Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars has always been a game brand that listens to its player base. Why not take it a step further. Let players decide what they want you guys working on.

After you log in the game, just have a simple check box with four or five options and let active players vote for which content updates they want to see brought into the game over the next month or two.

While listening to the playerbase is always good in the grand scheme of things, development decisions should not be dictated by a pool of people who know more about playing games rather than designing them. The best we can do is make suggestions in the forum and see if it builds interest in the community. Realistic expectations!

You cannot trust the player base to make these decisions, maybe this would be nice way for the developers to see what the player base wants and maybe sway them in that direction, but ultimately it has to be the developers decision.

Rayham.6824:

Guild Wars has always been a game brand that listens to its player base. Why not take it a step further. Let players decide what they want you guys working on.

After you log in the game, just have a simple check box with four or five options and let active players vote for which content updates they want to see brought into the game over the next month or two.

Listen to does not mean cater to. You can rest assured that most threads are read by someone in the office. Arena.net has a very clear of what the players want. Not always does that equal what the game needs. Unpopular decisions are sometimes necessary to make a healthy game.

A.net made a lot of decisions I did not agree to in GW1. Sometimes it took months or years for me to realize why a particular unpopular decision was made, and how it positively affected the game.