Maybe this has already been suggested, but well… Given I am slightly concerned with the way Guild Wars is evolving, I would just like to drop a line and give ANet a suggestion on how to improve the game, their relationship with the customers and the faithful user base that will keep their accountants happy.
Every month or so, send your costumers a link where people can vote on what should be developed further. To make sure everyone votes and not only the ones that are upset with a particular issue with the game, give a small amount of gems (or gold, or whatever) as a compensation. Hopefully like this you will have a large number of people voting and, most importantly, a good representation of every single player type.
Like this you can see what people really would like to see developed and/or improved. Be it PvP, PvE, content, gear, whatever… The consequence of this? You will make much more people happy, more people will be willing to keep supporting you guys financially and everyone would profit from this.
Why change things that the majority do not want/need? Example… Ascended items… I am almost sure that the majority do not want them in the way they have been designed and on the “problems” it opens. So why make it?
Another thing you can also have is a voting system for users suggestions. For example, a specific subforum with projects/ideas/suggestions for introducing into GW2 that gets voted (up or down) by GW2 users. The ones most voted are considered by Anet team to be developed and introduced in the game. The person that submited the idea, gets a prize in the form of a mini, or some item in game.
I mean, there are thousands of ways to strengthen GW2’s user community and make it more faithful to Guild Wars. Because I do like to think that this is OUR game and that we built it together! This is indeed, what makes (at least in my perspective) GW different from everything else. Please, make an effort to keep it this way…
Cheers,
A passionate Guild Wars fan