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Originally Posted by Antheus
Re-use is the name of the game these days. It's simply impossible to make a financially viable game without it.
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Originally Posted by Seef II
Does anyone recall when the Canthan Hand Axe skin was implemented? Was it with the Totem Axe update? What about the Jade Sword? Looks like some weapons never got implemented. Odd that The Ugly Stick's in the middle of it, I don't recall it being missing at Factions release.
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Hand Axe Totem Axe Soulkeeper Axe Urgoz's Longbow Darkwing Hornbow Darkwing Recurve Bow Darkwing Shortbow Fan of Sighs Shard Hammer [proper]The Ugly Stick Ominous Aegis Howling Shield Shadow Web Shield Lotus Staff Jade Sword |
IIRC, the Canthan Hand Axe and the Jade Sword were in a completely different update than the Totem Axe... and the Totem Axe was released at the same time as a variety of Green fans, but none of them are called the Fan of Sighs. As for the "[proper]The Ugly Stick", it could be that this was notation of the release of The Ugly Stick's skin as an independent drop, because I'm absolutely sure that the Green had a unique skin for a while before it spontaneously appeared as a drop otherwise some months after Factions release.
Also, the Darkwing bows here cannot be correspondent to Ironwing bows, because there are only Irongwing Flatbows and Ironwing Longbows, no Recurves, no Shorts, and no Horns.
Now it could be argued that this list is outdated and that the names were changed on skins that were later released, i.e. the Shard Hammer could have become The Icebreaker that we know today, but I would say that some of those skin names have 0% compatibility with any skins I can think of. What could a "Shadow Web Shield" even be?
All of that said, I would encourage everyone getting a raging boner over random shit they find in a game's .dat file to please take a breath, and not be disappointed if they never get anything they now are "expecting". The information about a Xunlai Market sounds like it has legitimate potential, as do a few other select things that have been suggested, but keep in mind that all of this information is coming from the same place as tiny pictures of Trogdor and strange composite pictures of some ANet employee's ranch house.
EDIT: I don't mean to be entirely discouraging. This thread is certainly interesting, and digging through the .dat has found things in the past (notably, of course, the Polar Bear). I would just hope to curtail a small percentage of the "wahhh where's the Xunlai Market??!!?" threads that will be showing up from now until forever.
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I can't tell you where I found it because of that simple fact. If you -image after every patch, and have been doing so since about Eye of the North's release, you should find mention of certain event quests and marketplace strings in a bunch of "unknown" text files at the end.
Anyone wanna do some digging.
