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Bryant Again · Aug 22, 2007, 05:00 AM // 05:00

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Originally Posted by B E A S T

That, I will admit, was of my own ignorance. I did not clearly read the full thing properly.

But, have a look at this.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/arti...s-Magic-Number

3.75 million in China

and you say WoW has less bots then GW...

...It does. Gold farmers ≠ bots.

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Originally Posted by B E A S T

No. It is too funny to argue with people who think WoW is fun.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

B E A S T · Aug 22, 2007, 05:06 AM // 05:06

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Originally Posted by Bryant Again

...It does. Gold farmers ≠ bots.

Lol, I edited my post like 30 seconds before this one.

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I'm sorry you feel that way.

Dont be, my friend gave me his WoW subscription for free. Got sick of grinding studies for school finals, then grinding while playing a game with graphics similair to Looney Toons.

Bryant Again · Aug 22, 2007, 05:16 AM // 05:16

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Originally Posted by B E A S T

Lol, I edited my post like 30 seconds before this one.

Good call.

Now how many of those players in China are gold farmers?

Redfeather1975 · Aug 22, 2007, 05:20 AM // 05:20

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Originally Posted by Bryant Again

Good call.

Now how many of those players in China are gold farmers?

2! I know them both. They are quite nice fellows.
They don't talk much though.

Bryant Again · Aug 22, 2007, 05:23 AM // 05:23

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Originally Posted by Redfeather1975

2! I know them both. They are quite nice fellows.
They don't talk much though.

doh : \ I actually had an experience where someone pm'd me "hi are you gold farmeing?" and I replied "um, no..." then I got sent back a bunch of symbols. Pretty interesting. Reported him in a heartbeat.

B E A S T · Aug 22, 2007, 05:30 AM // 05:30

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Originally Posted by Bryant Again

Reported him in a heartbeat.

Way to go.

Only 500000 more to go. It is also funny to see thousands of floating bots advertising gold selling, mainly in alliance cities.

Redfeather1975 · Aug 22, 2007, 05:42 AM // 05:42

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Originally Posted by Bryant Again

doh : \ I actually had an experience where someone pm'd me "hi are you gold farmeing?" and I replied "um, no..." then I got sent back a bunch of symbols. Pretty interesting. Reported him in a heartbeat.

Was this in WoW?
I had this happen in Everquest 2.
It turns out it was a GM and they thought I was botting.

Bryant Again · Aug 22, 2007, 05:44 AM // 05:44

Yea in WoW, I had SS's somewhere, but I think I put em on an archived CD. Damn.

Redfeather1975 · Aug 22, 2007, 05:49 AM // 05:49

It's easier to get mistaken for botting in EQ2.
You don't need to face enemies to land spells.
I'd often park myself in a large clearing of non-aggro mobs and use a macro to pull. Macro's are allowed in EQ2, but they have a character limit.
I'm surprised I wasn't mistaken for a bot more often considering how often I played alone like that.
lol, now I'm having nostalgic memories.
In PVP, I used to play an inquisitor. They were very hard to kill, but did piddly damage. In a fight if someone hit me, I'd actually turn around to look at them, turn back to face what I was fighting and cast spells on the person while my back was facing them. It was hilarious and so obnoxious of me.

Bryant Again · Aug 22, 2007, 05:54 AM // 05:54

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Originally Posted by Redfeather1975

It's easier to get mistaken for botting in EQ2.
You don't need to face enemies to land spells.
I'd often park myself in a large clearing of non-aggro mobs and use a macro to pull. Macro's are allowed in EQ2, but they have a character limit.
I'm surprised I wasn't mistaken for a bot more often considering how often I played alone like that.

Aaah yeah they got macros in WoW too, and sometimes they can get pretty abused (example: there's a warrior skill that can only be used out of combat. A guy created a macro for it that made it usuable in combat). But they fix them suprisingly fast. However, I think the laziest thing you can do with macros in WoW is have a casting order - meaning that when you press the button once, it'll cast fireball. Press it again, it cast frostbolt. Regarding a character limit, I'm not sure.(sidenote: all this EQ2 talk...would you recommend it? It does sound interesting).

...

So 4 million is awesome, yeah?!

Redfeather1975 · Aug 22, 2007, 05:58 AM // 05:58

I'm going so off-topic, but here is some macros I made for EQ2.
http://www.youtube.com/v/jv_I2zZ-wPc
I had tons of them. lol
The top hotkey bar is all my macros!
http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/3...07689188zn.gif

Oh yeah. Woot, 4 million. gj anet.

Njaiguni Blaze · Aug 22, 2007, 06:10 AM // 06:10

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Originally Posted by Zinger314

Guild Wars may or may not have more gold sellers, but it's near undeniable that Guild Wars has a higher concentration of Gold Sellers.

Example, using somewhat random numbers. Let's say that Guild Wars has...1,000 bot acounts, and WoW has 10,000 bot accounts. Assuming Guild Wars has an active playerbase of...maybe 100,000 (and that's being generous), that's 1% bots, whereas in WoW, with its 9,000,000 player base, that's 0.11% bots.

Significantly different.

Why are you still playing the game or posting here? You talk nothing but crap about Anet & Co. Go to another thread with this bs, or make a rant about what is wrong with GW (with computer games really, cus all games got the same problems). And I think that WoW has been around for a lil bit longer than GW, and I think they have more of a percentage on gold botters, cus gold actually has use for progress in the game there, and I think WoW is a totally different game than GW and people should comparing the two. Also, they are baseless assumptions with nothing to stand on except for your "Die Anet!".

Anyways, gz Anet, and now gimme GW:EN

Redfeather1975 · Aug 22, 2007, 06:17 AM // 06:17

I found this, but I have no idea how Kotaku came up with those numbers for Guild Wars.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/list-it/top-10-mmos-269160.php

EQ2 isn't even on the list.

I always thought the active population was in the 100,000s, but I guess it's not even 500,000.

Sasuke The Betrayer · Aug 22, 2007, 06:20 AM // 06:20

Zinger... to add onto Njaiguni... where in the hell do you have these numbers? You steal them from ANET or something to rant more in GWG? And honestly... I want to know why you hang around GWG so much to mock guild wars in EVERY thread that has WoW at least somewhat mentioned in it, or some GW conspiracy... Geez, I've seen you on Guild Wars spamming something like "give me indisputable proof that WoW > Gw and you get 100k".

Anyways... grats arenanet for 4 million. Can't wait till Gwen.

Raganark · Aug 22, 2007, 06:32 AM // 06:32

Congratulations anet may you sell millions more so all subscription fees go away
lol

arcanemacabre · Aug 22, 2007, 06:33 AM // 06:33

So, let's all guess what month they will announce the big 5.0...

I'm gonna say December.

some guy · Aug 22, 2007, 06:49 AM // 06:49

how many quit? how many are bots?

Bryant Again · Aug 22, 2007, 07:27 AM // 07:27

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Originally Posted by Sasuke The Betrayer

Zinger... to add onto Njaiguni... where in the hell do you have these numbers? You steal them from ANET or something to rant more in GWG? And honestly... I want to know why you hang around GWG so much to mock guild wars in EVERY thread that has WoW at least somewhat mentioned in it, or some GW conspiracy... Geez, I've seen you on Guild Wars spamming something like "give me indisputable proof that WoW > Gw and you get 100k".

Everytime you post something like this you bring a grin to his face. You know that, right?

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So, let's all guess what month they will announce the big 5.0...

I'm gonna say December.

Brain predicts around...Feb, for some reason. How long did it take for them to go from 3.5-4?

arcanemacabre · Aug 22, 2007, 07:44 AM // 07:44

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Originally Posted by Bryant Again

Brain predicts around...Feb, for some reason. How long did it take for them to go from 3.5-4?

Quite a while, but there were no new releases during that time period. I'm thinking they'll sell somewhere around 300-400k copies of GW:EN on and around release weekend. Then there's the holidays. Add in the fact that if someone who doesn't already own GW, but wants to play GW:EN, they need to buy at least two copies (GWEN and one of the other chapters in order to play).

DreamRunner · Aug 22, 2007, 08:03 AM // 08:03

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Originally Posted by Bryant Again

Only difference between the Guild Wars and WoW figures is that ANet said how many people have bought they're game. Blizzard is stating how many subscribers they've got, meaning how many people are playing the game.

Too bad you can't play with the WHOLE 9 million players in WoW but you CAN play with anyone who plays GW.

EDIT: In before Zingers and Brayant's Flame

EDIT2: I don't know why people get so blissful about WoW's population because largely its irreverent since its based upon servers. If you play on a decent populated server, why care about the others since you won't ever play with them?