To dislike the movies compared to the books, Lord of the rings triligy and the Hobbit, is like being political correct?

Meh...

You have quests, you have NPCs telling you about the surrounding area, the difference is that you have to make the connection from what they say to what happens in other games they fill this in for you, they make the notes as in the quest.

For alot of events you have a NPC running around and in one way or another asking for help.

Huge immersion braker?

Can someone write up a reasonable motivation behind that?

Originally posted by NBlitz

Awful screenshot. It has something highlighted on the left bottom part of the screen. You can barely make anything of it due to the quality.

"We're donating $1 to Pandas International for every pre-order on somethingsomething.com"

http://pandasinternational.org/

 

Why try and make more out of it than it truly might be?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_entendre

Originally posted by Azrile

They brought back 3 people...  

Not to be too negative, but probably the ones that couldn´t find work elsewhere and were willing to come back at reduced pay.

We promise and declare that never, ever, under any circumstances work on less favorable terms, or at a lower salary than what we have now promised each other.

We promise each other that in the deep realization that if we all keep this promise as the employer must meet our requirements!

While it is Norway and not Sweden it still is not US.

Ok, remember we are talking about GW2...

Riddle me this; how many single player games have a subscription fee?

Originally posted by Connmacart

Originally posted by krakra70

Originally posted by Damzilla

Simple question, simple answer.

Rules: Question applies to GW2 players only. This poll isn't made to be a representative of the whole community, just a sample of the current MMORPG.com members - players. No trolling, flaming - keep it clean and civil - it's not that hard, is it ?

Keep in mind scientific polls are being made with as low as 500-1000 people to represent opinions of millions of people. Even if only 1% use xfire in statistics it is more than enough.

Scientific polls makes use of a large pool of different groups. Xfire is a group on its own and as such unrepresentive of everything except it's own populace.

Ok, so Vanguard is truely the most played mmo?

What are you saying?

What is the purpose of the poll in the OP?

Originally posted by Xzen

Originally posted by gordiflu

Originally posted by Kaelano1

Originally posted by gordiflu

Originally posted by Kaelano1

Originally posted by gordiflu

Originally posted by Kaelano1

Originally posted by gordiflu

All the guys saying "they can't do that, they are unable to do that, they lack the infrastructure", etc.

Please keep in mind that they hold the files and they have the tools. They can do anything to any char at any time, period. They just won't dedicate the resources, don't want to do it or don't have time, but they absolutely CAN do whatever to your char. They, and any company for that matter.

I ve been working for the gaming industry and I have seen it with my own eyes.

 

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/support/account/Tickets-for-Review-5-days-and-older-merged/page/28

I'm sorry... what?

What were you expecting them to say?

-Sorry, we messed it up but we think your case is not worth alocating any resource to it.

Can we just be a bit less naive?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOmp3HpAGgM

Really? Ok, then just list ONE inconsistency.

I honestly think you are just trolling now.

That's one souce reps admit they "can't". There are others. On twitter they specifically reply they can't for this particular instance of lost data.

 

I know they can "give a toon" anything. The "issue" is, "can they give back a toon specifically what they lost so there is no discrepancy". If you've paid attention, the answer is no.

 

I'm not naive.

 

I don't believe you've "worked in game development". "Working in the game industry" can mean as a janitor, or cafe food service, or a CEO's chauffer, and that wouldn't help your point.

 

They do not have a "lack of want or need" to assist those submitting tickets. They simply can't help.

Of course the company guys are going to say "we can't". What are they going to say, " we won't"? "We don't want to?". Please...

They can do anything to any toon period, and that's all. If so, they can give any toon specifically anything, period. You are contradicting yourself. What the hell, I can do that with less than 1% of their technology on my computer on Skyrim.

You may not be, but you do sound naive if you use the company's posts to justify the company's excuses.

I am not going to give you my professional CV details, but I ll just say I had access to the internal test servers and the QA guys sitting right next to me. And the company was very big, one of the biggest. You can believe it or not, I couldn't care less. 

And btw, you failed to list one single inconsistency.

 

Do you have the GM client? No? Then you do not know what they can and can not do with your characters. Anet devs might be able to but handling GM tickets and restoring lost items is not a Dev thing it's an in game support thing.

Tell me, do they level all their characters in any internal testing that they may do?

Originally posted by Nadia

You may not be aware, but spawning gold and handing it out like cupcakes — even if “basic MMO functionality” — isn’t good for a game’s economy. If you lose a dollar, the government doesn’t print up and hand you another one — that would cause huge inflation.
 

But your insurance company may, or even the bank. Just pointing out a stupid argument there.

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus

Originally posted by SnarlingWolf

Originally posted by Loke666
Thats nice, there are few MMOs avaliable for MAC users.

Wasn't much of a reason to do so for 2 main reasons:

 

1) They made the intel based Macs specifically so users could have access to all of the Windows programs and games. That made making a Mac client redundant.

 

2) Most gamers use PCs making it the,by far, major market share.

 

 

If you have the money and time I suppose why not, but it really is never necessary because of reason #1.

With MAC OS X being superior to Windows in every possible way, its just plain stupid to have to run a duall boot on a macbook pro.

Obviously 10/10 :S

Originally posted by Wolvards
Would've been epic for TSW. But lame for GW2. 

It was a strange ending for a TSW trailer... don't tell me it actually was for GW2?

I like the game, but they must have been sarcastic when they wrote that script and later some other person must have had a brain fart and in error sent in the wrong script and finally those who actaully ended up making the trailer laughed all the way to the bank.

Originally posted by Shaike
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To give an example from personal experience - i actually talked via email with them regarding this game (way before 2.0 was out) , because i wanted to try the game and wanted to know how the digital download procedure happens as back then there was nothing on thier website -

I was told that there is no trial period (nor do they plan on adding one later - ????), AND that i would have to actually buy the game as a box.....

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Then you are obviously lying as they will offer digital download when FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn is released, as well as it formerly was offer as digital download.

Btw to this date 2.0 is not even released yet.

Last time you played you played for free I assume, it simply doesn't make sense with your complaints.

It's a subscription based MMO with the option to experience it without paying any subscription. And as you have played it before you have already had a subscription on the game so you already knew this.

You can never forget the importance of the small things.

This may give you a pleasure of finding out what those other skills are for that weapon by playing with the weapon, may as in we are not all the same so perhaps you won't.

Originally posted by Myrdynn

Originally posted by jpnole

Originally posted by Myrdynn

ticket open since last Friday, still no response what-so-ever, I thought this was supposed to be a AAA game, my ass.  I got "Permabanned, hacked" after playing a grand total of 10 hrs in game, and although I was enjoying myself suprisingly, quite a bit, I am completely irritatted at the lack of customer service that Arenanet provides.  It is completely unacceptable.  FWIW I dont need to hear how oh its my fault for getting hacked crap either, I use a completely unique password for my email and every gaming account I have ever made.   And quite frankly I dont care that I got hacked/banned for protective reasoning, all I care about is hearing 1 fricking reply from this horrible company.   Hacking happens, not an issue.  Zero response, HUGE ISSUE.  And from the forums I am not the only one.  It is quite a huge occurance.

 

If this were true, you'd be playing in game right now.

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http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/z5xiy/was_your_account_hacked_after_password_spam_heres/

There is another story about this.

**Tl;Dr: Generally when you see password reset spam on user accounts, it means someone is trying to exploit the system being used to generate authentication links by spamming password reset requests on one end, and spamming potential authentication links on the other.

If you were hacked, your e-mail is filled with password reset spam, and you were using a password unique to GW2- this is probably how it happened. If this is the case, your password and information is safe, and the fault lies entirely with whoever set up the security system.)**

"Until we announce otherwise, character transfers are still free. So yes, friends can transfer to your server, or you can transfer to theirs. Enjoy!"

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/players/Free-Transfers/first#post17209

Originally posted by Badaboom

Originally posted by Rayshe
My opinion is that they need to slow the sales so that their support team can get big enough so people aren't waiting days to get a GM to help them. they are likely hireing new GM's ATM.

Your opinion is quite different from what Anet has said.  Your opinion reeks of alarmist rhetoric.

 

No it is not quite different. To get the support team to catch up might very well be one of the reasons for them to announce this.

And if so, making it possible for the support team to catch is a positive thing...

"o ensure the highest quality service we have temporarily limited the number of copies of Guild Wars 2.

As more capacity becomes available, we will make Guild Wars 2 available for sale again.

In the meantime, we encourage you to visit our retail partners , who may still have copies available."

Originally posted by SnarlingWolf

Originally posted by Dfix

Originally posted by SnarlingWolf

I will say I am amazed at how many people will just accept what a company says at face value.

Sorry, but not all of us run around with tin foil hats in our back pockets. 

 Difference between tin foil hats and rational thinking.

 

Physical copies are still for sale -> therefore stopping digital sales doesn't stop queues from increasing. -> their reasoning makes little sense.

 

How many products have you bought where the commercials say something like "Best coffee ever" or other similar things. Since it would apparently require a tin foil hat to think that maybe they are exagerating the claims that it is the best coffee ever.

I am not really sure if you are thinking rationally there.

Yes of course they will slow down the expansion of the game by not offering the game digitally from their own store.

That is the only reasonable thing they can do, right?

It would be horrible wrong if they stopped the possibilty to registrering a retail copy... imagine the situation when people come home from the store and tries to register their game key.

But now they do not stop physical copies, hinder the business of 3rd party retailers, hence you think their resoning doesn't make sence. That is not rational thinking.

Originally posted by thark

Originally posted by Rawiz

 

Yes..WoW ..is still a "kiddie" game..But I was refering to our newest kiddie game on the market :)

Why are they kiddie games? And why are not TSW a kiddie game?

Mind you I play(ed) all three of those and enjoyed them, but your look and labeling on other games/gamers just leaves a bad taste.

Originally posted by Morgaren

 

Right, people have been clammoring for a different way to do things, and the first time it happens, those who cried saying "I want a game that doesn't spoon feed me quest" Or "I am tired of quest hubs" turn around like little children.

You can't blow through stuff in this game. If you see some NPC's talking, you have to listen, cause they may be talking about something going on nearby. I saw some people talking about the water didn't look clean, and I had to travel across the zone to see bandits destroying the water tower. I didn't click on someone who said please go save our water tower, nor did I stumble upon it by accident, although I have stumbled into other situations by accident. Thats content. Thats a new way to do questing, and if you don't get it, sorry your dumb.

I try not to be too fanboyish, but seriously, this game did alot of things different. If you have been complaining about wanting something different, and say this is just same old same old, you the kind of person who would complain if somone hung you with a new rope.

In other words you have to "roleplay" to get quests?