Curse

SpiritSpammer · Oct 07, 2009, 09:17 PM // 21:17

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Originally Posted by citizensmith1001

This , hopefully they will come to their sense's and finally add the character makeovers as a freebie soon, in my opinion it should never have had a real world money charge simply because it should have been avalable from the day the game was released same as it is in most other mmo games.

it would be free if there was a subscription.

Karate Jesus · Oct 07, 2009, 09:27 PM // 21:27

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Originally Posted by SpiritSpammer

it would be free if there was a subscription.

I doubt that. They normally have to pay for those types of things in subscript games too.

Gaming companies will make money where they can. Whatcha gonna do? ::shrug::

Winterclaw · Oct 07, 2009, 09:30 PM // 21:30

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Originally Posted by Hissy

We didn't need MORE storage. We needed more convenient access to stuff we were ALREADY storing. THAT was the point of storage panes :-P

If you don't need that convenience, you don't need to pay for it.

Put the few things you need to be convenient in storage. Everything else goes on mules. Don't really need any extra panes.

lilDeath · Oct 07, 2009, 10:12 PM // 22:12

Still overpriced, and especially not worth the real-world money.
It's a virtual commodity, so charge virtual money for it.

Zahr Dalsk · Oct 07, 2009, 10:14 PM // 22:14

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Originally Posted by lilDeath

It's a virtual commodity, so charge virtual money for it.

The same could be said about Guild Wars itself. Or indeed, any game that you can download.

RangerAtAllTimes · Oct 07, 2009, 10:15 PM // 22:15

Meh. I wish they would undue some of the updates. Mainly the ones that nerf rangers in every way possible :-P haha. Don't see that happening though:P

Shayne Hawke · Oct 07, 2009, 10:29 PM // 22:29

Gonna take more than that discount to encourage me to buy storage tabs.

The rest of the update doesn't really add or change anything that sounds so significant that it needed done now when nothing else was going to be released.

Karate Jesus · Oct 07, 2009, 10:31 PM // 22:31

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Originally Posted by Shayne Hawke

Gonna take more than that discount to encourage me to buy storage tabs.

The rest of the update doesn't really add or change anything that sounds so significant that it needed done now when nothing else was going to be released.

What're you talking about?! Or course that stuff had to be done then.

What would have happened if they'd let that Murakai bug become well known, even to the point where people started screenshotting it?

Plus, it's not like there are any more important bugs they could have spent their time trying to fix.......................

FoxBat · Oct 07, 2009, 10:32 PM // 22:32

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Originally Posted by El Presidente

Offhand, anyone know what's with the push to update descriptions in Chinese, especially this late in the game?

They stopped having paid people do this because it's no longer sold in the region, so the chinese wasn't updated when most of the other languages were. But they still (supposedly) have an active Chinese community & some of them volunteered to do translations or something. While japan & korea shut down due to lack of interest/sales, Taiwan was shut down for the entirely different reason of new laws that limit the regulation of gold-selling.

Scarlett Romanov · Oct 07, 2009, 10:36 PM // 22:36

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Originally Posted by Karate Jesus

What're you talking about?! Or course that stuff had to be done then.

What would have happened if they'd let that Murakai bug become well known, even to the point where people started screenshotting it?

Plus, it's not like there are any more important bugs they could have spent their time trying to fix.......................

I think the Murakai bug was fixed because it was causing players' games to crash. I think thats important enough to fix.

lilDeath · Oct 07, 2009, 10:38 PM // 22:38

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Originally Posted by Zahr Dalsk

The same could be said about Guild Wars itself. Or indeed, any game that you can download.

Don't be daft. There is a vast difference. You're comparing a storage pane to a game? Seriously?

You CANNOT PLAY the Guild Wars GAME without buying the Guild Wars GAME, meaning paying real-world money for it.

Can you play Guild Wars WITHOUT a storage pane? YES!

A storage pane is not worth any real-world money, it is cosmetic at best, for use in your virtual game world. A storage pane does not make you better, stronger, richer or more powerful, and cannot even be tied to anything that has ingame value.

The actual game is worth real-world money, which you can resell. You cannot resell storage panes.
In Fact, by charging real-world money for the storage panes, they are actually increasing the resell value of the overall game.

It's stupid.

EDIT: And yes, why update in the middle of the week when these are hardly significant updates? Were complete zones / dists crashing due to people exploiting Murakai or what? I see no reason they could not leave this and do this during the normal build update cycle. Meh.

Zahr Dalsk · Oct 07, 2009, 10:42 PM // 22:42

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Originally Posted by lilDeath

Don't be daft. There is a vast difference. You're comparing a storage pane to a game? Seriously?

You CANNOT PLAY the Guild Wars GAME without buying the Guild Wars GAME, meaning paying real-world money for it.

Can you play Guild Wars WITHOUT a storage pane? YES!

A storage pane is not worth any real-world money, it is cosmetic at best, for use in your virtual game world. A storage pane does not make you better, stronger, richer or more powerful, and cannot even be tied to anything that has ingame value.

The actual game is worth real-world money, which you can resell. You cannot resell storage panes.
In Fact, by charging real-world money for the storage panes, they are actually increasing the resell value of the overall game.

It's stupid.

Guild Wars is a virtual commodity, just the same as the storage panes. There really is no difference.

HBlix · Oct 07, 2009, 10:43 PM // 22:43

I'd buy the extra storage if it was $10 for all 4 slots. $40 (30 now, I guess) could buy half of another game, though.

Yawgmoth · Oct 07, 2009, 10:56 PM // 22:56

Nice discount, lol. Still overpriced obviously. They would be high-but-acceptable if they were sold 2 panes for $10.
Oh and at the same time they added some tax (8.3%) which wasn't there before = wtf?
No idea when it was added really but I remember well I bought a bunch of character slots and they were straight $9.90 without any tax.

Phineas · Oct 07, 2009, 10:57 PM // 22:57

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Originally Posted by Zahr Dalsk

Guild Wars is a virtual commodity, just the same as the storage panes. There really is no difference.

I like how you read the post, quoted the post, and then said what was said before the post. It's almost as if the words did not make any sense to you...

Zahr Dalsk · Oct 07, 2009, 11:48 PM // 23:48

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Originally Posted by Phineas

I like how you read the post, quoted the post, and then said what was said before the post. It's almost as if the words did not make any sense to you...

Correction: not one part of your post changed the fact that whether you're buying GW online, or buying a GW upgrade online, you are buying a virtual product, and thus, if that makes it unacceptable to buy one, that makes it unacceptable to buy the other.

snaek · Oct 08, 2009, 12:00 AM // 00:00

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Originally Posted by zahr dalsk

The same could be said about Guild Wars itself. Or indeed, any game that you can download.

so how do you plan on making in-game money if you don't have the game yet?

*Darcy* · Oct 08, 2009, 12:13 AM // 00:13

I thought the storage pane discount was great and bought some panes. Convenience wins in my book. I get tired of sorting through 12 characters looking for that spare staff I know I have.

Krazy Kat · Oct 08, 2009, 01:17 AM // 01:17

RIP

I was going to make a sliver armor version soon too!

Zahr Dalsk · Oct 08, 2009, 01:18 AM // 01:18

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Originally Posted by snaek

so how do you plan on making in-game money if you don't have the game yet?

Nice irrelevant thesis fallacy there.