Guild Wars 2

I suggest this section of forum threads should have a button that only ANet personnel can use: Mark as “Read by ArenaNet”. It is claimed that the staff always read all the items here. Such a marking would validate that claim.

The last thing we need is for Anet to have a one click method of saying “see! we read your stuff!”.

No. They need to either make the effort to actually interact with the user-base, or they can suffer the consequences of looking like they couldn’t possibly care less what the users think of their game (which is just about where they are right now).

I would expect that if they check the box, they really would read it. Some suggestions are frankly lunacy; they should be marked so.

Which brings up another idea: Anet could mark posts with “good idea”, “bad idea”, etc., in a way that the rest of the user base can’t see it.

I’ve seen a LOT of suggestions show up in the game. Not so many recently as in the past, but MANY have, including some of my own ideas. I do think they are basically good people. (Although that doesn’t mean they ALWAYS listen well.) Unlike some of their competitors, at least they don’t lie to their customers, and they generally treat them well.

I think we only need that in the dungeon section, devs look at all the sections except the dungeon section and the people in the dungeon section aren’t nice so it wouldn’t be wise for devs to interact with them.

Actually, I was thinking of this idea as for this Suggestion thread only. This is the only thread ANet has committed to reading. But, it moves so quickly it’s hard to keep up.

Once we knew ANet had read it, we can assume it either has been approved or disapproved. In either case, it wouldn’t really be as important to keep posting to that thread.