mornox.3912

Tested dx11 on win7 for a bit. Runs great! However, there was one glitch in Vabbi were most golden floors/stairs in the palace were near black. Relogging fixed it.

Even windows vista can run directx 11, which is why they stuck to dx11 instead of dx12. I've never had any issues whatsoever running dx11 games (even extremely recent ones like Tales of Arise) on win 7, so I'd find it exceptionally hard to believe that a 9+ year old game can't overlay some text on the screen for win 7's version of dx11. This is just a glitch, not some hardcoded limitation exclusive to win 8's and 10's version of dx11.

Same problem here, all text is unreadable. I'm on windows 7 with a gtx 970.

So, I wanted to give it some time to simmer before I speak out so as not be too emotional, but I've basically been fuming these past 2 days, and if anything I'm more angry now than before. Still, I'm trying to be as reasonable as possible in this post. Warning: I'm going to be using the dehumanizing sealife terms that marketeers use, but that's only because I'm trying to view this from a typical sociopath marketeer's perspective. I, personally probably fall somewhere in the upper layer of the "dolphin spectrum" for reference. Anet really seems to have shot itself in the foot here with their grand master "mount monetization" scheme. The argument goes that this will make them more money, because whales make them more money with this, and they can also squeeze out extra cash from dolphins, more than enough to make up for the dolphins and minnows leaving in disgust and giving negative word of mouth. This begs the question though. Firstly, the idea that whales would give them more money in this particular case. There's a ceiling to the amount of gems you can spend on this. 9600+2000 gems gets you everything. If they removed the RNG component, it would cost you instead... 9600+2000 gems... This scheme does not get them more money from the highest spenders. Let that sink in for a bit before we move on. Whales can not be the target for this, because they'd spend the exact same amount to get everything anyway. Which leaves minnows and dolphins. Minnows don't count. They don't spend. RNG or no, they are not factored into the equation here. It's the dolphins. The majority of the paying playerbase. They're the target here. They want 5 skins, let them buy 15. The ones who won't pay anything now, where they would have paid X amount if it was à la carte, are more than compensated for by the dolphins who spend double, or even triple the amount they would have spent. The idea being that any negative feeling they had, by not immediately getting what they wanted, evaporates once they ride around on their shiny new mounts. And they'll fly around on their flashy mounts, being a living advertisement for the dolphins who are on the edge of buying but needed just that little bit more encouragement, that frisson of envy, to buy in too. And then they go on-line, like the good little GW2 players they are, spreading the word like Mo asked, and bring in even more potential dolphins and whales! Genius! Except... it kinda blew up in their face didn't it. All those many dolphins are so angry, they not only refuse to spend on the new skins, they're boycotting the gemstore entirely, or even leaving the game! And there's much more of them than they probably anticipated. Much, much more. Their word of mouth is now extremely negative. Sites dedicated to MMOs are reporting on it. Reddit is on fire. Youtubers, including Anet affiliates are against it. The people who fly around with their new mounts are called names and harrassed! That's awful, but it's actually happening. The friendliest online community I've ever been a part of turned abolutely toxic overnight! Have fun showing off your new mounts. What's that you say? You are fine with the RNG? That's cool, but think about it. Say you wanted to roll for 5 skins and it didn't matter what you got, you're just happy to get 5 new skins... well, you would have bought and gotten 5 skins without the RNG roll as well. Anet didn't get extra money from you with this mechanic. That's the thing here, the whales who buy everything, and the dolphins who just want a certain amount of skins, doesn't matter too much which ones, aren't bringing in more money with this scheme. They were banking on the dolphins who want a certain number of specific skins and who just keep rolling until they get a few or all of them. They were banking on there being enough of these to make up for the dolphins leaving in disgust. That's what's now massively blowing up in their face here. I'm really hoping this serves as a wake-up call. Either way, my respect for Anet just took a nosedive, and I don't know how much I'm willing to sink into their gemstore, even if they completely remove the RNG aspect from the mount skins. Their affable, customer-friendly mask just fell off, and what it revealed was very ugly and not soon forgotten.