Steve The Cynic.3217
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I can think of exactly *no* reason why it would.
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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).
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22 hours ago, Archguardian Athara.8135 said:
I've been using Fullscreen. Though if the workaround is so simple why not just fix the problem?
Because the underlying cause of the problem isn't automatically easy to identify, nor easy to fix.
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52 minutes ago, Juschwin.2148 said:
I also think her account was compromised but normally you'd only need to reset the password to secure the account again.
Um. No. That won't secure the account if your friend's email account is also compromised. Your friend must fully secure both accounts, and probably also add 2FA on both of them.
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47 minutes ago, Idoru.2370 said:
I had the same problem.
The Shing Jea Dragon Boat Skiff Skin is actually a Consumable! Check your inventory!Support sent me a new one, and I'm somewhat embarrassed to have to admit that the original one was in my bank... (Grey text saying "1 in bank" on the tooltip for the new one was a big clue...)
EDIT: So if it isn't in your inventory, check your bank. And your other characters. -
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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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
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6 hours ago, Rogue.8235 said:
I have presented well-informed posts wherein I present technical terms in lay terminology. I'm sure you can considering that 30 years of "development" work means you have a PMP cert at the very least.
I had to look that up. And no, I don't have one (for the audience, it's a certification in project management). I'm a developer, not a project manager.
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12 minutes ago, Sugerrion.9724 said:
All I'm saying here is. Not everyone has the same kind of choices, or can afford to upgrade. Some people depend on what little they get, to survive. They might have enough to say, pay for internet, but let's face it. Most computers today are modestly expensive, even if you build your own you're still looking at a rather good chunk of change. Even if windows itself said hey we're upgrading to windows 11, which by the way they are saying such a thing,
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.
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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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12 minutes ago, Sugerrion.9724 said:
Steve let's dial the clock back a while shall we? Just because some of us can afford to buy new machines, and upgrade from one system to the next. Does not. Apply to every last human on the planet we call Earth. Telling someone to just let go might not be so very simple for some people to do. Especially if they have no other options. Oh and I notice you didn't once mention anything about Macintosh either. It won't always be so simple as to just "let go" Consider how you'd feel if you couldn't possibly manage to keep up with every console, or every system that is made. Now add to that how you'd feel if you didn't use a windows machine whatsoever.
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. -
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.
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10 minutes ago, Rastalin.2978 said:
I think it is only opened to people from NA. In my guild anyone in NA didn't have problems with buying also one of our guildmate from Europe got to the preorder payment page with VPN
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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8 minutes ago, Bojjang.1052 said:
If http://buy.guildwars2.com is redirecting you to Path of Fire instead of End of Dragons, try clearing your cache, switching browsers, or going directly to https://www.guildwars2.com/end-of-dragons . That should fix it! #GW2EOD
- GW2 Twitter
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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@"bastet.9321" said:Thought repairs were kept in to keep people/groups from just endlessly zerging/leap frogging stuff like high leveled/ranked enemies in an endless tide
Maybe I'm just crazy
That rings a bell, vaguely, linked to the change in dungeon boss fights way far back when, to obstruct what they called "rez rushing".
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@"mercury ranique.2170" said:People calculated that the ingame measure "range" equals about 1 inch. So if a longbow has a range of 1200, the arrow shoots 1200 inches. I'm not sure if anyone used this to measure the size of the maps, but it should be easy enough to do so.Another helpfull thing would be to mention that a raptor jump on flat terrain with canyon jumping active is about 1730 units (inches) or 4.4 meters.
Um. No. 1730 inches is 144 feet, which is more like 44 metres. (Your decimal place is incorrect.)
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@aquafire.2718 said:I searched for a while trying to find some topics on repair, The only things I found was most players are unhappy with the repair mechanic as it sits, I agree from an immersion standpoint. There is an entire gameplay loop that could made out of the repair mechanic, on top of that it used to cost money to repair gear atleast Arenanet had something there now its free and basically nonexistent. Armorsmiths and weaponsmiths should be able to repair equipment (weapons and armor separately if players like that idea) via a trading window (kinda like how wow has it with enchanting with a little box at the bottom to allow repairs without the smith taking the item). Also there isnt even a trading window where you can trade which isnt a huge issue given the mailing system is instant but still something to look at. Just some thoughts I had and wondering how people feel with fleshing out some mechanics that could use some love.
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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@Ravvann.7856 said:Can anyone help. I would like to transfer my gw2 from my ssd to my hdd. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thank you.
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.
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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.
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This again?
@"Steve The Cynic.3217" said:"game is dying" is (or should be) a generic meme in all MMORPG forums, even to the extent of things like
- Game released today: "Game is dying."
- Game released yesterday: "Game is dying."
- Game just released a new expansion, all the servers are jam-packed with players: "Game is dying."
- Game will release in two weeks: "Game is dead."
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@"Crunchbone.7341" said:I first tried "quote", then I highlighted only the one sentence I wanted to quote & clicked "quote" & it still put the entire post in both ways. I am always open to more information & happy to learn!
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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@"Crunchbone.7341" said:I do not know how to add a quote :)
Under the person's post, there's a big double quote mark and the word "Quote". Click that.
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@"iynk.9053" said:Examples of top-requests that have been ignored/refused for no good reason.
- Skins for summons
- Race change items
- Unlimited shared inventory slots
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".
Tons of other zero-effort skins to choose from if the above pairings seem off...
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").
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@"ProtoGunner.4953" said:It seems it's the only "major" MMO not capable of going with a newer DX version than their ancient DX9. It's getting ridiculous.
I guess SWTOR doesn't count as major by this classification.
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Hmm. Think about what you're saying here. If we buy the game they sell, inevitably they give you the game you bought. Of course, what they can't give you is the game you *think* you bought.