[Positive] Thanks for listening, ANet! :o
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Carighan.6758
Since there’s so much negative opinion on the forums about the LA attack, I wanted to post a positive topic as a counterpoint.
Why? Because I feel that the forum population is a highly biased population which doesn’t really reflect the appreciation the event gets ingame.
I understand players are apprehensive about something like this. WoW tried something much smaller, the zombie invasion, and it was cried at until Blizzard promised never to do something like it again.
However, this is quite a different situation!
When Scarlet first tried to be mean™ to us, we commented that it’s a pointless effort because she lacks a quality an antagonist needs, they need to do something to make us antagonize them.
Even as far back as Frost&Flame, there were threads where the idea of an antagonist (not necessarily Scarlet) invading & destroying Lion’s Arch was brought up. Repeatedly. These threads weren’t rare, the idea was always met with apprehension but curiosity, after all we have plenty other main cities.
What I am trying to say is, I appreciate you – the devs – listening to player input. And this isn’t an uncommon opinion, ingame.
For all we can criticize all day long, and we players really love to do that, we see improvements in the events of every living story which directly reflect feedback we gave about previous encounters (this one shows a lot of lessons learned from the Invasion, actually).
At the same time, most of us do realize this was something us players brought up again and again as an idea of what Scarlet can do.
And – and this is where I have to assume a bit – “most” of us realize that if the destruction of LA were to not rob us of some convenience, however miniscule, then the ploy would be for nothing and in the end we’d just have a reskinned LA, now called Vigil’s Keep.
The need to visit different areas is part of why we end up thinking of Scarlet as someone worth removing (as a threat). She took Lion’s Arch from us. Not from our characters, but from the players. An idea we suggested.
Sure, I myself have plenty things I can criticize about the specific implementation. But all these are rather minuscule compared to the overall impression of having developers directly listen to their player input.
Thanks.