Guild Wars 2

Hey all you guys!

Thank you for reading the story I am about to tell. As you have seen and felt or heared. There are many bugs in the game. Skillpoints, dungeons, exploits. You name them.

It’s not fun when it happends.. and well, Anet is really working on it. I am asking myself though, why does it seem that everytime a bug is fixed new ones come out. Like an epicdemic spreading out towards a whole nation. It’s like the Black Death of GW2.

I am not blaming Anet for this to be honest. Yeah, they could have looked for them early times. But well, I have the feeling that when we had BWE’s there where never so many bugs as of now.

Programming is not easy and many people who are studying it should know it. But don’t go hating on a company for it. I see many people hate on it. I do give you the rights for it, other said, I get why you do it. But raging on it isn’t going to change anything about it.

The best thing you can do is help them find the bugs, what is happening. When does it happen?

Then again, this game isn’t that old yet. When other MMO’s came out there where bugs. I can even remember more issues than in GW2 in comparison with others. SWTOR for example had some pretty bad issues (ILUMCOUGH).

WoW when launched was one big bugfest. Nobody cared then.

Before you come with the statement. WoW came out in a different year. Yes you are correct. Does that mean that future MMO’s shouldn’t have any bugs at release or any troubles? No. There are different engines now, which give other codes (hit me if I am wrong). Which make some bugs new and some old ones.

Tho, I would love to hear what Anet thinks of this. Why does it seem that this build of the game when launched had so many bugs and when we played BWE we had lesser ones?

This topic can be used to rage on the bugs you find if you really wanna rage. I just felt like posting this dunno why n.n.

REGARDS! And thanks for reading.

Programming can be the most rewarding and frustrating experience all at the same time. And I firsthand know that you can test something a thousand ways sideways, and still get unexpected results. That doesn’t even factor in programming for every possible scenario, and then having the massive # find a hundred new scenarios you never had imagined. From a player’s persepective, it’s frustrating.

I am glad to see the continued effort by the developers to provide balance and fairness, and sometimes they are too lax, other times too harsh, but that’s what balancing is. I have played other games where there was no fixes/enhancements/etc and the game became absolutely no pleasure. over time due to lag/bugs/etc. I know many of the game designers mentioned they are active players as well, so I know they for sure don’t like finishing a 2 hour dungeon and not getting tokens, or getting dropped from a party, or getting 30 sticks of butter off an event. So its encouraging to know they want it to be a better gaming experience as well.

I used to be a professional game tester for Maxis. You have no clue how much time/money is spent on testing a game. The paths that have to be tested in a game as complicated as GW2 are literally endless. And testing is limited by all kinds of factors – schedule, number of testers, hardware, bandwidth, number of clients it is possible to simulate…

The profit margin for the gaming industry is very small compared to the overhead.

I think one of the biggest things that contribute to this is the size of the company creating the game. Take a look will you at the number of employees this company has in comparison to some of the other monster MMOs out there and you’ll quickly see why the game released with the bugs it did, and why things here take so long to be fixed. It’s also something to be said for just how good this game is. It’s a shame that the bigger gaming powerhouses can’t come up with things like this….