Acttually the issue with outbound federation not properly working is from before they upgraded to 0.19.0-rc4, but 0.19.X made it even worse, because it breaks various clients, e. g. Jerboa, due to some breaking API changes it introduces.

Honestly, this unannounced upgrade to 0.19.X is quite a kick in the butt.

We wanted to drive players to older content, as our game is heavily focused on horizontal progression, while ensuring players had reasons to go to the same places across the breadth of the game world and have other players to play with. This is all driven by a desire to increase player engagement through regular logins and longer play sessions through a system with a low barrier to entry. Increased engagement drives retention and MTX KPIs.

across the breadth of the game world or the same boring set of tasks over and over gain?

Also note the blatant use of the term drive players instead of something like encourage players, interest players or attract players.

🌕 That should give you something to think about. Right? PONDER! 🌕

I was gliding forward, too. 😎

I assume you are referring to Icebrood Saga.
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IBS is really weird.

Also, regardless of how far your character has progressed through the SotO story, you still see Mabon in Skywatch Archipelago. Either patrolling Wizard's Ascent or playing his role in the Meta.

On the other hand you won't see Isgarren in the Wizard's Tower, unless your character has progressed far enough through the story.

But maybe it's true and Story is as optional in Games as it is in Porn -- A developer quote I sadly can't find the source for anymore.

Then it looks like I got it ... though you could have made it easier for people to understand your point. 😎

I don't think there are DBM-like Addons for GW2 (BlishHUD Timers is the closest I could find), but maybe ReShade could be used to emphasize the effect by boosting or modifying certain color values.

I think that this is an area where GW2 could still improve a lot. I wish it had more options to reduce visual clutter and less variety in how (important) visual cues look on the screen. It appears like developers have a lot of artistic freedom when they design those effects.

Do you mean "Wagen des Volkes" == WV or "Vault of the Wizard" == VW`?

I think there is a rather wide consensus that this indicates the date of the first major update in the game's new Expansion Cycle, though we can't be sure of course.

You can trade them for Provisioner Tokens at Rend Scorchmaul in the Wizard's Tower who does not have a daily limit. This would have been an unlimited supply of tokens for roughly 20 silver a pop (see below) and people already know that they will need 300 tokens per piece of legendary armor.

But the Price for Quartz Crystals does not appear to have exploded, since ArenaNet was quick enough to fix it. Or maybe it's true and the exploit did not even consume the stacks and you could get unlimited amounts of Charged Crystals == Provisioner Tokens for free while it lasted.

I can craft a bit and sell it

Probably not, since ArenaNet crashed the market for (crafted) exotic gear with the addition of a new WvW vendor who sells stat selectable exotics for very little coin and honor. If I were mean, I could say they did this to make people buy PoF and HoT so they can also pick stat combinations from these expansions. Anyway, crafting is now officially dead.

Seems like it, though it wasn't actually my intention. I'm not even (planning on) using my Mastodon account much. But when I followed the MassisvelyOP account on Mastodon they followed back and I thought, I should (at least) pin a post to my Mastodon profile which references our GW2 community.

What I didn't know until now is that referencing a lemmy community from Mastodon also creates a post in the referenced community. I thought that you could only comment on lemmy posts from Mastodon.

But it appears that only direct replies to the post (comments on top leveL) are federated back to Mastodon. Replies to comments (nested comments) aren't shown when expanding the post.

I've changed my post on mastodon to enforce a different automated title.

yep