I suppose that you would have to prove that the belief is false if you were making the claim of delusion.
That’s not how it works, you can never prove a negative, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim. Otherwise the most you can have is the evidence of absence or the proof of impossibility (both of which exist in spades for most religious beliefs). There are the classic examples of this you can go look up like Russell’s teapot, the invisible pink unicorn or the dragon in the garage.
When I was in CPGB[M-L] I actually wrote a paper on religion as a mental illness which was critically acclaimed by several British doctors. Might have been published if I hadn’t had my funding withdrawn when I left.
Back when I was completing my PhD I was tempted to write a paper about religion, from the perspective of existential psychology, as being a means of avoiding the anxiety of death and meaninglessness. There are a few papers written along similar lines but they usually only hint at it, and then edge their way around the issue.
I think it took a lot of imagination to write that article….. but where was the scientific fact?
In the phylogenetic data.
When the findings of a study can be quoted as, “it seems,” rather than, “it is,” then the findings are questionable at best. Saying, “seems,” is an acknowledgement that the result is a matter of opinion and is nt factual.
Actually “it seems” or some variation is pretty much “industry standard”, for the same reasons that no scientist will ever say that they have proven anything, no scientist will ever say “it is”. That’s just the way science works, even if all the evidence in the world is pointing towards one clearly obvious conclusion the most you can say is that “it seems” that such and such can be said of it, seen or assumed etc. Even in the case of gravity, or evolution, simply because we do not, and maybe can not, ever know that we know everything.
I’ve heard it all now… 1st anyone with religious beliefs has been described as a mental patient…. 2nd Heterosexuality is caused by the lack of an imagination…… This just gets better and better
Actually, a good argument could be made for the fact that religious belief is a mental illness.
Here’s the DSM-V definition of delusion:
“A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly held despite what almost everyone else believes and despite what constitutes incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary. The belief is not ordinarily accepted by other members of the persons’s culture or subculture (i.e., it is not an article of religious faith). When a false belief involves a value judgment, it is regarded as a delusion only when the judgment is so extreme as to defy credibility. Delusional conviction can sometimes be inferred from an overvalued idea (in which case the individual has an unreasonable belief or idea but does not hold it as firmly as is the case with a delusion).”
The line “The belief is not ordinarily accepted by other members of the persons’s culture or subculture” is the only thing which distinguishes religious belief from delusion. Of course, that was only really added for political purposes. If 90% of people say the sun is blue, well… You get the idea.
100% of people are Bisexual.
Here’s a pretty interesting article:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15299716.2010.500960
“It seems, in Man, that innate heterosexual reproductive behavior no longer exists; however, due to the specific relations between reinforcement processes and erogenous zones, a new behavior has appeared, the goal of which would be bodily stimulation. This behavior, that we describe as erotic behavior, induces the learning of many auto-, hetero-, kitten - and bisexual activities, among which, indirectly, is the crucial kittenl coitus sequence. Thus human reproduction, however fundamental to the survival of the species, would, paradoxically, only be an almost fortuitous consequence of the search for physical pleasures.
In conclusion, in the absence of cultural values stigmatizing particular sexual behaviors (i.e., homophobia), it seems that the innate tendency to search for erogenous zones’ stimulations by partners, as seen in the Bonobos, leads to the learning of a sexuality that would in most cases be bisexual.”
Turns out, like dolphins, we just do stuff cause it feels good and if you happen to be heterosexual then that’s just a by-product of our innate pleasure seeking tendencies being moulded by cultural reinforcement. So, if anything it could be argued that heterosexuality is the most maladaptive or unnatural of all orientations, being instilled by cultural reinforcers rather than any natural disposition, i.e., shame, bigotry, fear, or maybe just a lack of imagination.
At what point to social and human issues become political issues? And does being a political issue mean that they are no longer human issues?
Condition damage should be stronger than power builds due to the ramp up time. Conditions should start weaker, but end up stronger, essentially balancing out with the constant damage done by power builds. Power should be for killing things quickly, conditions should be for increasing long term damage.
There’s not much point saying conditions are OP against world bosses. The fact is that world bosses are badly designed. Give them more health, let them block more, let them condi cleanse, then maybe we can talk about balance for world bosses. Until then they’re just damage sponges, the changes to condi damage just made that more apparent. Before the changes you might have had 20 people running condi, one person could probably reach the cap for most of those conditions on their own, so those 20 people were really doing the damage of about 2 people. So we should really just treat this as if “raids” got bigger and buff the things we’re fighting.
that if even one person is offended, ANET needs to listen.
I like to imagine that that if we were in the 1800s you’d be “offended” that women were reading books.
Every day I wake up, look outside and think, wow, the world is full of kittening idiots. That offends me. Does that mean governments have to listen to me and lock up bigots like you?
If only.
The political correctness machine is at it once again. They have an agenda and don’t care who it offends. They laud themselves as “openminded” but will try to crush any opposing viewpoints. This thread has already been compromised when those posters who have concerns over the npc were encouraged not to post and advised to be respectful while the other side apparently can be as disrespectful as they want. This is social engineering. They want to model behavior. If you have a conversation with the npc your character has to say the npc is brave…. no other choice. ESPN did the same thing with awarding Bruce Jenner the courage award over a vet that had lost limbs in an ied attack. Agenda!!!!
Yeah, truly a terrifying and evil agenda: inclusion, acceptance and respect. Anet are like.. worse than hitler at this point amirite.
And judging by responses like yours I think society could use a bit more positive behavioural modeling.
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186 psychiatrists responded to a survey regarding 584 patients with cross-gender identification.
61% of transgenders in the survey suffered from a mental illness that was NOT about being transgender. That’s far beyond statistically significant.
39% were transgender without a psychiatric issue (except possibly transgenderism itself).
75% of the transgender individuals were diagnosed as being transgender BECAUSE of a mental illness.
Other forms of biological dysmorphism are considered psychological. Why do so many reject the idea that at least some transgender people may suffer from a psychological condition?
“186 psychiatrists responded to a survey” people don’t typically see psychiatrists if they’re feeling fine, so I’d say there was a pretty big issue right from the start. It would be like 200 oncologists filled in a survey and said 78% of their patients had cancer. Doesn’t scream representative sample to me. Beyond that, I’d imagine that being a certain gender and being a certain sex and finding that they do not match with each other probably is a common source for a number of psychological difficulties that transgender people face. And how anyone could say that one psychological difficulty is completely unrelated to any specific life circumstances of an individual is beyond me.
Psychological difficulties are not defined by whether they are typical or atypical, they aren’t even defined by neurological or genetic differences or abnormalities(we’re all nurologically different). The defining quality of a psychological illness is that it causes distress. And so being transgender, that is, having made a change for one’s own benefit to look and act in accordance with one’s own self perception, cannot be classified as a mental illness.
Because if you want us to think “Oh, its just another person” Then there shouldn’t have been a point to point at that shes transgender to begin with.
But that would only happen if binary genderedness wasn’t assumed in advanced, which it is. Society isn’t at that enlightened point where people are just people yet.
They have that choice about their lives, let them get on with it, don’t hoist them up for everyone to judge. The only thing about this topic i can say is “The Road to hell is paved with good intentions” while people want to celebrate this NPC, it is only having the knock on effect of bringing these differences up and making them more visible when in reality, it shouldn’t be! It’s the opposite effect of what the end desire is!
Saying “well if they’re just people why even mention it!” is sort of missing the point. It would be like saying, well black homosexual women are equal to white heterosexual men so if we only show white heterosexual men on TV what does it matter!
It’s about people being people, unique but facing the same struggles and challenges as other people by virtue of being fellow human beings, not about everyone being the same.
And besides, it’s not as if this NPC is going “HEY LISTEN! IM TRANS!”, they simply mention they used to be called symon after your character asks “Have we met before?”. But I dunno, maybe what I consider a simple conversational exchange is a celebratory pedestal to you.
There is a 40%+ suicide rate in transgendered teenagers.
Imagine being part of such a marginalized and hated group, and finding this NPC, effectively getting a message from the developers of one of your favorite games that it’s important to express yourself and that you’re brave for doing so. Can you even imagine how important that sentiment could be to some people?
This is why it’s so important.
Hopefully one day threads like this won’t exist, people will see a transgender npc in a game and just think “oh, there’s a person” and that’ll be it. That’s why characters like this, and Kasmeer and Marjory, Taimi and others are important. Why should video games only include perfectly typical heterosexual men and women? In the real world there are disabled people, gay people and trans people, what’s strange is not that a trans person has been added to the game but that this is an exception to the rule in video games.
So, well done anet, it’s one more stepping stone over the river of bigotry, prejudice and ignorance. I’m sure we’ll cross it one day.
I paid $150 for GW2. I paid $100 for HoT. All because I feel like I get more than my money’s worth. I’ve never looked at what the player next to me payed or what they recieved. But it looks like I am in the minority.
What would you like Anet to include in the veteran version?
A character slot.
Why? Your not owed anything… thats the thing.
The base game was being sold for $10. With the $50 HoT expansion the base game (previously $10) is given away free. Except to people who already have it. They get nothing. So, give those people a $10 character slot. Simple. No Anet don’t owe me anything, they’re free to rip me off as much as they like. But until I feel like I’m getting a decent deal and not getting screwed over my $50 is going to spent elsewhere.
I paid $150 for GW2. I paid $100 for HoT. All because I feel like I get more than my money’s worth. I’ve never looked at what the player next to me payed or what they recieved. But it looks like I am in the minority.
What would you like Anet to include in the veteran version?
A character slot.
If the expansion comes bundled with the core game for $50 then I should get the core game (or an additional copy) regardless of whether I own it already or not if I am paying that $50.
To me this is no different than if Anet said they were only including the core game if you happened to be black. It should make no godkitten difference. If I pay $50 then I should get exactly what everyone else who pays $50 gets, regardless of any other factors.
I’m sure there’s enough fans out there to defend anet if it turned into a class action lawsuit. They’ll work their magic convincing the judge and jury how good anet have been to them in the past ^^ it works everytime in every thread ^^
What is stockholm syndrome?
Entitlement is selling a feature pack for $50 and expecting people to be stupid enough to buy it while also charging another $10 on top of that for character slots that people require if they want to access a good chunk of the new content.
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So in response to the “crybabies” you make a post crying about how your opinions are right and the people you disagree with are all wrong.
Well done.
O’Brien offered a similar thought when asked if players could expect future expansions following Heart of Thorns. “This expansion is about laying the groundwork,” he says. “We are building Guild Wars 2 to be the game that we want to be evolving over the long-term.”
I don’t know much about ground work, but I’m pretty sure you don’t spend 2 years building your house before starting it.
They’ve pretty much said this expansion is going to be on the lean side. Which may not be a very clever move because a lot of people are going to look at this first expansion and most likely think “is this it?”. For $50. Would you expect those people to return for the next expansion? (If they even think this one is worth buying in the first place).
Chill out, we'll get a lot of free stuff...
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I’m sure they are going to add extra stuff to the HoT portion of the game as well, like new masteries, additions to masteries, more guild halls and stuff like that. Yeah, you’re not paying for that when you buy the expansion, but you can’t honestly be vice gripping your money while plugging your ears that the devs are also offering a service (that they aren’t charging you for!). This is where the whole mantra of “the customer is always right” stems from, not because the customer is always right, but that you must continue to provide unbiased and fair service so that the customer will provide repeat business.
I’m sure they’ll keep updating the game too, but so what? I’m not paying for future potentialities, I’m paying for what’s in the expansion at the point I pay for it. The devs are offering a service? Yeah and that’s covered in the price of the product too, anet aren’t working anywhere close to a loss.
At the end of the day Anet have said it themselves, HoT isn’t about adding new areas or really expanding the game, it’s about laying the groundwork to continue expanding the game in the future with things like specializations and masteries. They probably should have laid that groundwork 2 years ago. From what I’ve seen HoT isn’t worth $50 of my dollars and all anet seem to do is reiterate and redesign everything in the game, over and over.
Anet’s silence just adds to the sense that they have no kittening clue where they’re going or what they’re doing. For instance that whole time where they said nothing about there being an expansion, all we knew was that half the people at anet were not working on the living world, we got told that things like new races and new skills could come as part of the living world, and that there were no current plans for an expansion. The impression I get is that Anet are just blundering along without a kittening clue. Most recently demonstrated by their back peddling on the “you need the base game to play the expansion” thing.
There are just so many little things where you have to shake your head and wonder what the hell they’re thinking (We can’t put SAB in because it’ll disrupt the flow of the living world, but here’s last years halloween copy pasted in!). I don’t have a lot of confidence in Anet at this point, I think many people feel the same way because of a lot of little things that have accumulated over time. That’s why HoT isn’t worth my $50.
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45 euros for the xpac isn’t that much of a hastle.
why would any of you think we won’t get another bunch of free feature packs on top of the expansions promised content?
So if my $50 dollars for the expansion is also for the “free feature packs” (which may or may not exist at some point in the future) then how exactly are they free?
What I am (or am not) paying $50 for is the expansion. THATS ALL. I am NOT paying retroactively for the last two years of updates and I am NOT paying for potential future updates. I am paying for the expansion, nothing more, nothing less. If anet decide to throw out FREE (FREE, as in, not paid for) content in the future, then great, thanks a bunch. But that is not what my $50 dollars is for.
Arenanet are not people. Arenanet is a subsidiary of NCSoft. It is a corporation.
People work for this corporation, yes they happen to be human people, so what? When a company does something people don’t like I’m afraid it’s the fault of the human people who work for that company. Now you can say well, perhaps its just a few people in that company who are potentially either terrible at marketing, terrible at PR, terrible at advertising or terrible at understanding the players they’re making video games for, or all of the above, but then I should hope the structure of the business is such that when people make bad calls other people are able to intervene. This really expands into a whole other issue of the western workplace resembling a dictatorship rather than a democracy but never mind that for now.
The point is that if you work for a company exploiting child labour and you do nothing about it but go in to work every day and do your job really well, then you’re still part of the problem I’m afraid. If you work for a company that tries to fleece its customers and you do nothing about it but go in to work every day and do your job really well, then you’re still part of the problem too.
Corporations don’t make decisions. People make decisions.
If anything, I think a lot of the people who work at Anet should also be pretty annoyed. After all, it isn’t the fantastic artists, amazing map designers, great composers, voice actors, writers and programmers who are giving the game a bad reputation. It’s whoever is behind these constant, blatantly obvious and often insulting cash grabs and the really bizarre attitude to secrecy who are alienating the players.
If corporations are going to treat people like nothing more than an endless stream of cash to be raked in then it should come as no surprise that in turn people will begin to dehumanize the corporations (and the people who make them up) based on their inhuman behaviour.
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Well, lets see. There are six dragons, Zhaitan was base game and that was $60, and lets assume the other dragons will all get expansions at $50 each. That’s $310 if you’re one of the suckers who buys each one as it’s released.
Or $50 if you just buy heart of bubbles in 2020. But hey, now I have $260 to spend on other games till then, which is about 30 odd games in the steam sales.
Hmm, so I can be fleeced or I can buy a whole ton of video games. Tough choice.
That’s an odd statement because of the two names we have so far, I needed WAY more explanation of what a Chronomancer is vs. a Dragon hunter. It’s not a failure that Anet needed to explain it, it’s the failure that people are being obtuse as a reason to complain they don’t like the name. I mean, one needs to be pretty dense to not understand what is implied by Dragon Hunter. I’m not buying it.
Then let me explain further. What is a dragon hunter? Someone who hunts dragons. As has been repeated ad nauseam WE ALL HUNT DRAGONS. But ok, dragon hunter, so it’ll have skills good against dragons? Not particularly, or at least no more than anyone else. Well how does it relate to the Guardian? Some garbage about witch hunts and big game hunters. Oh, so it in no way fits with the theme of selfless and virtuous defender?
You see, all that needs to be explained for dragonhunter to make any kind of sense or be at all relevant.
Compare this to chronomancer. Instantly you should know it’s going to be about time magic, the clue is in the name. That’s kind of the important thing about naming conventions, things have names or labels to inform us about the qualities of those things. Thieves steal things, Engineers engineer, tinker and invent, Warriors smack things with pointy sticks, Chronomancers use time magic.
Dragon hunter does not do this. Because the image created by the term is simply “someone who hunts dragons”, which for so many reasons simply doesn’t fit. Not with the guardian, not in lore, not with the world of gw2. Is the guard going to use his new trap spec to hunt mordremoth? No. Firstly you can’t really hunt something down when its right there beneath your feet, secondly it’s likely that mordremoth like the other dragons is a little too big to be trapped and far too powerful to be killed by a “dragon hunter”. After all Zhaitan was only killed after a long campaign and because we found a way of reflecting his own magic back at him. So, hunting dragons in gw2 is akin to hunting earthquakes or hurricanes, not particularly similar to 17th century witch trials where little old ladies were burnt alive. The guardian skills have nothing to do with hunting dragons, test of faith, lights judgement, dragons maw? (that last one conjures the image of a dragon, an odd thing for a dragon hunter to be doing, did witch hunters use broomsticks to fly?).
And so your comment that everyone who doesn’t understand what dragon hunter implies is dense has only shown that you do not understand the arguments against the name. Dragonhunter conveys one thing. One thing unrelated to guardian, unrelated to the lore of tyria and unrelated to any mechanic of the new specialisation.
Do you understand now?
Despite your irrational complaining about the name, don’t start labeling anything as unanimous or even majority.
So in saying not to make sweeping generalisations you insinuate that everyone who dislikes the name is irrational? Slow clap
As for the argument about the forums representing only a small portion of the playerbase, so what? All that means is that there is a percentage of the playerbase whose views are unknown, you don’t get to implicitly claim them as people who like the name.
There are a great deal of people on these forums who dislike the name. Reddit is full of people who hate the name. In game I’ve seen people who are vocal with their dislike of the name in map and guild chat. And yes, some people are also fine with name.
Despite no one having the statistics, it’s clear however that a significant number of people dislike the name. For evidence of this all you need to do is look at the chronomancer, druid or tempest, did those names evoke anywhere near the same reaction? No.
I really do hate people who try and silence or discredit the views of others, be that the Jon Peters way of insinuating that the people who dislike the name aren’t mature enough to grasp such a high concept, or by labelling the collective view of everyone who dislikes the name irrational, or by pretending that only a vocal minority dislike the name. The disingenuousness of people is disgusting.
I love all the pedantic arguments being made here.
What I take from JPeters post is the following:
“We have thought this through much more than you. I’m explaining our logic as a courtesy. The name isn’t changing”.
I see the fact that the name required an explanation in the first place to be a sign of its failure.
Did anyone need chronomancer, druid or tempest explaining?
More like “We over thought this so much that we accidentally named an NPC faction instead of a guardian specialisation, now maybe if I explain our illogical choice by pretending it’s mature and high-concept people will stop saying it’s pants”.
The name D hunter and it’s explanation sound like bad headcanon or something from a terrible fanfic. Actually, considering the name is probably based on Brahms transition to D hunter and his personal story, I’m probably not far wrong.
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@Genesis:But your comparisons of “real life” dragon hunters and “real life” witch hunters is flawed for one reason: ANet has been inspired from the witch hunter theme, not the dragon hunter theme. Comparing the Dragonhunter in GW2 with “real” Dragonhunters can only conflict with your own preconception. But the name similarity should be seen more as a coincidence than an actual reference to “real” Dragonhunters. It’s as simple as that. As I have earlier pointed out, the community is more fighting with their own expectations than with the actual theme.
I don’t think so. Jon specifically mentioned the “high fantasy” image of a dragon hunter. We only can derive that from “real life”, or is there a similiar profession in Guild Wars 1?
The way he put it – “hunting big” – is clearly a reference to Siegfried and others.
The way I see it, they only have the choice of either going the “big game hunter”-route or the “Inquisitor” one. Given, that they take the criticism to heart.
Inquisitor would have been a much better fit. It aligns well with the zealotry and religiosity that underlies the guardian. Witch hunter was never an official title, it was used a few times by american authors, but in general it would have been priests, inquisitors, etc. who would find and punish pagans. If the idea is that this specialisation hunts down and traps dragons and dragon minions (including sylvari) then inquisitor would have been a fitting name.
One other point, the guardian elite trap shows a blue dragon head appearing out of the ground to immobilize enemies, why is a dragon hunter utilizing the power of dragons, or forming his spells in their image? A witch hunter would hate and despise all things witch related. Just another example of the discrepant name.
This is akin to a comedian not receiving any laughs and then blaming the audiences’ poor grasp of humour. Perhaps the comedian is just kitten?
The analogy would probably hold up better if the room were actually silent.
Seems like it’s just one guy clapping very loudly to the derision of onlookers. We get it, you love the name, and thus everyone who dislikes it is wrong. Thanks for the input.
How about in light of player feedback anet provide a range of names and let the community vote. I get the feeling that Dragonhunter would not be the winning name.
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I understand this is a lot more high concept than Mesmer but at the end of the day we felt like we wanted to try and push a more mature theme here. I hope this helps explain our thinking.
Dragonhunter.. doesn’t feel in any way “mature”. It’s what a five year old would say if you asked him what he wants to be when he’s all grown up. Only by that time he’s an accountant.
And yet plenty of the adults in the room like it.
Might want to find a better lever than “nya nya I think you’re immature!” if you want to move this rock. Calling Devs something akin to five-year olds doesn’t work real well in my experience.
Are the Devs not insinuating that everyone who dislikes the name is immature and unable to grasp the high concept name “Dragonhunter”?
The name is nondescriptive, and so it has failed as a name at all. It is also unimaginative. It also fails to fit in at all with anything guardian related, despite this poor attempt by the devs to convince us that “no guys, it really is relevant!”.
This is akin to a comedian not receiving any laughs and then blaming the audiences’ poor grasp of humour. Perhaps the comedian is just kitten?
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high concept
a more mature theme
You do realise you called it Dragonhunter right?
D hunter sucks and no amount of trying to weasel your way into presenting it as a super mature, deep and complex name is going to change that.
I think the main problem with the name is that it’s simply nondescriptive.
With names like chronomancer, elementalist, warrior or ranger, you’re immediately clued in to what that profession is about. But Dragonhunter… so they hunt dragons? Well we all hunt dragons, it tells you nothing. Beyond that it doesn’t seem to fit with the guardian at all.
I mean, look at chronomancer (naming done right). The class is about duality, past and future, which fits with the duality of lyssa. Manipulation is also a theme of the mesmer and that too is seen in the chronomancer spec.
Or the Druid, all we know about it is the name, but the nature theme which is part of the ranger is still evoked in the word druid.
But the D hunter is not thematically congruent with anything the guardian does. When you think of guardians what do you think of, probably things like support, protection, virtuous blue flames exploding all over the place. Probably not hunting dragons, at least no more than anyone else. The skills shown also seem to have absolutely nothing to do with hunting dragons (at a very long stretch you could say traps, but those will presumably affect things other than dragons).
Oh well, looking forward to hammerguy and shoutman.
Anet’s Development Schedule:
Gem store items – Weekly
Living world content – Every few months
Expansion – When it’s ready
Something players want – When hell freezes over
It is still a very small part of the community. And I even doubt all of them even care about SAB, some of them probably just join in because it is the “cool thing to do”. Just like how riots and such work in the real world.
Evolution is a secular lie, climate change isn’t real and no one wants SAB back.
Every April 1st in GW2 will be a massive disappointment.
They shot themselves in the foot when they made SAB, everything from then on is a let down, bobble heads, airplanes… next to SAB.. well, they can come across as being a bit pants, and in comparison they are.
(Also, I did have to turn my character sound off after about 10 minutes of plane sounds)
They could have just put the mini-packs back in the gemstore, I would have bought them right away.
I (and many others) won’t waste money gambling on chests. Seems like typical anet money grubbing.
Hopefully it’ll turn out to be another oversight, and they were supposed be tradable.
But how can I appreciate the art if I’m allowed to use first person?!
And what if I use it in wvw and then suck at wvw?
I think these are important issues that Anet need to address.
… I like doing stuff with my friends, Anet.
NO FRIENDS ALLOWED.
Want to do the jumping puzzle together? DENIED
Bell choir? NOPE
Toypocalypse? LOL NO
The main problem is that’s unintuitive.
This. There are 8 notes to press. So you use keys 1 to 8 right? NOPE
There should be 9 bell skills, so you’d assume, the devs not being kittened, that they’d ignore skill 9 and you’d press 1 through 8 for the 8 notes that light up. But instead, you press notes 1 to 4, then notes 6 to 9, because they got rid of note 5 from the middle, though not the 5th note along on the board.
So for 1 on the board you press 1, 2 press 2, 3 press 3, 4 press 4, 5 press…wait there is no 5.. press 6, for 6 you press 7.. for…
What the actual kitten.
Harvest 5 trees
Do 4 events
Use 1 vista
Wow, it’s nothing.
Quality changes by arenanet.
I have never seen a good reason not to have mounts. The arguments seem to be either “WoW had them! So they suck!” or “Don’t need mounts, have way points”. Both of which are pretty poor arguments, the first point is simply stupid the second is irrelevant, mounts wouldn’t get rid of existing waypoints.
From a lore perspective mounts would make sense at this point in the story, as we push further into mordrem territory there should be NO waypoints at all.
From a functionality perspective the obvious use of a mount would be speed. Give mounts a 33% speed buff and there’s no more need for crappy traits that do the same thing and you put all classes on the same level in terms of speed (no more slow kitten mesmers). We wouldn’t be travelling any faster than the fastest classes can now, so its not an upgrade over mountless people in any way besides convenience.
One of the main reasons people keep on playing is to deck out their character with fancy stuff, anyone who has worked towards a legendary, bought a mini, costumes or cultural armour has done this. Fancy mounts would be one more reason to keep playing. Imagine travelling the world to find all the parts for your golem mount and upgrading it over time in a similar way to mawdrey or spinal blades.
Moa mounts, dolyak mounts, golem mounts, devourer mounts, elemental mounts, drake mounts, steam creature mounts, oakheart mounts, dwarf mounts, think of the possibilities! Most of these are more in lore than your daft sparkly sword and glittery armor. And if you don’t think seeing a norn riding about on a dolyak would be awesome then you have no soul.
According to the blog post and patch notes “A talking Replica Job-o-Tron Backpack is now available in the Style category for 600 gems.”
Only it isn’t, as far as I can tell. If his job is being a backpack he’s not doing it very well at the moment.
Thing is, you have NO EXCUSE for taking longer than a day to implement these changes. Nothing was broken. You “fixed” something that didn’t need fixing and you fixed it to rip people off. It isn’t good enough for you to spend the next however many weeks fixing the idiotic kitten you broke in the first place.
Here’s what you should have done: You say you’re very sorry for trying to rip everyone off and you now realise your customers aren’t blind idiots. Then you immediately remove the kitten you changed and return it to how it was.
If you want to then kitten about with a new interface or design, go ahead, waste more dev time on kitten no one cares about, but don’t inconvenience players more than you already have due to your cash grabbing tactics.
And the fact that you are conveniently not fixing it before a lot of items go off sale is clear to everyone. Perhaps you knew there would be backlash but figured it’d be worth it for some added halloween profits at least, but maybe I give you far too much credit and you are just completely out of touch.
You broke it, you fix it, you set a deadline, you stick to it. The end. If you all had regular jobs and worked like this you’d have been fired by now.
Continued negativity even after Gaile’s last few statements is depressing to me. Meh.
Gaile, try not to take any of …. this… home with you.
The thing is, lets say you cut off someone’s legs and they’re all like “what the hell man, you just cut off my legs!” and you’re all “yeah well, new players don’t like legs, come at me bro”. But then two days later you’re all, “Oh man, what was I thinking, here dude, have your legs back”, do you think legless guy is going to be a happy man?
You don’t get to break stuff then get applauded when you fix it. Just don’t break stuff in the first place.
(Besides, the only reason we got our legs back is because this whole thing was getting coverage in the latest issue of legs weekly, don’t fool yourself, if it was just some angry legless guys Anet would have kept ignoring it)
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If there was some kind of /age for these forums we’d see that there were no new players and Anet wouldn’t be able to use that excuse for kittening us in the kitten .
These attempts to increase your revenues from the game are soo irritating……..first you (Anet) ended the key runs in the previous update……..and now this…….and all in the name of “simplifying”
Yes how dare a company (whose first and foremost purpose is to make money) dare try to make money?
The job of a company which makes video games is FIRST AND FOREMOST to craft enjoyable quality gaming experiences. For this they earn money.
This kittening bizarre notion that the goal of every company is simply to make the most money possible (through the least effort possible and to the detriment of customers) is frankly disgusting and people like you need to stop using using it to defend bad business practices.
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Lol at “give us suggestions to improve this feature” crap.
Ok, here you go: stop making things suck.
You’re welcome.
But you know this already, and you decided a long time ago to put monetary gains before providing quality products. It’ll work in the short term, but where do you think your reputation is headed? Maybe you should just disable trading gold for gems?
Here’s how you make money Anet: Put things in the game people want to buy, release an expansion that people want to buy.
Here’s how you lose money and players: Keep trying to kitten people over so that they spend money by making the alternatives massively inconvenient.
You want to repeatedly give the finger to your customers? That’s fine, don’t expect me to be one of them.
And drop the “new player” bullkitten, no one is falling for it. Keep making updated of this quality and you won’t have any new players.
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Why did you not move your bag so that the tomes were in the same place as the Accept button.
This is the most annoying video I’ve seen today.
#SABorNOGEMS
Seriously, the continue coin should have done this from the start.
Also you should put the SAB minis back in the store some time, I’d buy the hell out of those.
And probably the SAB boomboxes too, so many times I get them out and have people whisper me asking what they are and where they’re from. It’s like you hate money Anet.
This poll: an example of metrics.
But they aren’t the RIGHT metrics. If they were the right metrics they would agree with me, because my opinions aren’t opinions, they are facts. So there’s obviously something wrong with these metrics. The people who voted weren’t from the places I think they should be from, they didn’t have the right temperament, or background, or perspective, or any of the things that would have made them vote the correct way. Everything that disagrees with me is invalid.
Now I’m just going to sit here with my hands over my ears.
LALALALALALALA. I CAN’T HEAR YOU.
It’s so cool. Before the official forums got involved it was very balanced. Then suddenly out of nowhere, it got downvoted by a bunch of people and the numbers stacked up with hate it.
I didn’t announce it on the official forums first, because I was pretty sure that’s what would happen.
I voted once and once only. My wife couldn’t vote, because we have the same IP. But of course, no one from the official forums would possibly try to skew the vote at all. That would never happen under any circumstance.
The pre forum annoucement and post forum annoucement were night and day. I’m quite okay with it.
Oh no! People who disagree with me voted too! But don’t worry, their votes don’t matter, because reasons.
That’s a net loss of massive profit for ANet when you consider key gem costs, and the sheer number of people that “key farm”
It’s actually a net loss of 0. I don’t know of any key farmers who would buy keys with gems, or convert gold to gems and buy them. It’s simply a waste of money.
The people with massive disposable incomes likely never stopped buying them in the first place. The people who key farmed likely never bought them, or will ever buy them. As the ratio of time/effort/reward has made key farming pretty much obsolete at this point I think most key farmers have just shrugged it off, it’s just one more thing not worth doing in the game.