["I'd Really Like this..." - New Gifting Strangers]

@starlight.6091 said:Desire (NA Server)

800 Gems ~ I would like to play Living World 4 Chapters

Living World 4 Episodes 1-4I hope this isnt too ridiculous to ask. Ep. 1-4

Thanks in advance. I appreciate this post and hope I can too help someone soon! :)

Just an FYI because several people have asked for this in the past.Living world seasons can not be gifted, they must be purchased directly on the account that is to use themGems can not be gifted, the only way to give another player gems would be using a gem card and sending the activation code (or gifting enough gold to convert to gems).

[Oceanic/Australian Servers or realms?]

I live on the East Coast of the United States. The guild I play with is located out of Australia, meaning the founders and core population all came from that region. I have been playing with them for years and they do not seem to be having any issues playing all sections of the game, PVE, PVP, WvW, Raids, Fractals, etc. You really can't tell how your experiance is going to be compared to what your mates or anyone else is going to be able to tell you. I would suggest you just reinstall the game if you do not have it and jump in and give it a try. Only you can really judge if the lag is acceptable to you.

[Horse Mounts Discussion!]

@"Edge.8724" said:How about a horse skin for the Raptor mount?

Raptor is a 2 legged mount, a horse is 4. Think of it as a wire frame made like a stick man. The basic frame, head, body 2/4 legs, wings, whatever needs to be compatible. If you look at all other mounts the basic shape remains the same from skin to skin. Even the humming bird and skimmer are still basically the same shape. To add a true horse shape, they would most likely have to start from scratch with a completely new mount as trying to make a skin for any of the existing ones (actually only the jackal would "fit") would be more work then starting from scratch. Then you would have to decide, what it's gimmick? We have a flyer, climber, vertical leaper, horizontal leaper, floater, teleporter and racer/battering ram. Since horses are a real animal with no special abilities would you add a special ability and make it in to something else? Would a winged horse that could fly still be a horse? Would a horse that could walk up walls or swim under water still be a horse? A horse mount would be great, but they really do not fit in to the current GW2 world and/or mount system.

[Can We Talk About Name Availability For A Minute]

@Etria.3642 said:

@kharmin.7683 said:

@Etria.3642 said:

Also. Those who began at launch are PAID core game owners. What of those who have, once free to play began, started and left. To me, emphasis on me, those are who names might someday be removed from.Why make this distinction?

Because I can easily hop on and create 100 accounts for free if I wanted. I use nothing but my own time and I give nothing to anet. A paid account has actually purchased something; a promise by anet not to take names is included in that purchase.

That said I forgot to mention something else. Of the two friends who absolutely no longer play--I have not given up on changing their minds. Of how many abandoned accounts, have friends who feel likewise?

Just like a few of my friends are trying to get me to return to swtor.

I have 2 friends in my guild who stopped playing very shortly after launch. After telling them what I was upto in game and showing some screen shots, both came back last month. If their names where stolen, (And yes, I am purposely using that word as no other word fits) they would not have come back.

[Can We Talk About Name Availability For A Minute]

I run several game servers of my own, some of them have been up for more then a decade. Since users could create their user names on their own and there was no central server to manage them, the system was very simple. First player to log on to a server got the name. Next player got the "name Imposter".So player 1 would be ShiningSquirrelPlayer 2 would be ShiningSquirrel ImposterPlayers did complain and say they had the name first, blah, blah, blah, but since it was not something we would or even could change that was just the way it was. First come, first served. It's the same here and rightly so. A name belongs to the first player to use it. This was the promise. This is what we paid for. This is GW2, it's not WoW or any other MMO so saying "the other game do it" holds no water. This is NOT those other games so you can't expect it to be the same. It boggles the mind sometimes, if you want every game to be the same with the same features, content and structure then WHY should there even be different games?

[Can We Talk About Name Availability For A Minute]

@Lunia.2736 said:

@Ashen.2907 said:

@Lunia.2736 said:

@MikeG.6389 said:

Firstly, who are you to judge why a certain name is not available to you?

What...? Why would it be me judging? It'd be an automated system determining completely dormant accounts based on not having logged in for over 7 years etc.

I wouldn't be touching anyone's account. It would merely be Anet recycling completely dead names from 2012/2013 that are on inactive accounts.

@Ashen.2907 said:"someone else has something that I want. Please take it away from them and give it to me."

This comment is way underrated.

It's underrated because it's missing the point entirely.

Not missing the point at all. Person A has something that person B wants and so person B is asking that the something be taken away so that he can have it. Period.

Imagine you got a new office job.

You work there for 6 years in your

mediocre office space

(metaphor: "bad" name in gw2)

and wonder why you could never get the

amazing office space

(metaphor: "good" name in gw2)

next to you which has been empty for 7 years.

So you go to your boss and ask your boss if you could move into that office, since you've been actively with the company for 6 years now. The boss tells you that office belongs to Bob. You ask: "Huh, who's Bob?" Oh, he was a

new employee

(metaphor: low level, low value account)

who quit his job on his first day 7 years ago, we keep his office space reserved for him on the off-chance he gets back.

Would it be too much to ask for Bob's office space to be reassigned to you after 7 years and Bob having to be the one who gets the

mediocre office space

if he does somehow happen to come back on year 8? I personally don't think so.

Bad

and

good

name has been put in quotations since that's very subjective.But think of wanting to name your character "Ash" or "Ashen" instead of "Ashén The Burnt" as an example.

People posting here need to realize they won't lose their name if this is implemented properly! If so it would only affect the dormant accounts from around launch that carry little to no actual worth. It's not like their character will get deleted either, they will simply have to choose a new name.

Now I hear the argument that if they came back to the game they'd be put off the game because they'd have to choose a new name, but you also need to think about the amount of people who are put off the game because they can't get any of the names they are interested in to begin with.

If the "Bob" had an employment contract (game purchase) that stated that office (name) was his if/whenever he returned, then yes it would be reasonable for the company to hold it for him and you would not be entitled to take it from him just because you wanted it.

There is no such thing as a "dormant" account or an unused account in GW or GW2. Once you create an account in GW it is yours for whenever you want to use it, even if that is never.That is the way it is and always has been, it's not going to change. Use a little imagination and think up your own name instead of trying to steal someone else's.

[Can We Talk About Name Availability For A Minute]

@"Lunia.2736" said:But you won't lose any of your names? The idea is to only free up completely unused names on inactive accounts since around launch. Which is when the majority of names were taken.

So what do you tell the players who where promised by the devs that their names from GW1 would be reserved for them and created new toons in GW2?What do you tell the players who where promised when they purchased GW2 that they could log in any time and their accounts would be just like they left them?Your asking Anet to go back on their word and change a fundamental rule they created right from the beginning for no reason other then you can't think up a name ?The only word I can think of to describe an attitude like this would be "entitlement".

Bottom line, the game was advertised and SOLD with this feature. Players purchased it with this feature. That should be enough to end this discussion right there.

[[Suggestion] Mini-Expansion to bring in some GW2 revenue]

@"Tekoneiric.6817" said:There is nothing flimsy or veiled about this suggestion. This is a blatant suggestion to give us items the community has been asking for in exchange for ANet making some much needed funds to support the game. Only a vocal few have "shot them down" but a large part of the community has been asking for them over and over and over.

I think what you really mean is:

"Only a vocal few have "been asking for them over and over and over" but a large part of the community "has shot them down".

[[Suggestion] Mini-Expansion to bring in some GW2 revenue]

This sounds more like a flimsy veiled attempt to get many of the things that have been asked for before and shot down by the community. The only thing you are missing there is fishing, LOL!

[Precursor drops]

Played since beta and only had one drop from a champ during the old champ train days.

[Mini Springer Ramona recipe?]

@"Nanya.7805" said:Hello everyone, I thought I would chime in here now that the recipe has been discovered and is out in the wild.

Ramona was my rabbit. She was my best friend and I had her for a wonderful 10 and a half years. She would have been 11 years old in 2 days. She was an enormous 12 lb bun (I think a New Zealand/Flemish mix) and was the absolute sweetest, most goofy girl ever with the best personality. A total snugglebug. I've had lots of pets in my life and it's never easy losing them, but she has been the most difficult to say goodbye to. I miss her dearly. Being able to have her with me on my adventures has really helped me cope with the loss.

The heart shaped cookie in the recipe is a nod toward one of her favorite treats. She went absolutely bonkers for them; she couldn't get enough of them or oats.

Here are some pictures of her: https://imgur.com/a/YEFII1x

I'm so glad you guys have been so excited and determined to figure out how to get her in game, and I'm amazed how quickly the recipe was figured out! I hope that you too enjoy having my sweet girl as a companion on your quests. :)

Your bun was beautiful. I lost my bun several years ago so I know how you feel. They take a little bit of us with them when they go. :-(This is a beautiful way to remember her and I will think about her whenever I see this little bun hopping around in game.

[I can not activate the gem code]

@svanxx.3420 said:

@Ellieanna.5027 said:

@Dibbiest.8259 said:

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:

@"Zero Soul.4523" said:I just spent a $$$$ ton of money on cards and now I can't use them ? This is a bit frustrating. Anet could at least comment on this and say WHAT happen !

I'm really sorry you're stuck waiting. The best thing you can do to speed up the process is to create a support ticket. It's possible that it's something specifically affecting only a few people, and they won't be able to figure out what until they have data from some of those affected. It's possible it's a series of coincidences affecting people differently, so again, they need to know your specific situation.

It seems like you didn't even read the thread. It would be a sporadic issue if nobody replied. We have 20+ people who replied who are probably all in different areas, I highly doubt it's a local problem.

I just went and counted and it's 14, including those after you. You counted posts, not people. Considering the number of people playing the game, 14 is a very low number. And the answer actually is the best. Nothing said it was a sporadic issue. That they need the data for everyone affected to see what the issue is.

For all you know everyone bought from the same source and it turns out it's all a 3rd party site that actually used a stolen card to buy the gem cards and resold them. You don't know. But submitted a ticket is how you will get help. It's going to be very rare if Gaile can come back to this post, and it's not even her job. They don't man these boards for help. Tickets are for help.

Mine was bought off Amazon, so maybe that's part of the problem.

Buying from a legit site even Amazon is always a risk because of third party sellers on there. Amazon themselves even sell "used" gem cards (not sure what could even mean)

["Be My Guest" Bugs [MERGED]]

Really frustrated. Get to the gate, hold off the Awakened while Canach works, defeat Joko then when I say "just blow the damn gate" the game freezes then crashes. So I am stuck and cannot continue the story.

Update: Tried to repair the client, same issue. Moved to a different PC, same issue.

Update 2: Fixed my issues. Uninstalled, deleted all files and removed all registry entries. Reinstalled and it worked and allowed me to complete the mission.

[Sous Chef Mastery Point (SPOILER)]

I gave up on the sous chef point. Just not possible with the extreme lag. (I am on a 150 MB connection)The memory game I have not completed yet, but it's doable. I do actually love that fact that it's almost a direct port from the teleporters from GW1.