Guild Wars 2

One thing i really think the forums need is a “Read by dev” mark on every thread the developers have read on. You may ask why? Well the reason is pretty simple if you look at any forum section like the “bug section” you can see that there is a lot of threads with over 4k views and with no dev response. I’m pretty sure a dev has seen it and is working on fixing it but does not have time to write on the thread that he is working on it. MANY ppl are actually rage quitting gw2 because they think they are being left out by the devs.

I honestly think this is a very good suggestion to the game because it would assure ppl that the devs are not slacking and actually working their kitten off to fix all these bugs.

If you like this suggestion then please do reply why/howmuch you would want this while also keeping this thread alive.

Ehh. No offense to tou OP, but I wouldn’t encourage the rage quitters who use it as a way of threatening a-net unless they get their own special individual attention. A-net empoyees work because they need money like anyone else. And they answer to people who need them to make money so they can make their own money. Any one who assumes they are slacking because their thread doesn’t get answered is just being immature. Something like this read by dev thread is only an extra expense a-net has to spend in time and man power to massage the shoulders of kids who don’t know how the world works when that time and man power could be better spent working on the real issues that are already being worked on.

I certainly would not mind this, however I don’t know if the Devs would agree to it. And if they do, with the negative assumption that they may not actually be working as hard as we hope/think they are, two things could happen: 1) Players would discover this, and of course we would call them out on it, resulting in… 2) Devs would just “click” the thread to show that they read it, without actually reading it, so that players feel all of these bugs/suggestions/etc. are being worked on. (Note: I’m not saying that this is true, but I will go ahead and take that perspective.)

Rather than having a “Read by Dev” feature, I’d rather just more open and better communication from the Devs. But, they’re probably too busy for that.

Dustfinger.9510:

Ehh. No offense to tou OP, but I wouldn’t encourage the rage quitters who use it as a way of threatening a-net unless they get their own special individual attention. A-net empoyees work because they need money like anyone else. And they answer to people who need them to make money so they can make their own money. Any one who assumes they are slacking because their thread doesn’t get answered is just being immature. Something like this read by dev thread is only an extra expense a-net has to spend in time and man power to massage the shoulders of kids who don’t know how the world works when that time and man power could be better spent working on the real issues that are already being worked on.

Dude stop over reacting. Also there is no way to answering your post without making a huge wall of text so i will avoid that.

I don’t see any reason why this should not be implemented into the forums.

Look at this thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Major-bug-with-Bouncing-skills-mechanic/first

It’s a major bug with 4,5k views but we don’t have a clue if a dev is working on it or if it is even on the fixing priority list.

Mimir.4690:

Rather than having a “Read by Dev” feature, I’d rather just more open and better communication from the Devs.

I agree with that 100%
2 problems:
The first problem is that they need to hire more people if they would be able to this.
Second is that anet does not get any money anymore since their only money income was people actually buying the game. Don’t mention gems as a money income for anet since all those money go to Ncsoft and not anet.

Vaffelman.6954:

Dude stop over reacting. Also there is no way to answering your post without making a huge wall of text so i will avoid that.

I don’t see any reason why this should not be implemented into the forums.

Look at this thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Major-bug-with-Bouncing-skills-mechanic/first

It’s a major bug with 4,5k views but we don’t have a clue if a dev is working on it or if it is even on the fixing priority list.

I don’t think I’m over reacting at all. I listed my issue with the idea while trying to ensure that you, the OP didn’t take offense to it. The fact that you took it as an over reaction is in itself an overreaction.

I see absolutely no reason for this. As Mimir said, if they want to slack, they will. If they don’t want us knowing about it, all they have to do is mark it as “read”. If we can’t trust them not to slack now, how can we trust them not to slack with this kind of thread? So the entire idea I pointless. But they need money so they are working on what they deem most important. This type of thread is a waste of money and time for the devs because it takes them away from any real work they would be doing if they indeed choose to be working.

Who cares if some dev clicked on a thread? That doesn’t even mean he read it. Or read more than the op. And even he read it, that doesn’t mean he’ll discuss it internally, not to mention actually do something about it.