ArenaNet: Linsey Murdock unveils High End Ascended Gear (2012-11-13)

[bokiz333]

I'm afraid I can't agree with that.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I've never in all my years of professional internetting, read such as assinine statement. It's borderline assinten.

But my fellow mmoians, my opponents wants you to believe he can't agree with me on this issue. But he was agreeing with me before he wasn't. He's a flip-floper that can't be trusted to lead this online community. Bad things are bad, and good things are good. Generic statement about how I plan to make thing better in some vague way. And that's why I'm the right choice not only today, but for all your future random and possibly trolling needs.

God bless you all.

[Fey]

But my fellow mmoians, my opponents wants you to believe he can't agree with me on this issue. But he was agreeing with me before he wasn't. He's a flip-floper that can't be trusted to lead this online community. Bad things are bad, and good things are good. Generic statement about how I plan to make thing better in some vague way. And that's why I'm the right choice not only today, but for all your future random and possibly trolling needs.

That's a pretty solid Vayne impression.

[bokiz333]

That's a pretty solid Vayne impression.

I also do a decent looking liquid Vayne and gassius Vayne. But I refuse to do a plasma Vayne.

[frunk]

I'm curious what ArenaNet have in mind when they do increase the level cap in a future expansion (as they have said that they 'definitely' will). I don't expect them to keep the armor stat cap at the same level if they do, as then there would be absolutely no progression while leveling up (which is apparently what a lot of people want, and what ArenaNet wants to give them). Will all ascended gear become obsolete again at that time (regardless of how many hours people spent grinding to get it) and will all legendary gear be scaled up again?

I have no idea. I'm assuming ascended won't get upgraded. Maybe legendaries will become floating level, pinned to the level of the character that it is soulbound to.

[Jim Hunter]

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/c...es-and-beyond/

New statement released...... and not a fucking word about their intentions with ascended gear or anything to address peoples concern.

I was just planning on taking a break from the game but this [man] is making me want to uninstall it.

[mod edit: insulting]

[Fey]

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/c...es-and-beyond/

New statement released...... and not a fucking word about their intentions with ascended gear or anything to address peoples concern.

I was just planning on taking a break from the game but this [man] is making me want to uninstall it.

[mod edit: insulting]

"After the holiday we’ll be doing a number of community Q&As and live community conferences where you can ask us questions and get the down-low on how we are evolving the world of Tyria."

lol gee, I wonder what the majority of THOSE will be about.

[Centaur]

People, I understand the frustration very well (and share it), but please do watch your language and do remain respectful to others... including the people at ArenaNet!

[Jim Hunter]

"After the holiday we’ll be doing a number of community Q&As and live community conferences where you can ask us questions and get the down-low on how we are evolving the world of Tyria."

lol gee, I wonder what the majority of THOSE will be about.

lol I'm sure plenty of people will be asking the questions but I wonder if they will give any straight answers.

[Vayne]

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/c...es-and-beyond/

New statement released...... and not a fucking word about their intentions with ascended gear or anything to address peoples concern.

I was just planning on taking a break from the game but this [man] is making me want to uninstall it.

[mod edit: insulting]

Jim exactly what percentage of players do you think are actually aware of this problem you feel so strongly about? Did you really think Anet would ground to a halt because a percentage of players are disenfranchised?

If they saw a need to do this, they're not going to just reverse the decision without serious discussion. They also ran a pretty big event, which has other flaws. Flaws that didn't get that much attention because everyone was focused on this problem.

Anet doesn't have one thing to do. They have a game to run, which presumably has a million or so players. Let's pretend 100,000 people are really mad about this (and I think probably it's not 100,000, but a very vocal minority who really follow the game, because we all know most people playing games don't follow them at all. We ARE the minority.

So did you think every single article and statement they made would address the concerns of that minority. In fact, do you think they've even come to a decision based on it.

Let's pretend Anet didn't know the shitstorm that came out of this. Let's pretend they're in damage control mode. Do you really think it's so easy to just address this without discussion, meetings, making a plan?

This other stuff, the event wrap up is something they do every time. It's part of normal process. Did you expect the normal process not to go on, because you're disenfranchised.

I see a lot of noise about this, probably hundreds of individual posters posting. But if there are a millions of players, many of whom don't even follow this, don't they get some air time too, or is it all about you.

If Anet is going to change this, and I don't suspect they will btw (though I hope they do something for you guys), they're not going to do it over night. They're going to think through the change. Just as they thought through doing it in the first place. You may not believe they thought it through, but companies like Anet don't do things off the cuff. They think things through and they have reasons, even if they get it wrong sometimes.

So, if you're not patient enough to see what they say, at least be aware that they still might be saying other things in the interim.

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That's a pretty solid Vayne impression.

Actually, the reason I come off like that is because I'm a moderator, and often have to hold back what I REALLY want to say. Those who know me would understand. The rest of you, shrugs.

I don't really much care what you think of me.

[Fey]

Actually, the reason I come off like that is because I'm a moderator, and often have to hold back what I REALLY want to say. Those who know me would understand. The rest of you, shrugs.

I don't really much care what you think of me.

What's a joke? The internet sure is serious.