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Aerian_Skybane · Feb 01, 2008, 11:18 PM // 23:18

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Originally Posted by -Loki-

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.

And letting speculation run rampant until they more or less HAVE to deny it? Sounds like a win win for sadists to me. Nipping stuff in the bud before it gets out of hand is a much more effective scenario of dealing with the public than letting hope/fears/speculation fester.

DarkWasp · Feb 01, 2008, 11:34 PM // 23:34

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Originally Posted by Aerian_Skybane

And letting speculation run rampant until they more or less HAVE to deny it? Sounds like a win win for sadists to me. Nipping stuff in the bud before it gets out of hand is a much more effective scenario of dealing with the public than letting hope/fears/speculation fester.

Yeah, I know their style. And ours.

They'd let us know right away if this wasnt gonna happen.

As for us, GW isnt the most positive community. If this got out of hand without them letting us know, hundreds of threads would pop up made by angry people.

If we dont get any official word on this in 7 days, ima start betting money it'll happen. (I have no one to bet against though).

Neo Nugget · Feb 01, 2008, 11:53 PM // 23:53

Well do we know how long this has been in development?
Who knows it could be ready by Canthan New Year 08, or it could be Wintersday 08, but that will be waaaaay to late.

DarkWasp · Feb 02, 2008, 12:06 AM // 00:06

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Originally Posted by Neo Nugget

Well do we know how long this has been in development?
Who knows it could be ready by Canthan New Year 08, or it could be Wintersday 08, but that will be waaaaay to late.

Hopefully not any later than the GW2 public beta.

Vitas · Feb 03, 2008, 11:30 PM // 23:30

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Originally Posted by -Loki-

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.

Actually, Gaile has already stated that there will be no auction house. This thread is not about an auction house.

Ebeneezersquid · Feb 04, 2008, 12:16 AM // 00:16

Speaking of Canthan New Year . . .
That would be the ideal time to announce it, but shouldn't the New Year be this coming Thursday (2/7)? That's Chinese New Year, and last years Canthan New Year matched up. I would have thought we would have heard SOMETHING about the celebration for the Year of The Rat by Now. Do you think it may have been delayed?
Anyone find any text strings for the Festival?

fog_of_redoubt · Feb 04, 2008, 01:38 AM // 01:38

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Originally Posted by Vitas

Actually, Gaile has already stated that there will be no auction house. This thread is not about an auction house.

Yeah it amazing that people still call this an "Auction House". There is significant difference in functionality and complexity between an Auction House and a "Marketplace".

zwei2stein · Feb 04, 2008, 09:14 AM // 09:14

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Originally Posted by Ebeneezersquid

Speaking of Canthan New Year . . .
That would be the ideal time to announce it, but shouldn't the New Year be this coming Thursday (2/7)? That's Chinese New Year, and last years Canthan New Year matched up. I would have thought we would have heard SOMETHING about the celebration for the Year of The Rat by Now. Do you think it may have been delayed?
Anyone find any text strings for the Festival?

do NOT get your hopes high. i repeat, do NOT get your hopes high.

Anet removed strings week ago to what ... add them back or confirm that they were legit next week ? Unlikely.

anet has still DWC weapon skins to add to game for example, and they have enough stuff to make festival big event without big announcements.

Sirius-NZ · Feb 04, 2008, 11:46 AM // 11:46

I'm still expecting this to have been a test that they decided not to implement in the end.

DarkWasp · Feb 06, 2008, 05:20 AM // 05:20

Actauly it seems they have been strangley silent lately. Not even the other forum is getting much out of the devs.

I hope this means they are preparing for something.

Lord Sojar · Feb 06, 2008, 05:36 AM // 05:36

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Originally Posted by DarkWasp

Actauly it seems they have been strangley silent lately. Not even the other forum is getting much out of the devs.

I hope this means they are preparing for something.

By the look of the GW.dat file, it looks like they are going all out for the Canthan New Year, and it appears that the Xunlai Marketplace may very well be a part of that big update. So get ready.... but don't get hopes up.

zwei2stein · Feb 06, 2008, 07:48 AM // 07:48

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Originally Posted by Rahja the Thief

By the look of the GW.dat file, it looks like they are going all out for the Canthan New Year, and it appears that the Xunlai Marketplace may very well be a part of that big update. So get ready.... but don't get hopes up.

But it makes little sense to remove something from dat file only to re-add it in two weeks.

Unless, they first deployed it silently to doublecheck if they got everything preapred correctly on live servers/ (admirable thing to do, and necesary unless they wanted to risk broken feature and QQ on forums) and then purged files in preparation for reall deployment

Hope never dies, eh.

baz777 · Feb 06, 2008, 07:59 AM // 07:59

I’d be very surprised if they introduced this now.

So much speculation once again that will come to nothing.

Elvis who runs my local corner shop told me so!

MithranArkanere · Feb 06, 2008, 02:13 PM // 14:13

We never know anything and we are still the same, just speculation. We only know that "There is garbage in the gw.dat file".

Vitas · Feb 08, 2008, 12:34 AM // 00:34

No one has found anything new that I'm aware of on the Marketplace in the dat file. I didn't expect anything XMP for New Year, but if I'm wrong, they are waiting till the last minute to add it.

Silly Warrior · Feb 08, 2008, 01:53 AM // 01:53

This was a wake up call to the Dev team, although they will never confirm this.

Chances are we will never find Pre-released content ever again, unless history somehow repeats itself.

credit · Feb 08, 2008, 02:39 AM // 02:39

Uh cool won't use it but uh cool.

fRag_Doll · Feb 08, 2008, 02:42 AM // 02:42

If this was to happen, Canthan New Year sounds like the most logical time to release it.
From a Lore perspective, the Xunlai did originate from Cantha, so it makes sense that a new service would be made available during the biggest festival of the Canthan year.
From a Dev perspective, heaps of players will be online this weekend, so word will spread quickly and it would make a good stress test.

I'm not going to get my hopes up, but I will keep my fingers crossed.

Thargor · Feb 08, 2008, 03:38 AM // 03:38

While I love the idea that we may get a marketplace, i have to disagree about the time to release it.
An event weekend is the WORST possible time to release any new feature as large as this would be. As if every single festival/event is not as laggy as it could possibly be already ( to the point that some have been extended to compensate), you think that adding this kind of feature to it would be a good idea?
I want this to be true as much as anyone else here, just not right in the middle of Lagfest08, oops i meant canthan new year.

Vitas · Feb 08, 2008, 07:34 AM // 07:34

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Originally Posted by Silly Warrior

This was a wake up call to the Dev team, although they will never confirm this.

Chances are we will never find Pre-released content ever again, unless history somehow repeats itself.

On the other hand, those players who frequent the forums are a very small fraction of the total players. So the devs might not think it's a big deal.

Also remember that some of the 'Party Animal' content was still available before it's official announcement but after they removed XMP stuff.

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