimes we go back to the drawing board over and over before we get something right. If we make optimistic promises and then can’t deliver on them, everyone suffers. So when we attend a trade show or give an interview, we’re there to talk about what we’re getting ready to ship, not to speculate on what we might ship someday.
Don’t read that as meaning that we don’t want to talk with you about the longer-term roadmap. The intention of the CDI threads is to talk with you about the roadmap. We want to talk design philosophy with you and hear how you want to see the game evolve. When those discussions trigger development, we’ll work internally until we have something we’re proud of before we’ll announce it.
A lot of the questions I’ve seen posted this week are as simple as this: does ArenaNet have an agenda to never do something? That’s almost never the case, and if it is the case you deserve to know and we’ll make sure we get more clear. In general the simple truth is this: when we’re not currently working on something, it’s because we’re working on something else instead that we think is more important for the game and community.
Our developers post on these forums on a voluntary basis, and in addition to developers, we have a community team who can clarify and be the bridge between players and developers. They’re ready to engage you on these topics. And I know it’s hard for the community team to engage players across all the forums and sites where these questions are being discussed, so I’m going to support the team in consolidating and focusing as necessary, so that we can be clear to the community where you can go to get a response.
See you in-game,
Mike O’Brien
So basically, you don’t even know what you’re doing or what to do. You have no clear goals, no focus and no direction to go into with a determined state of mind. You just make things up as you go along.
Alright, got it. Thanks.
The issue is that advertising a survey ingame can be seen as intrusive. People want to play, not want to answer questions.
Of course there could be methods to gamify a survey ingame, but unless it turns out to be profitable, i think it would be skipped by most.
How dare you speak for me ! I want to answer questions.
Was wondering why ArenaNet is not using an online ingame survey once in a while?
Forums only cover about 5% of the playerbase and even less than 1% when it comes to CDI (guessed estimates), and shouldn’t be reliable enough to poll to see what the majority thinks or wants.
Because then they would actually have to do some work.
I know a guy that bought 50 precursors in the begining, and is good exploiting the trading post (buy low, sell high) and now has over 90.000 gold
I think it’s pretty clear everyone wants a new Supah-Advenchurr Funbawks 
Now, I think we all know you guys at Arena work tirelessly, but pls, we can haz Supah-Advenchurr Funbawks ? pretty pl0x ? I think it’s a lot of people’s favorite content.
Here’s why It’s my favorite content in all of Guild Wars 2 contents: chip tunes. There’s nothing like the retro 8bit music. It reminds me of the old joystick with the two red buttons.
Muh childhood feels guiz, pls. Pls new SAB.
I’ll even buy the Supah Advenchurr Funbawks finisher for 800 gems. Pls guize, pls.
We wants it.
We needs it.
We cherishes it.
SAB 4 life \^o^/
OR GIVE TO US FOR CHRISTMAS ! WE CAN CALL IT SABSTERDAY !
I went in nude.
Nude.
Completely and totally nude.
I’m talking bare. No clothes.
Naked. Absolutely naked.
The way we’re born out of our mother’s life portal.
Nnnnnnnneeeeeeeeewwwwwwddddd.
It was fun. Good party. Fun times. Nice memories.
Nude.
I don’t know, this sounds iffy (troll) to me. It’s been said in numerous threads before by devs that on live servers they don’t have any special commands. I’d call d/cing another player a special command.
Maybe naive but I’d rather trust anet than random forum poster #277367 with no evidence.
oh you don’t know half of it, they can insta-ban with a right click, live while ur ingame
for example, the way you report people or add them to friendlist, that’s how they can insta-ban, so if you say something that arena doesn’t like, he/she can right click ur name, choose ban, then choose the time in terms of 3 days or 14 days or permanent
i know this because someone i know people that got banned right in front of me about 30 seconds after he said something bad. and another one got banned 2 mins after, and we were on teamspeak so the guy told me he got bent
he did break the TOA and ROC, but the thing is, nobody reported him lmfao, he happened to be unlucky cause an arena was there and the dude got bent, so yeah arena can right click ban you, and then my dude wrote an e-mail and they told him he was reported by several people, which is a lie cause it was just us there
so yeah, arena can right click ban you, if they’re having a bad day
OH LOL and not only that, they can ban you like that on accident too, you’ll get unbanned but the whole thing is just unprofessional
I feel ur feels ; _ ;
It hit me rite in the feels too T^T
All muh feels Q _ Q
I second any post that wishes SAB back. Anet is out of sense when they says “It doesn’t fit in LS”.
A tip anet : LS don’t fit this game for most of players, and we still have it around forced on us
Not every update has to be LS ; _ ;
I really hope we get SAB for Christmas 
I think it’s pretty clear everyone wants a new Supah-Advenchurr Funbawks
Now, I think we all know you guys at Arena work tirelessly, but pls, we can haz Supah-Advenchurr Funbawks ? pretty pl0x ? I think it’s a lot of people’s favorite content.
Here’s why It’s my favorite content in all of Guild Wars 2 contents: chip tunes. There’s nothing like the retro 8bit music. It reminds me of the old joystick with the two red buttons.
Muh childhood feels guiz, pls. Pls new SAB.
I’ll even buy the Supah Advenchurr Funbawks finisher for 800 gems. Pls guize, pls.
We wants it.
We needs it.
We cherishes it.
SAB 4 life \^o^/
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bummer, i didn’t know this many ppl have it
I’m from BG and I can only join BG BL and EB, if I try to join JQBL or TCBL I get this error and I get thrown back into the character selection screen, every single time. I also can’t login to my Necromancer in Fireheart Rise anymore because I get this error, I tried to do COFp1 yesterday, but this error kept me out and I then got kicked cause I couldn’t get in since I got disconnected every time.
swamp – water – aetherblade – jade maw
not that it matters because when you have cliffside you can’t progress because of the hammer bug
better run nothing, since the hammer bug not only still wasn’t fixed, it now can’t be solved by mass suicide…even if you all kill yourselves, the hammer in clifffside still won’t spawn, i mean it spawns, when you’re all dead, but as soon as you all rezz, the hammer disappears…so don’t do it till it’s fixed…
Free the captured colossus.
It happens twice for me.
It is not possible to reset this hummer by group suicide.
Hummer disappears-> Game Over.
Ok, so I was the instance owner, 2 people left, and i told the other 2 to log out to character screen…so they all leave, and I’m the only one, right ?
so when I’m dead, the hammer is there to be picked up, but as soon as i rezzz the hammer disappears
it completely stops progress 100%
blocks it entirely it happened yesterday and it happened again today
oh this was only a day ago ? well it happened to me again at fotm 36…cliffside 2nd frac…and it absolutely 100% blocked progress and we couldn’t continue
it happened the last time i did fotm 3 days ago too
it disappears, we all die, it re-appears, as soon as we rezz, it disappears again
what a waste of time, they all left, even when i was the last one in, i couldn’t pick it up because it was only there when i was dead with the ‘’rezz at checkpoint’’ pop up
as soon as i rezzd…it disappears again
infinite bug, completely stops being able to continue…
i just wish they would fix the hammer bug in fotm cliffside fractal, i was in a group today where they weren’t experienced so they left and i got kicked out even though i entered the dungeon…
the hammer is still bugged in form cliffside to this very day…
I honestly just don’t even anymore. They join without reading, or they read and join anyway and expect a charity run just for them. It’s like the lights are on but nobody is home.
made me chuckle, that is very well put because it’s so very true
that’s why i need we should introduce limitation into the LFG, for example, you would put a limitation on it and if they didn’t meet the requirements, they would get a message ‘’you do not meet the requirements for this party, please try joining a different party that suits you’’
that would be perfect
When a person comes to a “all zerk, be experienced” or “want X class for X content” party and the person who clearly don’t fit the bill and didn’t bother reading the lfg and joins gets kicked, why is it that the elitest players gets the hate?..
If people want to do things casually they can, just open up lfg and put your descriptions something like “no trash skips, play casually” or “all cleric gear party” there. I really doubt there would be zerker elitest players joining that party, and if they do, you can do same thing and kick them!.. win win situation
i agree 100%
i think it’s because casuals don’t want to carry their own weight, so they don’t want to play with other casuals, they wan’t to get a free ride on the sweat and hard labor of elitists
it’s that simple, they’re just mad because we refuse to carry them
I did this fight just tonight, to finally finish the LS crap and farm lockpicks for my bug weapons. Wish me luck…
Anyway, slept through it. Twas mind-numbingly easy and uninspired – they didn’t even bother thinking of another boss for the fight, just anet style.
Today a friend of mine breaks in a hearty laughter on ts and pings me something.
I open the link.
It’s this thread.
I read it a little and now I sit here, hands in my hair, void eyes, wondering how could anyone possibly find this fight so hard that s/he thinks it requires a party.
No, seriously, I’m trying. I’m thinking. I just don’t understand. I don’t understand what the problem was.Now you understand why we so rarely get even slightly difficult content.
there would be nothing wrong with difficult content if it wasn’t forced on people that don’t want to do it
i hate liadri cause i wanted the AP, but I didn’t want to do liadri, i got the kill and 8 orbs, but i hated it then and i hate it now, and i hate the fact that i was forced to do such cheap shot hard content like liadri just for the AP
we should all get everything, and then when people want hard content, it’s optional so that their challengered desires are filled and met, while also our desires are filled and met, that’s how it should be
hard content should be optional, and you should get 0 ap for it, because you only do it for the challenge of it.
yep, this happens to me too, i have no idea what it causes or why, but it doesn’t happen in any other games. only gw2
i place the tears on the rocks the door is not opening
this still hasn’t been fixed ? i remember doing this in november 2012 and i had the same problem… 2 YEARS !!! it’s been 2 years and this bug still isn’t fixed ?
It’s still there. IT’S STILL THERE !!!
Why wasn’t this fixed yet ? I was just in a group where we all died, and the hammer re-appeared, then we rezzed and it disappeared again….
are you serious ? why hasn’t this been fixed yet ? lack of people ? lack of money ? lack of time ? you have other priorities ?
all fine and well with me, but just tell us WWWWWHHHHHHHYYYYY this still hasn’t been fixed.
i am never going to do fotm above lvl 41 until this is fixed…luckily this happened on a fotm 20, so then, the noobs dragged me out of the instance, and because i was the instance owner, i left cause i just didn’t feel like doing fotm anymore… this has happened soo…soo many times, new players they leave or they don’t know what they’re doing and they think reset means doing it all over again from fotm 1… i mean
it’s been MONTHS ! months…i know u work hard, but come on, it’s one little bug that ruins fractals, fix it
just fix it already, it’s been months. MONTHS !
I keep getting this in queensdale, i can’t access any of my toons in queensdale, i get this then the client shuts down and i have to re-run it…so 2 of my toons, my necr oand thief keep doing this because i wp’d them both to queensdale, it’s been 5 hours nothing’s changed, i can play the other toons though
5 hours ago, i went to queensdale with my necro, always get disconnected and have to restart the client now 5 hours later
i just wp’d with my thief there to see if it’s a map problem and now the same thing is happend with my thief
7113191101 error
I was playing the living story on my lvl 80 norn, and teleported to a WP in Fields of Ruin to reach the next location.
My game client crashed hard, saying “the game client lost its connection to the server. Please wait a few minutes before restarting the client and trying again”.
So I rebooted GW2 and reached the character select screen. To my shock, my lovely lvl 80 has been reset to 0% map completion! Any attempt to join the game results in the same crash, as she is now offisially in the “Fields of Ruin”, and this map causes the crash. My other characters are just fine, they’re in LA. Help? I do NOT want to start over!
Update: I rebooted my PC. Now I have my map completion back, but the map still crashes the client. This time I get to hear the soundtrack of the map, and even some ambient sounds, but it’s still on the loading screen (without hearts, vistas, etc) until it finally crashes.
HAHA !! dude, the same thing is going on with my Necromancer, except i WP’d from the AC wp to the Queensdale WP for CM
also been 5 hours still can’t access it…
All my characters in Lions Arch cannot be loaded. It just gives an error
THIS. Exactly this, now it’s been HOURS, ok, and I still get THIS when I try to login on my necro…what is going on ? I’m glad i’m not the only one though, clearly it’s on Arena’s side
did u try a -repair on the client?
i can log in on all the other toons
everything was fine, i was doing dungeons, then i joimed a CM party, I zoned into the place on a wp next to the cm dungeon, and then i got dc’d and i’ve been trying to log in on my necro for the past 30 mins and after a long loading i just get dc’d and have to restart client…it only happens on necro
i can log in on my other toons fine
wtf ?
You can’t buy them off the TP, they can be bought from an NPC at the end of the ghost pirate jumping puzzle in Lion’s Arch, like all the pirate skins.
OOOOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Okay, thank you
I didn’t know where else to post this, so I’ll post it here. I was reviewing Dulfy’s guide to find a cool scepter for my Necromancer, and I came over Pirate Cane, and that’s the one I wanted.
But I couldn’t find it on the Trading Post, and when I used the item code, a Pearl Scepter came out. Basically a sea shell scepter.
Where did the Pirate Cane skin go ? Was it renamed ? Was it removed ? Why ? Where is it ?
More instruments, please. Instruments are what I want the most in the gemstore.
The prices make sense in a way but they also don’t make sense in a way.
But then again, how is Arena supposed to eat soup without an envelope ?
They have bills to pay too, you know.
I have three questions:
1) Is precursor crafting something being held back because of technical concerns or because of economic concerns, ie a massive surge in demand for certain types of materials? I know you’re limited in what you can speculate, but I have a theory that the crafting is largely being held back because legendaries and precursors are possibly the biggest driving force of the economy and a change in how they function could cause massive waves. Wanted to know if I was correct in this.
2) When you consider game inflation, do you primarily look at the prices of farmable material and blues/greens or do you take into account super-rare items acquired from drops, rewards or gems? Is the reason you say inflation isn’t a problem simply that the items with crazy high prices are the only things with a price rising so rapidly?
3) Can you give an example of a situation where what seemed a good idea for balancing had ridiculously bad consequences? A true learning experience in GW2, I suppose you could say.
Also thanks for doing this! It’s extremely interesting every time you have something to say.
1. All I will say about this is that any discussion about precursors, that I’m involved in, involves a discussion about the materials and markets involved.
2. When looking at inflation I use a large bundle of common goods
(the bundle changes depending on the time frame and the game state). I never use super-rare items or anything involving gems.3. Halloween 2 candy corn sinks. There was an insane amount of candy corn in the world (10’s of billions) and we underestimated the distribution of those materials and cranked up the sinks too high. This made it very difficult to interact with those sinks at all and it didn’t feel good.
Live and learn, John Smith. Live and learn.
Here’s what I found out is bugged:
The 5th event, the seed event at the 2 charrs in the cave at the Bandwatch Encampment in Iron Marches never spawns. It is literally – 100% bugged 100% of the time.
The event in Frostgorge Sound at the Coiled Watch POI sometimes get’s stuck at 9/10 waves. Not always, but sometimes and even sometimes shouldn’t happen. Wave stop coming and it’s just stuck there. I did it like 6 times and it got stuck once.
The last part of the 5event chain in FGS in Barrowstead sometimes bugs out in a way where you kill the first Svanir guy, and then the last two stay green and are unkillable. And then we all just sit there, looking at eachother.
that’s what I’ve discovered, I’d like the Iron Marches Seed event fix first, because I’m stuck at 4/5 now lol I hope there’s no bugs in storymode
Don’t worry about it, the way I see it, it’s permanent free stuff.
They’ve chosen their own business model, so I’d say it’s fair to expect a working product. You cannot always hide behind the fact that it’s free so it’s alright for the quality to be lower.
But yes otherwise I’m willing to wait until I can do one event, story progress blocking bugs would be my nr 1 priority to fix right now.
I would prefer if it was every 3 weeks. It gives them more time and it gives us more time.
…is literally the worst thing you have ever put in the Living Story, season 1 included, besides Liadri. It literally took me 25 minutes to kill it, and I did not die once, and I always killed all the menders…if I knew it was like that I would’ve found a group of people to do it with.
Next time, put a warning label on it ‘’this content should be attended with a group of people’’ or something like that
not.fun.at.all. way.too.long
You are way.too.bad.
Get out of your Clerics/Nomads comfort zone and try to learn the encounter (not that there’s much to learn). You barely had to dodge at all, you were able to simply kite the spectral flames which real name I forgot und the ascalonian menders were slow as hell, not to mention the obvious tells and the nice, orange-red aoe-indicator which basically screams “press V now!”
Seeing that you have so much problems with such an encounter, may I ask you which class you play with what kind of build? We might be able to give you useful tips so that you can improve your gameplay.
Shrug. You’re just a bad player.
Nothing about this takes 25 minutes. For the record, I’ve not been a living story fan in the past. They’ve made big steps in the right direction though. This is a fun fight with some mechanics and attacks to mind.
It’s not difficult but does require you to pay attention to attacks and enemies. It’s very easy to solo. You mind Rytlock’s instructions, evade attacks, and put out damage on the statue. Also mind mender pathing and hop back to CC and burn them down. If you need the mender achievement, you let them buff him and continue as normal.
It’s actually engaging and interesting. An absolute lolmode quest with a group though. You’re just a bad player. They’ve made some great content here.
I was using a full rabid gear exo+ascended rabid spec condi necro. And I never said it was hard, I didn’t have to restart once, it’s just too long and tedious. Took me 25 minutes.
And I never said It’s bad content, I think it’s great content. The mechanics and design of the fight was terrible, however, as I’ve already said, takes too long, boss has too much hp, too many things you gotta keep doing for too long for a solo thing. But It sure was visually pretty with an interesting story
There’s no good and bad players in this game.
There’s just zerkers and not zerkers.
I am a not zerker.
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Hey guys,
Just wanted to pop in and say that we are investigating the issues with the iron marches content as fast as we can so that we can get you guys back to progressing through the episode. These issues are indeed proving quite tricky to nail down (it’s not as simple as they simply won’t restart) but we are working hard to get everything addressed as quickly as possible.
Thanks for understanding and sorry for the inconvenience.
Don’t worry about it, the way I see it, it’s permanent free stuff.
…is literally the worst thing you have ever put in the Living Story, season 1 included, besides Liadri. It literally took me 25 minutes to kill it, and I did not die once, and I always killed all the menders…if I knew it was like that I would’ve found a group of people to do it with.
Next time, put a warning label on it ‘’this content should be attended with a group of people’’ or something like that
not.fun.at.all. way.too.long
The main reason for this is because the Living Story Journal isn’t account wide. If it was, you could just switch toons and they the achievements with different toons and gear and builds like we did with Liadri, but with this…It’s just too time consuming to do the whole story over and over and over again every time you want to try it with a different toon. It’s too hard….
Also, Super Adventure Funbox ? Pls ? It’s my favorite content, hope we get to play the next rendition of it soon.
I remember the Devs talking about the high difficulty of the achievements for this new living story and that not everyone can do them.
So now I’m here to tell you that this didn’t happen, the Achievements are
WAY TOO EASY, none challenged me, even without a guide at release, I completed every single one on my first try, except the NO TRICKS one – the fail caused by a
bug.So PLEASE make it more challenging, I play the story, enjoy it for ~1hour, (it really got good now in Season 2) then replay it for the achievements ~1hour – then I end up having nothing to do than grind for Geodes, go back to PvP or WvW.
Stand to your words and make some Achievements REALLY hard, so only 1% or less of the players will manage to complete them, even Crown Pavillion Liadri was too easy.But a huge + for don’t giving us grind achievements, I liked them, because they gave me something to do, but at the same time I hated them because they where so boring xD.
I want something I need hours and hours to complete, even if it’s just one achievement
Anyone else feeling so?
Edit: Added a strawpoll
Edit2:
Votes: 100 Achievements are ….
hard: ~15% || easy: ~15% || good: ~50% || not worth doing: ~20%Surprised: not for 1%, but ~15% of the players the achievements are too easy
Then do them naked on a lvl 1 character. That ought to be a challenge, aye ?
If you want challenges, then make them for yourself. It’s fine to want challenged, but don’t force them on me. Challenges suck and I don’t like them. I like easy content that I can breeze through.
Liadri will always be my least favorite.
So, I did my entanglement living story journal mode on my ranger, which is a defense build and I enjoy it. I like this build, it’s fun and enjoyable. But then, I tried to do swift wings, and one of the NPC’s insta died, 4 times in a row. It’s been 1 hour and a half, and they die before I can kill the monsters, because as I said I have a defense build on my ranger, and I really love my defense build, I mostly like defense builds cause the game said ‘’play however you want’’ and that’s how I want to play.
So… I decided to switch toons. I switch toons, and then I realize, I am going to have to do…the whole..entire…living…story – just so I can try the swift wings concordia instance with my other toon.
And If I keep failing with that toon all over ? Well then I’ll have to try a different tone…and…again..do…the whole..entanglement..living…story…again..all over..on…that..toon.
Two things that come up here. I noticed, after 2 years, being anything other than a zerker is pointless.
And the second thing I noticed is… why isn’t the living story journal ACCOUNT WIDE ?
Like….why isn’t it account wide ? Cause if it was, I wouldn’t be here writing this, I would just relog and try with my different toons.
Why does this game punish fun ? It’s not fun to always have to play zerker to be able to get achievements…
So my proposal is this: Make it so that when I’m on my high defense toon, the enemies have lower health and lower damage. And when I’m on my high damage toon, the enemies have higher health and higher damage. That would even things out. Cause right now the monsters don’t scale, if ur a zerker you melt them and if ur a tank defense build, they do too much damage and are way harder to kill, which makes it really unbalanced.
In this game the best defense is a good offense. Right, but that means I can’t play however you want as the game said, well I can but I won’t get far. Which is boring. It makes the game boring and unfun.
so yeah, the best way to balance everything, is to nerf zerkers by 50% and buff tanks by 50%, but not damage, only health and armor and defense and such
My 2cents
lol does no one agree with me ?
+1 to everything.
Who was Aerin’s VA? Aerin and Taimi stole the show IMO.
Aerin is voiced by Jon St. John. Taimi is voiced by Debi Derryberry. Glad you enjoyed their performances!
I knew it was Duke Nukem
I knew it !!
Except Liadri, even though i killed her on the 4th try and got 8 orbs on the 16th try with my rabid rifle condi warrior, I stil did not enjoy it one little bit. I was as displeased with the difficulty of it before I did it as I was after I did it. I do not like challenges. I just did it for the achievement points.
All I hear is people complaining and moaning on the forums, so it must be tough and stressful to be you. You put your creativity and imagination into it, and the coders and programmers make it virtual, and then people whine and complain and berate and belittle you for miniscule unimportant reasons.
The reason why the forums are filled with such topics, is not because everyone feels that way, but because those that do, are a minority, and since minorities always scream the loudest, they let their voice be heard while those that are happy and pleased with the content you put out, regularly, FOR FREE, simply don’t come on the forums to post because they’re too busy enjoying this beautiful, fun game and it’s excellent new content updates.
So I just wanted to say, that the majority is very happy and pleased with this game,(except Liadri, nobody liked that, everyone hated it, worst idea ever) and that you should know this. Your work is appreciated and the time and effort you put into it is enjoyed.
Keep up the good work
I would love to see SAB next. Like, a lot. Like, SUPAH- a – lot. iT’S My Favorite content <3
You come up over a ridgeline near Stone Mist Castle and see an ally getting beat down by an enemy, what do you do:
a.) Ignore it, it’s none of your business.
b.) Attack the enemy player, it’s WvW
c.) Don’t attack, and say, “Are dueling or PvPing?”
I answered “b” but supposedly the correct answer is “c” to the “ally” who called me a childish name and acted like I was the worst person ever in the world. (BTW I don’t usually read chat while in combat, so I didn’t the lame insults until after the fight.)
Please tell me that we aren’t catering to personal duelers in open WvW.
Nothing against dueling, but if you do it out in the open in WvW, do not expect people to give a flying fruit about it, I certainly will not be “asking” if it’s alright to fight the enemy.
Of course, maybe I hold the minority opinion on the matter.
I kill them all and then when they whine and cry I pour salt into their wounds, cause that’s what a Charr from the Blood Legion does to his enemies.
BLUT UND EHRE !
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