Coulter.2315

Interesting distribution.

No thanks.

Best release so far by miles; lots of mechanics, fun bosses, beautiful map (the colours are amazing), story was good - I really started to feel tension racing to save

Should be as people had it crafted within minutes of the episode being released. True.

Oh does anyone know if it is the same model for getting it? ie. mystic curios

That looks mental, really like the creativity though. I'll be sticking with my harp.

I honestly was surprised I could get to each chest with mounts very fast, the JP is dead. Shame but without removing mounts from LA it will never be the same again. I guess it will be a relic and a memory, be happy you were there.

Just interupt him.

Actually its not about how much i paid, i could afford it and i did it, what i am "complaining" as u said is that there is less and less fun going into these things and more gold sinks, read what i wrote before u post please. When you say "less fun" do you mean "less fun than spending 1k gold in one go on the TP" or "less fun than throwing 400 exotics into the mystic forge" because, if you want, you can still do those methods.

They are meant to be expensive, you chose to increase the expense by buying ascended mats (which you could have been saving up for a year before hand). Your complaint is a complaint about the core aspect of Legendary items - rarity achieved through expense.

I like people doing maths but you've made a mistake, you're not reducing the total with each roll. The first is 1/30, second is 1/29, third is 1/28...This is messing up your numbers.

Oh good, we're in the "eat each other" portion of the political movement, kicking people for buying items is insane. When you start purging people who you deem "harm society" you might worry that your education didn't take in the first half of the 20th century..

How do you feel about the people who buy a new iPhone every time they are released? Is that deliberate targetting of vulnerable people? Can we please just try to get to a point where we don't use "vulnerable people" as a bludgeoning instrument to get what we want. Every single day there is someone getting up on a soap box demanding something then wheeling on a "vulnerable person" and telling everyone who doesn't agree with them that they are hurting Timmy. I won't be buying the mounts using this delivery method, I don't like it. Anet will need to look at their data and see if this model is worth it and sustainable. Make arguments about customer trust, about reasonable price points, about the structure of the stable but please stop wheeling out a "vulnerable person" to guilt people into obeying you.

I'd be careful getting people to looking into the Isle of Man too much, the red scourge is currently licking its lips at all that private jet tax avoidance. I'm pretty sure the gambling law is very specifically designed for tax avoidance too xD

No. There is no such limit. You're assuming that ArenaNet will not add more skins to the pool. I can guarantee that they will making the odds of getting "the one you want" lower. People absolutely have the right to gamble - but then GW2 should be rated M (or even AO) and clearly labelled as a gambling product, not just a video game. Like online poker. You don't have a leg to stand on claiming this is gambling, it is just extremely expensive and badly designed (leaving an awful taste in the mouth). No casino on earth gives you a jackpot guaranteed after a maximum of 30 rolls. There very clearly is a limit, 30 rolls. There is buckets wrong with this purchasing model, inventing wrong problems does not help. It’s gambling. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gamble It is gambling in the same way buying something for £127.50 when it comes with stuff you don't want is gambling, ie. not at all gambling but stupidly expensive and badly designed. Gambling always requires a chance you will lose, you cannot lose if you buy 30 tickets or even the whole bundle "deal." I really have no interest in defending this awful decision by Anet, but it is not gambling. Gambling is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning money or material goods. The outcome of what you are buying is uncertain until you have only 1 skin left. The object is 30 mounts which Anet has valued at £127.50, they will deliver it to you one random piece at a time or you can buy it all at once for a discount. You are just excited about one piece but the product is the whole thing. You aren't winning anything you are just buying a group lot in a random order with the option to stop buying pieces once you get the bits you want. As I said, I hate it but it is not gambling. It is gambling and you are derailing this thread. I didn't bring up gambling, other people did, complaining about "derailing" the thread when you are arguing with me is ridiculous (especially since the OP of the thread I was speaking in, before the merge, specifically was talking about gambling addiction). The model is gross, they need to change it but it is not gambling (you can prove it by buying the set unlock or 30 tickets).

No. There is no such limit. You're assuming that ArenaNet will not add more skins to the pool. I can guarantee that they will making the odds of getting "the one you want" lower. People absolutely have the right to gamble - but then GW2 should be rated M (or even AO) and clearly labelled as a gambling product, not just a video game. Like online poker. You don't have a leg to stand on claiming this is gambling, it is just extremely expensive and badly designed (leaving an awful taste in the mouth). No casino on earth gives you a jackpot guaranteed after a maximum of 30 rolls. There very clearly is a limit, 30 rolls. There is buckets wrong with this purchasing model, inventing wrong problems does not help. It’s gambling. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gamble It is gambling in the same way buying something for £127.50 when it comes with stuff you don't want is gambling, ie. not at all gambling but stupidly expensive and badly designed. Gambling always requires a chance you will lose, you cannot lose if you buy 30 tickets or even the whole bundle "deal." I really have no interest in defending this awful decision by Anet, but it is not gambling. Gambling is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning money or material goods. The outcome of what you are buying is uncertain until you have only 1 skin left. The object is 30 mounts which Anet has valued at £127.50, they will deliver it to you one random piece at a time or you can buy it all at once for a discount. You are just excited about one piece but the product is the whole thing. You aren't winning anything you are just buying a group lot in a random order with the option to stop buying pieces once you get the bits you want. As I said, I hate it but it is not gambling.

No. There is no such limit. You're assuming that ArenaNet will not add more skins to the pool. I can guarantee that they will making the odds of getting "the one you want" lower. People absolutely have the right to gamble - but then GW2 should be rated M (or even AO) and clearly labelled as a gambling product, not just a video game. Like online poker. You don't have a leg to stand on claiming this is gambling, it is just extremely expensive and badly designed (leaving an awful taste in the mouth). No casino on earth gives you a jackpot guaranteed after a maximum of 30 rolls. There very clearly is a limit, 30 rolls. There is buckets wrong with this purchasing model, inventing wrong problems does not help. It’s gambling. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gambleIt is gambling in the same way buying something for £127.50 when it comes with stuff you don't want is gambling, ie. not at all gambling but stupidly expensive and badly designed. Gambling always requires a chance you will lose, you cannot lose if you buy 30 tickets or even the whole bundle "deal." I really have no interest in defending this awful decision by Anet, but it is not gambling.

No. There is no such limit. You're assuming that ArenaNet will not add more skins to the pool. I can guarantee that they will making the odds of getting "the one you want" lower. People absolutely have the right to gamble - but then GW2 should be rated M (or even AO) and clearly labelled as a gambling product, not just a video game. Like online poker. You don't have a leg to stand on claiming this is gambling, it is just extremely expensive and badly designed (leaving an awful taste in the mouth). No casino on earth gives you a jackpot guaranteed after a maximum of 30 rolls. There very clearly is a limit, 30 rolls. There is buckets wrong with this purchasing model, inventing wrong problems does not help.

You have a point with the max limit. That is important and I agree. I just saw a LOT of discussion where people did not understand why people were upset with lootboxes in general and thought I would help people to understand. Everything you said after that though I disagree with. You're taking a complex issue and completely undermining it and distorting it to mean something I did not intend. Also, people aren't necessarily giving their kids their credit cards. Kids are taking them from their wallets. Kids are smarter then you think. If they can figure out how to pay for something with it online by themselves, they can find out where you keep it. As I said I don't like the model they chose here and hope this thread nudges Anet to change it. However complaints must be made correctly and people are confusing this with lootboxes (which are independent rolls on a loot table), I read "every roll is 1/30," which is incorrect since each skin is removed from the pool as you get it. The stable model is extremely expensive, on average, if you wish one or two specific skins (which I do not like). My argument was specifically crafted to undermine the position I was arguing against, I do not like it, glad you agree. If your children are stealing from you then you have worse problems than online game lootboxes (even when they aren't lootboxes). I don't think we can solve the problem of bad parenting by stopping online RNG, I don't think you do either.

I don't like the model Anet have chosen for this set of mount skins. I think they are experimenting on models with this new product; we've seen a set for 1600 (marked as on sale from 2000), a single skin with more elaborate design for 2000 and random skins from a pool of 30 for 400 each. Hopefully they will get some good feedback and come up with a decent system in future, I personally liked the glider model - fixed price with some released into BLTC (would be happy to see themed sets again too). Bringing the "gambling destroys lives" debate into this discussion on mount skin price model is wrong and merely trying to sow two different issues together. The maximum you can possibly "gamble" over your entire life on these mounts is £127.50, this is not a bottomless pit where you mortgage your house. I realise you're trying to pick a topical issue and bring it into the current discussion but you're making an error. As for the "gambling destroys lives" debate I would rather people had the right to gamble than surrender that right to someone who knows best, I also think there is a general trend in the world where people will try and take things from you for the safety of others which is unhealthy (people exercising power and feeling virtuous about it should always be feared - zealotry didn't die with religion). Anyone bringing children into this is ridiculous, stop giving your kids your credit card.

I've been ok with the kind of RNG Anet have used so far but this feels gross. I understand the counter point would be "they could have just thrown all these into BLTC and you'd be even a lower chance of getting what you want," but this seems like a real cash grab when we've been used to the ethical system they used for gliders (and I was fine with the occassional BLTC glider because of the general system they had). I realise this is a new product Anet are selling and maybe are trying to find the right price point (we've had 1600 gems for a set, 2000 gems for 1 definite and 400 gems for random all put out within a few weeks of PoF, they are clearly experimenting), but I would suggest using the same model as gliders. Obviously this stable is in the game now, let's hope they move to a more reasonable "buy what you want" system in the future.

I really enjoyed the hard mode GW1 maps, would enjoy this in GW2 but sounds like it would need a lot of work to implement. I think best we can hope for it Anet just upping the difficulty in certain areas they produce, which I hope they do (PoF was lacking in difficult content - which is bad for a second expansion).

I beat the eater of souls pre nerf first try without dying, why are you giving me details on what breakbars are? And I said the game doesn't give you enough information. But managed to give enough information for you.. If you can manage it so can others and it is extremely condescending to cry out "These peasants are unable to conquer this fight, only I, the mighty, could prevail! Nerf it, lest they cry themselves to sleep over their inadequecies." Other GW2 players are gamers too and should be extended the respect of believing in their ability to problem solve - or at least google. Games should push you and make you better, and this "push" is a break bar ffs, every djinn in the desert has one!

I am all for including break bar tutorials but it is ludicrous to ask a boss fight in the second expansion(!!) to not have a break bar mechanic until you get that tutorial. Keeping the entire production of content at nooby level for a 5 year old game is just insulting to everyone, it creates boring fights for veterans and makes newer players out to be idiots who cannot pick up new mechanics. Fights with mechanics improve player skill and also check to see if you should be allowed to progress, you didn't get to kill Ganon without completing the Water Temple and you shouldn't be allowed to kill Balthazar without understanding what a break bar is.

I only play mesmer and he dies extremely easily. You interupt him and win, if you miss an interupt you have 4(!!!) buttons which remove your illusions.