Curse

ectos taste nasty · Mar 29, 2008, 01:20 AM // 01:20

Damn. Favor actually MEANT something then. I remember waiting with my friends for hours all night just for a chance for a chest run. I know that doesn't sound fun at the time,but I really miss rooting for our American guys.

Yep..the olden days of the once great Guild Wars.

/endrant

Brimstonez · Mar 29, 2008, 01:24 AM // 01:24

/signed

UW and FoW Scrolls were actually worth something for a while when they brought em out...then soon to be killed with the new system.

Yeah I remember sitting around the HA arena's waiting for us to lose favor, and watching a flood of Americans coming in screaming about getting a group together, to go kick some asses and get our favor back.

Guardian Of Demons · Mar 29, 2008, 01:25 AM // 01:25

Yep im with you man with you man, always routing for america to win even tho i would have to wait, it was exciting

Sol Deathgard · Mar 29, 2008, 01:26 AM // 01:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by ectos taste nasty

Damn. Favor actually MEANT something then. I remember waiting with my friends for hours all night complaining about how america never wins while not even trying to try to win it ourselvesjust for a chance for a chest run. I know that doesn't sound fun at the time,but I really miss rooting for our American guys.

Yep..the olden days of the once great Guild Wars.

/endrant

fixed it for you.

ectos taste nasty · Mar 29, 2008, 01:41 AM // 01:41

you're damn right I bitched and moaned about not having favor. AND DID NOTHING.

I would still do the same.

The point is,I miss the old system

Brianna · Mar 29, 2008, 01:45 AM // 01:45

The old system was whack, Europe had favor 24/7.

This was Inevitable, now everyone has a fair chance to get in since Europe seemingly dominated the Hall of Heroes.

AW Lore · Mar 29, 2008, 01:46 AM // 01:46

i remember the days when Euorope whinned because America always had favor.
i remember the days when America whinned because Europe always had favor.

i never saw the others whine because they NEVER had favor, or if they did have, it lasted for less than an hour, and i do remember seeing Korea reaching "Korea needs to win one more time to earn the favor of the gods" then the next line is "America needs to win 4 more times to earn the favor of the gods".

its better this way.
and no, i dont miss the old system.

Eldin · Mar 29, 2008, 01:47 AM // 01:47

/signed

Europe used to hog the favor, and us Americans whined. We wouldn't get favor until midnight. I used to think that was bad, but I realize now - the old system was AWESOME.

1) Less favor makes FoW and UW a rarer treat, meaning people will put more planning into their trips before heading out.

2) Ecto and shard prices go back up (for those who don't know shards were 7k and ectos 12k back in the old days)?

3) Hall of Heroes has no significance anymore. Just a way to get a dinky chest. In the old days it was truly epic - America fighting Europe, lots of people would watch, it was a very competitive battle. Much of PvP revolved aorund HoH too, all kinds of builds and discussions being based off of what occured there. Once again, HoH is now an extremely underplayed crappy team arena in essence.

Jade Zephyr · Mar 29, 2008, 01:48 AM // 01:48

Lol yeah. I remember playing for europe.. Everytime europe had like 3 or 4 wins in Hall of Heroes, people would start making teams and spam all over Temple of Ages. This was at a time when europe only had favor 2-3 times a week. Dunno if I really miss it but its a cool memory. Also a guy in my guild would always get flamed by everyone currently in Temple of Ages everytime we were near getting favor, for spamming america owns or i hope europe loses.. Lol.. It was pretty ridiciolous tbh

ectos taste nasty · Mar 29, 2008, 01:48 AM // 01:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eldin

/signed

Europe used to hog the favor, and us Americans whined. We wouldn't get favor until midnight. I used to think that was bad, but I realize now - the old system was AWESOME.

1) Less favor makes FoW and UW a rarer treat, meaning people will put more planning into their trips before heading out.

2) Ecto and shard prices go back up (for those who don't know shards were 7k and ectos 12k back in the old days)?

3) Hall of Heroes has no significance anymore. Just a way to get a dinky chest. In the old days it was truly epic - America fighting Europe, lots of people would watch, it was a very competitive battle. Much of PvP revolved aorund HoH too, all kinds of builds and discussions being based off of what occured there. Once again, HoH is now an extremely underplayed crappy team arena in essence.

What this brother said.

matsif · Mar 29, 2008, 01:52 AM // 01:52

lol I remember sitting in toa with my necro and a 55, "America needs 1 more win..."

only to be shot down by europe

ah, the good old days

Alleji · Mar 29, 2008, 02:00 AM // 02:00

:'(

freaky naughty · Mar 29, 2008, 02:04 AM // 02:04

/Notsigned back in the day Americans could never get into fow or uw without waiting till 2 o clock it was completely ridiculous. Everyone used to complain that they should change it, now it's changed and everyone's complaining to change it back. Remember the free UW and FoW weekend? People argued it should stay that way for 1k and I for one agree.

Eldin · Mar 29, 2008, 02:04 AM // 02:04

Yeah, I miss that. There has yet to be a green message in my chat that rivals the length of such epicness!

Also, don't say "no cause you'll deny taiwan/japan/china the favor", because we have scrolls now.

Heh, I do remember in 2005 Korea got it once a month and we'd all go crazy when we saw that.

kade · Mar 29, 2008, 02:05 AM // 02:05

um, am I the only one that remembers america always having favor?

Shyft the Pyro · Mar 29, 2008, 02:08 AM // 02:08

You know, now that we can hop districts at will, bringing back the old system wouldn't even inconvenience anyone. Make a team in International, hop over to the area that has favor, and you're in

Hmm. Come to think of it, reverting to the old favor system would do nothing for the "prestige" factor of HoH.

arbiter · Mar 29, 2008, 02:11 AM // 02:11

it did actually add a little spin on the actual hall game. Now teams that know they are going to lose might choose to gank a team for any number of reasons, but back then teams would mostly help out their continent to win if they couldnt

Dallcingi · Mar 29, 2008, 02:11 AM // 02:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by kade

um, am I the only one that remembers america always having favor?

we had favor at nighttime I believe...
it wont matter anyways now cause we can district/region swap for free =p

Alleji · Mar 29, 2008, 02:12 AM // 02:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by kade

um, am I the only one that remembers america always having favor?

No, I remember that.

When I started playing GW, I remember iQ held forever (may/june/possibly july 05) then came marvel superheroes, power, later MATH. Some Korean guilds held pretty often too, but the only one I remember is "We love guild", don't think EviL or WM played halls much.

Basically, America had favour about 70% of the time, Korea 25% and Europe 5%. Then slowly Europe began getting it more and more, and pretty much all Koreans quit the game by the beginning of '06 and eventually Europe started holding 90% and America 10. I started playing tombs when the ratio was around 70/30 in favour of europe and I remember people cheering Legend of Pi and The Zaishen when we won.

But when I wasn't playing HA, I wanted to farm ectos and europe still had favour most of the time, so I transferred to Europe. Quite a few people I knew did the same thing, so we became part of the problem, rather than fighting for America. I'm Canadian anyway, so no patriotism there. :P

Konig Des Todes · Mar 29, 2008, 02:12 AM // 02:12

with the favor, ANet did 2 things to help, which we all are aware of. The problem is, doing BOTH things HURT GW and favor.

Although I like the new system because it means that PvEers get to get the favor for something that only really matters to them, not PvPers. But, adding in scrolls as well as changing how we get favor ruined it.

I say go back to HoH decides favor and keep scrolls or remove scrolls and keep the favor system how it is now. Doing both things to make it easy to get to UW and FoW was pointless.