Guild Wars 2

I’m sure most people here don’t remember, but a long time ago, soon after release, ArenaNet mentioned how the Suggestions forum was just a temporary measure, while they planned a better way to take players’ suggestions. That’s because this forum was a bad way to keep them.

Now, I’m sure many of you have realized how bad the search feature on this forum is. Trying to search for “raid”, “raids”, “duel”, “duels”, “mount” or “mounts” show exactly zero results all the time. Which means, all suggestions here are lost the moment they move so far away that ArenaNet wouldn’t read them.

And that’s assuming ArenaNet actually bothers to read those suggestions. Even if they do, considering the high number of suggestions being placed here every day and the fact they cannot be searched, either ArenaNet keeps a small team dedicated to reading suggestions from this forum at nearly all times, or must suggestions are simply lost.

Ergo: those of you posting your suggestions here, you are basically wasting your time. This subforum most likely exist just so all suggestions can be thrown in the same place and be quietly forgotten, not so ArenaNet could find them (because it’s nearly impossible to find anything here).

The threads here do get read on a relatively fast basis. If you want to prove my point, you can make nonsensical threads and see how fast they get moved to the correct area or deleted.

However, that’s not the right way to approach it. I do agree that certain things get looked at more (such as Living Story getting looked at more in the Living Story section), however, if you look at this section constantly and remember what the complaints were X months ago, you can definitely see that either the threads have been read or they have been updating their game in such a way that it somehow coincides with a lot of the suggestions.