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Fates · Mar 06, 2009, 03:55 PM // 15:55

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Originally Posted by Regina Buenaobra

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We're actively exploring ways to improve XTH and streamline the (relatively complicated) backend process. With the small Live Team deep in development for the April update, we're getting squeezed for time. But we want to let you know that we do know there are issues, and we do know that these issues are causing dissatisfaction and irritation, and it is on the To Do list to improve XTH. Once again, we apologize.

You really should stop calling them a team. They're a duo, and calling the two of them a team leads people to believe you have a bunch of people working on it, when you really dont. It's very likely getting people's hopes up with regards to the April updates, when in fact it's not going to be huge substantial update.

Like this guy from the tonic thread...

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Something tells me the April Tonic is going to be a letdown of epic proportions, along with the supposed-to-be major update.

Rocky Raccoon · Mar 06, 2009, 04:29 PM // 16:29

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Originally Posted by Fates Monk

You really should stop calling them a team. They're a duo, and calling the two of them a team leads people to believe you have a bunch of people working on it, when you really dont. It's very likely getting people's hopes up with regards to the April updates, when in fact it's not going to be huge substantial update.

A team is 2 or more people working together. Nothing wrong with using that term, especially when you are told there are only 2 people. As far as the April update, you really shouldn't speculate, but wait until you see it.

Puddin Cheeks · Mar 06, 2009, 04:44 PM // 16:44

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Originally Posted by Fril Estelin

You were supposed to actually observe games to make predictions. In the end the tools (Guru threads at first, then automatic) took over the pedagogic aspect and transformed XTH into another farm bringing one more title (and e-peen emote) and money sink.

(I do appreciate how zchest gives you skins that may take time to get, it's really nice to be able to see all these skins for yourself, even if most of the time stats are meh)

Suggestion: reward only points if you actually observe games regularly, that would be strong (can still be abused at will) but may send the right message; combine this with reducing rewards to 1/4th (or 1/3rd ?) of the amount of TRP we get now.

I love how you have no clue what you are talking about by calling zkeys a money sink.

A money sink is when a player "buys" something or puts money back into the game. Zkeys do not cost money at all, the money spent is transferred to other players, not the game. The idea behind zkeys was an ingenious way to redistribute the wealth in guild wars to the players without the epeens, because now they can sell their earned(PvP) and unearned(predictions) zkeys to these people that love zspiking like other people care about it.

I myself have made a fortune off of earned and prediction zkeys over the last 5 months or so, but that in no way effects the economy of the game because it only transfers existing gold. So what that they have utterly failed the system these last two months its not like they accidentally put millions of "real" gold into the game and destroyed the economy. It only has effected the trading price and sell value for the zkeys themselves.

Please before you make more assumptions think about them a little bit.

I also chuckle everytime someone gets on here whining that they made predictions on all "15" of their accounts and didnt get what they expected.

Jae Onasi · Mar 06, 2009, 05:06 PM // 17:06

Congrats to the folks who got to keep the extra points from last month, too.

Fril Estelin · Mar 06, 2009, 05:51 PM // 17:51

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Originally Posted by Fates Monk

They're a duo

If Joe and Linsey were the only two working on GW1, they'd be superhumans with brains working at 80% of their cognitive capacity and no sleep at all! It's common sense (and Regina explained it several times) that the time of some other devs is split between coding on GW2 and helping Joe on GW1 code. And IIRC they'll be getting more staff to commit time to the Live Team. The Live Team is entirely based around Joe and Linsey, but it probably has other "virtual" team members (we can't say how much because there's no way we can know), that are made of the time of many other devs working on bits and pieces of the modifications Joe and Linsey plan ahead.

I bet that XTH is not really a priority, because it's not a core component of Anet's programming activity (it may even have been outsourced?), thus the problems we've been seing in the past. It's free stuff, and they usually correct their mistakes, so stop bitching about details.

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Originally Posted by Puddin Cheeks

Zkeys do not cost money at all, the money spent is transferred to other players, not the game.

That's the shortsighted view of zkeys: once the zkey is transferred to another player, what do you think he does with it? He uses it on a zchest and once in a blue moon gets his money back, but people mainly do it because of the title I guess. So in the end, the zkey buyer does put his money back into the game (ha ha \zranked!), and this is what's called a money sink. So please, next time, think a bit more than at the surface of things.

Puddin Cheeks · Mar 06, 2009, 05:55 PM // 17:55

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Originally Posted by Fril Estelin

That's the shortsighted view of zkeys: once the zkey is transferred to another player, what do you think he does with it? He uses it on a zchest and once in a blue moon gets his money back, but people mainly do it because of the title I guess. So in the end, the zkey buyer does put his money back into the game (ha ha \zranked!), and this is what's called a money sink. So please, next time, think a bit more than at the surface of things.

Are you really that narrow. In no way does any money get absorbed by Guild Wars economic engine or whatever you want to call it. Say for instance someone does get uber leet skin from chest and sell it to another player, they only transfer existing money, if player actually merchs the skins form the zchest it turns into the opposite of a money sink and is worse for the economy.

Fril Estelin · Mar 06, 2009, 07:57 PM // 19:57

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Originally Posted by Puddin Cheeks

Are you really that narrow. In no way does any money get absorbed by Guild Wars economic engine or whatever you want to call it. Say for instance someone does get uber leet skin from chest and sell it to another player, they only transfer existing money, if player actually merchs the skins form the zchest it turns into the opposite of a money sink and is worse for the economy.

No I'm not narrow, but I was very imprecise, and incorrect on calling zkeys "money sink": they're "money makers" indeed, but also "money sink accelerators", as the vast amount of money that they have been generating (which may now start to change as people max ztitle and there's even more zkeys) is likely to be invested in the money sinks.

P.S.: change your style, it's disrespectful.

Hailey Anne · Mar 06, 2009, 08:24 PM // 20:24

Does this fix include working on the actual site? I havent even been able to submit my predictions the past 2 months.

blood4blood · Mar 07, 2009, 04:18 AM // 04:18

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Originally Posted by Hailey Anne

Does this fix include working on the actual site? I havent even been able to submit my predictions the past 2 months.

QFT - it lets me slide the names over but not save the predictions. No zkeys last month, looks like none this month either. *shrug* Whatever.

Jensy · Mar 07, 2009, 04:39 AM // 04:39

I haven't had any problems saving predictions, using Firefox and waiting until a few days before the actual tournaments. Sometimes if you try too early in the month, it won't let you save. Weird.

willie makeit · Mar 07, 2009, 11:31 AM // 11:31

No keys for me ever, I save my predictions, log into game, watch all the chat, hear about all the keys everyone received and nothing for me. Kun Shao (I think he hates me lol) takes me back to the website where I can look at my predictions. I have logged onto all 12 of my pve characters and 1 pvp character, switched towns, waited in gtob, swapped districts, waited for a game patch, and contacted customer support still nothing.................................

Shayne Hawke · Mar 07, 2009, 02:26 PM // 14:26

Sheesh, 155 more prediction points for other people's problems. Can't complain about that.