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Steve The Cynic.3217 replied to MysticReaper.4318's topic in Players Helping Players
I can think of exactly *no* reason why it would. -
Has anyone got the research kit to work?
Steve The Cynic.3217 replied to DarcShriek.5829's topic in Players Helping Players
It also worked for me on stuff *I* crafted on the character who's using it, yesterday (2 March) in the evening French time (CET == UTC+1). -
As in title, I bought (way back almost as soon as it was made available) the Ultimate edition of EoD directly from the GW2 website. I got the: * Raptor skin * Character slot * Shared inventory slot * Level 80 boost But not the Shing Jea Dragon Boat Skiff Skin. The code in the email is "already applied to your account", so it's not that.
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DirectX 11 Graphics Issues
Steve The Cynic.3217 replied to Nikayla.4095's topic in Bugs: Game, Forum, Website
DX11 breaks the appearance of Chaos Gloves. This is DX11: https://i.imgur.com/sJFb6MY.jpg This is DX9 of the same character, although in the character select screen: https://i.imgur.com/TjrVVFT.jpg EDIT: System: i9 10980XE, RTX2080Ti, NVidia drivers 472.12, the very latest -
Guild of dragons, ending support
Steve The Cynic.3217 replied to Sugerrion.9724's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
At the end of each month, put a ten dollar(1) bill in a jar. The jar is there, in part, for emergencies, but once there's enough excess in there above a minimum amount of "safety cushion", what's left can be used for other things. Leave that excess to accumulate for a little more than four years, and you can spend $500 on a new computer. If you can't afford to feed a ten-spot to the jar each month, you probably need to cut back on something else, and shouldn't be worrying about videogames. And how many of the people in that situation are actually spending money on GW2? (No, I don't mean "how many are playing", but "how much money are they spending".) (1) Or pounds or euros or whatever your local currency is. -
I don't work in the games industry, but my job is, indeed, developer, and has been for more than thirty years. I have (lots of) colleagues who are younger than my career. Granted, I would never actually say those specific words, mostly because they aren't, as such, true, especially without further qualification. What game companies don't publish (because for most of the audience, it would be 137% gibberish(1)) is a detailed analysis of why this or that feature is too expensive or too risky or whatever (mostly all three) to implement, so the audience tends to assume that they mean just a flat "it's too hard". (1) Most of what any field's experts say when presenting detailed information about their activities is 137% gibberish to non-practitioners. There's nothing special about developers in that respect.
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Guild of dragons, ending support
Steve The Cynic.3217 replied to Sugerrion.9724's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
What part of "ten years ago I bought a behind-the-curve machine" makes you think I meant anything remotely similar to "keep up with every system that is made"? After that, it was seven years before I bought another. And I didn't mention Macintoshes because they *are* a different case, not applicable to my comments about XP and 32-bit. -
Guild of dragons, ending support
Steve The Cynic.3217 replied to Sugerrion.9724's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
Are you seriously asking people how they'd feel if they still had a 32-bit only machine in 2021? Or if they were still running XP? Hint: ten years ago, I bought a behind-the-curve machine - it was 64-bit and ran Windows 7. Windows 7 went end-of-life two years ago. Let. Go. Of. Windows. XP. -
Well kitten me, looks like that's the answer. Lame. Well. Maybe not. The actual page for making the purchase lists what looks like every country on the planet except the one I live in. It's a small one that I guess nobody's ever heard of, called "France". Dooooooodz!!!!! Do you want my money or not?
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I did that. I got a page about EoD, with a Prepurchase Now button. I clicked that and got another page about EoD with a Prepurchase Now link. I clicked *that* and got a page to buy Path of Fire. I went back, cleared the cache, and tried again. This time around, I got a page to buy Path of Fire instead of a page to buy Path of Fire.
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The real size of the locations in the game.
Steve The Cynic.3217 replied to FizKult.1927's topic in Players Helping Players
Um. No. 1730 inches is 144 feet, which is more like 44 metres. (Your decimal place is incorrect.) -
You've completely misunderstood what people are unhappy about concerning repairs. What people don't like is that (now that it's free) it even exists.(1) The push-back you're getting in this thread is because you are suggesting that ArenaNet spend development resources making it more intricate and annoying, especially for characters who don't have the relevant crafting profession. (No, trading won't work, since your character cannot even carry an item that's Soulbound to another character, even another one of your own.) (1) I'd love to get rid of it, so long as I can trade my Endless Repair Canister for a Permanent Bank Access Express.
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Moving game from ssd to hdd?
Steve The Cynic.3217 replied to Ravvann.7856's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
The others have described what to do, but (dontcha love that but?)... As implied by @"Sylvyn.4750" above, map load times will be much slower on HDD than on SSD. I'm not saying that you shouldn't do it, but you should expect to have much longer map-load times and a few visual oddities about maps being only partly loaded when you load in and then filling in over a short time afterwards, with player models being "generic human" (or Norn / Sylvari / Charr / Asura) for a while as well. And possibly the "my mount is in the floor for a while until it loads properly" thing which plagued us a while back. -
Which mount skins have a lot of VFX/SFX?
Steve The Cynic.3217 replied to Ragnes.9873's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
And there's a bunch of others that, like Trailblazer for Petey, are on fire. Curiously, nobody has ever commented to my weavers that their Dragocopters are on fire. -
This again?
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Indeed. And then you simply delete the parts you don't want to include, as I did when I answered your question.
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Skins for minions yes plz
Steve The Cynic.3217 replied to Aad.4719's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion
Perhaps "for no adequately explained reason", but there was a reason, and it wasn't just "because we want to spite you". Example: Race change in GW2 is a major problem, just like sex change is in SWTOR (but sex change is no problem in GW2, while species change is no problem in SWTOR), and in both cases, it's because the character's unchangeable characteristic is baked into the flow of the story somewhere. Yes, race change could be restricted to characters who've finished the Personal Story (where most of the pain is), but there's still room for oddities even then (what exactly should the My Story part of the Hero panel show afterwards?). Also, don't forget the small point that no matter how many people (code developers, story writers, voice actors, graphic artists, testers, etc.) they hire, they still have a limited amount of game-development resources available, so they have to pick and choose which things they develop. That's almost as good a reason to not build X as "it's very difficult or very laborious(1) to do", and definitely better than "because we want to spite you". I think you have hugely underestimated the amount of work required. Sure, the appearance models exist already, but they probably don't have suitable attack animations for the different skills that minions have, for example. Overall, even if all it took was that one member of staff rubs her nose and bewitches the thing into existence, that's not zero effort. (1) the two distinct meanings that hide behind someone saying that X is hard to do. It might be genuinely difficult, or it might merely be a lot of work ("laborious").