Curse

Verene · Mar 31, 2009, 06:02 PM // 18:02

I've never cared if a weapon was blue, purple, gold, or green. Why should it matter? So long as it's got the mods you want and you like how it looks, then that's what should matter. After all, you're going to spend far more time looking at and using the actual weapon than looking at its name in your inventory.

MMSDome · Mar 31, 2009, 06:32 PM // 18:32

WHy does the text color of a weapon matter? A 15>50 blue will be just as effective as a 15>50 gold and no one is looking at your inventory so who cares?

NoXiFy · Mar 31, 2009, 07:12 PM // 19:12

The real question is, why are some people autistic about everything? I tried to sell a perfect r9 FDS one day, inscripable and everything and nobody would buy it because "ewww, it's blue". I'm just like... what the

. I hate the idiocy of guildwars.

snaek · Mar 31, 2009, 07:32 PM // 19:32

^how much were you tryin to sell it for?
i wouldn't put its value anything higher than 1k.

Shadowhaze · Mar 31, 2009, 07:38 PM // 19:38

I got some for a few of my chars. I don't care about the blue/gold/purple in this case because I like the skin.

NoXiFy · Mar 31, 2009, 07:40 PM // 19:40

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Originally Posted by snaek

^how much were you tryin to sell it for?
i wouldn't put its value anything higher than 1k.

20 months ago, with +30 and 15^50 (+30 was 6-9k at the time) was selling it for 12k.

Master Fuhon · Mar 31, 2009, 08:54 PM // 20:54

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Originally Posted by NoXiFy

The real question is, why are some people autistic about everything? I tried to sell a perfect r9 FDS one day, inscripable and everything and nobody would buy it because "ewww, it's blue". I'm just like... what the

. I hate the idiocy of guildwars.

Autism is the spectrum by which people have severely overactive empathic capabilities. Empathy is a capacity to experience another person’s emotions as your own. Autistic means "overly empathic" not "fixated".

Autistic people take in the fixations of “normal people” and have them amplified within their own heads, only because they aren’t aware of how the empathic process works within them (stigmatized by label to not knowing about themselves, and put on drugs). To use autistic in this manner would be based upon a lack of recognition; that people have fixations based on other peoples thoughts/emotions circulating within their own heads to some degree based on the process of empathy.

Certain powerful historical figures have had fixations towards colors. Gold and purple were the obsessions of royalty. Green is a common color used in currency; however it gets treated as such: common currency. Light blue is a color I am not certain the meaning of. The desire for colors is purely based upon these fixations being passed on from leaders to their people.

At this point I think it’s safe to recognize that something being desirable says more about how common something is as a fixation than how rare it is. Definitely not a problem confined to Guild Wars.

NoXiFy · Apr 01, 2009, 02:04 AM // 02:04

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Originally Posted by Master Fuhon

Autism is the spectrum by which people have severely overactive empathic capabilities. Empathy is a capacity to experience another person’s emotions as your own. Autistic means "overly empathic" not "fixated".

Autistic people take in the fixations of “normal people” and have them amplified within their own heads, only because they aren’t aware of how the empathic process works within them (stigmatized by label to not knowing about themselves, and put on drugs). To use autistic in this manner would be based upon a lack of recognition; that people have fixations based on other peoples thoughts/emotions circulating within their own heads to some degree based on the process of empathy.

Certain powerful historical figures have had fixations towards colors. Gold and purple were the obsessions of royalty. Green is a common color used in currency; however it gets treated as such: common currency. Light blue is a color I am not certain the meaning of. The desire for colors is purely based upon these fixations being passed on from leaders to their people.

At this point I think it’s safe to recognize that something being desirable says more about how common something is as a fixation than how rare it is. Definitely not a problem confined to Guild Wars.

cool story bro.

sickle of carnage · Apr 01, 2009, 02:11 AM // 02:11

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Originally Posted by NoXiFy

cool story bro.

I thought so. By the way, do you just troll or do your posts have a purpose.

Jensy · Apr 01, 2009, 02:52 AM // 02:52

Is there an asuran weapon out there that punches anyone that says "cool story, bro" right in the scrot when they do it? If so, I'd buy that shit even if it were a non-max white.

Just sayin.

Master Fuhon · Apr 01, 2009, 04:25 AM // 04:25

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Originally Posted by NoXiFy

cool story bro.

I’m going to ignore my comment on autism for a moment; which was really meant to encourage not letting scientific terms be distorted by coined designations and personal usages.

As for the rest, you have expressed a desire towards convincing other people to purchase items based on stats instead color; even expressing frustration towards this endeavor in the exact part I quoted.

I gave a reason for this, to which included in the quote you respond to with “cool story bro”. My reason is something people can read and figure for themselves that they no longer need to have these obsessions; leading towards the increasing likelihood that people purchase your wares.

This is just as related as the things I referred to within my previous post. If you are going to just mimic how someone else does things at least make sure you are acting in the self-interest of yourself. The same can be said about gold/purple items and the exerted effort towards attaining them.

poasiods · Apr 01, 2009, 04:36 AM // 04:36

I recently got myself an Asuran Recurve Bow. It's very annoying when I'm merching stuff since every other weapon I have are either gold or green.

Eragon Zarroc · Apr 01, 2009, 07:49 PM // 19:49

all crafter weapons besides destroyer and tormented are blue. asuran weps along with other similar weps don't cost enough to be crafted as golds.

zelgadissan · Apr 01, 2009, 07:56 PM // 19:56

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Originally Posted by Eragon Zarroc

all crafter weapons besides destroyer and tormented are blue.

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Originally Posted by IcyFiftyFive

And Deldrimor Weapons?

Anyway - let's be honest, it is kind of annoying just because it breaks the normal color scheme that the majority of my weapons use in my inventory. Is it gamebreaking? No. Does it matter? Not really. Should it be changed? Meh.

Red Sonya · Apr 01, 2009, 08:09 PM // 20:09

The reason most players associate value of color is the same reason they associate value of skins. The rarity of the color gold vs the commonness of blue and really also purples. Place a rare skin upon the rare color gold and there you will have a gem. Place a rare skin in the color of white or blue and even purple and you just have basically merchant fodder if you want to SELL it, but, you'll always have the rare skin as value to yourself. Anet created this type of world psychology due to lack of anything else of value of the items like better modifications to almost unlimited levels. Higher level characters that would have required higher level armor and items things like that that aren't in the game put things like colors and skins more into the limelight. Guild Wars world is based on vanity and titles and nothing more.

MStarfire · Apr 02, 2009, 06:04 PM // 18:04

They're blue because just about any jackass can get one.

makosi · Apr 02, 2009, 06:23 PM // 18:23

It reminds me of the wands that Koopas/Bowser used in early Mario games.

I'm one of the few that don't mind what colour it is. Function > aesthetics > colour.