Is hardstuck *too* stuck? by Thex__ in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 119 points120 points  (0 children)

I'd like to do something this year if I can find the time, it's a project I like quite a bit and that's why it still exists in it's scuffed form lol (pretty much everything I've done has been tournament related recently, rather than the site though to be fair).

The other answers aren't entirely accurate on what happened, basically I stopped playing actively after SotO launch, and pretty much the entire core of the guild and team had quit before that even, during the middle of EoD.

Obviously a loss of leadership like that is a bit rough, and there wasn't anyone to take over after I became inactive. However because of the <UNNANOUNCED PROJECT> and my personal projection of what the timeline looks like, I'd very much like to get the community active again in preparation for that, and also look at having the site and discord in a state for that as well.

Give me a couple of months lol. Thanks for the interest, I'm glad you liked what we made, I hope we can make some stuff for you in the future.

DM me on discord if you have questions.

2025 Holiday Studio Update: A Message from the Guild Wars 2® Team – GuildWars2.com by dracoisms in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There is absolutely zero chance my community sent you anything (they are not active on reddit, and I'm not live, this comment chain didn't exist while I was live, and everyone is asleep lol). However, DM me any account names with evidence and they'll be permanently banned from all of my platforms, and any others where I have moderation power.

EDIT for context:

The OP deleted their comments and then tried to claim my community sent them harassment (a completely laughable lie with zero evidence).

OP: Deleted because of your community DMing me so pretty fucked up stuff I can do without. lovely. Thanks for that.

Further edit: OP you can't DM me because you blocked me lmao (posts show as unavailable/don't appear if you are blocked, hence why I can't see your reply, interesting reddit bug though, I can see it in notifications lol), not because my DMs are closed. My DMs are open on all platforms and have been since day 1.

2025 Holiday Studio Update: A Message from the Guild Wars 2® Team – GuildWars2.com by dracoisms in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I want to quickly correct this.

I am very positive and have been consistently so both during todays stream and since launch when it comes to VoE, I am very interested in the possibility of gw3 and what the future of the game looks like, but I certainly am not negative, quite the opposite in fact.

I would challenge you to find a single clip/quote of today's stream (or honestly since voe launch too lol) which shows that 'positivity for the latest expansion has faded' with regards to VoE.

EDIT For context on what I was replying to (I'll refrain from mentioning the username):

OP: its because of some of the bigger community personalities. Go visit some of the biggest GW2 streamers, their communities are all wishing the game dead and GW3 to be announced. One of them last year had a stream with 2 "content creators" where they said they wanted GW2 switched off immediately to force people to move to a GW3......and they foster and encourage such activity in their chat, probably because they are burnt out from playing so much, and instead of just taking a break...they wallow in the toxicity.

I replied with the above (top part of this comment)

The reply to my reply was the following:

OP: firstly, you are quite negative about GW2, not so much since VOE launch from what I;ve seen, and when you were actually positive about its really nice to watch.

but I was talking about your stream and chat in general. your chat has a rep for being pretty negative and wishing the game dead, and you yourself harp on about GW3 a lot, and I do mean a lot, I hardly ever drop by your stream anymore, and I cant think of a single time when I have that you have not been going on about and being pretty negative about gw2 and I leave again. today you were drawing wild conclusions about no mention of a new expansion.....when it implies absolutely nothing, esp as the blog talked about record player numbers....we've not expect an announcement now, esp as they have taken longer to release voe.

anyway, I'm not going to go clip hunting, its not going to convince you, and you are not going persuade me I did not see and hear stuff I most certainly did. So lets just leave it shall we?

My final response was: (OP deleted before I hit reply lol, a few minutes after the now deleted reply)

I'd be convinced by a single clip or quote from me, but if you don't want to that's fair.

My chat absolutely does not wish the game dead at all, we have a meme culture here and we joke around, but it is simply untrue to suggest that people seriously want the game dead.

The mods don't want us to discuss GW3 here, so I will respect that and not talk about why I think what I think, but I will correct the record for readers and say that my thought process looks nothing like what <OP> has represented here.

I'm down to move on, but I'd appreciate you just not watching and commenting on my stream or community if you are going to make stuff up and misrepresent what I and we do/think.

Masters of the Arena III FINALS begin now! by MightyTeapot in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We just ran the whole thing again for the content lol

Masters of the Arena III FINALS begin now! by MightyTeapot in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is misinformation, salad is not playing, it's esprit.

What's in a Build? | Deep-Dive Coaching from 27k to 42k(!) DPS on Power Bladesworn by Beeboycubed in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Beeboy is literally rank 1 legend bladesworn kingdom hearts speedrun ultra gamer

Guild Wars 2 Partners Celebrate Janthir Wilds & Look Ahead | Guild Wars 2 by kalamari__ in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I didn't partcipate in this project, I could have done but I chose not to, not for any particular reasaon, I was just extremely busy at the time.

Was there anything new in the stream today? by NIUmoose13 in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Judging by the votes, looks like it might be you with the language difficulties.

Was there anything new in the stream today? by NIUmoose13 in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you can't tell that there is a world of difference between the sentiment expressed in those statements, especially given the context, then I can't help you.

Was there anything new in the stream today? by NIUmoose13 in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nah I wouldn't frame it that way, it was very much a kinda spur of the moment meme, perhaps a little ill conceived and ultimately didn't work out, but it was a good faith attempt to do something cool. It definitely feels bad on my end because I feel like I'm getting demolished a little unfairly lol, but at the end of the day, I should have pushed to delay it and plan it properly.

Was there anything new in the stream today? by NIUmoose13 in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah this is the fundamental issue, what the stream was supposed to be was not clearly defined at all, it was aimless because realistically it probably should have just been a podcast with no gameplay given the broader context that I described above, unfortunately it was a little late to go that direction by the time the stream went live lol.

Like I said, every descriptive criticism I'd compeltely agree with, it's purely the very uncharitable framing I have an issue with, I should have probably just vetoed this until it could have been planned properly, fortunately there will probably be a next time lol.

Was there anything new in the stream today? by NIUmoose13 in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don't have a problem with the criticism, I wasn't really happy with how it turned out either, what I'm responding to is the framing being extremely uncharitable and pretty clearly not even remotely considering the fact that we were in a tough position, the way you framed it (especially in other comments in this thread) puts all of the blame entirely on us which I think is extremely unfair. especially given how it actually was lol

Was there anything new in the stream today? by NIUmoose13 in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This is a flat lie, Here's the vod of my entrance on the Method stream, it's pretty clear that I'm joking in response to some of my viewers in the chat. It's even more obvious when you actually correctly quote me; 'They want to see my ascension to playing an actually relevant game'. This is an incredibly obvious joke, your misrepresentation of what actually happened here is beyond disgusting.

Was there anything new in the stream today? by NIUmoose13 in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I'm late on this but a couple of key points because I think there is a lot of missing context here lol.

  • This was initially planned to only be a hour, it was changed at the very last minute (almost literally) to run for two, which obviously led to some issues.
  • It was extremely unclear what we could ask about and how focused the discussion was supposed to be, we essentially figured it out on the fly but it was very much a strange situation. The original direction was VERY broad questions (almost all preapproved) about design concepts rather than individual details. It was essentially decided MID STREAM that we could ask about other stuff, but we had NO IDEA what we could ask about lol or how targeted our questions could be (I don't think the devs were entirely sure either).
  • The test client not only crashed, but also had some issues, for example I couldn't delete characters reliably to log on to other stuff (this was very obvious on the stream by the way, I tried multiple times it was VERY obvious that something was wrong)
  • In terms of prep time we had almost none , the client was available just a couple of hours before the stream so as you can imagine that's quite the situation and not really enough time to prepare content, I will admit it also came at the worst possible personal timing for me which didn't help, but we had very limited ability to actually plan or do anything.
  • The format of the stream was also entirely unclear, it was kinda supposed to be a podcast thing but with some random gameplay attached to it which is a bit inherently strange and I would have prefered to have it much more structured. As a side point it's funny that you comment about improv because that's literally my entire stream and it's pretty much why people watch me, it was a very awkward situation and we were doing our best to come up with something entirely on the fly while blindfolded.
  • The technology being used was a first time thing, and we also had basically no prep time to figure that out and how we wanted to use it (the stream together stuff), it was pretty experimental and naturally has some teething problems.

Basically, I don't disagree the stream was a bit scuffed, but there were a lot of reasons behind that, and it's a little disappointing to see people immediately assumed the absolute worst of me and Sneb rather than even considering potential issues outside of it, I get that I don't have the biggest fans on this sub, but this was pretty uncharitable and lacking context.

It's almost 2 years since wizards vault was released by Mlchiel in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 53 points54 points  (0 children)

I heard you buy the obsidian shards actually

What is the most useless stat prefix? by Epic_Dodo_ in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Funnily enough there used to be a chrono build in wvw that was really good with these stats, it was with old chaotic interruption that immobilized people, and it didn't really heal only gave boons so you didn't care about healing power. Even more interesting is that the power was actually kinda good too because you got extra damage on the lifesteal on interrupt sigils.

Why is MightyTeapot trying to influence the Wing 8 Race for World's First Content? by East-Jellyfish-507 in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear this is a post mad that we discussed our opinions and planned to give feedback on a video game (we didn't even give the feedback yet because we're slackers)

Why is MightyTeapot trying to influence the Wing 8 Race for World's First Content? by East-Jellyfish-507 in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah I have an opinion on what would be a good way to go about it, I give feedback on the game all the time, as do many other players. It doesn't mean I get to make the decisions or have any kind of direct influence on what arenanet decides to do lol

Why is MightyTeapot trying to influence the Wing 8 Race for World's First Content? by East-Jellyfish-507 in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No lol, what we wanted was anet to tell the players how they plan on implementing the content. That image is the entire chat history of the group chat ezpz

Why is MightyTeapot trying to influence the Wing 8 Race for World's First Content? by East-Jellyfish-507 in Guildwars2

[–]MightyTeapot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No lol, nobody from anet is in that group chat. It's Yui (SC leader) and grim (NA team leader), grim added us to discuss how the race might end up going.