Curse

Sonya of Red · Jan 02, 2007, 08:19 PM // 20:19

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Originally Posted by Lord Dobo

ACK! Does no one go to the main site?

"Candy Cane Shards: Collect these colorful fragments by questing and competing. The outcome of Wintersday hangs in the balance, and your contribution of Candy Cane Shards may make all the difference. Besides, you never know what somebody might trade for these once the festivities come to a close. Tip: Hold onto those shards until the Wintersday finale and use them for good (or mischievous) intent!"

Sorry, pet peeve of mine, but they TOLD everybody to hold on to them! I'm just shocked to be hearing people on the forums, who are far more informed, in general, talking about getting rid of ccs. Tsk Tsk...

Most people on these forums are quite aware of that statement. The problem was not that people didn't read that statement but that the statement itself was nebulous. If you look through recent threads on this topic you will see that many people interpreted that remark in different ways. It is easy to say, after the event, hey look you all should have known but at the time A-nets intentions for the shards were nebulous.

Sli Ander · Jan 02, 2007, 08:22 PM // 20:22

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Originally Posted by The Admins Bane

Glad Kurt made good after all...the sig stays though

If that sig or his new custom title ever disappear, we need to have screenies so they can be immortalized in the Nolani Academy. Or in the Lore forum.

blackbird71 · Jan 02, 2007, 08:30 PM // 20:30

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Originally Posted by Sonya of Red

Most people on these forums are quite aware of that statement. The problem was not that people didn't read that statement but that the statement itself was nebulous. If you look through recent threads on this topic you will see that many people interpreted that remark in different ways. It is easy to say, after the event, hey look you all should have known but at the time A-nets intentions for the shards were nebulous.

That and the fact that we're not quite used to things always turning out exactly the way Anet says they will...

Orphan Anthem · Jan 02, 2007, 08:43 PM // 20:43

Well with the revalation of the gift giver CC shards are now 100g each

seeing how his CC shards come out to be 50g each he MURDERED his 1million gold he spent on cc shards is now worth 2million

fRag_Doll · Jan 02, 2007, 08:51 PM // 20:51

I'm bummed that I didn't take the time to hoard a few more shards, but I'm happy for Kurt, he took a risk and it's paid off big time.
Has anyone seen him since the new NPC arrived?

Orphan Anthem · Jan 02, 2007, 08:55 PM // 20:55

Im going to laugh so hard if he decided to take a break after the CC shard thing and wont be back untill AFTER he leaves.

bubbadoll · Jan 02, 2007, 09:04 PM // 21:04

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Originally Posted by Former Ruling

These collectors were probably not in the original picture, but they didn't expect the CCS's to be collected in such a grand scale (many many people getting THOUSANDS of them) because of that 1 sentence, so they provided a sink for them.

This is just my gross personal opinion though, I haven't read this whole thread.

i also havent read through entire thread but.. isnt there a log or post where gaile says they werent doing new builds.. but that they had a time release thing.. (my words) so this must have been in the original picture. ?

Bane of Worlds · Jan 02, 2007, 09:06 PM // 21:06

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Originally Posted by fRag_Doll

I'm bummed that I didn't take the time to hoard a few more shards, but I'm happy for Kurt, he took a risk and it's paid off big time.
Has anyone seen him since the new NPC arrived?

Haven't seen him yet but someone told me that he is banned or something on the forum(might be a joke but who knows...)

/congrats to Kurt for his great gamble on CC shards
/laugh at people who mocked Kurt

bebe · Jan 02, 2007, 09:06 PM // 21:06

When I went to Kamadan this morning to finish some trades with players, I noticed the NPC, quickly grabbed my 200+ something shards and ran over n traded them all over for gifts!! ^^

I won a lot from the dwayna vs grenth nine rings! ^^

Malice Black · Jan 02, 2007, 09:08 PM // 21:08

Possibly but since it's an Internet game it could have been a last minute thing..at the end of the day it doesn't matter either way.

Speculation..Gaile read Kurt's posts and decided to bail him out..

Orphan Anthem · Jan 02, 2007, 09:10 PM // 21:10

Im sure the Wintersday Gift Giver was in the picture seeing how within the first two days i got myself 500 shards and you needed at max about 5 CC to do the event.

fRag_Doll · Jan 02, 2007, 10:14 PM // 22:14

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Originally Posted by Bane of Worlds

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Originally Posted by fRag_Doll

I'm bummed that I didn't take the time to hoard a few more shards, but I'm happy for Kurt, he took a risk and it's paid off big time.
Has anyone seen him since the new NPC arrived?

Haven't seen him yet but someone told me that he is banned or something on the forum(might be a joke but who knows...)

/congrats to Kurt for his great gamble on CC shards
/laugh at people who mocked Kurt

It's no joke, I just looked up his profile. Kurt's been banned from the Guru forums.

Marth Reynolds · Jan 02, 2007, 10:17 PM // 22:17

Heheh lucky kurt, altought it seems his thread about the biggest gamble was deleted ;/

btw there's also a small chance to get 10 cc shards in a presents lol, for those who bulk get presents it's handy to open em now for trading it in

Riceboi · Jan 02, 2007, 10:22 PM // 22:22

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Originally Posted by Faer

The guy spent a million gold on Shards. What are the chances he'll make even close to that much back on the gifts?

He bought them for 50g each. One wintergift will cost him 250g. Unless he can't sell his wintergifts for more than 250g then he will just get his money back. You are saying wintergifts aren't worth more than 250g each?

ducktape · Jan 02, 2007, 10:23 PM // 22:23

Aww, I got 250 candy cane shards from farming charr and then I stopped picking them up because I wanted room for the dyes that kept dropping. At least I didn't throw away the stack after midnight, I figured I'd wait until I play again today to sell them for 1g each to the merchant. To be honest, if I didn't read about Kurt's investment, I would have merched that stack of candy cane shards before I went to sleep, and I'd be really sad that I screwed myself out of all those presents I'm going to get today.

BTW, since his title is now "banned" what was the custom title Kurt had? And how do you get a custom title without being a mod? I saw some guy whose title is King of Spam or something like that.

Smile Like Umean It · Jan 02, 2007, 10:23 PM // 22:23

Why does everyone say it's a small chance? I've gotten cc shards from pressies at least 6 times.

VacantStare · Jan 02, 2007, 10:48 PM // 22:48

And I made them all into weapons last night >_>

Meh, win some lose some =P

Linksys · Jan 02, 2007, 10:52 PM // 22:52

Yeah I was lucky to have kept three stacks of shards. Traded them all for presents, got a lot of each item.

Of course I saw people offering to buy shards at ridiculously low prices. I of course proceeded to advise everyone to keep them and check out the Wintersday Gift Giver first, something the would be shard buyers won't tell anyone about. Cause of course that's the idea behind them buying for cheapskate prices.

At least a couple weren't too pleased, oh well.

Mr_T_bot · Jan 02, 2007, 11:05 PM // 23:05

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Originally Posted by Smile Like Umean It

Why does everyone say it's a small chance? I've gotten cc shards from pressies at least 6 times.

Ironically I only got 1 set of shards out of 44 presents.

sixdartbart · Jan 02, 2007, 11:16 PM // 23:16

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Originally Posted by eggs0wn

*sighs*

I gave all of mine away to newbies who wanted to a cc weapon. I try to be nice and I lose out.

*goes in corner, sits down, and rocks back and forth*

How exactly did you lose out, you still did something nice for some new players right?