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Guild Wars 2 |OT3| Two Week Updates, One Box, Zero Subscriptions
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Unconfirmed, but with F2P being such a big marketing thing the fact that they haven't said anything yet feels like they're hiding something, because they know the reaction will be overwhelmingly negative.
Probably subscription based to milk the shit out of the diehard fans and maybe a few people who don't know better. When those fall off, they'll switch to F2P, guaranteed. The question is, are they aware this is how it's going to go, and building the game to be F2P from the ground up, or are they completely out of touch with reality and building the game around a sub? Because if it's the latter, there's a transition period that gets pretty ugly (SWTOR's switch looked especially painful from the outside, can't imagine what it was like to actually play it).
i am literally docabonus, seer of the patches to come.
Kos Luftar
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Why have you disappeared from GW2?
What happened?
Jest Chillin
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Care to fill us in?
I actually have no idea what happened in there besides for some guys in Twisted Effect / Hostile Territory revolting against something with TS names that were against the code of conduct and getting flat out banned. I don't know if warnings happened at all, but ever since that day, the SBI TS has this CoC pop-up every time you connect. From what I read of the CoC, the first offense is a 24-hour ban but it doesn't seem to be that way this time around.
Because of that, Star Player had to move to/start up a TS under his guild which has been being advertised in the Eternal Battlegrounds during the later hours after Bannok goes for the night since that's when Fiddlesticks will pin. The thing is that I'm told that Bannok still uses the SBI TS so I'll assume everyone just switches over when Twisted Effect commanders start tagging up because Star can't command on the SBI TS.
I can't speak for any of the "it's more community oriented and not for commanders" and "the people who run the team speak don't command in WvW" stuff that's been talked about lately though. I think part of it stems from the Eternal Battleground folks having this community built up. We'll occasionally jump to the borderlands to "help" or cap a keep so that the other servers will flock there leaving us an opening in EB but none of the commanders will say today is a borderland day or any of that. At the end of the day, we'll always be defending the battlegrounds because it's where our battles are fought.
So when do the living world events go live? I know during the Halloween one there was a cutscene showing him coming out of the ground and everything and I'd like to see whatever happens for this event. I only recently came back to the game though so I'm not sure what time I should be on.
3.5 hours til we're allowed entry again if all goes well.
Today's update is an exception due to the 6 hour downtime which doesn't ever happen actually. On a normal update the updates come out any time between 9am-12 noon PST or so. Living Story updates are active as soon as they go out, they're not like the holiday events that may have specific times. So you'll be able to get on in roughly 4 hours.
I assumed it would start after maintenance but was unsure. That's extremely early (5 AM PST?).
6am pst, though if the past is any indication ANet always overestimates how long it takes them to do any kind of server work and it'll probably be up sooner.
they're still coming, believe, summer is still here
Why will everything be different? I haven't heard what's all in this patch.
He's just being dramatic. A major part of the patch is reviewing the dungeons and then assigning an appropriate value to clearing the paths. This way CoF 1 will no longer be the way to earn money since a lot of other things are going to be much more viable than they were before.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/august-06-2013/
He's specifically referring to
Bonus Rewards for Dungeons
Each day when you finish a unique path for any explorable or story dungeon, youll receive a bonus reward for completion1 to 3 gold for explorable dungeons depending on their length and difficulty, 50 silver for story dungeons. Guaranteed coin rewards that previously dropped from bosses in dungeons have been removed in lieu of these new rewards for dungeon completion; all other drops off of bosses have not been changed. Now you have even more incentive for braving the hazards of the dungeons of Tyria!
Ah, I see. Nice change. I'm more interested in the account wallet and combat effects changes, as those have been requested since before the game launched. I'm going to reclaim a huge amount of bank space from that.
kanamechan
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Please. The people that would care that she has breasts are the very people that wouldn't vote for her based on that.
It has a reason that many of the people unhappy with the character keep talking about her breasts or how she should be going through horrible gendered things they wouldn't be saying about a male character.
Kos Luftar
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Your bank space should be empty because you never play.
I guess the update isn't out yet?
Man I have like 800 hours worth of garbo in my bank. My bank looks like GW2's waste bin; random bits of holiday events, skins, all manner of things that got picked up off the ground. Didn't help that this achievement reward update dumped like 1,500 WvW badges on me.
Kos Luftar
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Yeah for me a whole bank tab full of dungeon tokens, badges and guild comms will free up so I can start collecting more sets for each character.
I don't know how one thing became another thing entirely, but supposedly it started with Star Player and Co. being frustrated with lack of players on Saturday during the server temple run, which gets its own channel in the TS (and apparantly has a lot of overlap with SBI BL crew (to the extent that we have one)?). Star supposedly said that they should move the timing of the temple run, come to wvw, they answer that they shouldn't be told how to play and when, somehow shenanigans and general attitude go sour, leading to trollish name changes and bans. I know that general progression is a bit foggy but that's the sort of answer Star gave in TS when he was asked. Though maybe that was partly invented or embellished on his part?
Heh. It's been answered, but yeah, CoF 1 will still be worth running but not worth repeating over and over again. More variety dungeons run in GAF is okay in my book.
And some of the datamined stuff seems really cool like the Transmutation splitter/upgrade removal tool, though I won't properly get excited until I see them in the patch notes.
Jest Chillin
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So.. childishness and ego. Sweet. Well honestly I'm not going to be bothered with back and forth ts server hopping. Mofos need to get over their bs and have one unified voip server otherwise it's pointless.
Jest Chillin
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Logged in to get all my stuff into the wallet and just wanted to let people know that you get 5 free tickets in the mail per character and they're account bound.
So if you're like me and only have 1 main and your alts are mess around, you can collect all the tickets for one character to use.
So if you're like me and only have 1 main and your alts are mess around, you can collect all the tickets for one character to use.
Kos Luftar
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Suppose to be new "combat armor skins" in gem store some one check em out.
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