Hello ArenaNet, I would like to thank you for making such an excellent and unique game. Yes, we all know it’s not perfect, there’s still a lot of work to be done to make it truly amazing, however you are on the right path from which you should not steer.
My suggestion to you is: Be very careful who you listen to here about suggestions for improving Guild Wars 2. I find that many of the suggestions found in this subforum are plain dumb and will make Guild Wars 2, if implemented, just another MMO like any other on the market. Do not add mounts(you already have waypoints), do not remove level scaling (the most brilliant design concept of any game so far), create content that rewards good coordinated team work over solo play (yes solo should be an option, but not everywhere, MMOs are supposed to be played with other people, remember you are not making a single player RPG here, your mission here is to make antisocial people more social), do not add automatic dungeon finders that avoid social interactions, do not make combat easier (easy is not fun and therefore isn’t satisfying), do not make the ENTIRE range of the content you offer casual friendly (yes hardcore players need something as well, but the solution aren’t so called “raids” aka 40man dungeons – instead it’s accessible challenge and raids only bring more barriers to the table), do not ever let people play the interface instead of the game itself, do not make karma just another monetary currency which people can trade (instead give us more ways to earn it and more ways to use it), don’t listen to people saying there is no “end game” because your entire game is “end game” so just make more content in the same way as you did so far, don’t make dailies carry over to another day, do not add more levels which will ruin balance, do not add stronger tiers of gear (the game shouldn’t be about becoming the strongest, it should be about experiencing different scenarios and emotions, solving problems and helping people) the list goes on and on.
So many suggestions here in the forums that only destroy and sabotage your great philosophy and core concepts about making a great and unique game like no other. Don’t cater to people that only want higher numbers, those that only focus on accumulating high amounts of currency instead of living and smelling the roses in your world.
Bottom line, you cannot please everyone, no matter how many people come and cry to you to remake certain parts of your unique game, you must persist with your ideology and simply ignore them. My worst fear is that you will eventually succumb to their pleas in order to simply have more players because of profit. It is evident that these people simply want to play another game, so simply let them, they have quite a number of other MMOs that have those exact features, so whatever you do don’t make your game an exact clone of those. If there’s any game out there you should be copying it’s your other masterpiece Guild Wars.
(edited by Doomguard.5094)