Guild Wars 2

A.net —

Please have a player-driven DE creation contest. Where the winner will work with your team to generate a full blown DE.

Not to be too blunt, but you guys seem to be having some disturbances involving either what you feel constitutes as DE, or in the creative process in building a really good DE.

Either way, my suggestion does three very important things for you, which I will explain in more detail.

1. It brings un-interested players back into the game.

The prospect of creating a brand new DE, something that a specific player was expecting and looking forward to would fly through the interwebz. Everyone has their idea as to what a DE should have been, and from what I read in this forum, it is much different than your teams. Which brings us to 2.

2. It will give you guys a better idea as to what the player base expects from a DE.

Receiving and sifting through many ideas may spur some brand new thoughts through the minds of your DE designers. Also, seeing the interest involved, might very well change the value of importance you place on DEs. Perhaps you haven’t found a way to monetize DEs yet, and thus it isn’t as important to you. But there is a way, a great way, and maybe someone has thought of it outside your team.

3. It will show the playerbase that you care about improving your game.

The dev team, and comments made on the forum are so detached its depressing. Its great to hear from you guys, but in regards to DEs, its empty. Its like you gave up on the idea completely.

DE’s should have been the focus of your game. Instead, through laziness, or some other reason not disclosed to us, you decided dungeons were the way to go.

A Long-winded DE chain still doesnt exist. The promises made about Orr just turned into the biggest joke on the planet.

Give the power to the players. Create a new campaign that allows players to create their own DE chains. Whether its through the forum, or a new web app that makes submission easier.

We’ve seen it work with the Perpetual Testing Initiative from Valve. They made a portal test chamber creator, tools to rate and play and now all Valve needs to do is play some of the top maps and they know what kind of puzzles to make in Portal 3 (if they make one)

All my life I’ve been creating game ideas and one idea was an MMO where you made the dungeons. Ofc this was a while ago and I based my theoretical tool on Tony Hawk Skatepark maker. If the designer puts in a group of mobs, the difficulty rating of the dungeon goes up, if they put in just rooms of chests then the loot in those chests goes down, down to a level that is unacceptable and unpublishable. In order to put in a chest you’d have to spend points, point generated by adding opposition. Boss —→ Chest.

RiKShaw.8795:

We’ve seen it work with the Perpetual Testing Initiative from Valve. They made a portal test chamber creator, tools to rate and play and now all Valve needs to do is play some of the top maps and they know what kind of puzzles to make in Portal 3 (if they make one)

All my life I’ve been creating game ideas and one idea was an MMO where you made the dungeons. Ofc this was a while ago and I based my theoretical tool on Tony Hawk Skatepark maker. If the designer puts in a group of mobs, the difficulty rating of the dungeon goes up, if they put in just rooms of chests then the loot in those chests goes down, down to a level that is unacceptable and unpublishable. In order to put in a chest you’d have to spend points, point generated by adding opposition. Boss —-> Chest.

Have you ever played Never Winter Nights?

I have not played that game before. Is my message long enough now forums?