Curse

Shayne Hawke · May 27, 2009, 03:48 AM // 03:48

I'd like to say something about the Greased and Z-Keys I lost in late February with a bunch of other people's things, but I was never certain whose fault that was after all.

Other than that, there is nothing notable I can think of that ANet "owes" me.

MithranArkanere · May 27, 2009, 03:57 AM // 03:57

More retroactive changes like the lip-synch, Prophecies endgame area or the spear and scythes in Factions.
When they add new cool stuff is like entering a bright room. When you go back to old campaigns everything's seems emptier and incomplete.

Ah! And 5 survivors. When you disconnect, the server should put your character on 'cinematic stasis'. Can't damage enemies, can't die, don't earn exp and stay like that until you reconnect.

Masmar · May 27, 2009, 04:07 AM // 04:07

5,000 hours

12 chars

shoyon456 · May 27, 2009, 04:22 AM // 04:22

Im square with anet, but if they keep trying to give us free large updates just to trick us into buying gw2, I may end up owing them.

Hyperventilate · May 27, 2009, 04:31 AM // 04:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zodiac Meteor

Examples:

You ever lag out after the chest at FoWSC? And you are the one who used cons?
At HoH but rubber banded the shrine run. Was ahead by 2 but realized you all the way near the relic pick up. Cost you the game.
Got the most powerful build and spent 10k on tomes, but got nerfed the next day.
Got a rare green drop, but lagged out before picking it up.
Spent 75k for elite armor, but the rare materials prices spiked on a new update. Now you realize you could have 300k if you didn't use it on the armor.
Spent 100k on a necrid horsemen when mini pets first came out. Three months later, your horsemen price is 20k.
Running SoO, everyone payed you 8k and about to get to boss. Then you lagged for 5 minutes and everyone left, calling you a RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing scammer then reported you.

1: Lag happens. Reconnect. If you can't reconnect, oh well. It isn't A-net's fault your connection blows.

2: See 1. Your connection stinks. Oh well, get in line. You're not the only one.

3: See 1 and 2.

4: Price fluxes happen. It's the glory and downfall of a player based market. A-net won't say, "This is what this is worth, and if you don't like it, tough." Just to keep people like you from Q_Qing over it. It happens.

5: See 4. Simple economics. Low supply but high demand: Prices skyrocket. After the market is saturated with a few more, the demand will go down because the supply is so high. High supply, low demand: low price. It always happens when something is new.

6: See 1, 2, & 3. Also, if your connection stinks as much as it does (And if you're well aware of this), you shouldn't be running.
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My connection blows. I've lost out on a lot of stuff because of it. But A-net isn't my ISP and I can't blame them for my crappy connection. Unfortunately, it's the only ISP I'll ever have because there not any other internet suppliers out where I live (Where civilization ends in so-cal.).

All in all, they don't owe you, me, or anyone else that plays this game anything.

Baw more.

Antares Ascending · May 27, 2009, 04:58 AM // 04:58

.

As likely as not your ISP lagged.

Selling an item not knowing it would be worth more at some point is just life...btw, an unded kuni doesn't go for 300k unless prices have spiked hugely recently.

Buy a spiffy car...one that costs a bit but is a very popular one, park it and maintain it in a garage for 50 years...profit! ..or use it and sell it for a fraction of the cost after 5 years..your choice..

Anet owes me nufin. I got a great game for a reasonable price and have spent hundreds of hours playing it. The hourly rate for play is near zip...good deal

genofreek · May 27, 2009, 05:03 AM // 05:03

I've had gold things drop up in Riverside Province towers so I couldn't get them. I've bought things only to see their value plummet the next day. I've lost survivors due to lagspikes on Anet's end. I missed out on quite a few draconic scythes because I beat Factions before their release. I'm still annoyed that EOTN dungeons are made up of reused bits and the armor is all reskins. Don't get me started on that bonus mission pack fiasco.

But Anet owes me nothing.

Aussie Boy · May 27, 2009, 05:16 AM // 05:16

Nothin as I have had my moneys worth playing THERE game for 4 years.
If my connection is flaky and I lose things like examples in OP well thats my problem not Anet's.

**Marty Silverblade** · May 27, 2009, 06:06 AM // 06:06

All those lag things are your fault, no point discussing those.

Did get screwed over by Anet for not being able to play the Factions event thing with the tengu mask because they shipped it late or something though.

Boneyard Spleeneater · May 27, 2009, 06:50 AM // 06:50

2000+ hrs at $25 an hour (rough estimate, it's how much I charged as a mover; I am worth much more now as an engineer).

That's a lot of scratch. WTF though, gamers will be gamers, eh?

I had a boss tell me that a 12 hour gaming binge I went on was a waste of time. I didn't say anything, but it occured to me that I could've spent that time driving around a five acre lot on a tractor digging ditches that will be filled in by erosion in 100 years (like him).

When GW isn't fun, I will quit playing and play another game. Or maybe watch a movie, read a book, or go fly my kite.

EDIT: Here is a neat link posted on a web comic that is somewhat relevant. I don't think it's exactly the same (since games are more of a product than art, although there are elements of both in them), but the sentiment holds somewhat.

SpyderArachnid · May 27, 2009, 07:09 AM // 07:09

Gotta say Anet owes me one thing.

earlier today we had a server wide Disconnect. Server went down, then came back up.

FoW, on my way to open my chest.......... disconnect. >.<

All in all, they've been good to me.

Divine Ashes · May 27, 2009, 07:45 AM // 07:45

Over the 4 years I've played, I'd say ANET has been really good to me. I cant blame lag problems on then (most of the time), and I don't remember anything in particular that stands out as a huge let down...

...Maybe spending (a possible) 2 million gold on ZKeys and not getting ANYTHING the least bit useful/valuable?

Even then, I have notoriously bad luck as it is.

greyhawk · May 27, 2009, 07:49 AM // 07:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by IcyFiftyFive

http://i40.tinypic.com/2ngtlxt.jpg

Lolz

lol i remember when this happened, e-blades were worth like 4-5x what they are now :P that was funny

to stay with thread, ANET owes me nothing, if anything i owe them more for 5000+ hours of game play, enjoyment and fun. hell nothing in my life other then beer has given me that much joy. and well i owe a dying liver to beer.

so ANET to you i offer my eyes for starring into the computer monitor for all those hours, or even my hands from all the typing and mouse clicking.

MMSDome · May 27, 2009, 07:50 AM // 07:50

millions for loot scaling

DJCoastal · May 27, 2009, 08:00 AM // 08:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelgadissan

my life back.

DEFIANTLY!!!!!!!

and all those ectos and black dyes I accidentally merched so many times due to stupid lags... T_T

wetwillyhip · May 27, 2009, 08:23 AM // 08:23

i think Anet should owe me back all the time I've spent playing a game that since revolved around a single invincible skill. Oh yeah, uhmm... that would be about a year ago. (that's something that was Anet's fault).

Gun Pierson · May 27, 2009, 08:44 AM // 08:44

Anet owes me nothing except for two parts of monk FoW armor maybe (chest piece + legs) and I'll explain why.

I bought my fow armor back in the days and used shiny blue dye mix. In the old colour charts it was purple + orange. So after a while of farming I was able to buy my first 3 spare parts (1 x gloves and 2 x shoes). Everything was ok and I could still dye them in the appropriate colour.

After a couple of weeks I saved enough to get the second chest and legs piece, but they changed the monk armor overnight without mentioning it to the playerbase. The following day I go out there, lost around a million for those 2 pieces at the time only to find out I couldn't dye them in the same colour anymore.

I contacted tech support, that they didn't put the info out before the update and that I couldn't colour it anymore, which was the real problem, not the gold I waisted. I got replies from 3 people working at Anet that they acknowledged the situation, but couldn't do a thing for me. Till this day it has its effects as the armour will show up as basic brown in the HoM, while it's metalic shiny blue.

Anet owes me 2 shiny blue FoW armor pieces. And if I had known that they would change the monk armor overnight, I would quickly have bought the pieces a day earlier.

kedde · May 27, 2009, 09:04 AM // 09:04

I like to think they owe me a couple exciting world championships.

obsidian ectoplasm · May 27, 2009, 09:10 AM // 09:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelgadissan

My life back.

you beat me to it!

gg

Etta · May 27, 2009, 09:19 AM // 09:19

They owe me nothing.

Alright, maybe a beer or two.