Xunlai Tournament predictions (Zaishen keys)

[[FnG] Da Kril]

Ooh, sorry there, Lily.

I managed 80 points again (somehow). 16 keys. However, the market has dropped a lot.

Had to sell at 3.5K, so only got 52-ish platinum. And I used one on the chest.
(Dragon hornbow merch turd. Thanks a lot, chest.)

--k o--

[[FnG] Tigerlily]

Somehow Kril, you always make me laugh. I feel much better about my one key now. Thanks.

[[FnG] Unholy Eve]

93 keys on this end with help from the spare account

[[FnG] Tigerlily]

93 keys on this end with help from the spare account

[[FnG] Da Kril]

The Xunlai Tournament House is now officially, permanently closed.
The only question hanging is will the reward points from May '09 ever be distributed?
Hint: your breath — don't hold it

After much analysis and discussion, we’ve decided to permanently retire the Xunlai Tournament House.

Initially, we took down the Xunlai Tournament House due to recurring technical issues that caused incorrect Tournament Point distribution each month. We conducted an exhaustive investigation into the backend code that runs the Xunlai Tournament House to see what we could do to fix these issues. After careful evaluation, we concluded that it wasn’t possible to redeploy the Xunlai Tournament House at the level of quality that our players expect without completely rebuilding it from scratch. To do that, we’d have to take away vital resources from the Guild Wars 2 team. Given the circumstances, we decided it was more important to keep our focus on Guild Wars 2, and permanently retire the Xunlai Tournament House.

This was a tough call for us to make. We’ve greatly appreciated the community’s enthusiastic support for XTH. We know that this decision will disappoint some players, and we apologize for that, but ultimately we believe this was the right decision.

Boo,
--kril out--

[[FnG] RampantBunny]

I kinda expected this would happen, sadly i wont ever see the points for the last tournament either which i never got..Ah well its been soon long i had actually forgotten about em

[[FnG] Unholy Eve]

Well can't realy say I'm suprised in all honesty after about 6 months I think deep down we all knew it wasn't going to come back.
Will we get any points for last May ? Not likely any sort of compensation for it dought it.

[[FnG] Sphinx]

Ah well that was inevitable really lets just hope that the excuse of not taking resource away from GW2, doesnt become their excuse for everything ... so presumably all this resource in GW2 means they are going to bring us GW2 ... when???

[[FnG] Tigerlily]

Aw. Oh well ................. Let's hope ANeT doesn't shoot itself in the foot over GW2 now.

[[FDG]Sundae]

Annnd.... themed everlasting tonics just SKYROCKETED in value.

[[FnG] Sphinx]

You will have to elaborate on that one please Sundae

[[FDG]Sundae]

You will have to elaborate on that one please Sundae

I swear, I leave and miss posts for weeks at a time.

There are twelve 'themed' everlasting tonics - one of them drops each month from the Zaishen Chest outside Great Temple of Balthazar. They are pretty rare drops, but not so rare that you couldn't get at least one with a decent amount of keys (and a pretty darned decent amount of luck). For comparison's sake - I ended up giving up and buying one for 65 ectos off of someone about six months ago, after not having a single everlasting tonic drop after putting 940 keys into that bloody chest.

Anyway - that was the easy way to get keys right there... the tournament. The tournament predictions are gone now - no more stupidly easy keys for anyone who bothered to go throw a few high-ranked teams into a spreadsheet on each of their accounts.

Want a tonic? It just got a lot harder to get those keys in the first place now. Want a key? 5,000 balthazar faction or 100g + 1 Zaishen Gold Coin for it. That's significantly harder than grabbing 40 keys per month from the tournament guy while simultaneously doing all that other crap. That's a lot of keys out of the economy right there.

Now - the population of GW might have dwindled so far that there's no demand anyway... I could easily see that too. GW is effectively dead, admittedly.

[[FnG] Silke]

Some update about reward points so hurry and get them maybe you can get one everlasting tonics for the last points

Added support for a final, one-time distribution of Tournament Reward Points related to the retirement of the Xunlai Tournament House.

High Priest Zhang now distributes 50 Tournament Reward Points to each account (one use only).

[[FnG] Unholy Eve]

Added support for a final, one-time distribution of Tournament Reward Points related to the retirement of the Xunlai Tournament House.

High Priest Zhang now distributes 50 Tournament Reward Points to each account (one use only).

Huzzah for spare accounts

Boo for not actually playing the game anymore :*(

Roll on GW2

[[FnG] Tigerlily]

Thanks for the heads up Silke - I now have five more keys. All the same, it's so sad to see Guild Wars slowly - or maybe not so slowly - falling into decline. I just wish ANet would hurry up and get GW2 out........