The Personal Quest writing wasn't done by their writing team. We have no idea why, but they're in control now and it's noticeably better. I hope one of their little projects later on is to revamp the Personal Story... but I doubt it'll happen.
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The Personal Quest writing wasn't done by their writing team. We have no idea why, but they're in control now and it's noticeably better. I hope one of their little projects later on is to revamp the Personal Story... but I doubt it'll happen.
Still blows my mind.
Okay, up for grabs; first come, first serve.
I think it has a lot to do with the way the personal story is very heavy on scripting and such, which perhaps the writing team wasn't capable of doing themselves. If I had to guess, I'd say the tools weren't ready for them to do it, so a lot of it fell to more technical staff while they were off doing... other things.
We have no clue why. I would love to ask them, it would be a refreshing change from the lame, non-questions most of the gaming press soft pitches at them.
I think it has a lot to do with the way the personal story is very heavy on scripting and such, which perhaps the writing team wasn't capable of doing themselves. If I had to guess, I'd say the tools weren't ready for them to do it, so a lot of it fell to more technical staff while they were off doing... other things.
We have no clue why. I would love to ask them, it would be a refreshing change from the lame, non-questions most of the gaming press soft pitches at them.
Eh, just don't make the same mistake in the expansion. (next dragon)
You can't trade gems between players. The most we could do is send you gold, to convert to gems, to pay for the transfer.
Yeah that's what I meant, sorry for the confusion.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Okay, up for grabs; first come, first serve.
Nobody has taken this yet?
I'll nab it, it's too good to pass up.
That's why they're so awesome!
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
I asked this in the other thread. Didn't get many answers. So I'll ask here as well.
Is the deluxe game worth the extra 20?
Is the deluxe game worth the extra 20?
I'd say no, personally.
Hell no
Not in my opinion. If I could change it, I would've gotten a refund and went for the regular edition. The only thing that stands out is the Mistfire Wolf elite skill you get that no one ever uses anymore. Dumbest thing ever imo.
As someone who put down $150 for the Collector's Edition, even I have to say that the Deluxe just doesn't have anything to justify the price. The Elite skill is neat, but there are better in the game. Likewise, the items they give you don't last past level 40 or 50. The mini is really about the coolest thing in there, and even that won't see much use.
Pass on the Deluxe, spring for the regular edition and buy $20 in gems. You'll get more enjoyment out of extra bank space / character slots / etc.
I don't suppose you could use your magical moderator powers to zap that "events never" troll from the thread title, could you? I mean, he as much as admitted it, and I think it's pretty clear that it's not even based in reality. It was supposed to be "Buy Once, Sub Never, Fun Forever."
Through the next checkpoint you can get higher in the trees and backtrack to that spot, Retro's right about there being nothing up there but baubles.
Lovely delicious baubles.
MOAR BAUBLES NOM NOM NOM
I suppose. We'll be in an OT3 at some point in the future, but it still strikes me as kind of absurd that the thread title, which was never really true to begin with, is now grossly incorrect after the revision to Orr earlier this year.
That and it still irritates me that the people who put a lot of work into the OT were basically dissed and had their carefully-chosen, intentionally benign title turned into a lame, trollish in-joke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v02WFh_Kdl0&t=2m20s ahaha. so spot on.
Perfect.
Who changed it?
Also, next OT: Guild Wars 2 |OT| By Ogden's Hammer, What Savings!
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Guild Wars 2 |OT| BRB, Cancelling Our Subscriptions
Teknopathetic. You can skim the first couple pages of this thread to get the gory details, but basically the OT reached 20k posts, Jira was in the process of starting the OT2 and Tekno just went and did it himself, while butchering the OT's content.
Trolling the game was just icing on the cake, I guess.
We burned through all 20k posts of the OT1 in about a month (8/21 to 9/19). The damn thing moved too fast to post in half the time, but we tried. Also, no surprise that Hawkian was the top poster in there, with 912 posts... roughly triple the next person.
Complex Shadow
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ight thanks for all the help everyone. also are alot of people still playing the game?
Yep. Not only have the developers stated in interviews that the population has been steadily increasing, but GAFGuild is getting full again too. From December until about a month ago we floated ~300 members, then it jumped sharply after the last patch and we're creeping up on 500 again (last time I looked it was around 420 people). Seems like every page or so there's another person asking for an invite.
I expect a lot of people to be coming back thanks to the Super Adventure Box. It seems to be generating a lot of buzz and getting a lot of people to come back and give the game a try. I hope they stick around and see what else has been added/improved in their absence.
Yeah, I ended up finding that out later.
See you soon. You're missing out on a lot as is.
Miss you guys so much!
Been busy with RL stuff and couldn't find the time to come online.
Also spent the last week completing HotS's campaign. Pretty fun despite all the criticism it garners.
Sick. Take a screenshot riding a sweet Chocobo.
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If you played for a while tell me how it is, compared to GW2!
Kos Luftar
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I'm pretty sure he is trolling.
So many new things to do but with wedding coming up in 2 weeks not much time to play!
So many new things to do but with wedding coming up in 2 weeks not much time to play!
You is be get married?
I dunno really, there's a chance to randomly get one of the skins per character per day in the zone chests.Gah, went to ikea yesterday and while I was putting nonsense together at night the update went out.
What's the timeframe looking like to get the new weapon skins? (i.e. how much do you have to play to get enough baubles) I wanna stock up on them.
Bl4ckSunsh1n3
Member
The latest update is awesome. I had a blast last night and I'm on a baubles mission now. I must get that super cool looking sword skin.
Kos Luftar
Member
Because I have been in love with my gf now fiancé since we were 16, almost 9 years and we wanted to take next step which for us is marriage.
Jest Chillin
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Gah, went to ikea yesterday and while I was putting nonsense together at night the update went out.
What's the timeframe looking like to get the new weapon skins? (i.e. how much do you have to play to get enough baubles) I wanna stock up on them.
It time varies based on effort. But it can go by fairly quickly even if you don't get the random drop. The fastest way would probably be to do the super adventure box with every character you have. Levels don't matter in there. You can easily get at least a skin a week that way. Probably more if you play heavily and farm baubles in the outer world.
Congratulations to you sir!
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