Guild Wars 2

The suggestion forum is great as it allows players to bring topics that might enhance GW2. However there are a few topics that I feel should be closed by moderators due to overkill/redundancy. These topics take up space in the forum and often lead to disagreements and unhealthy discussion. These are topics so typical to other MMOs and are not really mind blowing suggestions. These are topics that I am sure that Anet has already considered and may or may not implement despite discussions here. For example mounts. I’m sure that Anet knows what mounts are. It isn’t like a mount thread is going to make them say, “Wow! I never heard of mounts. Let’s look in to this.” Instead these topics just turn into nasty debates as if the better debate will sway Anet. As if each post on either side of the debate are part of a vote.

Here are topics I suggest get closed for the sake of the community of players:

Duels
Mounts
/Inspect
Raids
Race change

(feel free to add more)

So perhaps a friendly close thread with something like, “This topic has already been suggested many times and will now be closed. Thank you for your post.”

Agreed, I really wish to see some of this in GW2 but its true, ANet its currently working with the Living World fast updates. Right now the games feels like Fillers from an Anime Series unless it all connects in the end like it did with Abbadon. Man, I relly wish the Charr would have won the election I wanted to see Abbadon again.

AHEM Sorry sidetrack there a bit, point is your Post is right, this just bury other more innovative post or really cool post. SO, i support this, Signed/*

This One…..your post itself needs that special shutdown treatment….

There is a reason that I don’t want to just silence these topics.
I think that someone who has never posted on here might one day put down the post that does in fact bring a new fresh idea to the table. If you just shut down every entry before it gets discussion, even negative, would be bad since you never know when someone comes up with the idea that unites the community and moves the idea forward.

I do concede that these topics get repeats and the discussion seems stale but as long as its out there there is the chance someone who has never shared their opinion on it may. I don’t think you should just decide what we can and can’t discuss either. If the topic gets out of hand and name slinging gets done use the proper channel of action to fix the problem.

I’d rather they just merge those topics such as
duel
mounts
race change
inspect

nothing wrong with raids they are stating their opinion just as you are and aside from one person no1 is saying your page should be removed xD.

Gummy.4278:

This One…..your post itself needs that special shutdown treatment….

There is a reason that I don’t want to just silence these topics.
I think that someone who has never posted on here might one day put down the post that does in fact bring a new fresh idea to the table. If you just shut down every entry before it gets discussion, even negative, would be bad since you never know when someone comes up with the idea that unites the community and moves the idea forward.

I do concede that these topics get repeats and the discussion seems stale but as long as its out there there is the chance someone who has never shared their opinion on it may. I don’t think you should just decide what we can and can’t discuss either. If the topic gets out of hand and name slinging gets done use the proper channel of action to fix the problem.

My point is these are topics have been done to death over and over. If someone thinks that, for example, “PvE duels please” is a topic Anet has never thought of then that is not true. The topics I listed have no value when they are suggested again and again. They only make people debate and in reality the debates have no weight. They only push other topics down the page.

“Mounts!” – Anet, “Hey team this guy suggested mounts. I know it is the 50th thread on that but we never thought about it before. There are people that don’t want them but let’s see who wins the debate and act on it.”

It does no good to allow these threads to get into debate and push other less conventional suggestions down the page. I know you are pro mount but really, tell me honestly, how many threads and debates on the topic do you think will make a difference? None. If you think for a second that Anet has not considered mounts, dueling, /inspect and so forth in the game already you are mistaken.

Threads on these topics serve no good but to polarize players that probably would get along well with each other in game. They are beat to death and at this point are not suggestions anymore but just suggestion forum fodder. Threads in other forums have been closed/merged for the same reason.

Suggestions are things for Anet they may not have thought about. Changes that could enhance the game. The list I made are things that have certainly already been considered by Anet. It is like if I went to McDonalds and suggest they serve McRib all year long. Oh, and I have not eaten fast food in over 6 years.

Rather than closing them, mounts, raids, duels, race change and other recurring subjects should be stickied and support/objections be posted in those threads instead of starting new ones.

uknortherner.2670:

Rather than closing them, mounts, raids, duels, race change and other recurring subjects should be stickied and support/objections be posted in those threads instead of starting new ones.

That is a good idea.

uknortherner.2670:

Rather than closing them, mounts, raids, duels, race change and other recurring subjects should be stickied and support/objections be posted in those threads instead of starting new ones.

Problem is, people have different ideas on how to do those things.

Mounts for example. people have their own opinion and ideas for how mounts could work and perform.

merging all of them into a single thread leads to ideas being berried like it was in Guild Wars 2 Guru suggestion forum stickies. It was a bad idea to make that kind of modding practice.

They are only repetitious and the arguments stale for those that have been reading the forums for a long time. For people new to the forums, the topics are new and the arguments fresh.

Stifling discussion because you have heard it before is not reasonable nor is it healthy for the forum to constantly be closing off polite, well meant discussion. Any discussion, no matter how hackneyed and stale it is to you, is new and fresh to someone else. They should be allowed to discuss it, just as you once discussed it for the first time.

If you came up with a idea, would you feel it best handled by being immediately shut down with the reason, others have already discussed this subject. Wouldn’t you feel dissatisfied and feel maybe you had something to say that they didn’t and that it wasn’t fair to tell you to be quiet just because others had had their say.

Your post, OP, comes across to me as the long term forum posters saying to new people, “I had my say and now I’m not allowing you to have yours”.

To add to what AP has said, I believe that commenting on forum moderation policies is a no-no. You’d get an infraction if you came in complaining that they’d locked a thread; complaining that they have not locked a thread is just the other side of that coin.

I’m not sure how this forum does it, but when I was managing for a different game the moderators compiled daily and/or weekly reports. They kept track of topics like the ones the OP are referring to measure the community heartbeat. Just because you don’t see Anet addressing these suggestions, doesn’t mean that they aren’t monitoring and considering them behind the scenes.

I think the reason for so many new threads being created on the same topics over and over is due to a broken forum search.