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I am actually quite surprised so many people didn't know that the company that owned and financed the game got the money the game earns. It is quite logical after all.
It is not ArenaNet that have pushed in millions of dollars to create GW2. It is not ArenaNet that pays salary for those 300+ employees. It is not ArenaNet that pay for all the advertisement or the servers.
See? ArenaNet isn't really paying for anything, so why should they get the money?

ArenaNet if fully owned by NCSoft, therefore all their money are NCSofts money.

Lordkrall, on 21 May 2013 - 09:01 PM, said:

I'm just saying that you are using what appears to be some pretty bad expansions to make your point that GW2's isn't quite as bad as those ones.

I honestly don't know what an expansion worth of content looks like other than what we got in GW1, and I can't say what we got in GW2 has come close.

Lordkrall, on 21 May 2013 - 08:52 PM, said:

How many expansions reach this level of failure (LOTR's)? Is it really worth being literally the only person in this thread so far to say that GW2 hasn't released an expansion worth of content by comparing it to something that is as pathetic as you make LOTR's one expansion seem?

Is that really the comparison you want to make?

Marketing stepped back up.

Meet Vludd, your future ruler!

except if the ranger is the sniper in that analogy, then the sniper would be pointing the gun the wrong way and shoot himself in the face. the bullet would pass through his head, hit a fuel tank, blow up his entire squad and a stray puppy walking by.

The last day dawns on the Kingdom of Ascalon. It arrives with no fanfare, no tolling of alarms. Those who will remember, will speak fondly of the warm morning breeze. People carry on with their daily lives, unaware that in a short while… everything they have ever known will come to an end.

Strawberry Nubcake, on 17 May 2013 - 12:42 AM, said:

Tentacles and school girls?

We’re rolling out our first set of optimizations. This is the first in many steps involved in helping resolve issues with “skill lag.” Some players will experience a slight improvement in skill lag issues with large groups of players, while some players may also experience a slight raise in their FPS.

https://www.youtube....h?v=KnQGs24U1e8

RaoulDukeHST, on 12 May 2013 - 08:49 PM, said:

I don't get it, does he need to compete himself to write commentary on it? He wasn't even speaking like Eon, he might have posted criticism that you or the people in the vid may not have liked, but it was legit criticism nonetheless

I don't think the problem is removing the DPS-heal-tank holy trinity. That, IMO, represented an equally stale mentality with all the problems that GW2 sought to fix.

ArenaNet's aim was to replace it with a new trinity - DPS/support/control. In principle, that should work (essentially, it's really a rebranding of the existing trinity - tanks are a form of control, healing is a form of support). The actual problem is that they've then gone and created a PvE endgame where in most combats where playing to your best really matters, one of those legs (support) is lamed and another (control) is pretty much disabled entirely.

What they need to do is rework how they do control protection on bosses so that it doesn't basically boil down to "it has defiant so don't bother", and rework how they do boss battles so that the best strategy in most of them is no longer "spread out so far that you can't support one another if you wanted to so that only one character can be nuked at a time". Essentially, while profession balance is an issue, what the devs really need to do is go back to the drawing board with their encounter design and start making combats that are challenging without effectively disabling support and control.

Kaaboose, on 10 May 2013 - 09:26 AM, said:

This is not a confirmation from Anet that this is an exploit. This is a standard response to a player reporting what they feel is an exploit. Until Anet bans people, fixes the situation, or announces in official channels that it is an exploit, you are unable to use this as proof that it is an exploit. They thanked you for reporting something and told you why they removed your post. Please note the word possible.

Based off of Anet's actions in the past? This will be treated as an exploit. Based off of the code of conduct? You are guilty of harassment by pretty much any definition of the rule. You were actively going out of your way to prevent other players from doing what they were trying to do. You took it upon yourself to act for Anet in a matter that Anet had not officially made a decision. Doing so is not something that should be commended, and is easily interpretable as against the code of conduct. It doesn't matter that you enjoy doing the event for the sake of doing the event now. Those times that you specifically targeted other players in order to prevent them their goals were punishable. Do I think you will be punished? No. Do I think you could be? Oh yes.



Now, as a moderator. Everyone here needs to stop insulting each other.

Skarrs, on 10 May 2013 - 02:58 PM, said:

Harassment is "...commonly understood as behaviour intended to disturb or upset, and it is characteristically repetitive."

What you actually do has nothing to do with if you are harassing or not. It is why you are doing what you are doing and by his own words "and you’ll be trolling a bunch of farmers at the same time" one of the points of this is to upset others. He is even calling for others to join him. Everything else (the rewards, it being a fun event, and being challenging) are rationalizations put there to make the activity more appealing to others. By definition, harassment is at hand.

The first time he went to complete the event he went to complete it for the purpose of completing it. Since then, he has been completing the event for the purpose of upsetting the people who are farming the event, as he stated. The comments he makes in his video make it even more plainly obvious that trolling is the primary goal of these actions.

My purpose is only to bring up that these actions are just as reportable, and just as banable as exploiting is.

Kaaboose, on 10 May 2013 - 08:24 PM, said:

Harassing people who harass people is still harassing. You recognize you are trolling, and you admit that your purpose is to stop others from doing what they want to do. You are harassing others. You are trolling. You are breaking the rules just like they are. You say you are not making excuses for your actions, yet that is exactly what you are doing. Your word choice, what you talk about in your video, and how you are portraying yourself shows that your goal is to stop these people from doing what they are doing. You just proved my point. I also never said that trolling is the only reason you are doing this. The fact that it IS a reason at all is what matters.

I am not saying anything bad about your person. I am not disagreeing with your actions. I am just letting you know, that what you are doing is 100% bannable.

Playing an event to completion is not harassment, and I have never said it was. Going to a location specifically (or even largely) because it pisses other people off is harassment even if those other people might be breaking the rules. I am positive your parents told you that "Two wrongs don't make a right."

Thanks OP, now I know a better place to spend time farming, me and my guildies will be server hopping to various ToL when our own is uncontested.

Excellent idea to spread the information.

Do you know any other places where lots of low end +level 70 mobs spawn? if so, post away!