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One Shots: Don't jump! Oh wait, you can't
As much as we're all about giving love to Guild Wars here at the Massively virtual offices, there are some parts of the game that just drive us completely bonkers. The inability to jump and smacking into invisible walls are two of the big ones. But for those flaws, the game offers so much more in exchange -- fun events, interesting storylines, no monthly fees, and (surprise) really great visuals like today's One Shots! This image comes to us from Ian, who writes in: "As Guild Wars celebrates its Five Year Anniversary, the Boardwalk games are up and running again in Shing Jea Monastery. My assassin and her Miniature Burning Titan were on their way to play Nine Rings and work on titles when this beautiful sunset appeared. With so many players focused on the games at hand many likely missed this stunning view. Guild Wars still has such beautiful landscapes after five years and occasionally sends out a simple reminder to slow down and enjoy it all. Happy Birthday Guild Wars!" From large to small MMOs, we'd love to see your screenshots and hear what you've been up to in your favorite MMOs. All you have to do to have your image featured is to send it in to us here at oneshots AT massively DOT com along with your name. the name of the game, and a brief description of what we're seeing in the image. Please make sure your screenshot is at least 1024px wide and has as few visible UI elements as is possible. It could wind up being the next one we feature! %Gallery-85937%
Taking one more look at the patch 2.4 guesses
Adam did post this graph (made by Saiforune a.k.a. reader Ian over the weekend after I threw up a request on Friday) already, but considering how much info is in here, and how much work Ian put into it, I figured it deserved another look now that the contest is officially closed. So what we've got here is a standard bar graph, marking out how many people guessed which day that patch 2.4 would go to the live realms. The range of choices is pretty amazing -- the earliest people expected the patch to go up was today, March 3rd (sorry guys, I'm guessing you didn't win), and at least two people think we'll see the patch in the second half of the year (I doubt the patch will drop after October, but I guess we'll see).As you might have guessed, Tuesdays got the most guesses (since that's usually when Blizzard updates the realms), and Tuesday, March 18th got the most guesses overall. Adam's predicted date of March 25th got the next most guesses, and strangely enough more people thought Blizzard would wait until the 8th of April rather than releasing it on April Fool's Day. Also, there are a lot of days missing between 4/1 and 4/8, so while we don't know exactly which date those 11 people in between guessed, odds are there are some days missing in that stretch that didn't get guessed, so if Blizzard decides to release the patch on a non-Tuesday (remember that the PTR went up on Friday night), we might have an interesting outcome.My official guess was before Noblegarden (which starts on 3/23), so looks like I line right up with what most readers thought: we're all expecting the patch on 3/18. Now it's just time to wait and see when Blizzard decides the patch is ready. Thanks again to Ian for putting this together -- fascinating stuff.
