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The email with its wording and the gift was just so that those who bought HoT separately before wouldn't be angry about the bundle discount because they paid more themselves. The email doesn't mean that HoT is a free addition to PoF. If Anet really set the price for HoT at 0, Anet would also "sell" HoT individually for 0 €/$ (more precisely, Anet would give it away for free). But Anet does not do that for good reasons, because the calculated price of HoT is not 0. It is pure marketing how Anet calls the resulting bundle of "HoT+PoF". Anet has decided to call it "HoT+PoF" on its web/shop page. Both components of the bundle are communicated equally. It is actually normal and to be expected that a 9-year-old expansion (HoT) and a 7-year-old expansion (PoF) are no longer offered at the original retail price, but only at a significant discount. This is also the case with this bundle. Based on the presentation in the webshop, a buyer can expect to receive a discount of (roughly) around 50% on the individual components through the bundle. An example from a different perspective: If I buy a bundle on Steam (for other games), but already have one or more components of the bundle, I am offered the bundle at a reduced price. However, the fact that owners of HoT cannot buy only the PoF component of the bundle but have to pay a price that equals the original retail price of PoF (no matter how Anet's marketing communicates the bundle, those players already have HoT and therefore only buy the PoF part of the bundle) may be an oversight on Anet's part, but it may also be intentional. However, it is understandable that those affected by this (I am not affected by it) are not happy about it.

It's easy to write texts that you understand yourself. But the message is created by the recipient. You don't seem to understand that. At least some. Including the first post. However, I have also read many good and factual arguments here. But you don't address them and just dismiss them. Which is why the discussion is over for me.

Whatever it means, it means.

Yes, Anet makes it too complicated. The easiest to understand version would have been: JW unlocks the warclaw in PvE and WvW.

People in the entertainment industry also enjoy their jobs. Of course not all of them, not everything and not always. Otherwise many would do something completely different.

The way you generalize it, that is exactly the impression that can arise from your statements. Or you could think about whether people who disagree with you might not also be right in their views.

Well, when I look at the many players who just stupidly run into an enemy group without any brains or sense and then die predictably and needlessly and only do kill feeding, then I dare to doubt it. The goal of WvW is not to die as quickly and as often as possible, but to kill as many opposing players as possible and to capture or defend objects. And killing opposing players sometimes works better when you are still alive yourself. Of course, sometimes it can also make sense to sacrifice yourself, for example if you jump into a capture circle alone to delay the opponents a bit until your own reinforcements arrive.

They don't die. They simply go to sleep and wake up at the next WP. 😇 There are many reasons why they stay behind, even if you can only think of one. Not all of them have to have the same reasons. Fear of dying is probably only a reason for some, if any. In hopeless fights, not giving the enemy any bags/points can also be a reason.

But at least they don't move towards you when you blink. That would be really creepy. 🤓

Me too. I completed the achievement and the icon is still above Hellie's head. So it has to be bugged.

Well, I can think of several reasons for this. I have already mentioned one of them, but not the only one. Standing Stones Timepiece is a back item. There is no market for legendary back items. Because they cannot be sold, just like trinkets and armor. If Anet had wanted to change this principle, they would have already done so with the new legendary armor in SotO. You apparently didn't understand what I wrote because I didn't destroyed it. Apart from that: There was definitely a case (in the Ice Brood Saga) where many players destroyed an item (a kind-of-precursor, but not for something legendary) that they needed much later in content updates for a collection/weapon. Anet then made the destroyed item purchasable for those who had unlocked the skin. So there has already been a (nearly similar) case like this.

I have read several times (but can't remember the source) that Anet uses inch units. But of course it's a game and the distances/maps are compressed/shortened etc. and not to scale.

Yeah, but they are not helping in this case. When I google for "omega doomed" the first search results are pointing to this thread. 🤣

Oh, thanks for the tip. 😉 I was about to recycle the Standing Stones Timepiece without reading it's tooltip text because I already have a legy back item and don't want an exotic one. 🤦‍♂️ But now I'll put it in the bank and then I'll see what nice things I can do with it someday. 😎 BTW: The Tooltip says "Further copies can be purchased in the near future". So Anet seems to have planned for players to accidentally delete it. Why else would we be able to buy multiple versions of it?

I do the hearts regularly and it seems to me as if the events in the east of Sintri are now spawning much more often (when it's not meta time) than they did a few days ago. When the thread started, the hearts in Sintri took a lot longer.

I haven't checked, so it's a real question: Were the vendor costs and receipes from SotO and EoD, that required unusual coins back then, also changed to require ancient coins?

Yes, during the LW period (at least one season) there were, according to Anet, several teams (I think three) that each worked on one episode. Otherwise the short release times would not have been possible back then.

This is simply due to your lack of imagination and it is a matter of personal preference, so it has more to do with you than GW2.

If you were interested in a serious philosophical discussion, you would have written that in your first text. You should know that precise language and context are important. The way you presented yourself, you now appear (to some) to be a troll who is better not fed.

The events "Defend the kodan base from the Mistburned creatures" and "Defend the captive kodan sacrifice" (which you need for achievements) only start every two hours, exactly when the meta event "Of Mists and Monsters" is active. Players who wait for the two events are missing from the map meta and those who fully participate in the map meta cannot do anything in the two events. The fact that the events only occur every two hours at the same time as the map meta is such a bad idea, it has to be a bug.

What could the "RPG" in the word "MMORPG" (GW2 is an MMORPG) stand for? 😅

I suspect that, in the good old philosophical tradition, you want to solve a problem that doesn't even exist without your "solution". 😉

It is not uncommon in philosophy to write an entire book just to discuss a concept or issue from scratch. And you get bonus points (challenge mode) if you quote as many concepts as possible from other books of exactly the same kind (the references to which you can only understand if you have also read all of these other books). 😉 And I get the feeling that we are involuntarily helping with philosophy homework. 😎

Yes, I play a game in my free time. That's the general term for me. In contrast to work, for example, for which I am paid by my employer. It doesn't matter to me whether the activities in the game that I enjoy are categorized as "play" by you. And again my question, which you have not answered yet: Why should your categorization of different activities in GW2 be important and have practical relevance for anyone other than you?

This detail seems to be important to you. But I don't agree with your definition and don't think it's correct or relevant. So why should such a definition be important to players in general? That's my point.