Noisy Ninj4
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Grand scheme, that isn't much. But for a new player it is quite a bit. I recommend saving it until you get to level 20 or so, then spend a few silver on masterwork gear.
Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Two Week Updates, One Box, Zero Subscriptions
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best thing by far about that 10g that you'll be able to spend it on your master and Grandmaster trait books.
Thank you so much! I didn't have much time to play last night, but I hope to make up for it today! See yall in game.
This just in...box sales of a video game are down 18 months after launch compared to the first month. In other news, water is wet.
Thanks for tips lads. That's exactly what I'll do with itbest thing by far about that 10g that you'll be able to spend it on your master and Grandmaster trait books.
Especially with Kos saying it's dead and the guild is dead every day.
I completely fucking forgot Mission Makeups today, though in my defense my mother-in-law is in the hospital and we're about to leave to visit her. I hope nobody needed anything too urgently.
To be fair "I'm cancelling my subscription" is still funny.
To be fair "I'm cancelling my subscription" is still funny.
Kai Dracon
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Next up on the official forums: a thread demanding Anet add a subscription tier so people can unsubscribe.
Kos Luftar
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3 OTs, me with 1000 posts just on this thread. Yeah...I hate this game.
You know I'm joking.
LumpOfCole
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shysaursoft
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"My planet needs me!"
Kos Luftar
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If you ever need a replacement for happy bear avatar you know what to do.
Vigilant Walrus
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thats the best picture I have ever seen:O
Kos Luftar
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Shit. Looks like he offended Eskimos.
I actually wouldn't mind if they had a way to set up a recurring gem purchase. Seems like there's usually *something* I wouldn't mind buying so just having them toss me $10 worth of gems every month would just be convenient. I know Turbine had a similar feature when it switched LotRO to F2P.
To be fair, as a walrus he's probably had nothing but bad experiences with the Inuit. I swear he gets banned on a regular basis, though, more than anyone else I see on GAF except maybe a few of the people in the Pictures thread.
Edit: Lots of bans in that thread, I think he was trying to make a joke but it wasn't the right thread for lightheartedness.
hockeypuck
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I vote no. Would feel too much like a subscription, despite me knowing better. If I'm paying for gems, I want to actually take a minute and think about it.
Do I really want this? Don't I have enough gold to just convert to gems? Why am I saving up gold, anyways?
"Buy once, subscribe never" should also apply to recurring payments. It's supposed to be one of their strengths. One scenario I can think of is, what if you took a 5 month hiatus from the game and came back to see thousands of gems to your account but $50 poorer and nothing interesting in the gem store at the moment? I'll make an independent transaction each time I want to thank Anet for their content.
LiveSpartan235
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That's a perfectly fair and reasonable opinion on the matter. I won't try to make a strong case for an automated gem transaction because I don't feel that strongly about it. I tend to spend what would amount to $5-10 worth of gems a month, on average, so it more or less amounts to sheer laziness, not wanting to watch the market or pick up a gem card or whathaveyou.
And you're absolutely right about the gem store being optional, and that being one of their strengths. Every time an MMO thread pops up on GAF, somebody immediately thinks they're being clever by pretending Guild Wars 2 has the same old Pay-2-Win scam as the rest of the F2P market, and they're almost immediately corrected (and no, not by me).
This will probably double or triple ArenaNet's revenue and at least double the game's population (not that we'll ever interact with that market, but it's nice to know there's tons of people playing). Gonna be fucking crazy to see how well GW2 does in that market.
I also expect us to get some Nice Things too when this happens, as there's supposed to be a new tutorial and such shipping with the China launch.
Sadly, my first thought at seeing this was a Titan ejection. I've been a little obsessed about Titanfall this weekend and I'm finally going to be playing some beta games tomorrow. Hoorah.
I think that's how SWTOR subscriptions work now with their cartel coins. It'd probably be somewhat tempting for the masses if anet offered like a 5% discount for it.
Noisy Ninj4
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5 ? Meh. A 20% discount would perk my interest.
So far so good on a fresh windows installation. Just need to rebuild...
I agree. Don't like the idea of it being an option even if that's paranoid
shysaursoft
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Everything in the gem store is either cosmetic, just outfits and such, or 'Quality of Life' stuff, like boosters, infinite harvesting tools (they only go on sale every now and then), and so on. There's nothing that messes with your character's stats.
and because of that i wonder why people go talking about the game without knowing what it really is.
its as bad as the queensdale passengers, who quit the game saying its booring
Grats...could have been a a corrupt MBR maybe?
You all know these people don't actually exist, right?
people still play Guild Wars 2?
Nope, no one plays it. In fact they're going to shut it down. Tomorrow.
Noisy Ninj4
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Indeed, it's gonna go out with a bang.
Not likely cause I could still get into Windows before the reboot, and I didn't repartition or format during the install, just put it right on top of my existing file structure. It was almost like it was hitting a certain program in the startup sequence and then hard rebooting every time, but I have no clue what it could be.
Kos Luftar
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If you guys got a spot in the guild I'd like to join. Just a heads up I'm new so I don't know much about the game.
Zephon.4081
Added you.
Looks like you are in Sanctum of Rall server. We play on SBI. Since you are in NA you can guest over to SBI to do stuff with us or if you want to be on SBI you can delete your character and restart a new one and choosing SBI as server instead.
Kos Luftar
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nvm
You can guest over to do anything not involving wvw. For dungeons you don't even need to guest with the way they do their instances.
If you guys got a spot in the guild I'd like to join. Just a heads up I'm new so I don't know much about the game.
Zephon.4081
Welcome!
shysaursoft
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I wish that were true, but I personally know people who did Queensdale/Frostgorge non-stop for weeks, then quit saying the game is a boring zergfest.And you see threads on Reddit started all the time, by these kinds of people. It's not a huge part of the population, but it's enough to blip on the radar.
Complistic
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To be fair, it's probably best if these sorts of people weed themselves out early.
shysaursoft
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Agreed. Just wish they then wouldn't spend years sitting on the game's forums and subreddit, saying how "glad they are they quit when they did". Never did understand that mentality. Saw it all the time in WoW too. "I quit WoW five years ago, and it sounds like I made the right choice! This recent update sounds horrible!".
That's just insanity.
I gotta say, the amount of stuff regarding LA and people taking the time to really explore it since it's going to be destroyed is very interesting. I've even saw things I never knew were there like the group of NPCs who does a pub crawl at night. I think thus far, this is the biggest omgggggg what's gonna happen? moments yet. Though I get the impression that the finale will be even more so.
Yeah, I don't understand why people do that crap either. If you don't care enough to keep playing, why do you waste your time lurking sites dedicated to that game just to bitch? I don't have time to do that crap anymore even if I wanted to. Due to how my schedule is setup this week, I'll be waking up, going to work, coming home, eating, playing GW2 for a few hours and going to sleep, then repeat. Ain't nobody got time for internets arguing.
LumpOfCole
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Final Day of Lion's Arch!
Bl4ckSunsh1n3
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They need validation that they made the "correct" move by quitting. That's really all it is for the majority. It's the same with most Internet "wars" where people have to make a choice.
Kos Luftar
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Wonder if the initial attack will be instanced or we have to be online at a certain time to see it.
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