What I’ve learned from this thread so far:
1) Vocal serial complainers either can’t read simple English or deliberately take things out of context just for the sake of being argumentative.
2) Anyone who points this out to them is a shill, a fanboy, a white knight or an Anet employee.
3) I wish this forum had an ‘ignore’ function, so I can block out all the rubbish you conspiracy nuts keep coming out with.
4) I will probably get an infraction point or two for posting this.the context of a blog post for anet is pretty much a commitment, they have said in the past, if you see a blog post about it, serious.
From the information that leaks out, i think anet is (or was up until recently) still struggling with managing and organizing the game development. It would honestly under that system be hard to even use our feedback, because they cant even use their own that well.The reason these things arent happening is because anet is unable to use their current resources as well as they could, that includes these forums, and the feedback we give them.
Are you saying they don’t know what they are doing? Or maybe they don’t know how to realize their own vision?
It just seems that people are ok with " Well.. they are doing their best… " I paid for a quality product from a professional company. Not some college intern’s best attempt.
I really think a lot of players are so in love with Arenanet and GW2, that they let them get away with things we would only accept from an amature." hey, it’s Not good…but what do you expect? It’s not Like they are professionals or anything…. for people with a hobby it’s not bad."
I constantly hear " they are getting better." Or " the new patches show they are taking our input to heart."
That sounds Like Public Beta phase. This game has been released for 2 years…when are we leaving Public Beta?
I know one of the avid defenders will now say " All MMO’s are always in Public beta. " umm…No, they aren’t.
But the way this game doesn’t remain consistent with it’s primary vision, the way it squanders resources… and the good will it had generated with that other game I cannot mention. Unless it’s in the gem store of course.
It makes me wonder.
i am not excusing it, i am just trying to take a realistic look at the situation, It really does seem that anet is having problems with managing and product development. They have a lot of projects with one dude working on it most of it, who seem really disconnected from the other parts. They seem like they are constantly under time crunch and therefore cant deliver, They have a pipeline issues, bottleneck issues where every team has to wait on UI, or network etc.
I think they will probably need to get that stuff sorted out before they can begin to have sustainable success. Its pretty hit or miss at this point.