Curse

Coridan · Feb 01, 2008, 03:01 AM // 03:01

hrm i think i will make a copy of my dat file before downloading the new update :P The can take it out of the game dat but they can't take it out of a backup file on my computer

Gattocheese · Feb 01, 2008, 03:27 AM // 03:27

I know that January and February are kind of a slow month for business and online activity. Usually after New Years. But i havent even seen a post by Gaile or any other dev for that matter since the "117". We were usually getting some info or at least a hello every week or so. It wouldnt crush my hopes to say the market is nothing. But it would be nice to have any future updates, news, screenshots, ect... to be told to us for a hype factor or a sense of advertising. Something to look forward to.

Darksun · Feb 01, 2008, 03:33 AM // 03:33

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Originally Posted by Seef II

Well, all strings pertaining to the marketplace were nuked out of my dat. Very odd. No new information from me

LOL this is the single funniest thing they could have done!
Anet: "stop snooping, this info doesn't accurately reflect what we will do! STOP IT!"

please put away your jump-to-conclusions mats!

pakhavit · Feb 01, 2008, 04:02 AM // 04:02

Hope there's no ediot try to find explocit or glicth again :X

Neo Nugget · Feb 01, 2008, 04:10 AM // 04:10

Maybe......re-accept EULA= ban for looking in .dat?
Wild guess.

pamelf · Feb 01, 2008, 04:21 AM // 04:21

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Originally Posted by Gattocheese

I know that January and February are kind of a slow month for business and online activity. Usually after New Years. But i havent even seen a post by Gaile or any other dev for that matter since the "117". We were usually getting some info or at least a hello every week or so. It wouldnt crush my hopes to say the market is nothing. But it would be nice to have any future updates, news, screenshots, ect... to be told to us for a hype factor or a sense of advertising. Something to look forward to.

Not only that, but if it's not happening it would just be polite to let us know straight away. Why let us discuss this at all if it's not happening when Gaile could just have denied it?

shoyon456 · Feb 01, 2008, 04:34 AM // 04:34

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Originally Posted by Darksun

LOL this is the single funniest thing they could have done!
Anet: "stop snooping, this info doesn't accurately reflect what we will do! STOP IT!"

please put away your jump-to-conclusions mats!

If anet really wanted to stop us from jumping to conclusions, they'd have either issued an Official statement on the matter, or removed the strings much sooner than what, 2-3 weeks after all these posts have flared up?

Be realistic, anet doesn't care what we think they'll do, they're gonna do what they're gonna do, apparently w/o informing us right away.

Silly Warrior · Feb 01, 2008, 04:45 AM // 04:45

If information on Marketplace was purposely taken out of the dat, then we know the following.

1.Anet knows we know.
2.Anet doesn't want to admit we know its real, thus taking it out of the .dat
3.Gaile and Andrew both confirm they have heard, but give no information and ignore requests to hear additional information.

The company trapped itself into a corner, and is going to ignore everything we talk about on this subject until it is released or announced.

Its real.

slowerpoke · Feb 01, 2008, 04:55 AM // 04:55

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Originally Posted by Silly Warrior

The company trapped itself into a corner, and is going to ignore everything we talk about on this subject until it is released or announced.

Its real.

On the flipside, they could have canned it

Silly Warrior · Feb 01, 2008, 04:58 AM // 04:58

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Originally Posted by slowerpoke

On the flipside, they could have canned it

Possibly, but then a reply would be given by Gaile. This hasn't happened yet. If they have nothing to hide then theres no reason to not give answers.

But they do have something to hide.

/evil laugh

arcanemacabre · Feb 01, 2008, 05:12 AM // 05:12

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Originally Posted by Silly Warrior

Its real.

Well, yeah, this definitely confirms that it is real. However, I agree with slowerpoke that this might mean it has been canned. I'd say a 50/50 chance. Still, Gaile/Andrew's silence on the matter is mysterious. Even if this whole thing is a 100% go, surely they would have said something. Maybe along the lines of:

"Alright, guys, you've had your fun looking at all the things we never meant to be seen. We've cleaned up some of that stuff in this latest patch. Oh, and don't get your hopes up on certain features (won't mention any by name) that were stumbled on. If we are adding anything new, you guys will know of it when we're good and ready for you guys to know!"

Yeah, something like that. A playful hint that doesn't say yay or nay, and with no promises to be broken if they choose not to finish it for whatever reason. Ya know, something, anything!

Yawgmoth · Feb 01, 2008, 05:15 AM // 05:15

They just go the "nothing happened" way. We can't track it's progress anymore but there can be a whole lot of possible scenarions. It may be coming soon, final version may be quite different than what the strings suggested, or it may be a long time project, or the development stopped leaving it unfinished till some more resources will be freed, or even it might be that the project failed miserably and is completelly scrapped.
And they won't confirm nor deny anything like that ever existed so we won't know anything.

Neo Nugget · Feb 01, 2008, 05:36 AM // 05:36

Now.....just wait for the MiB agents to come to your door and flash their memory wipe thingy on you

Anyway, removing it from the .dat is extremely suspicious.

Darksun · Feb 01, 2008, 05:54 AM // 05:54

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Originally Posted by shoyon456

If anet really wanted to stop us from jumping to conclusions, they'd have either issued an Official statement on the matter, or removed the strings much sooner than what, 2-3 weeks after all these posts have flared up?

Be realistic, anet doesn't care what we think they'll do, they're gonna do what they're gonna do, apparently w/o informing us right away.

anet cares if we jump to conclusions only if expectations get out of hand., that's all i'm sayin.

Vitas · Feb 01, 2008, 06:29 AM // 06:29

It's possible that the data we were seeing was the content they were debugging. That's finished, so the strings were removed.

Nonetheless, we are currently out of the loop until we find more clues. And maybe that's the way ANet wants it.

Seef II · Feb 01, 2008, 08:03 AM // 08:03

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Originally Posted by Neo Nugget

Maybe......re-accept EULA= ban for looking in .dat?
Wild guess.

I didn't have to re-accept the EULA after this patch.

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Originally Posted by Silly Warrior

If information on Marketplace was purposely taken out of the dat, then we know the following.

1.Anet knows we know.
2.Anet doesn't want to admit we know its real, thus taking it out of the .dat
3.Gaile and Andrew both confirm they have heard, but give no information and ignore requests to hear additional information.

The company trapped itself into a corner, and is going to ignore everything we talk about on this subject until it is released or announced.

Its real.

I'm just one person. Other people should take a look inside their own dats and see if the Marketplace stuff's gone for themselves. I still don't know what's up with my dat actually shrinking between updates, so stuff actually does get pruned out of the thing. So much for gerbil births huh?

MithranArkanere · Feb 01, 2008, 05:23 PM // 17:23

Maybe there temporarily added it to GW1 to test 'the system' for GW2.

And it would be added only to GW2.

Aerian_Skybane · Feb 01, 2008, 06:44 PM // 18:44

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Originally Posted by Silly Warrior

If information on Marketplace was purposely taken out of the dat, then we know the following.

1.Anet knows we know.
2.Anet doesn't want to admit we know its real, thus taking it out of the .dat
3.Gaile and Andrew both confirm they have heard, but give no information and ignore requests to hear additional information.

The company trapped itself into a corner, and is going to ignore everything we talk about on this subject until it is released or announced.

Its real.

If we have them trapped in a corner, then they are getting some help staying out of this. This is an inside job.

We have a rat....

I need everyones names and addresses. Ill get to teh bottom of this...

I heard Jack Bauer is a free hire now. Time to get crackin.

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Hope there's no ediot try to find explocit or glicth again :X

Do what now?

Vazze · Feb 01, 2008, 07:31 PM // 19:31

It makes sense that they don't want the community to jump to conclusions based on fragmented info, it would only create false expectations. People are already discussing what they DON'T want in the marketplace update, and that is certainly not the way to introduce new features. Be happy that you know that you are going to get it ... some time.

-Loki- · Feb 01, 2008, 10:38 PM // 22:38

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Originally Posted by Silly Warrior

Possibly, but then a reply would be given by Gaile. This hasn't happened yet. If they have nothing to hide then theres no reason to not give answers.

Actually, there is. People are happy with finding out that an auction house was in development. Gaile coming in here and saying 'no, it's not happening' is just going to piss a lot of people off. Not saying anything just leaves it to community speculation, and no one gets upset.