That's it for me, at least for now

That's it for me, at least for now

in The Lost Shores

Posted by: rootnode.9546

rootnode.9546

I won’t even get into the disaster called the “Lost Shores Event”. Nice idea, badly implemented. There’s enough in the feedback thread about that.
But I can’t help the feeling: lately it doesn’t seem like ArenaNet cares about its customers at all. Am I alone with the feeling that they should at least publish some kind of public apology and/or statement?
Don’t get me wrong, I have the highest respect for a project of this size, but being a programmer myself, I am more than frustrated by the amount of bugs and the (let’s face it) horrible PR they are doing lately.

In summary: that’s it for me. I’m done until they think about the changes in the patch (mostly the Mesmer and the problem with Phantasms) and the totally failed event.

I’m at least expecting some sort of communication. Until then, I’m out. So long and thanks for the all the Quaggans.

Anyone else feeling that way?

Foran Lonewind – Mesmer
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Posted by: Lionaeron.5724

Lionaeron.5724

If i gave you a precursor for free would you come back and play?

Zerg>Skill.

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Posted by: rootnode.9546

rootnode.9546

If i gave you a precursor for free would you come back and play?

I don’t really care about my amount of gold or having a precursor or legendary (though it would be cool to have Twilight as a Mesmer, I admit). I’ve been playing Gw1 since launch, and Gw2 since the first beta. But lately, ArenaNet just doesn’t seem to care about their customers. They just had a major s**t storm, and they don’t even consider some sort of public announcement.

I can’t cope with the game (and the company) going in that sort of direction. They moved so far away from their initial manifesto, it’s not even funny anymore.

Foran Lonewind – Mesmer
Gwens Avengers
Riverside

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Posted by: Mirage.2597

Mirage.2597

Gw2 since first beta until now all for around 60 bucks , great deal
Oh can I have your stuff /bye

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Posted by: rootnode.9546

rootnode.9546

Gw2 since first beta until now all for around 60 bucks , great deal
Oh can I have your stuff /bye

Nope, because I still have the faint, faint hope that they will turn the boat around and get back on their tracks they’ve been on during Gw1.

Foran Lonewind – Mesmer
Gwens Avengers
Riverside

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Posted by: LameFox.6349

LameFox.6349

I don’t know what they used to be like, but I have to admit it does feel pretty iron curtain-y around here. You know they read at least some of the stuff that goes on, unlike some companies that never give any hint whatsoever, and they even seem to respond to what they see eventually (like the ascended stuff re: legendary progression) but they seem to specifically avoid getting feedback on anything before they do it. They don’t communicate as much as study from afar, then just throw their ‘solution’ out there and see how much of a mess it makes.

Maybe I’m just too used to the level of interaction from companies like CCP regarding EVE, where bad ideas have been all but aborted after community backlash, and the focus shifted to the content and solutions the players actually wanted (i.e. flying in space, rather than walking in stations).

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Posted by: Lister.5678

Lister.5678

I’m giving ArenaNet a lot of leeway since not only is the game been out just two and a bit months, but all these events etc. were more than likely already basically complete and ready to go before the game was even released. I see it also as a test of what they can and cannot do in the future for big events. The Lost Shores event was very laggy, but it brought in the Mists mini dungeons which are fantastic – in my opinion.

You can’t just chuck it in because a part highly disagreed with you, if I did that I would’ve stopped playing WoW in early 2005 after it’s release – I played it for 7 years – or the other various MMOs I’ve played. Yes the event ‘failed’ in the sense of the lag but I’m not going to start kittening about them when the game has still not been around for all that long.

If they do it in say, 9 months time, then you would have much more of a right to complain, but not now. Why not give them feedback instead.

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Posted by: rootnode.9546

rootnode.9546

Good example. CCP is doing the best job regarding customer communication that I’ve seen so far.
I can understand that they are overwhelmed by the amount of bugs and the event going on at the same time, but the forum is full of postings along the lines of “Fix the bugs, take your time, then think about new content and events.” or “Make a public test realm, we’ll help you sort out the bugs”, and they just don’t seem to care.

There needs to be more effort on communication. I don’t even expect a 2-page long posting. I just expect something along the lines of “We know about the problems and we’re sorry about how things went lately, but rest assured we are working on it. Again, we are truly sorry, just hang with us for a while, while we get things fixed.” Doesn’t take long to write that, does it?

Foran Lonewind – Mesmer
Gwens Avengers
Riverside