Guild Wars 2

After careful consideration and weighing all the positives and negatives, I’ve decided to make an effort make Guild Wars 2 an open source community game.

Some things we, the people, would fix include

General
Add VOIP to party
Give gold more value and purpose other then an middle man currency.
Create a gold sink
Create GvG with server and game-wide leaderboards.
Add more options to be tweaked in settings or config file manually.

WvW
Bring back Orbs and improve
Bring back escort Doyak event rewards
Create a bounty or leader board system
Give (better) rewards to participants
Give better bonuses and incentives to win
Create centralized control points where server wide bonuses, of noticeable amounts, will be given to the holder. (PvE and PvP?)
Give rewards to commanders who lead groups to successful events(Defends, take over, etc)
Give commanders more info
Change commanders /map /team or give special commander command (/order) text color

SPvP
Ability to save and load builds. (Gem opportunity for more loadouts?)
Create a detailed UI displaying a large array of statistics. Such as Wins/Losses, Kills/Death, Most Powerful Hit. For each you can see more such as per map, per class(against and for) etc.
Allow private matches to be hosted and played. (Client side?)
Add optional game modes. KoTH, CTF, Protect Leader etc.
Leader-board for the various game modes and separate paid tourney and unpaid tourney leader board.(Team and/or individual’s listed)
Better daily rewards
Ability to have some gain in PvE from PvP. (Special cosmetic gear, some crafting material… Sellable?)
Show PvP character in character select screen if in the Mists.

PvE
Add Suicide button when in down state
Fix the running when press f to pick something up bug
Create chain events on each map that end at a map boss that give a specific reward token or something to bring “end game” players to maps outside of Orr
Create an in-game LFG interface with options
Reduce diminishing returns

With the source turned over to the community, we can push these changes and kick the game into overdrive. It will bring people back, allow creativity to enhance the game and set a new standard for gaming.

Reserved for More

Yeah, no, that’ll never happen.

How would it be moderated to prevent exploitation?

Overall, this just seems like a bad idea:

• What you think is a good addition may not be well received by the rest of the community.
• What people would try to implement may not fit in with the design that ANet has for the game.

Personally, I’d rather ANet develop tools for us to create instanced content (i.e. Mini-Dungeons) that we can place in the world (Kinda like STO’s and NWO Foundry).

NO. I’m all for open source software but in this case I’d rather it stay closed to avoid oh… you know…. clients widely distributed you can download made for cheating.

Some good suggestions on your list, but as I’m sure you realise, this isn’t going to happen.

zKarp.6048:

After careful consideration and weighing all the positives and negatives, I’ve decided to make an effort make Guild Wars 2 an open source community game.

Putting effort towards something that’ll a/ never happen and b/ is not your choice. That’ll keep you busy for a while. I would reconsider if I were you.

Maybe you should start an open source project from scratch instead of trying to get your hands on proprietary code.

Hmm, 5 years in development, million’s of dollars spent …. how about no?

Don’t you find it adorable when people who don’t even have a hint of what a clue might possibly look like, suddenly come up with what they think are “GENIUS IDEAS”?

It’s so horribly misguided you can’t help but feel it’s also kinda cute. Like a 12 year old kid saying that if we wanted to go faster in space traveling we should just use more rockets!

OP, I suggest you look into what “open source” and “proprietary code” mean. In definition and in both a pragmatic and business sense. You don’t dump millions of dollars and 5 years of development time into a long-term investment plan to then turn around and suddenly release the game code willy nilly.

I just wish… their graphics/texture/map files weren’t in a huge 16gb bundle so I could segregate files into my ramdisk.

GW2 has an obscene amount of loading.

16Gb o.o" Are you sure you are playing GW2
EDIT: My bad it really is 16gb

ProxyDamage.9826:

Don’t you find it adorable when people who don’t even have a hint of what a clue might possibly look like, suddenly come up with what they think are “GENIUS IDEAS”?

It’s so horribly misguided you can’t help but feel it’s also kinda cute. Like a 12 year old kid saying that if we wanted to go faster in space traveling we should just use more rockets!

OP, I suggest you look into what “open source” and “proprietary code” mean. In definition and in both a pragmatic and business sense. You don’t dump millions of dollars and 5 years of development time into a long-term investment plan to then turn around and suddenly release the game code willy nilly.

‘Adorable’ isn’t the word I would use …

Open sourcing doesn’t solve any the items listed. Some are actually PURPOSELY left out.

Open sourcing has no benefit for ANet and only creates more problems. One of the items is basically a license to create private servers.