Actually he wasn't criticising at all. Unless "Honest to god, I'm not trolling. I'm really asking because it's not obvious to me that it is the awful thing many/most folks seem to think it is." is criticising. Some contributions may have been referring to this game, but I was referring to the subject, not the offtopic :).…
You're swamping yourself in pointless details, whereas I'm arguing about the concept. The Giraffe was simply an example. No, you can't get it in 10 days the "normal" way, because buying ZEN on the market is the paying way (you sell your time to people, who are willing to buy it for real money). The normal way would be to…
Seems like my cleric went to the same adventuring school. The best thing she does is "chasing the templates". She just can't resist them. When a RRoD appears somewhere she goes all "SHINEEEEY. DEEEEERP!" and runs right into it. Smart one she is :). Regards, Kalantris
Yes ofcourse, you are 100% correct only not. This is a game and much like ALL OTHER GAMES there are rules, which make sure there's an equal playground for all players. Since you're so all pro P2W I understand you equally support this: - Allow paying football teams to have 15 players instead of 11. - Every player change on…
Yes, ofcourse, but the price of these items is regulated by... ZEN. It's a triage - AD, ZEN, items which can be obtained both in-game and through the ZEN store. Regardless of how much effort it takes to obtain the items they will always be worth as much as their AD/ZEN coversion value. Imagine a companion named... let's…
Free to play model was introduced some time ago and was treated as a "poorer brother" of the subscription model. That quickly changed, because the revenues from F2P are vastly superior to the revenues from subscriptions. There are two main factors here, one is that wealthy players can spend much more than a subscription…
The horse is the only P2W item in PvP. You can easilly get enough glory to buy yourself a full gladiator set the moment you ding 60. I bought two armor parts and two weapons (one for me, one for sale) and I only spent 20-25% of my leveling time on PvP. I notice bots a lot too, you can easilly see it by the scores. It's…
Poverty also exists because there's an ever changing of the status you'd call poverty. Transfering this to game terms you could imagine, that 20% of the population can afford anything, 70% can affort most of the stuff and 10% are just poor <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> trying to make it to the first so to say. Then a…
Sorry for my tone, friend. I have nothing against you, I was just pissed off, as the **** forum deleted my entire post because of some character I used in my post. Anyway, on topic. Yes, you need simplification to describe certain mechanisms, but you compare it to a significantly simplified RL situation... in effect you…
It says in my terms and agreements everyone who reads this post have to donate their kidneys and liver to me, otherwise they'll have to transfer $1.000.000 to my account and you accepted them by reading this post. That's why we have consumer rights, because when big, bad and badly run companies like PWE make our lives…
Time steal has a 12s CD, shield knocks trash around and shouldn't be used in some situations (exceptions: knocking mobs off cliffs, mobs next to a wall - so no KB, mobs almost dead, mobs surrounding someone, overpull, mobs on cleric), which substantially lowers either your or your entire group's DPS (especially melee, who…
Shard is garbage? Shard = constant CC on everything in PvE. It's hard to use, that's true, but it's awesome. Chill strike on the other hand offers absolutely no CC. I'd say a couple words about Control Wizards who forget what "Control" means, but I'd get myself banned for it :D. Regards, Kalantris
You're a freaking genius. I think you're 100% correct. This cuts the bonus from recovery by half however making it useless. Go crit! :) Regards, Kalantris
Umm... ray on PvP, conduit on PvE. Nobody uses conduit, really? Mass slow with -15% mitigation to everything you hit? I would understand if we had too few AoE's in our arsenal, but steal time, shield and shard of endless avalanche is already everything you can slot. Why would you use chillstrike? Regards, Kalantris
I spent 2 hours in the last 2 days trying to get in a T2 dungeon. Got into 80-90 groups total. No clerics. You can't do T2 without a cleric or exploiting. So I didn't. I rolled a cleric myself. Regards, Kalantris
Oh yeah, there was a huge answer here, but the <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> forum just threw it all to the garbage and I'm not going to waste any more time trying to reply. Anyway you're wrong and you oversimplify tons of things. You also vaguely understand the process of spreading wealth to the real economy and…
There is also a lady next to the entrance to the Nasher hideout (run out the gate, keep to the right, make a right turn and just run, you'll see a pretty big square and a hexer with some adds and a bit further you'll see a woman with a bow saying something about hating stakeouts). She's also a quest giver. Regards,…
No, he should expect everyone to have everything. Buff potions, healing potions, rejuvenation potions and everything else, because DCs mostly heal themselves. I often watch my gf play her cleric in random dungeon groups and I cry watching how dumb people are. She's running around with ALL of the adds on her struggling to…
I had the same problem with the other one in the Graveyard. Click every **** NPC in that area and find the one with something available for you, that's how it works. You no longer see quest indicators in some areas (Ice Peak, Neverdeath Graveyard etc.). I submitted that three times by now, never got any answer beyond how…
As I said before, no, it doesn't. The AH exchange rate only offers evidence, that the majority that joined the failwagon last weekend are now gone. It doesn't prove, that the original exploiters are gone or even that they exist or don't exist. The market is too large and neither you not I have the necessary data to analyze…
I'm saying it's not necessarily as you think it is, I'm making an equally unproovable claim as yours. The state of AD/Zen exchange doesn't prove it, neither does it disprove it. Assuming the exploit was known to a small group of gamers since day 1 you wouldn't be able to tell the difference by now, because the market was…
No, I think it's far more complicated. People who exploited this from the start were the smart ones. Then someone spilled the beans and it went pretty much public, so everyone started abusing it. Now it's just the old, smart guys again and: 1. they're a vast minority; 2. they're smart, so they'll liquify their assets…
It actually blows my mind right open when I read people saying, that "they're trying" or "they'll get to you in a week or two". Sweet mother of whatever what in the name of seven nonexistant hells are you talking about? How can you even try to say "it's ok for a company to accept their customers' money and not provide any…
Which is priceless when you're sixty, all T1 purple and grinding for T2 goodies. Yes, the greens piling in your two bags with 30 slots total along with different sets for different dungeons are just awesome and I can't imagine how I'd live without them. Oh greens, my greens! Knocking mobs off cliffs is the only thing…
Cooling off period only applies to distant sales (which are phone sales, online sales and so on). Feel free to read the basics: SOURCE: http://www.eccnl.eu/page/en/themes/E-Commerce#par4 It does seem to work differently here in Poland then. It's not that easy to file a chargeback complaint, banks require a lot of…
If that's the case, then it's fraud, nothing more. That's not the procedure behind this thread however, as we're regarding to the distant sales directive of the EC/EU, which doesn't have anything to do with chargebacks. It's not done through banks or credit card issuers, it's a simple procedure in which the customer…
You must file for a refund through PWE? First of all I've done chargebacks in the past and I know full well the procedure is available only when you complete your dealing with the merchant's customer service. Only after the customer's complaints have been rejected and he still disagrees is he entitled to a chargeback…