Guild Wars 2

Once again the global players of the world have been ignored. I wake up this morning, in Australia, grab a coffee and check Facebook. Right there, posted by Arenanet is the conclusion to the Dragon Bash storyline, I haven’t even had a chance to play the second part, what’s the point now. Why would they do that, they know that people from all over the world play the game, in different time zones. Consistently since buying the game and also buying gems Arenanet has shown a blatant disregard for its global players, only catering to the American portion of their player base, its like they had a meeting and decided “screw it, when have their money, we’ll do what we want.”. Take the Mad King, unless you woke up at some god awfully hour, you missed the LA one time event, take the Karka attacking LA, unless you woke up at some god awful hour, you missed the one time event.

Anyone and Everyone knows, when you start this game, you go online and search for which server is the one that relates to your country, as in Sea Of Sorrows on US server is unofficial Australian server, even Arenanet must know this, and this is what people do.

I love this game, happy to spend money on it, Arenanet is definitely happy to take my money, and money of other players, what I would like to see is Arenanet happily acknowledge it’s global player base and cater to them all, and not just the American portion of the player base. Come on Arenanet, start showing your fans a bit of respect and treat us all with the good stuff, not just the one Country.

Before touching Gw2 i always check facebook and reddit. reddit is pretty good at not spoiling stuff or useing spoiler tags. we dont have spoiler tags with FB so just dont post it. im kitten ed that EVERY DAY they had a new post spoiling everything. and it wasnt even text that i could skim past not see a HUGE PICTURE THAT CATCHES YOUR EYE and forces you to see the spoilers.

It’s not just global players they’re forgetting, but players in their own time zone! I live in ArenaNet’s backyard (Seattle) and had the story spoiled via their Facebook feed. The content was released at 9am Pacific…and that spoilertastic pic was posted to their FB feed at 3pm Pacific. I’ve been at work for the whole 6 hours between content release and Facebook spoiler.

Someone really dropped the ball on this one. Here’s hoping they learn from this?

They did such a good job at unnecessarily spoiling the story on facebook that i’m going to unlike them.

load of rubbish on there anyway.

I’m glad I don’t follow them on Facebook. I only check the twitter feed when there’s technical difficulties.

i follow them on fb, but i’ve recently been on fb just less in general. or maybe my friends have too much other crap up. XDDD

but that’s pretty crazy they’d do that. i don’t mind marketing and it hink it’s important to keep your social media going and up to date. they could have spoiler posts though, which i think are even more intriguing and invite more discussion and noise.

on the other hand, unrelated, fb needs to up their game in terms of what we can or cannot do with posts.. anyhoo.

but HEY! least there are no longer ONE TIME events so those for us in other timezones, get to at least experience things first hand.. when not spoiled outside of the game

It was posted really early for American time as well. At least in my timezone. They should never ever post spoilers. What were they thinking?!

Maybe, just maybe, they posted the spoilers as a way to try to placate all those complaining that ANet does not give good communication (if any) about certain aspects of the game. Foot, gun, shot – choose your order!

I don’t do reddit and FB is the devil incarnate as far as my network is concerned so I cannot fairly comment on those. Spoilers where on the GW2 web site for some time though. They where more like ‘this happens then’ instructions and did have spoiler warnings.

Some of the people some of the time I guess!

Yet another reason I don’t go on facebook and have no facebook account…or Reddit either since that’s a hive of scum and villainy…

They’re trying to emulate a living world, but instead of just denying you the ability to play through it, they’re giving you the option to. If people didn’t complain, all the events would be a 1 time only thing and not doing it at the time of release would have meant that you missed out entirely. Their spoiler is basically them reporting the news.

UKNightWatch.5742:

Maybe, just maybe, they posted the spoilers as a way to try to placate all those complaining that ANet does not give good communication (if any) about certain aspects of the game. Foot, gun, shot – choose your order!

It’s not just a maybe, it is the result of people complaining. Back when they didn’t give any information and people actually had to explore, those that weren’t very active would completely miss out. This is why they give out guides in advance, and people still complain about missing event windows.

Noooooo….. Why the leader is human….. Its should be quaggan……..

Quaggan sky pirate, cooooooooooo !!!!!

deviller.9135:

Noooooo….. Why the leader is human….. Its should be quaggan……..

Quaggan sky pirate, cooooooooooo !!!!!

Nah it should of been a charr. They are famous of genocide, capturing and enslaving human children then having those children fight to their deaths or be eaten alive by said charr.

Healix.5819:

They’re trying to emulate a living world, but instead of just denying you the ability to play through it, they’re giving you the option to. If people didn’t complain, all the events would be a 1 time only thing and not doing it at the time of release would have meant that you missed out entirely. Their spoiler is basically them reporting the news.

UKNightWatch.5742:

Maybe, just maybe, they posted the spoilers as a way to try to placate all those complaining that ANet does not give good communication (if any) about certain aspects of the game. Foot, gun, shot – choose your order!

It’s not just a maybe, it is the result of people complaining. Back when they didn’t give any information and people actually had to explore, those that weren’t very active would completely miss out. This is why they give out guides in advance, and people still complain about missing event windows.

You know what, this passive aggresive, “well you complained so we are being kittens and ruining with spoilers and making there be no explorative component with an x marks the spot system”, is pretty childish. You can ignore the spoiler News posts on this website, but they have useful information because the entirety of the event and rewards are not explained in-game by npcs.

The quest where they find 2 last suspects- you get both letters on top of each other. Why shouldn’t it have been triggered after the player finishes the first letter? Nope, just spam both letters with no trigger events (they use triggers for other letters, so there is no excuse). Looking at the situation would it be wrong to suppose that a dev in charge of the extremely vague clue thing got kitten about players thinking it’s too vague, and went ahead and said ok screw you i’m making it as in your face as possible.

Gah, people like this is why the game has so many issues. Now we can’t even get articles posted in a timely manner because someone is raging about it being Anet’s fault that they consciously read an article that spoiled something for them.

timidobserver.7925:

Gah, people like this is why the game has so many issues. Now we can’t even get articles posted in a timely manner because someone is raging about it being Anet’s fault that they consciously read an article that spoiled something for them.

No that’s not why the game has so many issues. And you can’t consciously read something that has no warning and appears. They could have had 1 degree of seperation at least so you had to click on a link to find out the information. How would that have been hard?

wolfie.7296:

timidobserver.7925:

Gah, people like this is why the game has so many issues. Now we can’t even get articles posted in a timely manner because someone is raging about it being Anet’s fault that they consciously read an article that spoiled something for them.

No that’s not why the game has so many issues. And you can’t consciously read something that has no warning and appears. They could have had 1 degree of seperation at least so you had to click on a link to find out the information. How would that have been hard?

Just to play devils advocate, you know people would only then complain that Anet is forcing people to go to their site instead of presenting the information upfront… Sometimes (okay often) you just can’t please people.

If you tape a game over night, do not listen to the radio the next day. Do not watch the news. Do not talk to other people at work. Otherwise you might get to know the score before you get to watch your tape.

The limited event time has been addressed by making them last 24 hours, I think.

While I understand both points here, I know for a fact that I saw their original post after day 1 and chose to actively look away cause I realized what it was immediately and didn’t want to spoil it for myself. So, instead, I removed ANet from my notifications temporarily.

If I could do it, so could you.

However, I will reiterate something VERY important:

You are -NEVER- going to get Arenanet to:

a) do what you want
b) listen to you
c) take you seriously

If this is how you construct a thread.

Learn to post polite, constructive criticism instead of vast blame games.

I agree, this is an issue that is EASILY solvable.

You, however, have made it much harder for yourself and all others involved by approaching this in a pretty uncivil and inflammatory manner.

i have a few questions….
1…who held the gun to your head and said if you dont read it they will shoot you
2…why after reading and realizing it might spoil the game a lil did you not stop reading…
3…whose fault is it really that YOU did not stop reading?
4…when are you going to take responsibility for the fact no one forced you to read what was written or finish reading after you realized it might spoil it for you….
5…when are you going to stop acting like everything should be done the way you want it or you throw a temper tantrum and create forums accusing companys of not listening just because they did something you dont like on a site outside of there game?

you do realize that not everyone fallows face book and that it was probably put there for people who cant play the game but want to keep up more then for the people who can play the game but choose to read face book instead of play??

For those who say we should never have gone to the GW2 FB page if we wanted to avoid spoilers…those who were spoiled didn’t actively go to their FB page. The spoiler was in our news feeds mingled among posts from our friends, families and other fav’d pages.

For those who say we should never have clicked on the article or should have just stopped reading…um, yeah. Just TRY doing that when you come across something like the image below (which is from my own FB news feed at 3:05pm yesterday) shows up unexpectedly in your FB news feed mingled among posts from our friends, families and other fav’d pages. The image they posted spoils the whole story all in one glance. There is absolutely no way to halt reading to avoid spoilers when they post an image like that.

Sure, it was pretty obvious from the voice acting. But there was always the possibility that the voice acting was a false lead. Bottom line, the GW2 social media outlets should be reserved for news and news alone. Spoilers =/= news. Posting storyline spoilers (especially without some sort of spoiler alert warning and degree of separation) is just poor form. If we players have to post [SPOILER ALERT] here on the official forums in order to be courteous to other players and avoid moderation, then it should be reasonable to expect the GW2’s social media team should have to do the same.

This isn’t the end of the world (or the game) to me. But I do find the posting of story spoilers by ArenaNet staff disappointing and in poor form. I expect ArenaNet staff to at a minimum to conduct themselves in a manner that is expected of the playerbase.

Topher.1684:

wolfie.7296:

timidobserver.7925:

Gah, people like this is why the game has so many issues. Now we can’t even get articles posted in a timely manner because someone is raging about it being Anet’s fault that they consciously read an article that spoiled something for them.

No that’s not why the game has so many issues. And you can’t consciously read something that has no warning and appears. They could have had 1 degree of seperation at least so you had to click on a link to find out the information. How would that have been hard?

Just to play devils advocate, you know people would only then complain that Anet is forcing people to go to their site instead of presenting the information upfront… Sometimes (okay often) you just can’t please people.

You can pick at tiny, littly details. Anet would be protecting players who hadn’t done it for a tiny adjustment for these other players.

Spoilers are worse than going to a website (that others do anyway btw, to find out more information- the info given is enough to be a spoiler but very bare of info to the others)