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> @"Danikat.8537" said:

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> > > @"Super Hayes.6890" said:

> > > Seriously? People watching other people play an online game is a thing? Not my cup of tea I guess. I'd rather be playing the game myself. So this works in the respect that people watch this guy play then they go buy it themselves?

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> > > I'm genuinly asking because I've never watched anyone stream anything. Is it worth my time or just some gimmik? Are there really "celebrities" in this activity? I find this all strange.

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> > In my experience people come to complain or give advice. Also there is a thing called embedded viewership so you can never trust twitch numbers. I know of several ESO streamers that look like they have tons of viewers when it's embedded viewership doing it.

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> ESO also gives out loot boxes to people who watch sponsored streams, so quite a few players will open one on their phone or something and leave it running with the sound muted while they're doing other things. They've not actually watching, but Twitch can't tell the difference so they get free stuff for doing almost nothing and streamers get artificially inflated viewer numbers.

The twitch drops are turned off most of the month and the crates are never guaranteed, and the crate itself carries poisons and potions that are not as good as the game crafted ones. I have some years experience with ESO streams and twitch and I believe it does not boost numbers as much.

However embedded viewership gives streamers an extra 5k, 15k, 20k 'viewers' if they embed their stream on a high traffic info site. I have personally seen a streamer come into a stream and ask about it, get the honest answer, and get boosted to 5k+ viewers after that from doing embedding.

> @"Super Hayes.6890" said:

> Seriously? People watching other people play an online game is a thing? Not my cup of tea I guess. I'd rather be playing the game myself. So this works in the respect that people watch this guy play then they go buy it themselves?

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> I'm genuinly asking because I've never watched anyone stream anything. Is it worth my time or just some gimmik? Are there really "celebrities" in this activity? I find this all strange.

In my experience people come to complain or give advice. Also there is a thing called embedded viewership so you can never trust twitch numbers. I know of several ESO streamers that look like they have tons of viewers when it's embedded viewership doing it.

It would be fun to have a more robust system that gets people to go out and search all the zones instead of congregating in the zone of the month.

As someone who watches summit and is subbed to his channel, don't get hung up on it. He'll move on. And don't give him gold thinking he won't move on. Based on streams I've watched I predict he will stay for two more weeks. Enjoy it and expect some fun streams, but don't get hung up on it.

Do you get a stealth attack bonus from it.

In elder scrolls online you get 3x multiplier for an opening attack done to an enemy flank while in stealth. It would make 40cd stealth useful.

That's not a good way to keep players playing. Does the game want gold farmers to be it's future playerbase.

Is it fixed. Wiki says it is not.

After finding an _ornate rusted key_ I realized that GW2 is almost always...

See something interesting.

Look it up on wiki.

Find out it is used for something.

Look up that something on wiki.

Find out it requires farming a LOT of gold.

Close wiki.

Exit game.

Start up elder scrolls online.

I miss secondaries. I had a mesmer and I made so many builds using all the professions as mesmer secondaries. My mesmer could over time do everything in the game and feel completely different from one day to the next. Such longevity it had.

frareanselm, try the Renegade. I really liked playing it. I'd be summoning ghosts and using shortbow/staff. You can do some cool lifesteal builds with it.

I got ascended trinkets and weapons, but when I got to armour I stopped after a couple of pieces and honestly feel it is a trap. If you are not doing fractals it is a trap to care about ascended armour. Just get your trinkets.

> @"Blocki.4931" said:

> Turning them into crafting materials via the mystic forge is the simplest way that doesn't require much starting investment.

Are you referring to material promotion. Like that thing where I'd use a philosopher stone for upgrading 250 of one material into 80 of another.

I finished my masteries and am now earning spirit shards and it is pretty cool. But I have been looking at the vendor items and then looked up on the wiki. I keep seeing stuff to buy with spirit shards that require so much more money or work on top of it that I don't want to fall into that money pit.

I just want something simple to buy that is useful.

So far I only see the Sprint Boost Banner, but I see banners everywhere for free.

> @"Tasty Pudding.3764" said:

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> "Guild Wars" 2003. Lots of talk about being in a guild and fighting as a guild. No talk of any lore.

omg I bet the name is the result of owning rights to it even though the game had a vision change and turned out to be very different.

Soulbeast isn't flexible. Base Ranger seems better now. What a waste of time and resources.

Capes that don't flow as nice as the original game and yet they are sold for real money. Perfect symbol for this dying franchise. Anet really killed it good.

A new core skill line for each class.

It is the smart choice for player retention.

WoW classic worked because even a small fraction of it's playerbase is still a massive amount of people. Guild Wars 2 classic would be a sad and lonely place.

I think the presentation, live theater and countdown timer for days, and it happening around the game's anniversary made me think it would be a game changer announcement. I don't actually play anymore but came back hoping something really wild would happen.

I like the voice from Dragon's Dogma dragon, Grigori. To me it sounded both sinister and noble which fit the character's role too. Maybe a future dragon can use that voice.

I been playing elder scrolls online and miss the build making in guild wars 1. ESO lets me combine skill lines. I miss that from GW1.

Also I miss capturing elite skills from enemies and having lots of elite skills to make builds with.

I like quests that take me on adventures. GW2 feels like "hang out in the area and do chores." for prize tickets.

It's probably for player retention. But all of the little things I seen added are just grinds. Game relies too much on grinding to keep people playing.

I remember in Guild Wars we used to play hide and seek and tag in the outposts while we waited on someone who was afk. Or we would debate on what henchmen to bring along. Or barter for uniques. My rose tinted glasses are fogging up.

Honestly I was hoping for an announcement that GW2 would be left in maintenance mode for work on GW3. And that GW3 would be dual profession, elite skill capture, quest driven game like the franchise started with. At least I have elder scrolls online.

Maybe, but the Living Story isn't new player friendly.

A serial drama format almost never gains more traction the longer it goes. GW2 hasn't been talked about like it's the next game of thrones.

I heard about this earlier today but ERP means something else to me so I steered clear of it. :o