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Post a character name or your xxxxx.1234 profile name and I'm sure an office will get on it in a jif. If you have any questions about the game be sure to ask!
Future Foundation
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Invite sent, press "G" to open the guild channel to accept the invite, then click the "Represent" button to join. /g is the shortcut for guild chat.
Welcome!
Dead Prince
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someone add me to the guild.
Adamantia.8394
thanks!
Adamantia.8394
thanks!
UltimateIke
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UltimateIke
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Reserve your spot in the main GAF guild now, or forever settle for being an Overflow outcast. At least we will have cross-guild chat. 
Speaking of this, me as a free player, when I get Heart of Thrones, I'll have a normal account without restrictions, right?
Kos Luftar
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Anyone here becoming WoodenPotatoes' patron on patreon? He is already at $1600 per month.
Honestly? I realized I don't really like Wooden Potatoes that much. I prefer things to read, his videos are really long, and much of the time it's just speculation or news I've already heard. And since he doesn't put on PvP videos in the background very often, I get bored from the footage. I do enjoy his build videos, but I don't play Elementalist...
He's just not for me. On the other hand, I adore Nemesis for no particular reason.
I prefer to read now as well, since last week youtube was banned at work (/shakesfist), so uh.. where is another good place to fill my GW2 void on breaks? Been just browsing reddit lately.
Unfortunately, I don't have much for you either. It's just hopping on reddit hoping for an interesting discussion to read. When I'm really, really bored, I also check the official forums. I wouldn't follow my regiment. GW2 content creation among fans mostly focus around art and videos. And half of the text I find is fanfiction which, even when good, I'm just not in the mood for.
Ah yeah, thanks for reminding me, I needed to ask in the OTOT if MMO expansions replace a community thread or if they're supposed to be separate entities. I'll probably roll the current OT design into the new one since all of that information is still relevant and useful. Probably add a page or two for features and free player info.
They're not GW2-only, but I read Kill Ten Rats and Why I Game, for what it's worth since they both blog about the game.
Kos Luftar
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I suggest the Guild Wars 2 Official Thread on the Gaming Community side of the NeoGAF Internet message board.
Yea Reddit isn't bad, I find myself roaming metabattle on lunch even, haha.
Thanks, I'll check them out.
Oh cool, let me go look....
Stop playing when we are asleep
Oh! I read them too. Other blogs with GW2 I read include Inventory Full and the Mystical Mesmer (who has been posting more GW2 stuff on what was originally his FFXIV blog lately).
But there's no blog anymore that focuses on MMO content, and of the ones I've checked over the last couple of years, many MMO bloggers just really hate GW2 for either valid (the game wasn't for them) or crazy reasons.
Edit: It feels like part of it comes from the relationship that MMO players have with MMOs. Most of the ones that currently play GW2 don't *only* play GW2 and are still interested in a lot of other games. Everyone else has wanted it to be their one true MMO, became disillusioned, and now hate the game and/or ANet.
Sleeping is for the weak.
Look at me, I am the guy who pulls all-nighters almost every weekend
Kill Ten Rats actually had an article about that a while ago. They basically described GW2 as the last act of the "MMO Hype Machine" that started in overdrive with Warhammer Online and left nothing but bitterness, disappointment and ruin in it's wake. The article basically reflected on how the blogging community sprang up overnight, grew wildly popular and just chewed through every "next big thing." They considered GW2 the end of all that because it was the first real, lasting success since WoW and if that wasn't going to be the big thing bloggers had been waiting for, nothing else would. At that point general purpose MMO blogs either died out, became focused on specific games or tried desperately to keep the machine going for stuff like Wildstar and TESO that gamers just couldn't get that excited over.
I'll have to dig it up, I think they posted it around one of their anniversaries.
WP videos are perfect for my lonely lunch breaks at work
Also as a player that didn't play GW1 I've learned quite a lot about the lore thanks to his videos, so I can't complain.
Yes, some of the editing on his Q&A particularly is just straight bad >_<
For the lore videos, that's actually exactly the plan.
He has an hour long video where he explains his plans for the future and why he started using Patreon (with annotations if you want to jump straight to a relevant topic) if you're curious about that.
Personally I'm really looking forward to the lore videos, and I'm curious to see how his perma-death GW2 streams will turn-out.
http://massivelyop.com/2015/09/01/p...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
ANet now self publishes GW2. It's important to note that NCSoft still does own them, it's just their name/logo is only in the Trademark now, not on the box.
ANet now self publishes GW2. It's important to note that NCSoft still does own them, it's just their name/logo is only in the Trademark now, not on the box.
shysaursoft
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Sometimes it feels good to just go back to the beginning.
It's tricky to explain, as I can tell it is difficult for Mike O'Brien to express in a couple of sentences, but so far as I can see it... basically, it's "Buy-to-Play for the latest and greatest content, and to receive ongoing updates; Free-to-Play for everything but, with some account restrictions."
As indeed was GW2's initial buy-to-play model for a true MMO, this seems to me a completely novel financial strategy, essentially changing a traditional "expansion" into "the latest version of the game" one can buy. Fascinating.
shysaursoft
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Also, dammit Brynn:
Mike was asked this question and he said at this point they cannot say if they'll do it or not. It seems that will be the logical step with this new model (HoT becomes free and xpack 2 (Elona) is B2P.
So a bunch of us from The Legion of Charrs went to form up [NODE] Reichii's Reapers, a silly guild based on a commander call Reichii, that goes around in WvW to find gathering nodes rather than actually fighting or PPTing unless necessary (like if we get attacked).
Here the recruitment video that was made to be posted for the Guild Recruitment Video Opportunity that Anet is having.
Here the recruitment video that was made to be posted for the Guild Recruitment Video Opportunity that Anet is having.
UltimateIke
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That is not the most flattering photograph.
shysaursoft
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You're just making your way downtown. Walking fast. Faces past. And you're homebound.
Dead Prince
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i'm glad the bank/inventory is account based and not character. got some stuff stashed from 3 years ago lol. i think i'm going to take it slow. the reason i quit last time was i played from beta and launch for 200 hours straight and sorta stopped.
UltimateIke
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That's what I did when I got my SSD and also when playing on a laptop. It worked fine.
Yep, it's a completely standalone system not tied to any part of the registry.
shysaursoft
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appletoasty
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You wound me.
This is shopped, Ike never goes down
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/community/lookingfor/Guilds-Activate-Recruit-Mode
Looks like ANet has been working on some kind of game event. Likely related to those datamined mysterious stuff?
Looks like ANet has been working on some kind of game event. Likely related to those datamined mysterious stuff?
For sure. GW2 (and gw1) is built on a super tight file structure, gw2.dat just has everythang. There's really no call to a directory hierarchy or registry component to speak of
prepare for pre-expansion madness
Nemesis121
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We need something, I am bored, i thought they would open CP or GB since HoT announcement but we got nothing...
Mostly the same boat. I like what the guy does, but disagree with what seems like a lot of his views. He wants what I'd call WoW/grind/longterm pve content. Which goes against what drew me to ANet. More power to the guy for getting paid though.
Reddit is pretty awful most of the time. The official forums are one collective bitchfest. I've always wanted to find a forum/vid focusing more on the nuts and bolts of the actual game over opinions being shouted about.
Retromelon
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Any suggestions for someone who wants access to their account they havent played in 2 years but forgot their account name and deleted the email they registered with
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