Calistin.6210

what are you talking about?

Just upgraded my core account to HoT and PoF and also upgraded my wife and son's account to HoT/PoF. Quite happy I waited!

In GMT +2 (which covers germany, I think) the stream starts at 1800 hours (or 6pm) on a friday. So, I mean, it's not the worst time in the world if you exclude personal circumstance. In NA its straight up work school time.Indeed. I will be missing the "live" stream since I am volunteering at my sons school so no chance for me either.

It's not quite there yet but not that far from getting there. Also I do understand companies need to make money but I swear some people make it out like they would all go belly up without a cash shop....and that just not the case for B2P. Anet be like: Some people be like:

I do not like these short timers...it's just to get people to buy the stupid primer from the gem store.....I dislike it when b2p games try to "entice" you to use their cash shop like this.... make me feel like I am playing a p2w f2p game.

That's nice but when you go to support/purchase support there's nothing about this which is where this should be otherwise 75% of the people going there will not find it. It should be right in here: https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/categories/200110178-Purchase-Support-Payment-Methods-Upgrades-and-Products Nor is it mentioned under the "problems when purchasing gems" result when searching for "can't buy gems".. https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/115016021188-Problems-When-Purchasing-Gems

Yeah for peeps in the future if you are on wireless always try a wired ethernet connection as drops like this leading to crashes in gaming happen often enough that it should be the first thing to check out

Had a problem not long ago and was able to fix it by doing this, pasted this from another thread I mention this in. It may solve the issue for some of you, if not you will need to contact support. Bought the unbreakable tools at 50% off then went to buy them for my better half and bam Unfortunately an error has occurred. Please try again later! so I guessed the game doesn't want married couples using the same payment source or something so she tried using her paypal but bam the same error again. I did some searching and digging around and found a solution for those with this error that worked for my wife. You need to go to c\user\"yourusername"\appdata\local\temp and do a search for gw2cache delete this file and voila gem store purchase worked. The file you want to delete should look like this but may have different numbers after gw2cache. gw2cache-{xxx9786F-27D6-xxxx-6C78-E9BAxxxxxxx23} My wife was able to buy gems via paypal and get the unbreakable tool all without having to wait on support. This should really be something Anet has in tier support section so people can try this before contacting support.

Is starting to look this sale will end with a whimper, though there still time for those utility items to appear.

Still no expansion sale... eh really need a good sale to be able to buy the expansions and living world seasons x3. Can wait on the seasons but the expansion simply have too much important stuff locked behind them to play as core or f2p long term. At this rate gw2 will turn into a log in, do dailies, log out game. Guess will just have to hope the expansion themselves, not the upgrades, will come on sale with the announcement on the 30th...

Actually it is Anet problem. They decided not to comply with Belgian laws and simply decided its easier to remove service from belgian players. Anet had the option - comply with the law or dont do business in the jurisdiction. They chose the latter since its easier. If anything rest of us outside of belgium should fight that this becomes legal standard so companies cant just go "lol dont care, we have other markets" Also, same industries across the world usually have similar regulation or regulation based on same core principles.Arguments about negative effects of legal particularism dont really work any more in 21century. This is purely a matter of convinence and size of market. If US had the same laws or there were regulations on EU level, gaming companies would comply the very same moment No this is where it's a poor decision to involve government. Players are already empowered to support this type of business by not buying these items if they don't like the process. Lack of sales will drive changes in how/what can be acquired. We don't need government for this and when you do involve them you run into what the OP is facing. And sorry OP but as stated above you should be writing to your government to get this changed. Again if this was a drug company that is purposely increasing prices on drugs people need to be able to live that's quite different. These are optional cosmetic items that before some players were blocked by laws their government put into place people could acquire from ingame currency. We don't need government for that, sorry. I am writing my government to say stay out of this, focus on things we need government for like clean air and water topics that affect millions of people. If you are getting to these laws while people are dying because of drug companies they had better start to look for new employment now before the elections. No, that's an overly simplistic view of things. It's like saying beer, drugs and prostitution should not have any laws to regulate or make it illegal cause people can "police" themselves just fine. History has shown again and again that simply isn't the case. Please don't try to make it a case of the government trying to be our nannies or taking our freedoms away cause it's not that at all. You just made my point. I never said anything about not needing regulation on beer, drugs and prostitution, especially since I wouldn't put these in the same category. If anything we need more regulation on drug companies and their practices or alternative government solutions to skyrocketing drug prices that were on the markets for decades before one company bought the rights that another had. Not all things are the same here. Government has a limited amount of time to engage in things. Meaning for each thing that is being done something else is not. So if they are focusing on gaming over other things then to me they are not getting issues addressed that people can not do for themselves that require government. So no I wouldn't want my representatives working on something like this when there are so many other issues not getting done already. Again a simplistic view. You do not ignore other important issues simply because they are not the most pressing issues you as an elected official have to deal/talk/work on. This is about gambling in games and why should games companies get a free hand so to speak when other casino's and other gambling site have strict rules they must follow. Obviously there have been more pressing issues which is why we are lagging behind on this digital front on this issues in particular though there are others like paying taxes on online purchases etc etc. That doesn't mean you just ignore this issue or give in to it. No I think you just think rng gambling boxes should be allowed and we should decide to buy them or not and that there shouldn't be any kind of laws on it, like there is on other gambling sites. These "lootboxes" should have never been allowed in our games period IMO and please don't cry to me about how the poor poor companies like Anet would go belly up without them as that's a huge fallacy as I have ever heard. lol At least that's my take on this and it's okay if you don't agree with it. Not something I like to keep going on about as it just becomes circular arguments that go no where productive.

How about you move closer to the servers. Do it NOW.

Is something on your end firefox is working fine for me too.

Actually it is Anet problem. They decided not to comply with Belgian laws and simply decided its easier to remove service from belgian players. Anet had the option - comply with the law or dont do business in the jurisdiction. They chose the latter since its easier. If anything rest of us outside of belgium should fight that this becomes legal standard so companies cant just go "lol dont care, we have other markets" Also, same industries across the world usually have similar regulation or regulation based on same core principles.Arguments about negative effects of legal particularism dont really work any more in 21century. This is purely a matter of convinence and size of market. If US had the same laws or there were regulations on EU level, gaming companies would comply the very same moment No this is where it's a poor decision to involve government. Players are already empowered to support this type of business by not buying these items if they don't like the process. Lack of sales will drive changes in how/what can be acquired. We don't need government for this and when you do involve them you run into what the OP is facing. And sorry OP but as stated above you should be writing to your government to get this changed. Again if this was a drug company that is purposely increasing prices on drugs people need to be able to live that's quite different. These are optional cosmetic items that before some players were blocked by laws their government put into place people could acquire from ingame currency. We don't need government for that, sorry. I am writing my government to say stay out of this, focus on things we need government for like clean air and water topics that affect millions of people. If you are getting to these laws while people are dying because of drug companies they had better start to look for new employment now before the elections.No, that's an overly simplistic view of things. It's like saying beer, drugs and prostitution should not have any laws to regulate or make it illegal cause people can "police" themselves just fine. History has shown again and again that simply isn't the case. Please don't try to make it a case of the government trying to be our nannies or taking our freedoms away cause it's not that at all.

The problem with RNG boxes is that the decent stuff always has a 0.000001% chance to drop. I mean I look at it as an extra chance at loot if you happen to be doing a champ but I will not hold my breath for anything good to come of it and as such look at the event in the same light. Companies use these RNG to bank on the addictive nature of these RNG boxes which they hope will lead to people buying their gambling aka lootboxes or their keys. It easier to give in to something if it's familiar aye ;)

No this is a gaming industry problem. The fight should be to get all the countries around the world to follow Belgium's example to force game companies to stop promoting gambling in game, and it doesn't matter if they try to conceal the gambling nature of it by calling it "surprise mechanics". All this could be very simple to avoid if the RNG boxes would just die off already. If they wanna sell rare items then just sell them instead of making people "gamble" for them.

I am curious: what troll behaviours there was befone? There were also non-troll reasons. If the leader disconnected for whatever reason the instance would close. If the leader wasn't aware that they were the ones holding the instance open and they got their rewards first and then immediately left, others who had not gotten their rewards lost out on them because they didn't have time to loot. It's a case of which is the lesser of two evils and I'd take what we have now over what we had. This. Having an instance close near the end because the party leader DCd was awful. The loot issue as well.That's due to backwards coding..... an instance should stay open until everyone in it is gone. I mean even DDO got that right.

I don't use the LFG very much but this seems like a silly system designed to troll far far more than a traditional system with one party leader that is in control. I mean you put up a LFM it should be yours...others can join or not as they choose, I don't see how anyone can troll that. People can choose or not to join your party according to what you want to run and how you will run it. If anyone doesn't like the shape or form etc etc pf your party they are free not to join it and make their own. The current system however you have zero control as even if you politely try to make you own group according to your own wishes anyone can come in and just troll the kitten out of it. In this system looks like you just want to stick to "private" groups and not rely on the LFG tool period.

Bleh nothing new or interesting for me to the 25th of August...I

You forgot one home node but is only available at festival vendor in hooligans area in Lions Arch. Gift of Candy Corn

To get back on track. Bought the unbreakable tools at 50% off then went to buy them for my better half and bam Unfortunately an error has occurred. Please try again later! so I guessed the game doesn't want married couples using the same payment source or something so she tried using her paypal but bam the same error again. I did some searching and digging around and found a solution for those with this error that worked for my wife. You need to go to c\user\"yourusername"\appdata\local\temp and do a search for gw2cache delete this file and voila gem store purchase worked. The file you want to delete should look like this but may have different numbers after gw2cache. gw2cache-{xxx9786F-27D6-xxxx-6C78-E9BAxxxxxxx23} My wife was able to buy gems via paypal and get the unbreakable tool all without having to wait on support. This should really be something Anet has in tier support section so people can try this before contacting support.

I did some searching and digging around and found a solution for those with this error that worked for my wife. You need to go to c\user\"yourusername"\appdata\local\temp and do a search for gw2cache delete this file and voila gem store purchase worked. The file you want to delete should look like this but may have different numbers after gw2cache. gw2cache-{xxx9786F-27D6-xxxx-6C78-E9BAxxxxxxx23} My wife was able to buy gems via paypal and get the unbreakable tool all without having to wait on support. This should really be something Anet has in thier support section so people can try this before contacting support.

I was able to use my palpal to buyb gems to get the unbreakable tools which is scurrently at 50% off and before that the copper salvage o matic. My wife tried to buy gems using my paypal but received this error message, btw they make that flash by way way too quick on the screen. We assume it because this game doesn't want two people thus two different accounts using the same payment method? I mean she my wife and we use the same paypal but she does have her own which is used less often and mostly for odd cases like this so i sent her the money required from my paypal to hers. Once she had it in her paypal she tried to purchase gems again but still getting the same darn error. I can get them blocking it the first time for "security" reasons but you should be able to switch payment methods without your account getting locked down like this. The stupid thing about this whole thing is I can buy gems on my account but I can't buy the unbreakable tools for her and gift them to her as I can't get them twice at the 50% off sale price....lol I suppose there is no safe online stores you can buy gem cards (and receive the code via email) from either?

Just no. Thanks!

Also remember that not everyone was playing when these bundles were out previously. So if people like the bundles and don't have too much of the contents (such as permanent gathering tools) then these are sweet deals for them. Deals for those of us who have these things already are yet to come, I'm sure. It might not be until the very end though. The problem with the PoF bundle is those of us that don't have the tools likely don't have the expansions yet and are waiting on a decent sale for them which mean we can't buy the PoF prep pack. Anet decided f2p player's were not allowed to and also decided that people that bought core accounts are f2p....at least when it comes to this pack. It's more than odd considering I can buy those items individually .....