Think happy thoughts!

I feel a thread like this is desperatly needed before people seriously hurt themselves.

Where would we be without all the good things Arena Net did for us?
Like:
Dye preview screen.
Salvage preview screen.
Charr Bags and Charr Salvage kits (yay!)
Heroes and Henches.
Once a mayor bug is found it's fixed pretty fast.
End game greens.
New high end elite areas (Sorrow's Furnace)
Easter Eggs (hidden secrets)
Hard Mode.
Silver Eagle Armor, Elite Templar Armor and Labyrinthine Armor that was added to the game.
Scrolls to Urgoz's and The Deep.
PvE skills.
Lots of weapon skins to pick from.
Chance to win stuff in events such as Sweeptakes (Razor hardware ftw!)
The extra storage that was added for each campaign you own.
Design your own weapon contest.
Name a boss contest.
Dragon arena.
Rollerbeatle racing.
Snowball fights.
Costume Brawl.
Holiday events/ingame events.
Free to play (until the day you or the servers die)
Massive bot banning.
Fun titles.
Fun moments with friends/PuGs.
All the friends you make ingame.
Mini Mania contest.
Wintersday Art contest.
Guild Emblem Contest.
Material Storage.
Observer mode.
Drago's (oversized) Flatbow.
Campaign Storyline.
All the trouble you have to go through to get a Moabird.
Bonus Mission Pack.
Skill Templates.
Guild Hall.
Alliance.
Insignias for Armor.
Party Search window.
Consumables (Beer, candy)
Campaign Music.
Collectors Editions.
Report Feature.
Character selection screen without having to relog.

Contributers: Scar ra, natural_Causes, SerenitySilverstar, HuntMaster Avatar, Miska Bow (after filtering the sarcasm), PlasticBlue, Shai Lee, The Red Messenger, Clarissa F, Articus Red, Koricen, KarmicParadigm, Hissy, Friday, Nemesis of God, Shakti, enxa.

If I forgot something to add to the list or forgot to put your name in the Contributers list please PM me.

Biggest contributer: Arena Net.

I think it was good you posted this.......
this community, takes a hell of a lot for granted....
Always complaining.....never thanking

Cant forget all the contests where players get to add stuff in game(design your own weapons,and name the boss contest)

I do have to agree with you there. That was definitely a good thing.

Unfortunitly the laundry list of bad things about gw more than triples the good stuff list. But I applaud your intent.
I will add free to play to the good list.

Wintersday, Halloween, Dragon Fest, Anniversary Parties.

Alexandra, you should know that these things are NEVER enough for the fickle breed of people that are gamers

I've enjoyed and continue to enjoy all the juicy good things ANet has giving us, and I still get pleasure from playing the game.

But I also, love coming to Guru and reading the dramas and giggling at all the QQers.

Seriously, if ANet let all those dopes get to them, I think they would either fold GW and GW2 or just stop with the updates to GW, focus on GW2 and eventually GW2 would become another one of the generic MMORPGs because ANet just wouldn't bother listening to people whinge about useless crap

Of course, this is just my opinion. ^^

Edit: Sorry, I went off on a tangent. This is a Happy Thoughts thread! *spreads the love*

Dragon arena, Rollerbeatle racing, snowball fights

/agree.
always remember...it's a double edged sword in the business world...
if it makes more money than effort, and cost..it will be done so we can all enjoy..

Promotting sportmanship by ranking down the players using /emote after they killed you was also one of the good thing they did.

The way they fight against gold sellers is also really nice. Too bad they just added a nice big'n juicy money sink to help them stay in bussiness.

Titles to show what you have accomplish in the game were also a nice thing they added. the only one that comes to my mind as far as non buyable title are concern is Legendary skill hunter. And even that one you can buy runs to obtain the difficult ones.

Concerning the Z title/emote bullcrap, i really dont think the community is QQing. We commenting on a really crappy,worst thing that could have happened to GW.

Its a money sink/buyable tittle combine with sportmanship being totally banned from the game.




More on the subject at hand, getting your own map to hunt with no one to steal your kills is awsome.

DRAGON ARE- oh wait, they took that away

ermmmmm

It comes back for festivals, so you can always look forward to it's return.

Inscriptions. Oh wait, no.

it comes back for three or four festivals, which is either 9 or 12 days per year (cant remeber the exact number) thats hardly something im happy about :/

I'd just like to thank A-Net for aaaaaaall those wonderfull ingame moments I had with friends. For all the friends I made ingame. For all the fun!
Face it, if you /unsign this, why are you still playing?

So I say thank you for the entertainment,
the missions we're playing!
Thanks for all the joy you're bringing.
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a dungeon or HA, what are we?
So I say thank you for guild wars
For giving it to me! (ahum... us)

No monthly fee.

(Or was that another rhetorical question?)

Yeah take away GW and give me Dragon Arena I'd play all the time!

I think this is a very nice thing you are doing Alexandra.
I was thinking about one hour how unhappy the forum community is with the game and it has been a while since we had any positive posts.
We used to have a lot of that before.

The truth is that most people use these foruns to channelize their frustrationS (capital s) and it feels good when you "release" your anger. So by doing this frequently your mind understands that ranting/trolling in here will make you less unhappy (altough only for a short time) therefore you will do it more and more oftenly in order to give your body and mind the idea that your frustration is out, wich unfortunately is not the case. This is called behaviourism.

Remember that happiness does not comes from the outside to the inside, but from the inside to the outside.

- Mini Mania Contest
- Wintersday Art Contest
- Guild Emblem Contest
- Material Storage!

Because I'm dead sure some people think it's all leet and cool to whine or troll around. I'm serious.

But yeah... the community's kinda negative in general. So what I like about GW, in no particular order:

- Armor! Never have enough... my para's getting a new set tonight. x]
- Titles: gave me a reason to play this game. And no, I don't mind most of the grind.
- Farming: I actually enjoy farming. Probably because it becomes mindless and I like mindless play sometimes...
- FREE TO PLAY. The first reason why I bought this game.
- My friends. Hey, I had the chance to get great online friends in 3 years.
- Local chat: never-ending QQ/noob-calling/fighting entertainment. I used to hang out in LA, take a random side in a fight and argue out of boredom.

Observer mode How awesome was that