Help talk:Ask a game question

Archive

---

/Archive1

Archivi'n Time

i really think we should, were at about 67k now--Raph Talky 23:15, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

archive is every 15th and 30th of each month. - Y0_ich_halt 23:17, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

oh, the talk? ok ^^ - Y0_ich_halt 23:18, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

lawlz, didnt know that. im still a newb to this wiki..--Raph Talky 23:26, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

you need to make me expect a link first. if i didin't ask for a link, i'll always look where it goes first :P - Y0_ich_halt 23:35, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

eh...worth a shot......thoguh i would expect you to be the only person to click on it o_O--Raph Talky 23:37, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

i did watch the vid, i like it and it saves me the search on youtube/navigating through my user space XD - Y0_ich_halt 23:46, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Save the rickrolls for the userspace, not "public" talk pages. -- Brains12 \ Talk 00:03, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

<sarcasm>First you edit conflict me twice, then you ruin my rickrolling spree? GOSH!! </sarcasm> :P--Raph Talky 00:26, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

son of a gun

Is it just me or is anyone else getting tired of answering the smae old questions, as well as the fact that new wiki'ers never use the search bar? (or at least, most of em dont)--Raph Talky 13:30, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I have to agree that I am getting sick of all the same questions. I wish there was a way to make users read what's on top first, but I doubt that would happen. Oh well. Calor 14:06, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

highly agreed on that. I've seen way too many repeated questions, and I'm starting to get really sick of answering them. it seems the FAQ is nonexistant now.... -- Wandering Traveler 14:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Maybe we should use a big box that says, "PLEASE USE THE SEARCH BAR BEFORE POSTING QUESTIONS, THANKS!"--Raph Talky 14:09, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Like the noticeboard box? :P Calor 14:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

yeah, only much bigger!--Raph Talky 14:11, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Use very big font. maybe even a very scary picture of what Poke or Brains12 would do to you if you didnt read the FAQ? -- Wandering Traveler 14:11, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

... why me? :( poke | talk 14:12, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, first person I could think of that was a sysop >.<. nothing personal poke. -- Wandering Traveler 14:13, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) That's what Template:Noarchive is for. ;) I just ignore stupid questions now. Hehe. Biscuits 14:13, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) (Edit conflict) ><....maybe put a rickroll link in wikilink blue just to tick em off >:D--The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Raph (talk).

fill the entire page with rickrolls? I like it. -- Wandering Traveler 14:15, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

(edit conflict x2) You should know, Wandering, that Anja is a more evil sysop!!!!!!!!!! :D poke | talk 14:16, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Really? never really had any run-in's with her (and with how you put it, I think I'm somewhat thankful) :P. but I'll take note of that :) -- Wandering Traveler 14:18, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Because she always try to hide her evil side! But sometimes it gets out... :P poke | talk 14:20, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

(Reset indent) (Edit conflict) dammit......hate to say biscuits...but by July, this page will be packed with Template:Noarchive posts :O :O :O :O :O :O :O--Raph Talky 14:19, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) I feel sorry for those who get on that side. Any survivors? *shudders* :P -- Wandering Traveler 14:41, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

The Solution

I think this should solve our problems.

This is what happens when you don't read the FAQ first!

-- Wandering Traveler 14:44, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

lol. — ク Eloc 貢 02:16, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

lol'ed irl on that one, maybe Curse You should get his herring and beat em with it--Raph Talky 21:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Help:Ask a game question#Need for speed hot persuit 2

lol :D File:User Horsedrowner avatar.jpg horsedrowner 12:57, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

what. the. hell? - Y0_ich_halt 15:47, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Epic. Calor 17:00, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

lmfao. — ク Eloc 貢 01:57, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

.....O.O -- Wandering Traveler 02:00, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

How did I miss this? I was the first to respond! I laughed so hard. I guess the "This page is for questions about playing Guild Wars" is a bit hard to miss. I really hope that was a joke question. --Chaiyo Kaldor talk contribs 22:27, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Maybe we should make it <span style="position:relative; top:50px; font-size:120px; color:red; text-decoration:blink">LIKE THIS</span> File:User Horsedrowner avatar.jpg horsedrowner 05:35, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

That hurt my eyes. Calor 15:01, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

>_< <HORSEDROWNER> 17:48, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

I have to say something: That's funny. It actually made my day. :P--JupiterStarWarrior 19:15, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

oops, i did it again!

sorry, seems I messed it big time again :(

was trying to merge & reply 2 similar questions and ended up by overwriting the entire article, my bad :(

could someone else fix this before I break it even worse? :(

having problems with revert edit :( --NIN37 07:12, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

I really should not try to edit too many things at once. :(

Hope I fixed everything. Sorry, again! >_<

Next time I'll edit slower (cut/delete one question, paste into the other, and save. THEN asnwer it...) --NIN37 07:16, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

lol <HORSEDROWNER> 07:27, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Unofficial tech support page

Should we split off a separate tech support page? -- Gordon Ecker 02:07, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Are we talking for topics like "error 058 help plz"? If thats the case, I'd support that. We'd just have to make sure they post there instead of the game question, which seems to be a minor problem. -- Wandering Traveler 17:30, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

And topics like the this one about a graphical glitch. -- Gordon Ecker 02:57, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

I would support it but the name sounds like we aren't limiting it to GW issues. Dominator Matrix 03:23, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Alternatively add more of the common questions/answers to the FAQ.- TheRave (talk) 04:59, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

FAQ would be good. The more we split up these "Ask a question" pages the more it's starting to feel like a forum... -- ab.er.rant 07:19, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

If we do branch out the help pages a bit more (e.g.: "Help:Ask a technical question" or some such page), should we have a help home page, so to speak, similar to the setup of w:WP:RD, where there are links to and short descriptions of what each help page should be used for? calor (talk) 18:06, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

I disagree with the initial suggestion. Having that three help pages is more than enough looking at how many people still fail to post their problems to the correct page or even look up in the FAQ first. And more split-pages means more moving, and more moving makes everything here more messy. poke | talk 18:31, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

I was thinking of using the unofficial technical support page for issues which are too narrow for the FAQ and support might not necessarily handle, such as "how do I run Guild Wars on Linux" or "how do I run Guild Wars with my unsupported video card". -- Gordon Ecker 01:31, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

I think this is a good idea, but how many of these questions would we actually be able to answer without referring them to official support? The way the account help page is right now (in my view), it seems that maybe 67% of the questions either get referred to support, to the FAQ, or the error code page. I guess I'm speaking in-line with what Poke is saying; do we really need another page to monitor if the majority of the questions will be referred? --tero 03:53, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't think a separate page would be productive. It would mostly be pointers to support, or bad technical advice. Judging by the amount of noarchive tags placed on this page, that one would be even worse. Biscuits 16:30, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Suspended

← moved to HELP:ACCOUNT#Suspended

I need some help, please? :D

I can't figure out how to use this new weapon template, in a character template. Can someone help?--Unendingfear 17:30, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure what is it that you want, but Equipment Templates, unlike Skill Templates, can only be used by PVP characters. You'll have an extra icon in your Inventory screen allowing you to save and load templates. — Poki#3 (talk) 18:25, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

No, it's on my wiki page. The new template that was made recently, I can't get it to display :(--Unendingfear 19:47, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

It's a wiki question.. didn't bother to move it actually. I helped him out on his talk page -- Karasu (talk) 19:50, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

problems with the game

i emailed tech support but thought you might know or could help too. this weekend I and alot (and i do mean alot) of other people playing lost faction points when they transferred them to their alliance. i earned over 70k and lost 20k in transferring. today everyone in aspenwood kept getting logged out in PvP battle there and when they logged back in recieved a dishonorable. This happened to me also i was logged out 6 times in 1 hour the last time i recieved dishonorable. that time 3 other people got logged out at the same time in my party and they all recieved dishonorable also and they said they were missing faction points they transferred also. My guild has 10 alliances and 3 million + faction points i went to alliance chat to talk to them and the same thing was happening to alot of them also. is there anything you can do? i had a problem with a skill missing awhile back and emailed game support and it took almost 2 months to hear back. any help or suggestions at all would be greatly appreciated. I told some of them to email game support i don't know if they did i know everyone in my guild has. I had someone leave a very rude comment on my talk page and on theirs when i answered them because i went to the 3 people that have helped me with things in the past hopeing they would know what to do or have advice. this person accused me of spamming because i asked the 3 that have helped me so i wonder if i will get accused of spamming again since i asked the question here.--Jenn 03:18, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Posting the same thing 4 times, why would anybody say you were spamming? BTW I have a reply to you on Wyns talk page. Drogo Boffin 03:23, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Um you were the one that told me to post it here so I did. After the fact you came at me the way you did basically calling me an idiot, O thats right you did say I was Idiotic and redundent didn't you not to metion the cut down about my reading level, for asking the only 3 people I knew to ask. Like someone told you you were close to NPA the way you handled it and came at me. You were rude, hateful and was not asked by me for help.--Jenn 05:19, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

TexMod???

Does anyone know if the Terror Shield Mod works?--Unendingfear 07:07, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Razah

Could someone help me beat his quest? I'm on right now; and I just can't beat it :(--Unendingfear 17:28, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Edit hide

Please hide the edit made by 82.95.69.122 on 22:14, 7 March 2010. Contains e-mail. — Poki#3 (talk) 23:58, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

I made a note about it on Guild Wars Wiki:Admin noticeboard. --Silver Edge 05:11, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

New modable greens

Will they get removed from the game or atleast their unfair mods removed? They provide an unfair advantage in PvP. It's not cool. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Waar Kijk Je Naar (talk).

Nvm it's fixed already. People who bought those for alot of ecto's are screwed. :D --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.87.127.239 (talk).

Official Forums and Game questions

According to Community Portal talk from Stephan and the anet team, They'd prefer Game questions be "rerouted" to the forums, but everything old to stay here and not moved. I think a message at the top that new questions are to go there, but to make sure to check the faq first, before asking the questions. We fix up the faq to fit with all questions accordingly that's been asked (and be sure that each answer is clear). I say we lock both the game questions and faq. Put a note in faq that no new questions are being accepted and that if the user cannot find the answer, to go to the forums. Sounds like a repeat of accounts, but basically is the same... 72.148.31.114 08:04, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

This page would have to be deleted if they want that to happen, because 90% of the people asking questions don't read the warnings. –Jette 13:45, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

They can put an infinite protection on it to keep users (like those asking questions) from editing and then the users would have to pay attention. X-) 72.148.31.114 13:53, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

There's no section on the forum for game "help", only bugs. Don't need to bog down the devs with simple stuff we can answer ourselves (especially since they have closed threads in which people asked questions about the game, telling them to check the wiki). --ஸ Kyoshi 19:38, 22 July 2011 (UTC)