Guild Wars 2

I’m always baffled by these threads. I know some of you people understand how programming works. So many things are dependent on other things, and you might not even realize change A broke system B until later on – and then you spend hours trying to reproduce the bug so you can fix it. It’s like you’re playing Jenga but some of the blocks are invisible so you don’t realize stuff was balanced on the block you pulled out until it collapses.

Even a seemingly insignificant change can have unexpected consequences. One person makes a text field slightly bigger (pets can now have 15-letter names instead of 12!*) and suddenly your whole game crashes.

Obviously they want to make sure as much of it works as possible, knowing that when they release it into the wild two dozen people will still manage to break something in a way they never anticipated anyway.

*based on a true story.

Svetli.4276:

lets all sing the song
“a net will never do patches in different time cuz of market inflation and exploits”

They have to sleep sometime.

Astral Projections.7320:

I don’t know why it bothers some people either. Normally something like a word bothers someone if there is some type of emotion involved. My guess is, these people are attached more to their characters than the people who use the word toon and it feels like it is trivializing it in some way.

If that’s not right maybe the people who are bothered by it can give a better explanation as to exactly why.

It just feels weird and, I don’t know … jarring? I guess it’s all those years of D&D, where I rolled up a character. Although it actually bugs me when people say they’re “rolling up a warrior” in an MMO, because there’s no “rolling” involved and all warriors are going to have the same starting stats.

Basically what I am saying is that I am a crabby old fart so get off my lawn?

TheTechnician.1078:

Carzor Stelatis.9435:

It isn’t so much a case of it being ‘short for cartoon’, as a play on words. The short form of character is ‘char’, and ‘toon’ is in reference to that. A weird sort of rhyming slang if you like.

I believe this explanation to be the most apt.

I also believe that anyone under 30 won’t like the term as much… In a way, it is making light of the whole phenomenon of gaming and avatar representation in a virtual environs. Younger people (under 30) take gaming far more seriously, and for some, it is their only form of interaction with people of their own age and may be their sole current source of sociological growth and experience – so to make light of that – will feel ‘insulting’ to them.

Judging from the responses above of “hating the term” by the ‘younger’ crowd, I believe what I have inferred above to be correct, so far…

Erm, I’m 41.

Randulf.7614:

bluestocking.6148:

Sinbold.8723:

We were big fans of that movie because it was the FIRST movie to combine cartoons and live action,

What, you never saw Mary Poppins?

Or Bedknobs and Broomsticks which combined cartoon and live action in the 70’s…

On topic…toon was used in mmo’s before WoW. I know I heard it when I played Anarchy Online and that launched 13 years ago. WoW likely just popularised it due to the volume of players plus the gfx style.

Oooh that’s right, I forgot about Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Both of those movies weirded me the heck out as a kid. I don’t know why. I think I wasn’t sure if the events were supposed to be “really” happening or not.

SkyShroud.2865:

i also used the word “character”, i only come across “toon” mainly from WoW players.

It wasn’t just WoW, because the first time I heard someone use it was playing something called “The Realm Online”. Their website still advertises that they’re “dial-up friendly” so you can imagine how old that game is.

Sinbold.8723:

We were big fans of that movie because it was the FIRST movie to combine cartoons and live action,

What, you never saw Mary Poppins?

If you wait until Tuesday, the new Wardrobe system will go live, and you’ll have that light armor skin available for any light-armor characters you make. So it’s not a total loss, even if you have the wrong armor now.

Eidola.9148:

I first heard “toon” used in Wow, probably because of the overly cartoon style of the graphics.

However, personally I really, really hate the term “toon” for “character” and do not use it myself!

Oh thank goodness, I’m not the only one. I don’t know why, but “toon” bugs the crap out of me.

Myst Dawnbringer.9138:

I think its their guild tag. If they play through the Anet guild they get that tag.

Yes, there’s an employee-only guild, but they’re also allowed to join other guilds. They could be anywhere! spooky noises

Tom Gore.4035:

The ANet tag in PvP or WvW is a free pass to being killed instantly, so I don’t think playing PvP with the tag on is much fun

I know a guy who does that on purpose. Buffs his guardian all up, stands in the middle with his tag on and lets the other team kill him as a distraction while his team does the rest of the work.

Sure, you can play on as many computers in your house as you like. My husband and I often play together. Each person will need to install the GW2 client on their own computer, and each person will need to purchase their own account. You will need 3 accounts to do this, which I think is the question you’re asking.

My maiden name was DesLauriers, French for “of the laurel”. It’s not even a proper last name; sometime in the mists of history one of my ancestors was rewarded for something and just kept the title as their name from then on.

Like if you changed your last name to “Omnomnomnivore”.

The game’s rating is mostly because it’s an online game, not necessarily the content. And he’s not letting her play, just watch a game where she understands none of the dialogue. She doesn’t know they’re drinking alcohol, for example, unless someone tells her.

As for my younger siblings, they’re all at least 18 and live 1000 miles away so no. I do play with my middle sister sometimes, though.

Dusty Moon.4382:

bluestocking.6148:

Berelious.3290:

The SAB was a very popular event, and highly doubt that ANet is done with it just yet. Just keep your eyes pealed.

Well, the first SAB was very popular. World Two was loudly hated on the forums.

People rant about things they don’t like on here and then they act all shocked when ANet goes “welp, guess we won’t do that again.”

Not really. If A.Net listened to whiners – we would have mounts, a tonic to level automatically to 80, and a lot of other nonsense.

It’s rather easier to NOT create content than it is to develop an entirely new thing. Apples and oranges, as they say.

Berelious.3290:

The SAB was a very popular event, and highly doubt that ANet is done with it just yet. Just keep your eyes pealed.

Well, the first SAB was very popular. World Two was loudly hated on the forums.

People rant about things they don’t like on here and then they act all shocked when ANet goes “welp, guess we won’t do that again.”

thebenong.2094:

On behalf of my bro, for review and consideration:
Ticket: 130404-001167

Thanks very much.

They’re unable to access tickets from the old system, unfortunately. Your brother will probably need to open a new one.

It’s kind of a pity that this is upsetting to the RPers. I’d actually like to see more RP and no one seems to do it outside of those two servers. I was hoping that this change might spread it around a little more.

lLobo.7960:

I need a screenshot of Teq

I tried, but his big fat head kept clipping the water.

You might want to consider opening a support ticket and changing the email associated with the account, too. To be extra safe.

Yes. Always.

Although I’m not sure a lot of people who would keep it are going to brag about it.

If it has been more than 72 hours since you submitted a ticket, please post the number in the stickied tickets for review thread here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Tickets-for-Review-3-days-older-Part-2-merged/first

Please do NOT make any more tickets as this slows response time down!

So uh … did we ever find out who “E” was? Remember that?

DigitalKirin.9714:

Lord Faren’s Thong.

Stop that. Cream soda hurts coming out my nose.

Ceridwen.6703:

I just wrote a post where I said something was “too hard (and then) on me”. It became “too kitten on me.” Gotta love the censor that can’t identify context. It’s no wonder most of my posts are edited within an inch of their lives.

Oh, I’ve seen worse game filters. At least it’s a blacklist and not a whitelist.

I remember a game I played that tried to implement a “family” server (for parents to play with their kids) that had a whitelist filter. Of course, no one’s character names were in the filter so we all had to come up with bizarre circumlocutions in order just to type each others’ names. Like if I wanted to say “Ceridwen” I’d type something like “Care Ed When” because those were all valid whitelisted words but the name itself wasn’t.

sinzer.4018:

1 or 2 people can retake the town. The giant’s attack animations take ages. It’s really easy once you get the hang of it. Just make sure you don’t get hit by the stomp or the boulder toss and you should be fine.

It does take a while to do on your own though.

Yeah I’ve done this with 2 people and I was using a bearbow ranger (well … wolfbow?). I’m not exactly a hardcore player. And half the time I mistime my dodges.

DanteZero.9736:

They could also make it a meta event reward or put it on the gem store. I think if this thread or the reddit post gets noticed by a dev, it might get passed around and if there’s enough support for it, we might get a new golem overlord backpiece.

Those reddit threads absolutely get noticed.

Halcyon.7352:

While you’re at it Arena net, explain to me why ‘Illusionary’ is apparently no longer allowed in a pet name.

Did all the Illusionary Moas and drakes confuse too many people?

It’s not just pet names, I remember someone complaining that he couldn’t name his mesmer “Illusionist Bob” even though every other person in his guild had a mesmer named some variant of “Illusionist [Name]”. Apparently it’s some more recent change.

Barfoi.9537:

They also have to be careful how they respond. In many cases, it’s probably safer (and thus easier) for them not to, and that’s not considering policies they might work under.

This, and also … a lot of game companies have very strict policies about who can post and when. “Dev bait” posts, where someone taunts them to reply? Yeah those are just going to get locked. You will never get a response to a post like that unless it’s a mod locking the thread. Because if they start responding to those, just imagine the escalation of posts to get a reply.

forevermd.7134:

hello,
Ticket number:293998
296309
293998
296784
302409
I was banned for “gold or item sales for real-world money”.I am really sure I didn’t did this.This is my finally letter.

I might suggest that it’s taking a long time because they have to compile and close your duplicate tickets. It might be helpful if you closed out all but the most recent and only updated that one.

Etienne.3049:

Do enemies killed entirely by pets even give loot? On my ranger it seemed enemies killed only by my pet didn’t give loot, although the sample size wasn’t that big..

Yes, they do. I’ve run through an area, had my pet engage something, and then had to circle back for whatever reason and found loot.

I’m sure this is more than a case of “went AFK for 5 minutes to get a cup of coffee”. I wouldn’t worry about ever walking away from my computer for a few minutes. It’s persistent unattended gameplay that is problematic.

The problem with things like botting is that if they give out that information and someone actually WAS using a bot, they can use that information to make the bot harder to detect next time.

So if they offer up “thing X, Y, and Z triggered the flag”, a botter knows next time to avoid X, Y, and Z things in his program.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I like my leg skin!

Did you make Hit Girl?!

When I want someone to walk me through a dungeon I’ve never done, I’m not going with a PUG.

PattyCakeChamp.5268:

Without pants.

Me too! This dress is comfy.

I also map my skills to the number pad, because I’m left-handed and I like to have my mouse on the left. Luckily my laptop has a number pad!

Rising Dusk.2408:

I’m not averse to action being taken against leechers, but I am sort of at odds with this:

Vol.7601:

GW2 Dev characters have in-game powers.
GW2 Devs playing on their personal characters don’t.

What is the difference? Devs’ personal accounts are their ANet accounts because they are in the ANet guild on those accounts. These characters are the same. There isn’t a distinction as far as I can tell.

Furthermore, these kicks are apparently happening not during work hours, implying that the developers aren’t sitting in-game at work and looking for people to kick. They are doing this in their spare time on the side. That sounds a lot like in-game powers to me, honestly.

I think it’s more like… some devs are authorized to use powers to moderate the game. Most of them are not. Also there’s a difference between kicking someone who is clearly AFK and using a dev command to, say, instakill bosses in the game. Likely there are people authorized to do the first one, but no one’s allowed to do the second outside of an incredibly rare debugging scenario.

Anyway, in my experience many games have the moderators logged into a different client than the actual game. So a dev playing on his character in the game client might see a player afking and then use a moderator client he’s also logged into to do the actual booting. Or they may not be in the game at all when they do it. His character might not be doing it, but the person may be from a different interface.

I don’t know why you’re assuming his account has any MF when he’s said it does not. If someone never redeemed the original MF item, and never redeemed any essence of luck, then the account would be at zero and any characters made would have zero. He says he is unable to find the original MF-booster, and thus has never applied any MF to his account.

I was saying that since it is accountbound (and thus applies to all characters), his suggestion of just automatically applying it to the account made sense.

Now, if he has been redeeming Essence of Luck and characters are still showing no MF, then either something else is going on or he’s looking at the wrong thing.

mercury ranique.2170:

Roguefire.8174:

bluestocking.6148:

It’s a slim chance, since you’re both having the issue, but the 20% Magic Find item will appear in the mailbox of the first character you logged into after the update. I had logged into a rarely-used alt to check something and it took me awhile to figure out that’s where it was.

Is it possible you’ve deleted characters that it may have been on?

I guess its possible, but either way since it didn’t get applied to my account, i should receive a new one. Why don’t they just apply the 20% automatically to all characters at start?

uhm, not sure what you mean, but magic find is account bound, not soulbound, they changed that at the same time as the free 20 MF was given. So thats why I also find it strange that you talk bout having 0 magic find when you start a new character. all your character have the same (unless you run some booster).

Right, but in order to get that on your account in the first place, there was an item that boosted you to 20%. He never got that item. Thus his account is at 0% (I’m assuming you haven’t used any Essence of Luck since, OP?) So applying the 20% to the account automatically actually makes a lot of sense, instead of giving you an easily-lost (based on posts I’ve seen) item.

It’s a slim chance, since you’re both having the issue, but the 20% Magic Find item will appear in the mailbox of the first character you logged into after the update. I had logged into a rarely-used alt to check something and it took me awhile to figure out that’s where it was.

Is it possible you’ve deleted characters that it may have been on?

Quarktastic.1027:

bluestocking.6148:

I’m amused that this thread has unintentionally highlighted someone else’s inappropriate forum name.

http://tinyurl.com/mln8cuo

Is it still inappropriate if Anet uses it for a character name in one of their games?

Poobadoo is in the game but you can’t use the first 3 letters in your character name either. The forum is censoring it, was my point.

I’m amused that this thread has unintentionally highlighted someone else’s inappropriate forum name.

Shadow Phage.9084:

I’m curious as to who, if any, consider Mag their home. Don’t think I’ve ever actually seen an ANET tag on Mag.

I play Maguuma. There’s at least two.

dan.3618:

How do they get the sent from email “noreply@guildwars2.com” in their phishing emails?

is guildwars2.com not owned by anet?

It’s called “spoofing”. Anyone can make their email address look like anything. Have you ever gotten a spam email that appears to have been sent to you, from you at the same address?

They’re not actually sending from guildwars2.com, they’re just making it look that way. Think of it as a mask worn over the real address.

Karizee.8076:

bluestocking.6148:

Xyonon.3987:

I wondered that too. I mean everyone has their personal preferences, maybe the whole team consists of many classes but only one mesmer, and that mesmer does not like the staff for example as a weapon. So it will never be balanced, allways a tiny bit weaker etc…

Horrifying nightmares of every MMO… :s

There’s over 300 people in the ArenaNet offices. I’m pretty sure every possible race/class/weapon combo is covered.

Over 350, they’ve been hiring since launch

Don’t I know it. I’ve been trying to get a couple friends up here by spamming job listings at them. Anet, give me an environment artist slot so I can persuade one of my BFFs to move.

Yeah, I’m curious too. Do artists not count as “developers”? How about QA? Do you only mean programmers, or maybe designers?

Xyonon.3987:

I wondered that too. I mean everyone has their personal preferences, maybe the whole team consists of many classes but only one mesmer, and that mesmer does not like the staff for example as a weapon. So it will never be balanced, allways a tiny bit weaker etc…

Horrifying nightmares of every MMO… :s

There’s over 300 people in the ArenaNet offices. I’m pretty sure every possible race/class/weapon combo is covered.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

As I said…doubtful.

Yes, highly doubtful.

As with all games, there will always be those that continuously cry ‘its dying. its dying. its dead. its dead.’ whether or not it’s actually true. Unfortunately its not really possible to shut them up. Not in any legal and ethical way, anyway.

Still, I am glad to see that sales (gemstore or otherwise. Sales are sales, period) are stabilizing. It promotes a positive outlook and shows that the game is holding its own, no matter what the gloom and doom heralds crow.

I remember a post by a guy crying that the game had been dead for “over a year”. When it had been out 10 months.

Cush.4063:

What server do that play on? And how do you know if they are a dev? They have a tag like commanders or something? Just curious.

They play on any server, they’re not restricted. And yes, they have a guild tag that they can switch on. If it’s off you wouldn’t be able to tell them from any other player.

Your best chance of seeing a dev online is on release day, doing the new content. Lots of them will log in to try it out. Fastest way to find problems is to play it through live.

I know one that plays exclusively Charr. A guardian and a necro that I know for sure, but it’s been a while.

I don’t know. Has it been more than 72 hours? You might try posting the ticket number in the sticky thread for tickets older than 3 days.