Zuwadza
5181
I like the sound of all of that.
Gedd
5182
GW2LFG.com has been a life saver. I have a group of four that I regularly run with and it hasn’t taken any longer than 10 minutes to fill out the group since I started using it.
draxen
5183
3 Million copies sold!
Woohoo!
If any MMO deserved success then it’s this one. It’s a beautiful game.
Looking forward to the changes coming in 2013.
Maybe they’ll implement a in game GW2LFG at some point in 2013.
anand44
5185
It looks like they’re working on it. A new LFG system is explicitly listed in the “things we’re working on” list in the latest game director update.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-on-guild-wars-2-in-the-months-ahead/
Looks like Lionguard Lyns will be coming back without the Black Lion Keys. Pretty much expected.
Care to explain to a sorta noob what this means? Is this good or bad?
LockerK
5189
Finally. Now up the server caps or give us a free-for-all on transfers for a few days so I can get on the world I want and I’ll be content.
EDIT: Looks like they did in fact up the caps, currently no servers are listed as full so I was able to transfer. Hopefully my friends will be able to do the same.
It’s bad. This was the only way to get Black Lion Keys reliably without paying gems (real world currency) for them.
After the Karka event, you could put items into the mystic forge to gain commendation tokens that could then be exchanged for items such as 250 sized bundles of crafting tools and, apparently, a black lion key which is used to open up those annoying chests that you often find as a random drop. The black lion key is also bought for cash at the gem shop. Some clever people realised that it is much cheaper to craft and and forge commendations than it is to use cash so in true MMO fashion they ended up making with thousands and thousands of commendations (I have about 300 for a weeks worth of crunching weapons diligently… Not only are the clever, they’re completely crazy and/or unemployed.) Once the Wintersday event started the NPC you could turn the tokens in to had disappeared. Now she is coming back without the capacity to get the keys. There’s a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth due to the fact that Anet gave no warning about her disappearance nor the loss of keys.
I have little sympathy for people who try to game the system and then cry unfair when Anet uses as much scruple as they did when rectifying it. Though as Locker said, there still needs to be a way of getting rid of those chests without paying cash.
Arenanet bungled the chests in my opinion; they’re much too common, and their drops are on average too crappy. If they were a rare drop, people would be more excited by finding one, and more likely to buy a key. Instead, they’re a trash item not worth the bag space.
The holiday events tend to help with the value of the contents, but not with the fact that the chests drop at about 100x the rate required.
What’s in the chests anyway? I mean, I know they have a chance to drop random stuff, but are the odds good of getting something cool?
I have two in my inventory, but they’re just going to waste.
fdsaion
5193
You always could exchange gold for gems via the gem store and buy keys that way. All this did was provide a (temporarily) cheaper way to get keys, and only for certain recipes.
As I recall, at the time, exchanging gold for gems and buying a key the classic way cost ~80s/key (more expensive at current rates though). Cheapest way of doing it via commendations at the time was ~60s/key.
You always get 3 things:
one of them is a random random booster (XP, Magic Find, etc)
one is a tool of some kind (eg/ black lion salvage kit, transmutation stones, even another key [I even had a 7 or 8 chain of keys a long time ago])
one that is some kind of variety item - gold, guild influence, tonics
The really rare stuff that people want out of them are endless tonics and permanent [trading post/bank/vendor] access (they go for 200+ gold on the trading post)
You do get a few keys from doing the personal story, so you’ll be able to open a few eventually.
You know, I typically hate player economy stuff in MMOs. I would way, way rather just hit up a vendor than muck about with price setting and auctions and all that bullshit, not to mention I really dislike relying on human beings for gear etc as history has shown that they tend to be fickle and random creatures. I vendor stuff even if I could make way more cash by selling to players.
So I really wasn’t worried early on when the Black Lion Trading Company in GW2 wasn’t up and running yet, and it took me forever to even investigate it when it did hit. In fact, I didn’t touch it until last night. Where I found it was slick, extremely user-friendly, and super-simple. Two clicks tops to sell anything I have for the best available price. Only slightly more to pitch it at a higher price if I happen to care enough to bother. Why the fuck doesn’t it work like this in other MMOs? Why must fucking horrible-ass auctions be the de rigeur player resource trading mechanism? Thank you, ArenaNet, for finding another way!
Nesrie
5195
Any auction house is better than what FFXIV shipped with. I agree though, GW2 has a pretty painless auction. I am not sure it has much in the way of an economy though.
It’s not an auction house and weapons in the game don’t have randomized stats. The number of items it is possible to list is exponentially smaller than a game with randomized stats on equipment (like Diablo 3 or lots of MMORPGs).
fdsaion
5197
There definitely is one, and there are quite a few moving parts.
Simple example - wonder why every single rare item >L70 sells for almost exactly 27 silver regardless of what it is? Because they salvage with 90% chance into ectoplasm, which is used in all L80 exotic recipes (and some L80 rares) as well as other misc items, which hovers around 29s at current supply and demand. You can even see exactly when the big bot ban wave happened (massive supply drop and subsequent price increase).
Another example of events manifesting themselves in the market - unidentified dye. You can clearly see when they changed the drop rate on those. And that dip in middle of December? That’s when extra red and green dyes dropped due to the event.
How about glacial cores (high level crafting good). What’s the deal with the high price back in October? There was a bug that allowed you to turn those into charged lodestones, which go for considerably more. Once that was fixed, the price plummeted. Amusingly, the higher level glacial lodestone version was barely more expensive before that bug was discovered because it was misspelled in the trading post, and nobody could find it.
cousine
5198
I played WOW and now i’m looking for something new. A lot of my friends recommended me GW2. Is it good choice? I’m looking for some classic MMO.
That’s good news. Thanks.
Nesrie
5200
My comment was poorly worded. It has an economy, but I don’t think it is a very good one. I don’t know that bugs should be the most exciting thing a market experiences.
