If you have access to journals, take a look at 21 Washburn L.J. 175 (1981-1982) ? Anyway, authority isn't binary. I hold nonzero authority in League of Legends, far more than someone who doesn't play and far less than someone who's actually good (good on the pro level).
I trust you understand there's a difference between can't and haven't. The context of this discussion was a general inquiry about the origin of warranties. I have a JD, which required studying both contract and commercial law. So, although I am not a contract law scholar, I have enough training to know the general lay of the land, so to speak. Regardless, I found the following with five minutes of google-ing, so clearly the interwebs are not quite as bereft of information on the subject as you seem to believe: "The Law of warranty is older by a century than the principles which govern it. Much has been written on the pros and cons of implied warranty; contract or tort? Warranty seems to be a child of no one, a hybrid between tort and contract, and until recent years it has been held by the courts to lean further towards contract. The original recovery was through an action on the case as warranty was viewed as a deceit. The earliest recorded case allowing recovery on breach of implied warranty was in 1778. In 1815 Lord Elenborough said, "A dealer who contracts to sell goods of a particular description is understood to agree that he will deliver what is commonly sold in the market under that description," and from this the courts have developed implied warranty of merchantable quality." Charles F. Groom, Sales, Implied Warranty, Manufacturer Liable to Ultimate Consumer on Theory of Public Policy, 2 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 510, 511-12 (1960)
Jestintime Are you serious bro? It's four pages long* and spends more time on privity than on the legal concepts that underline the concept of recovery on implied warranty, let alone the concept of implied warranty, explicit warranty or warranty/contract/tort law prior to the American experience. Would you say that a discussion of privity is particularly relevant to an argument about whether or not ANet has warranted that they will deliver a particular product given that they are both the distributor and originator of the product? I'd fucking say not at all. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28674/28674-h/28674-h.html#toc52 http://books.google.com/books?id=SU49AAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8 I've found more useful sources to continue this exploration. Thanks for, uh, polishing your dome in public, I guess? Now excuse me, I'm off to watch Spartacus rip some bitches up! *Which isn't a slam on the article. It's a fine article, just not an article relevant to anything in this thread.
I find it really hard to believe that the concept of merchants or manufacturers providing warranties for their products was only as recent as a late 18th century concept. That may well be where what resembles modern American law on the subject got its start, but that can't be when this first started as a general practice globally and says nothing as to why.
Dude, if we had a game about merchant guilds, you could totally name yours "the Hanackeratic League."
Can you do regular dungeons with people on other servers? With fractals it seems like you have to all meet up on an Overflow server to do so. A guy I was running with said that you need to do two in one sitting to get the extra Fractal dungeon. Is that true or can you do it in two play sessions? I guess compared to WoW raids it isn't that big of a time commitment to do two runs in one sitting, but there's a reason I didn't do much WoW raiding. The first one I did was the one with the hammer and it took about an hour and 20 minutes. One guy knew what he was doing so it wasn't like we were all going in completely cold. Got a different group and it went smoother and we ran through 7 in about 3 and a half hours. Was fun. Are there really people on Fractal level 27 already?
With fractals you need to do 3 in a sitting (in a row, no canceling out of one and re-entering) to increase your fractal level. Every even numbered level also has a bonus boss fight + chest.
Yes, but I believe the bonus chest on #4 will only spawn once a day (everything resets at ~7 or 8PM EDT I believe)
Has ArenaNet said what time their servers are running on? I noticed that the daily timer didn't pay any attention to the DST change back when that happened (because my goals started resetting at 6 instead of 7), and it could actually be useful to know.
I'd hazard a guess at GMT, considering that 7pm EST is about when my daily counter rolls over every night, and that's midnight GMT and nothing special in PST. Given the other shit they do on the server side, I'd actually wager they do everything in GMT because fuck being a global SaaS company and using local timezones *mutter mutter pet peeve mutter*
Look, I made a statement regarding the development of warranties, you accused me of pulling said statement out of my ass, and I provided you a citation to a passage in a scholarly journal that backs up my statement. Just because that passage happens to reside in an article that isn't the definitive history of warranties doesn't diminish its legitimacy. In a more constructive vein, I would recommend checking out the footnotes to that passage, particulary the articles cited in footnote 9. One of those is to a Minnesota law review article by Prosser that looks promising, but I couldn't find a free version after a couple minutes of searching. Also, Williston on contracts is a great resource, but I doubt it's going to contain the level of detail regarding the history of warranty formation that you're looking for, particularly if you're interested in the pre-American experience (which I assume also includes pre-English common law experience). Although I wasn't citing the article for purposes of raising the privity issue, I wouldn't dismiss it so perfunctorily. Not all of the sales of GW2 are directly via ANet.
Pink gear basically killed my desire to play. I went from "yay fancy clothes yay hunting down things" to "well if I use my fine transmute blobs to fancy myself now I'll have to buy new ones when pink gear comes out AND ALSO GRIND THAT." Hence no interest in playing anymore. Also kat, riz and I discovered that hamachi makes CK2 mp relatively painless. So we've been getting down and dirty in Spain.
I kind of finished it. I still haven't gotten absolute map completion in Orr but....I mean, I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate wubwub (even tried it again the other night just to make sure, and, yup, still hate it), so what's left for me to do at this point? My regular group and I are doing a dungeon every week (for which we are interminably short one), but random dungeons aren't as streamlined and easy to do as in World of Warcraft (significant oversight - needs to be high on the list of features for future updates) and the distance from where I am now to Exotic and Legendary gear goes through Orr (so exhausting) and is so very far, so I've been playing XCOM and games on my handhelds and watching television. I may end up back in after the new year. The winter television season seems to be, if anything, worse for me in terms of actual load and Guild Wars 2 is something I can actually do while one of the maybe-less-than-spectacular television shows is running. I'll certainly be in for the next expansion, whenever that happens, but the endgame just feels a little bit hard to access for me, and I just don't have the energy right now to develop any interest in spinning up another Alt.
We played literally all weekend, and were logged on on steam. If you didn't message the group of CK2 playing nerds YOU ARE TO BLAME. edit: On the plus side for you thanks to Nate we discovered that random people can drop into our saves and play a country. So you can join when we play next weekend.
Christ, there's no tournies and the SPVP is every bit as awful as I remember. I've got nothing left that I'm interested in.
I haven't been playing much myself. I pretty much gave up making money, as my main source of cash has dropped in price quite a bit. I might do the monthly/holiday content, assuming that dungeon runs are not a requirement. I'm just crossing my fingers at this point that anet reconsiders the ascended gear tier entirely.
Tried playing tourneys again. Hated it again. Sadface. I really wanted to like spvp/tourneys in GW2. I really did. I think the reason they're not clicking is that combat feels over-tactical and isolated, with the status quo of combat being a rapid spiral into mass death and a race to make the other guy die first (as opposed to GW1 combat, whose status quo was jockeying for position and pressuring the enemy into expending resources / making mistakes). But for whatever the reason, I just... can't stand the pvp combat in GW2. Which makes me super sad.
I haven't hopped back on GW2 since the absolutely horrid Halloween bullshit. If they're still rolling out "holiday" crap, I'll wait until that's all over to log on again. I absolutely hate that shit in MMOs.
You hate that the mere fact that it exists? The extent of my participation in the Halloween event was killing the stuff that poured out of the Scary Doors when I happened to be near one and mining a few candy corn nodes until I found out they were for crafting things I didn't care about. Otherwise it was just normal GW2.
FYI: for the Lost Shores fuckup, they ran some form of script to find who didn't get rewards for it (disconnected, whatever), and reward chests are out in mail today (may take a few hours to get to everyone), but check your mail. I have no idea what the determination for this is, so I have no idea if I'm getting a box or not. I did about half the final event before getting bored/laggy and leaving.
I dislike the way most of the content has been added lately, if you count the karka island stuff. Timed jump puzzles especially, because you're also forced to work with a crowd for the first day or two. I suspect another one is coming for christmas and I'm not looking forward to it. The only content I "liked" was the mad king fight, but only because it was relatively easy and quick with a chance at exotics/valuable rares. The rest were boring/laggy and wasted money on waypoint travel.
I was on about an hour before the event started, and didn't participate at all but they sent me a chest. Had an ancient kahrka shell, an exotic staff, and some other goodies. I'm feeling strangely more positive towards anet now.
Okay. I understand intellectually that this isn't personal. I get that. But, ArenaNet, for the love of god would you please stop doing "server maintenance" on the one night of the week that I'm trying to do something substantive with this goddamn game? My group plays one night a week. One. And, because you decided to do....whatever the holy hell it was you were doing, we spent pretty much all of it variously staring at a login screen that I couldn't get through (me) or waiting for other people to try and get in (everybody but me, until they, too, got kicked). I'm sure that something was broken or a bum peed on the server or something and you had to schedule that for precisely the time at which we were online, but I need something here, guys. You gotta give me something to keep coming back for this crap. Because I ain't get no chest in the mail. That might help if I did, but....just something, dudes. Come on.
It is quite nice of anet to give rewards to people they screwed over. It sounds like they were a little too generous and a few people who got the reward normally were given another box. This seems to have pissed off a significant portion of players (who post on the forum). Not quite the ascended armor fiasco, but it highlights how some gamers have serious inferiority complexes.
I'm with you, their maintenance timing is really obnoxious. And they compound it by not announcing maintenance windows ahead of time.
