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Re: Guild wars: call to action
As everyone above said, the most broken part of Guild Wars is the gas economy. Plain and simple. I can buy a booster for all other game modes for $1.99 and play until my eyes bleed for 24 hours. For GW gas, I can pay $10 for 25 minutes of play. The fact that NG (as a whole, nothing personal here) tries to defend the GW gas balance is shameful to say the least.
A few from my guild have already posted in this thread, and I'll echo them. Army of Slayers will be wholeheartedly backing this boycott (a quarter of our guild is already ftp, and not all that do spend money on the game buy guild gas). The limitations put on GW by NG just does jive with the idea behind it: Guild vs. Guild, warring against each other, and the team with the best teamwork and better tactics wins. Not: the team with the most gas wins.
If you don't want to look at it as a boycott because that's a dirty word, look at it like this: Many players of this game are giving data for NG to analyze ahead of time. We all know that "looking at the data" means "looking at the money coming in relative to game mode/bundle type/whatever else". There is no reason why a special game mode should be hundreds of times more expensive than the rest of the game. I've read responses by @Shteevie to the community about already giving players, even ftp, enough gas to play... it's ridiculous (not to mention the condescending tone).
@Kaz @Shteevie NG has done an amazing job creating the best thing that could happen to NML, now please take off the cash barrier around not just those who want to compete, but those who just want to play without spending an arm and a leg.
A few from my guild have already posted in this thread, and I'll echo them. Army of Slayers will be wholeheartedly backing this boycott (a quarter of our guild is already ftp, and not all that do spend money on the game buy guild gas). The limitations put on GW by NG just does jive with the idea behind it: Guild vs. Guild, warring against each other, and the team with the best teamwork and better tactics wins. Not: the team with the most gas wins.
If you don't want to look at it as a boycott because that's a dirty word, look at it like this: Many players of this game are giving data for NG to analyze ahead of time. We all know that "looking at the data" means "looking at the money coming in relative to game mode/bundle type/whatever else". There is no reason why a special game mode should be hundreds of times more expensive than the rest of the game. I've read responses by @Shteevie to the community about already giving players, even ftp, enough gas to play... it's ridiculous (not to mention the condescending tone).
@Kaz @Shteevie NG has done an amazing job creating the best thing that could happen to NML, now please take off the cash barrier around not just those who want to compete, but those who just want to play without spending an arm and a leg.
sbf
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Re: Stinky Couch Revenge
Another interesting thing of note is that in every one of the photos of the couch going back to Capi's "pre-snow" camp pic there is a mysterious woman always standing guard at the rear of the couch. Who is this tireless couch woman? Is she somehow involved? Why doesn't she intervene? Is she perhaps a "haint" as Rufus has sometimes suggested?
tabernac
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Re: Guild wars: call to action
Pay to win is strong with the guild wars...
It's been strong with the challenge since forever, but we don't much mind because it wasn't really that big a deal.
The whales got higher scores in the challenge... Ok. Annoying but, ok. We can live with that.
In outposts, free to play can climb up the charts, not too difficult. Pay players have little easier time of it, no problem here. We can deal.
In guild wars, organizing, communicating, gathering, getting pumped up, hyped, drooling at delicious prizes... Only to get smacked down again and again by power guilds spending $$$ on red gas??
Not ok.
And now they will take away one of the few ways to gain a couple red gas...?
@kaz @shteevie
Uuuuummmm...
What???
It's fine to say "Hey, don't give up! The VP multiplier gets bigger the higher you go up in tiers!!"
That shit don't matter unless you WIN!!??
In bronze the multiplier for losing to a big whale guild is x0
In silver 1,2,&3 the multiplier for losing is... x0!
In gold it's still... You guessed it. x0!!!
Wooohoooo!!
Climbing tiers don't mean squat unless you're spending to win, because the higher you go, the more likely you will be matched vs a $powerguild$.
My guys love playing guild wars... But NEXT has to address this.
It's been strong with the challenge since forever, but we don't much mind because it wasn't really that big a deal.
The whales got higher scores in the challenge... Ok. Annoying but, ok. We can live with that.
In outposts, free to play can climb up the charts, not too difficult. Pay players have little easier time of it, no problem here. We can deal.
In guild wars, organizing, communicating, gathering, getting pumped up, hyped, drooling at delicious prizes... Only to get smacked down again and again by power guilds spending $$$ on red gas??
Not ok.
And now they will take away one of the few ways to gain a couple red gas...?
@kaz @shteevie
Uuuuummmm...
What???
It's fine to say "Hey, don't give up! The VP multiplier gets bigger the higher you go up in tiers!!"
That shit don't matter unless you WIN!!??
In bronze the multiplier for losing to a big whale guild is x0
In silver 1,2,&3 the multiplier for losing is... x0!
In gold it's still... You guessed it. x0!!!
Wooohoooo!!
Climbing tiers don't mean squat unless you're spending to win, because the higher you go, the more likely you will be matched vs a $powerguild$.
My guys love playing guild wars... But NEXT has to address this.
ATLAS-Z
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Question
Why does GW end so early on Sunday? We had a group ready to play at midnight EST and it was over 
Any chance of extending the time?
Any chance of extending the time?
Re: Guild wars: call to action
As leader of Dragons Weyr, And running a guild wide vote. We are onboard with the boycott of gas in the new season of GW. I hope this helps make a statement to this issue and it can be resolved by this action
@Dragonfyre
DW Leader
@Dragonfyre
DW Leader
Re: Cool it
My hope is that cooler heads will prevail and choices for premature pitchforking and torching will change.
The amount and quality of communication from NG is clear. They are working on balancing. I’m choosing to continue battling on in playing as it’s adjusted.
Jenng
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Re: Guild wars: call to action
My guild is a low pressure, “play as you want, family first, life happens, if it’s not fun it’s not a game” kind of guild. We don’t get to play 6 games of GWs because, A) Who has that much time to spend on a game every weekend? B ) We are from all over the world and it’s difficult for enough of us to be on at the same time, but most importantly C) We choose to not spend money on red gas.
We’ve never discussed boycotting, but we’ve made the choice to not play rather than spend money. Sundays are usually spent discussing who has gas and who doesn’t. Decisions are made based on the amount of gas we have and the decision typically is, I’m out of gas, here is my key, and I hope you who still have gas can play another battle.
If you choose to spend money on GW, it’s your choice and have a great time! No judgements from us, and we will have no regrets. My guild will not win the big prizes. We see them there and would like to grab some of them, but we choose to not run after them.
We support the boycott because we really would like to play more. I suppose we have been boycotting all along.
We’ve never discussed boycotting, but we’ve made the choice to not play rather than spend money. Sundays are usually spent discussing who has gas and who doesn’t. Decisions are made based on the amount of gas we have and the decision typically is, I’m out of gas, here is my key, and I hope you who still have gas can play another battle.
If you choose to spend money on GW, it’s your choice and have a great time! No judgements from us, and we will have no regrets. My guild will not win the big prizes. We see them there and would like to grab some of them, but we choose to not run after them.
We support the boycott because we really would like to play more. I suppose we have been boycotting all along.
Re: List of traits affected by luck.
Don't excuse, I know it is difficult.
I've had many discussions on this forum trying to eplain the logics.
Many times I got the disagrees.
The use of wording is difficult for many people. The forum is there for these kind of things.
Good luck.
I've had many discussions on this forum trying to eplain the logics.
Many times I got the disagrees.
The use of wording is difficult for many people. The forum is there for these kind of things.
Good luck.
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