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Amazon.com Recent User Feedback
this is the best way to apply pressure. if the HOliday sales dry up, they will be forced to listen.
only thieves know how to play, they chant “L2P” every time their god mode is challenged.
Feedback is accurate.
….exaggerating much? The Amazon rating is still pretty good despite the pathetic attempts to review-bomb it. You made it sound like the game suddenly had a 1.0 Metacritic or something, but it’s actually just 30-40 people review-bombing it on Amazon. That’s….really not that big a deal.
And frankly, basing your purchases on user reviews these days is a questionable decision, since most people are very bad at giving even remotely objective reviews of anything.
Remember when our developers talked about “strengthening the core game”?
How’d that work out for us so far?
Now let’s try some ideas that will really work.
How’d that work out for us so far?
Now let’s try some ideas that will really work.
The game is starting to fall apart at mmorpg.com which is where I first discovered they were making a second GW. Every week it looses popularity.
It did not have to turn this ugly very sad indeed.
….exaggerating much? The Amazon rating is still pretty good despite the pathetic attempts to review-bomb it.
And frankly, basing your purchases on user reviews these days is a questionable decision, since most people are very bad at giving even remotely objective reviews of anything.
who cares? enough people will read it and be affected. that’s all we need to do. YOu can no longer get away with treating customers like this, shoving things down their throat. Social media makes these stories spread like wild fire. Viva la revolution!
only thieves know how to play, they chant “L2P” every time their god mode is challenged.
….exaggerating much? The Amazon rating is still pretty good despite the pathetic attempts to review-bomb it. You made it sound like the game suddenly had a 1.0 Metacritic or something, but it’s actually just 30-40 people review-bombing it on Amazon. That’s….really not that big a deal.
And frankly, basing your purchases on user reviews these days is a questionable decision, since most people are very bad at giving even remotely objective reviews of anything.
I never said it had a 1 rating. I said the recent reviews from people are 1 rating because they do not like the change in design.
The person that said this is perfect time is right (or not so perfect if you are the company reps). In the US, this is the start of the heavy retail season. People do read customer reviews. Maybe you do not but others do. If they had not made this drastic change, those recent users would not have posted the low and negative comments.
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….exaggerating much? The Amazon rating is still pretty good despite the pathetic attempts to review-bomb it.
And frankly, basing your purchases on user reviews these days is a questionable decision, since most people are very bad at giving even remotely objective reviews of anything.
who cares? enough people will read it and be affected. that’s all we need to do. YOu can no longer get away with treating customers like this, shoving things down their throat. Social media makes these stories spread like wild fire. Viva la revolution!
God I hope you’re joking, otherwise this post is the most hilarious thing I’ve read yet.
Yes, dropping GW2 down from a 4.5 star game all the way to a 3.5 star game with review bombs, that will CLEARLY stop people from buying it!
How’d that review-bomb strategy work out for Diablo 3, again? Oh, right, 3.5 million copies sold within 24 hours of the game’s release. And THEIR review-bomb got the rating a hell of a lot lower than you guys have. But yes, please, keep fighting the good fight, there, comrade. >_>
Remember when our developers talked about “strengthening the core game”?
How’d that work out for us so far?
Now let’s try some ideas that will really work.
How’d that work out for us so far?
Now let’s try some ideas that will really work.
….exaggerating much? The Amazon rating is still pretty good despite the pathetic attempts to review-bomb it. You made it sound like the game suddenly had a 1.0 Metacritic or something, but it’s actually just 30-40 people review-bombing it on Amazon. That’s….really not that big a deal.
And frankly, basing your purchases on user reviews these days is a questionable decision, since most people are very bad at giving even remotely objective reviews of anything.
Well.. their other way of basing their purchase of this game was to try that free demo, which ran for the length of Lost Shores.. I’m pretty sure good ol’ buggy Lost Shores said more negative about the game than an Amazon review ever could. So.. why are we worried about Amazon reviews again? :P
….exaggerating much? The Amazon rating is still pretty good despite the pathetic attempts to review-bomb it. You made it sound like the game suddenly had a 1.0 Metacritic or something, but it’s actually just 30-40 people review-bombing it on Amazon. That’s….really not that big a deal.
And frankly, basing your purchases on user reviews these days is a questionable decision, since most people are very bad at giving even remotely objective reviews of anything.
when you only have 3-4 people review bombing something it’s ok…
but all of a sudden you have 30-40 people review bombing it, it has to say something…
And the point I was trying to make is that people have put the word out about the design change on retail sites. So for those that may not know but want a game without “gear stat progression,” they are now forewarned that Arenanet has changed the product.
Some people may be reading all the pre and post launch marketing materials and think the game still does not have “gear progression.”
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To give this game a 1 out of 5 screams of a childish temper tantrum. The game’s design make not be exactly what some people want, but I’m sorry, to try to hurt it with review bombing crap is just infantile, dishonest, and removed from reality.
Well.. their other way of basing their purchase of this game was to try that free demo, which ran for the length of Lost Shores.. I’m pretty sure good ol’ buggy Lost Shores said more negative about the game than an Amazon review ever could. So.. why are we worried about Amazon reviews again? :P
I dunno.
Because this guy seems to think that GW2 dropping by a portion of a star on ONE purchasing website is somehow significant and will lead to a radical shift in the number of people buying the game.
Because, for some reason, people still think that review-bombing a game is meaningful, when in fact by the time a review-bomb has been properly organized, it’s usually far too late to have any significant negative effects on the company’s income.
I agree with you, frankly. That’s why I hope they’ll learn from this event and get better.
Remember when our developers talked about “strengthening the core game”?
How’d that work out for us so far?
Now let’s try some ideas that will really work.
How’d that work out for us so far?
Now let’s try some ideas that will really work.
….exaggerating much? The Amazon rating is still pretty good despite the pathetic attempts to review-bomb it.
And frankly, basing your purchases on user reviews these days is a questionable decision, since most people are very bad at giving even remotely objective reviews of anything.
who cares? enough people will read it and be affected. that’s all we need to do. YOu can no longer get away with treating customers like this, shoving things down their throat. Social media makes these stories spread like wild fire. Viva la revolution!
God I hope you’re joking, otherwise this post is the most hilarious thing I’ve read yet.
Yes, dropping GW2 down from a 4.5 star game all the way to a 3.5 star game with review bombs, that will CLEARLY stop people from buying it!
How’d that review-bomb strategy work out for Diablo 3, again? Oh, right, 3.5 million copies sold within 24 hours of the game’s release. And THEIR review-bomb got the rating a hell of a lot lower than you guys have. But yes, please, keep fighting the good fight, there, comrade. >_>
On the left sidebar for amazon is a feature to search only products that are 4 star and up. Oops, guess what happens if you don’t have 4 stars?
See the thing is, now you’ll proceed to counter this argument by saying only uninformed consumers will do that. Whilst that may be true, much of the world relies on uninformed consumers, Arenanet is no different. Lets be GW2 centric about how many uninformed people are in the game. Go look at the trading post in game. Look at how many people sell items for 1 copper more than vendor price. I rest my case.
On the left sidebar for amazon is a feature to search only products that are 4 star and up. Oops, guess what happens if you don’t have 4 stars.
The amount of people that use this let alone know that it exists is extremely tiny. The vast majority of people use a website at it’s most basic form.
Sometimes they find the search function and use that. Sometimes just browsing.
To use filters? That’s a different breed of computer user entirely.
Not saying it doesn’t get used as that would be silly, but to expect it to have any actual significant impact is equally silly.
Sylvari Guardian. – Dragonbrand.
How does everyone forget what happened with Spore? That was a review bomb of epic proportions, to the extent that Amazon deleted hundreds of reviews. Didn’t matter, the damage had been done, and rightfully so.
They must have taken my marbles away.
But they gave me plenty of porous bones to compensate.
But they gave me plenty of porous bones to compensate.
I’d suspect those giving it a ‘one star’, are just averaging the game downward towards the an overall three stars that gw2 currently deserves.
I’d give gw2 three stars in its current state.
Thanks. I left my feedback there, Anet changed their minds on gear tread mill, I changed mine on Guild Wars 2. 2 out of 5.
Hey dude you are walking into a wall.
smack..Wut?…smack…smack…
smack..Wut?…smack…smack…
Thanks. I left my feedback there, Anet changed their minds on gear tread mill, I changed mine on Guild Wars 2. 2 out of 5.
Hey dude you are walking into a wall.
smack..Wut?…smack…smack…
smack..Wut?…smack…smack…
On the left sidebar for amazon is a feature to search only products that are 4 star and up. Oops, guess what happens if you don’t have 4 stars.
The amount of people that use this let alone know that it exists is extremely tiny. The vast majority of people use a website at it’s most basic form.
Sometimes they find the search function and use that. Sometimes just browsing.
To use filters? That’s a different breed of computer user entirely.
Not saying it doesn’t get used as that would be silly, but to expect it to have any actual significant impact is equally silly.
You know what’s silly? Making generalizations you have absolutely no evidence to back up. Did you do a survey on ‘Do you click the 4 stars and above button’?
I’d give GW2 -5000 stars if I could! Also, I would give Dark Souls about 9999 stars and 3/4 of a pie.
People are overreacting…….. As usual on an MMO forum.
People are overreacting…….. As usual on an MMO forum.
I think you might be underreacting.
How does everyone forget what happened with Spore? That was a review bomb of epic proportions, to the extent that Amazon deleted hundreds of reviews. Didn’t matter, the damage had been done, and rightfully so.
….very poor choice of examples.
Why? Because it’s an EA game, and people hardly need an excuse to attack EA.
But even with that review bombing, what happened?
1) Spore still sold about a million copies.
2) Its success led to several (very bad) spinoff games on the Wii, DS, and mobile devices.
3) It’s already announced that a film adaptation will occur at some point in the future.
Might want to find a better example.
Remember when our developers talked about “strengthening the core game”?
How’d that work out for us so far?
Now let’s try some ideas that will really work.
How’d that work out for us so far?
Now let’s try some ideas that will really work.
Here is a link to the GW2 Amazon.com page.
Many people have posted recently and rated the product low due the change in design philosophy.
Some people use the customer reviews to make purchase decisions.
Is this really what they wanted for this fun game? Why completely undermine your stated and delivered design approach?
This says it all:
One of several increasing 1 rating product feedback.
6 of 12 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Not what was promised., November 19, 2012
By
Patricia M. Jackson – See all my reviews
= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Guild Wars 2 (Video Game)
Arenanet, the company behind this game, made ambitious promises that they were going to deliver a non-gear-centric, grind-free game that would be about horizontal progression and aesthetics. And that’s how it was…for three short months. Now, even after such a short time, they’ve apparently felt it necessary to start introducing new tiers of gear to chase after, and they’ve already stated that more are coming. I’m sorry to say it, but it has become just another failed me-too MMO cash grab. Spend your hard-earned money on something else.
322 reviews, mostly 5 stars, yea, this game is in real danger of failing alright……
Sarcasm/
Certainly a powerful approach to voicing your concerns. ArenaNet did not ask for our input prior to this 180 degree change, so it makes sense to treat them with the same courtesy and post our gut reactions to their fair-weather game philosophy.
And I am not saying it is right. I remember people trashing ME3 with 0 ratings on metacritic before it even came out.
I am trying to point out what I tried to warn anyone at Arenanet who would listen about. This fiasco is not going to go away and will spread. The low ratings people now posting on Amazon because of the design change is just the start.
I will not post other links but some of the gaming sites are starting to call them out on their product change.
People do search for user feedback before product purchases. If they really wanted the GW2 game with no gear stat progression, at least now they will get the facts – That has been added, the original design vision is dead.
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We can’t expect Vivid Entertainment to publish Spielberg’s Lincoln. We do not want it either. This game is managed by people who make Korean grinders. Having high expectations from it was a pipe dream for me. Very disappointed with the game as it stands today and the direction it is heading to.
“If there is anyone here whom I have not offended, I am sorry.”
On the left sidebar for amazon is a feature to search only products that are 4 star and up. Oops, guess what happens if you don’t have 4 stars.
The amount of people that use this let alone know that it exists is extremely tiny. The vast majority of people use a website at it’s most basic form.
Sometimes they find the search function and use that. Sometimes just browsing.
To use filters? That’s a different breed of computer user entirely.
Not saying it doesn’t get used as that would be silly, but to expect it to have any actual significant impact is equally silly.
You know what’s silly? Making generalizations you have absolutely no evidence to back up. Did you do a survey on ‘Do you click the 4 stars and above button’?
And your evidence is what exactly? What’s your Amazon.com employee number? Yeah. Didn’t think so. Opinions go both ways bud.
Sylvari Guardian. – Dragonbrand.
People are overreacting…….. As usual on an MMO forum.
I think you might be underreacting.
Because 10 people raged on a review recently? LOL, you are one funny poster, I love reading your stuff. :P
On the left sidebar for amazon is a feature to search only products that are 4 star and up. Oops, guess what happens if you don’t have 4 stars.
The amount of people that use this let alone know that it exists is extremely tiny. The vast majority of people use a website at it’s most basic form.
Sometimes they find the search function and use that. Sometimes just browsing.
To use filters? That’s a different breed of computer user entirely.
Not saying it doesn’t get used as that would be silly, but to expect it to have any actual significant impact is equally silly.
You know what’s silly? Making generalizations you have absolutely no evidence to back up. Did you do a survey on ‘Do you click the 4 stars and above button’?
And your evidence is what exactly? What’s your Amazon.com employee number? Yeah. Didn’t think so. Opinions go both ways bud.
I didn’t make an opinion. I said that if you don’t have 4 stars, you will be excluded from the 4 stars search result, this is fact. I even agreed with you that uninformed people will do that to decide on buying a game, but that doesn’t mean that’s a small amount of people.
People are overreacting…….. As usual on an MMO forum.
I think you might be underreacting.
Because 10 people raged on a review recently? LOL, you are one funny poster, I love reading your stuff. :P
Forums can be fun too. They don’t always have to be me vs the world. =)
That aside, if someone just sorts the reviews by review date they will see a lot of recent negativity. So the OP has THAT going for them at least.
Well.. their other way of basing their purchase of this game was to try that free demo, which ran for the length of Lost Shores.. I’m pretty sure good ol’ buggy Lost Shores said more negative about the game than an Amazon review ever could. So.. why are we worried about Amazon reviews again? :P
I dunno.
Because this guy seems to think that GW2 dropping by a portion of a star on ONE purchasing website is somehow significant and will lead to a radical shift in the number of people buying the game.
Because, for some reason, people still think that review-bombing a game is meaningful, when in fact by the time a review-bomb has been properly organized, it’s usually far too late to have any significant negative effects on the company’s income.
I agree with you, frankly. That’s why I hope they’ll learn from this event and get better.
Lol. Who said anything about stars. It’s the venom from the pages that will get people’s attention, lol.
only thieves know how to play, they chant “L2P” every time their god mode is challenged.
Let’s recap:
New gear that has higher stats then the previous one.
New content that makes the open world content old after only two months.
Gear only available via RNG in dungeons, only runes are crafted.
Almost all of the resources needed to make the runes come from this one dungeon.
Dungeon currency used for the upgrades that don’t drop in the dungeon.
How is this against the manifesto?:
Gear is now vertical not cosmetic.
Required to play only in a single way, dungeon crawling.
Stats on gear has become the new focus, whether intended or not.
New gear is not available for crafting as promised all gear would have an equivolent craft set for horizontal progression.
I’d say it’s definitely NOT our imaginations, definitely NOT an exaggeration, and definitely NOT irrational concerns. As customers we should be concerned for where a product that we’ve invested time and money into is heading.
Balance Team: Please Fix Mine Toolbelt Positioning!
Well.. their other way of basing their purchase of this game was to try that free demo, which ran for the length of Lost Shores.. I’m pretty sure good ol’ buggy Lost Shores said more negative about the game than an Amazon review ever could. So.. why are we worried about Amazon reviews again? :P
I dunno.
Because this guy seems to think that GW2 dropping by a portion of a star on ONE purchasing website is somehow significant and will lead to a radical shift in the number of people buying the game.
Because, for some reason, people still think that review-bombing a game is meaningful, when in fact by the time a review-bomb has been properly organized, it’s usually far too late to have any significant negative effects on the company’s income.
I agree with you, frankly. That’s why I hope they’ll learn from this event and get better.
Lol. Who said anything about stars. It’s the venom from the pages that will get people’s attention, lol.
Except that it hasn’t worked in the past, so why do people presume it’ll work now? >_>
Remember when our developers talked about “strengthening the core game”?
How’d that work out for us so far?
Now let’s try some ideas that will really work.
How’d that work out for us so far?
Now let’s try some ideas that will really work.
….exaggerating much? The Amazon rating is still pretty good despite the pathetic attempts to review-bomb it.
And frankly, basing your purchases on user reviews these days is a questionable decision, since most people are very bad at giving even remotely objective reviews of anything.
who cares? enough people will read it and be affected. that’s all we need to do. YOu can no longer get away with treating customers like this, shoving things down their throat. Social media makes these stories spread like wild fire. Viva la revolution!
^^^
When I look at Amazon.com reviews, I will almost NEVER even consider anything that has less than 4 full stars. Also the first thing I go for are the bad reviews. I rarely read the good ones. I know how most items I’m going to buy should work. I want to see what failed.
80 Sylvari Ranger – Jade Quarry
» My current Guild Wars 2 game annoyances
» My current Guild Wars 2 game annoyances
Normally i defend arena.net but with ascend gear i only can feel sadness.
The review is totally acuarate, they simple lied to us to trap WoW players, before the Ascende gear update i was just have fun collect skins to my weapons/armor, build armors to each of my weapons and builds without worry about my stats, only work for my rare skins exactly like GW1 like they promise us.
But now only see people doing fractal and if you havent enougn “lvl fractal” you are out , it doenst matter your skills or experience, only count grind the dungeon to get enough Agony resis and “fractal lvl”.
Until now you could play without worry about your stat, now in my guild the people are obsessed with have “more stats” thx ascended gear, many who came from wow in my Guild left the game thx to this update, they said that they come to GW to forget the endless grind to have more stats, now they have it in GW, and they said that dont buy any expansion because they feel scamed.
Always loved arena.net but in this i dont feel pity, you will lose many of your GW1 core costumer, and you will lose many of your new costumer who came for “no grind for stats” and now feel betrayed.
Maybe right doesnt matter to arena.net, they already had our money, but we will see in the next expansion.
And if arena.net show some guts they will talk with the Community about the poor feedback and reputation that they are getting ( Mike O´brian is hidden by his desk after the manifesto or what ? ), and think again about put more ascended gear before made more damage to the game.
The issue, they simple ignore while the MOD and CM army close posts while the community still wait a answer for the reason to change the philosophy game.
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Won’t make much of a difference really, as generally the majority of a new game (or an MMO) sales are done at launch, when it’s new and shiny. That’s when review bombing could possibly have an impact on sales, not that anyone with half a brain should let their decision to purchase/not purchase a game be influenced by anonymous people that could easily be fans of another game, or “astro turfing” for the competition.
Better bet, if someone really wants to spend that much energy and time, would be to try and get gaming sites to pick up the story and run with it. Not that easy to do though, as it’s usually in their best interest to stay on good terms with game developers so they can get those “exclusives” and what not.
How does everyone forget what happened with Spore? That was a review bomb of epic proportions, to the extent that Amazon deleted hundreds of reviews. Didn’t matter, the damage had been done, and rightfully so.
….very poor choice of examples.
Why? Because it’s an EA game, and people hardly need an excuse to attack EA.
But even with that review bombing, what happened?
1) Spore still sold about a million copies.
2) Its success led to several (very bad) spinoff games on the Wii, DS, and mobile devices.
3) It’s already announced that a film adaptation will occur at some point in the future.Might want to find a better example.
Yes, EA is evil incarnate, that’s not news. However, about a million copies for a game that was hyped beyond belief, from the creator of the Sims. Not that impressive really, and certainly not in any way what was anticipated.
Points 2 and 3 are irrelevant to the topic at hand, which is bad game reviews and how they impact people’s purchasing decisions. Kinda the whole purpose of product reviews, really. They work, whether you care to admit it, or not. I never buy a game without researching it first, simply because so many are bad.
I think my example is just fine, thank you.
They must have taken my marbles away.
But they gave me plenty of porous bones to compensate.
But they gave me plenty of porous bones to compensate.
You know what’s really sad? Most of my guild mates shun all negative feedback on this matter and “can’t understand why so many people complain” and that “it won’t matter in the end”. Some said that the people on the forum are actually a part of minority who is against this. I would like to know if this is true, but I surely hope it isn’t…
It started to bother me, because I just think they’re oblivious to problems this will cause in the long run.
Wow, Amazon is quite the place to give feedback. If Nexon doesn’t react when they are hit where people buy the game, then there is no hope we will ever get a dialogue.
Leader of Heroes [Hero] – Seafarers Rest
Don’t stop with amazon. hit target.com, walmart.com, gamestop.com and dozens of others. start a movement.
only thieves know how to play, they chant “L2P” every time their god mode is challenged.
I would much sooner base my purchases off of customer reviews, than from a paid-for review at some website like Gamespot.com. The explosion that happened over Spore (and Mass Effect, for that matter) was because EA was telling its customers, “You don’t actually own the game.” Remember the DRM that only let you install the game no more than 5 times? Yep. One thing you don’t do, is mess with your paying customers. Keyword is “paying”. Once you breach the point of no return, it’s too late. And I’m afraid that Anet has stepped on a lot of toes recently, so I would not be surprised if the game suffers for it. I’m kind of wondering who thought this was such a brilliant idea, anyway? Did someone sniff bath salts?
We heard . . . we listened . . . we ignored.
You know what’s really sad? Most of my guild mates shun all negative feedback on this matter and “can’t understand why so many people complain” and that “it won’t matter in the end”. Some said that the people on the forum are actually a part of minority who is against this. I would like to know if this is true, but I surely hope it isn’t…
It started to bother me, because I just think they’re oblivious to problems this will cause in the long run.
People on the forum are a minority of the overall playerbase. That doesn’t mean that the majority agrees or disagrees, it just means they don’t express their opinions on the forums.
http://beta.xfire.com/games/gw2
Pretty steep drop off in play time after the event was over. Many people don’t put much stock in xfire’s playtime statistics being indicative of the overall health of a game. I used to be one of them. When people were constantly linking them on the Age of Conan forums, I used to say well that’s not a random sample, not many people use xfire yada yada and then Age of Conan tanked. When they started linking them on the SWTOR forums, I said the same thing and then SWTOR tanked. After xfire playtime stats correctly showing a game in serious decline twice, I now put a little more value on them as a metric. It will be curious to see what the next update shows.
I have to question the decision-makers at ArenaNet to launch the game without a cross-server matchmaking/LFG tool … SWTOR didn’t have one and look at what happened to it … FAIL!
You know what’s really sad? Most of my guild mates shun all negative feedback on this matter and “can’t understand why so many people complain” and that “it won’t matter in the end”. Some said that the people on the forum are actually a part of minority who is against this. I would like to know if this is true, but I surely hope it isn’t…
It started to bother me, because I just think they’re oblivious to problems this will cause in the long run.
People on the forum are a minority of the overall playerbase. That doesn’t mean that the majority agrees or disagrees, it just means they don’t express their opinions on the forums.
Yeah, but I have been told that most people in the game are OK with it, even though I have no idea where did they get those statistic from.
Let’s recap:
New gear that has higher stats then the previous one.
New content that makes the open world content old after only two months.
Gear only available via RNG in dungeons, only runes are crafted.
Almost all of the resources needed to make the runes come from this one dungeon.
Dungeon currency used for the upgrades that don’t drop in the dungeon.How is this against the manifesto?:
Gear is now vertical not cosmetic.
Required to play only in a single way, dungeon crawling.
Stats on gear has become the new focus, whether intended or not.
New gear is not available for crafting as promised all gear would have an equivolent craft set for horizontal progression.I’d say it’s definitely NOT our imaginations, definitely NOT an exaggeration, and definitely NOT irrational concerns. As customers we should be concerned for where a product that we’ve invested time and money into is heading.
Exactly so and most affected by this change imo is the GW1 player base we listened to development years of how GW2 would stay true to the GW1 ethos it’s that loyal player base that ANet have decided to alienate… the locusts from other games will do what they do with all new MMO’s swarm in buzz loudly and swarm out when the next big thing comes along.
You know what’s really sad? Most of my guild mates shun all negative feedback on this matter and “can’t understand why so many people complain” and that “it won’t matter in the end”. Some said that the people on the forum are actually a part of minority who is against this. I would like to know if this is true, but I surely hope it isn’t…
It started to bother me, because I just think they’re oblivious to problems this will cause in the long run.
People on the forum are a minority of the overall playerbase. That doesn’t mean that the majority agrees or disagrees, it just means they don’t express their opinions on the forums.
Yeah, but I have been told that most people in the game are OK with it, even though I have no idea where did they get those statistic from.
I would guess it’s anecdotal at best, they don’t have any statistics to back it up. Then again, neither do those opposed to the changes. The only ones with the numbers are Anet, and they aren’t talking, which is somewhat strange considering how they (and their more rabid fanboys) touted themselves as so in touch with their playerbase and so different than other development houses in the years and months leading up to launch.