It’s so sad a dev pops in here to say hi in a friendly way and they are deluged with the usual litany of QQ tears and angry accusations and questions about bugs that are blatantly obviously low priorities. For once can a dev post here without the woe-is-me pity party agenda being pushed?
I apparently missed the woe-is-me posts. What are you referring to? Were some posts deleted?
Shhh, he’s trying to be cool.
Apparently I also happen to see a lot of people are forming an angry mob to attack a poor dev who just wants to open a communication. He’s probably passionate enough to try to appease the crowd but I doubt it he would have been still excited to talk about what he has been working on. If anything, I love to hear tidbits about the new content. I want to be hyped up, I want something to look forward to. I don’t want all this excitement to get buried in aggressive argument loop about some age-old contents that are obviously informed to be of low priorities. Stop, please! Do all of you seriously religiously play 26 paths of dungeons and 4 fractal dailies every day and keep doing so until after HoT releases? Think again. What do you really look forward to? Something new to play or someone (new) to blame because you don’t have anything else better to do.
Again, I want to see more red posts. I want to see more positive discussion that ends in a happy note. I want to see less accusation, less knee-jerk reactions and insults (similar to this one - Holy batman, it’s so immature that it’s painful to read!). Even if I don’t have any meaningful things to post, I want to take comfort in reading other posters’ opinions. Please, please, it’s my selfish request to ask you guys as a posting community in this sub-forum to make my wish happen.
tl;dr – less salt, more cookie.
Disclaimer: Posters are not obligated to act maturely and talk nice per requests of some no-body.
Thanks Iris. I appreciate your views and understand them. I totally agree — jumping on / attacking / insulting devs is not the way respond. I know I let some anger and frustration out last night, but I was careful to refrain from insults and attacks. Rather, my goal was to provide feedback:
The lack of support and restrictive policies that prevent ArenaNet employees from, for example, even addressing changes that are missing from the patch notes is a significant problem. It fosters the “ArenaNet is out of touch with its players” and “ArenaNet doesn’t care about maintaining its content” perceptions. We hear them say “We are passionate about this game and want to provide a quality experience” while completely ignoring existing issues with content.
To me, the “obviously low-priority” bug(?) with Lupi’s auto attack isn’t even a major issue in and of itself — it just exemplifies this problem so well. I honestly find the fact that they are unable to clarify whether or not a change was intended as unacceptable. It’s basic support, and refusing it projects a very negative image of ArenaNet as a company — not to mention that it takes away from the hype of the new content that is coming.
What I see in this thread is not hostile attacks and insults, but rather a group of players who are passionate about this game saying “These are our concerns.” We’ve seen repeated problems in the past regarding content production, maintenance, and support, and we don’t want to see history repeat itself with Raids.
While I can see how you and Nike might reach a different conclusion, concerned feedback is very different from insults, attacks, and “QQ woe-is-me pity parties”, even when expressed with frustration. Reviewing the thread, I can’t find any posts that strike me as attacks or “pity-parties”. I see concerned players warning ArenaNet that we don’t have much patience left to put up with “more of the same”, and that their support philosophies need to change if they truly want Raids to succeed. I don’t see anything unreasonable about that — it’s relevant feedback that they should take into account as they plan the future of the game.
