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I appreciate the distinction you're drawing between the two systems. It does help explain why so many people in this thread are bothered by login rewards but not gold buying. There are lots of systems, financial and otherwise, where the intent of some feature is not to cost the organization extra money but winds up working that way. It's the reason everybody knows that coupons kitten well better say "limit one per customer!" But the lady who got a free car by clipping coupons from her neighbors' newspapers didn't do anything wrong. Neither our extrapolation of an organization's truest volition nor their preference after the fact is relevant to the definition of exploit. Neither do profit and effort have anything to do with it; and the company later changing the system to prevent a behavior does not retroactively prove the users' moral corruption. Someone using a system, as designed and with the full awareness of the designer, is not exploiting it.

If login rewards are an 'obvious exploit' then buying gold would be straight up abuse.

You can also just buy those rewards with real money. Hard to condemn multi-account login rewards while that's the case.

It's that's true, we'll have to get rid of paying real money for gold, too. That's at least as exploitive and doesn't even involve a game system.

The current daily login reward system is cumulative; you get better and better rewards as you progress in a 30-day cycle. If the new system completely replaces the old with no accommodation, everyone will lose their accumulated progress toward the better rewards.

I don't think that's the takeaway from Rubi's post. Flexibility, yes. But I'm not seeing any reason to think the new system will preserve the same value of "whatever 28 days of daily login rewards would have netted you... 20 MC, 35 Laurels and 7 Clovers/20 Laurels etc." That's the answer we all want, and what all the bickering in this thread is centered around: How do login-only rewards compare to the old system? What is the AA cost of Mystic Coins and Laurels?

He knows that. He's asking how his progress in the current system, which is close to the big reward, will transfer into the new system. Or will he start the new system from scratch and lose all progress?

How much will they cost?

He didnt say that at all. He thinks what the textures show is evidence they had something else in mind originally. He didn't say it matters. Does it "matter" that there's another image underneath the Mona Lisa? Nothing in OP's post is accusatory or censorious but everybody's coming at him like it was.

The pits and corrosion reveal that it was designed for some other purpose, they were then concealed and it was used for this instead.

People in this thread acting like op said "how dare they." 🤣

Can't believe we don't have them already. When the mech first came out, I assumed it looked the way it did in order to sell skins.

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. Yep I get it with LB. Of 10 account logins, it's always at least 4, frequently 6, and occasionally all 10. Agreed, Daniyyel.3428: it's just hit or miss. No apparent reason for when it triggers and when it doesn't. But it's more often than not. Maybe it has something to do with switching window focus with LB running, and focusing the GW2 launcher somehow counts as clicking it in the news hotspot?

When I launch GW2, about 60% of the time it opens the latest news item in my web browser. Right now it's https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/lunar-new-year-2023-is-next-week/. Today this happened 10 logins in a row. What's happening? How can I stop this? Thanks!

What's a holographic soup?