Mexay

I really want to go to the Meatoberfest in Diessa Plateau now and see if there are any weapons made from beef for sale.

Finally. This had no right to be in the game in the first place. Dunno why it took them so long..

You really didn't think this was gonna be nerfed eventually?

Woooooo!!!!! Wish they did this sooner.

This idea came up several months ago with the release of Lost Shores. I can't remember all of the points made, but it was pretty convincing. Among the "evidence" behind the theory was the jumping puzzle named "Under New Management," a suspected reference to Nexon and Cristin Cox working their grubby claws into the game with purely profitable measures. As well, there was the suspicion of a symbolism between karka and the lionguard. It was theorized that the karka represented Nexon, coming into the Lionguard's (ANet's) territory, and tearing down the lion statue in LA, symbolic of Nexon stripping ANet of their former relatively non-greedy stance with a cash shop in GW1.

I'm normally not big on conspiracy theories, but I don't think it's any coincidence that in the interim between GW1 and GW2, Nexon purchased some 15% of the shares of NC Soft (or was it ANet themselves?), and ANet hired Cristin Cox to oversee the monetization of GW2, and now GW2 is a significantly more cash driven game than GW1. Cristin is already well known for having ruined Maplestory, and I wouldn't be too surprised if it were actually at NC Soft's "suggestion" that ANet hired her. Why would a company that had such a successful model with GW1, with a very limited cash shop, suddenly go overboard with it in GW2?

I have to agree with Duderino: it seems NC Soft forced GW2 out early in an attempt to rescue a sinking ship. And now they're taking the lifeboats with them. GW2 is only just in the past 2-3 months starting to head in the right direction with content and updates, but it's still far too gold/cash-centric than I care for.

I was in a thread in the videogame generals section of 4chan yesterday (no, /b/ does not comprise all of 4chan; there's more to it than that), and someone jokingly posted something along the lines of:
"Just $15 a month and you can be a premium GW2 member, receiving benefits such as:
--800 gems per month!
--early access to new content!
--free costumes/cosmetics from the Black Lion store!
--a monthly package of boosters and other consumables!"
And a few other benefits.

It's scary just how believable that post was. GW2 is being ruined by its cash driven stance. I much preferred the system of GW1 where I could just pay $7 and get the costume I want, no rng, no gambling, just me playing dress-up with my characters.

kidding right, finished story and explorable in total of 15min. Was stupidly ♥♥♥♥ing easy and entirely pointless.

Patty, on 25 October 2012 - 11:45 PM, said:

Actually no, it's not. THEY sent out two copies, you didn't physically break into their office and take one.
Don't be such a nancy about it. You got two copies, take advantage of that. A-net enjoy screweing people over it seems, so vise-versa is fine.

Okay, people clearly cannot discuss this in a proper way without insulting eachother or going stupidly offtopic so I'm just going to end it here.

Naevius, on 26 October 2012 - 02:35 PM, said:

You must have skipped some posts in this thread.

Linfang, on 26 October 2012 - 02:17 PM, said:

They do have issues causing mistakes: https://forum-en.gui...ith-game/423692

You won't get banned for botting if you have not botted unless Anet made no effort to investigate it. Botters stick out like a sore thumb both from observation or simply checking a log of their movement and activity. Most bots run a scripted set of actions that start and stop at the very same point so it can be endlessly looped. A normal player could not do this in game even if they tried.

However my Asura did get a 72 hour ban for looking up Eir's skirt, which was justified and well worth it.

I thought it was there to create kittens. We can't have enough kittens.

dd790, on 26 October 2012 - 02:01 PM, said:

Hah!

I'm on Gandara as well, and as I travelled from the southern entrance to the zone with my ranger and found myself running right through a naked bot cluster, my first thought was: "holy crap, I hope no one saw me!"

Mexay, on 26 October 2012 - 01:59 PM, said:

That might be the issue. Replying to a goldseller might have triggered a warning that you're in cahoots with him, and someone may not have read your actual message properly and concluded a ban was in order. Or they banned you for using the F-word.

Gli, on 26 October 2012 - 01:52 PM, said:

Quoting this to reiterate the point that sometimes mistakes are made when issuing bans, and that sometimes innocent people are actually innocent.