Curse

MithranArkanere · Jun 10, 2009, 02:19 PM // 14:19

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Originally Posted by Shayne Hawke

The only way I could see this happening is to add an option to the party window to add spectators, with a limit of how many spectators there could be. That way, people could be watching how people do farms or runs or just generally play in PvE, but not get in the way, and it's not necessary to save videos of players playing these areas.

Well, that can be already done:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Sacrifice
Enter, die, click on the guy you want to follow.

But there's the thing of gaining death counts that way, though.

pumpkin pie · Jun 10, 2009, 02:22 PM // 14:22

/signed for elite mission only.

reasons:
1) good for players who has never play an elite area before.
2) if server is the worry, can always impose a limited viewers number thing to prevent too many players using up all the server. eg: maximum spectator has reached, please try again later.
3) only show the best few.

Doc Zenith · Jun 10, 2009, 03:26 PM // 15:26

what happened to the privacy? if you dont want to share something with everyone else you shouldn't need to period.

Bristlebane · Jun 10, 2009, 03:48 PM // 15:48

/not signed,

but if it worked in real-time like when you're dead and clicking a party member, sure why not. Then it could work like this:
- Member in party does a /invite Player X.
- Player X accepts, loading screen and can then observe as a 'dead' player.

smilingscar · Jun 10, 2009, 04:40 PM // 16:40

It would be incredibly awesome if it were just two videos or so. One of the best times for a mission (with bonuses) and one for the worst (for laughs/lessons on what not to do). If it was restricted to elite areas and two videos per area per day, that would be 26 videos to observe per day. You could cut it down to 12, if you only count DoA and Slaver's as one area and perhaps rotated which sub-area was viewable each day. For that matter, you could just show one video per area and trim it down to 6!

I'm all for for it. It would be good for players who are PvE competent but don't quite know the tricks of the trade concerning elite quests and missions. Perhaps we could finally see the slow death of group failure due to someone taking the wrong quest or attacking the wrong foe (ahh mister wailing lord...why must you be so deliciously killable?).

Wouldn't this also help to bridge the gap from PvE to PvP as well? It would familiarize the PvE population with observer mode, and teach them to learn from the examples of better players.

/Signed: It's not feasible for every mission, but it would be a great asset for elite missions. And it also makes sense in of pve leading to pvp.

REDdelver · Jun 10, 2009, 04:52 PM // 16:52

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Originally Posted by Elephantaliste

Actually it could be a good idea if it works like for PvP : 3 Best times to clean an elite zone for exmaple.

/never-sign

It would not be a good idea. Observer mode has brought META-MEDIOCRITY to this game, which most old-head pvp'ers truly believe has been the true downfall of GvG and HA. It never "worked" for pvp.

Observer mode has been nothing but a bad virus that won't go away unless they drop Observer mode for good. We certainly dont need it in the easiest part of the game....pve. Copy/paste ...copy/paste....copy/paste = crap learning curve = typically bad play.

Zzes Tyan · Jun 10, 2009, 05:02 PM // 17:02

i want to lol at fail pugs fail....

Yichi · Jun 10, 2009, 05:26 PM // 17:26

no. Theres currently enough useless crap *cough cough hero battles* on my observer mode as it is, much less a bunch of random people running around in pve...

DarkFlame · Jun 10, 2009, 07:57 PM // 19:57

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Originally Posted by NocturnalLunacy

And that's why there should be servers set up just for this... Why is that so hard?

And money grows on trees, right?

You can already find plenty on Youtube. No need for Anet to bankrupt itself to fund this massive and pointless endeavor.

crazybanshee · Jun 10, 2009, 09:42 PM // 21:42

Ugh, notsigned. Most are irrelevant to watch anyway, as they're pugs or fails or average. The truly outstanding ones are posted on youtube. Enjoy.