Guild Wars 2

Now I find it unlikely that players would design actual playable content, but that doesn’t mean they can not contribute to content in other ways:

- I can see players record a ton of spoken cheers, growls, sentences, or even whole conversations. These could be free reign, aka. the player just does what he wants, or they could be ‘Design Driven’ where the writing/sound team would give clear pointers as to the sort of lines they would want or sounds or w/e. Which they could then use to polish, mix and add to the game, to add a bigger diversity in voices and texts.

- I could also see players design Weapons, and I know for fact that GW1 actually had a weapon design contest at one point, where a winner was picked and put in the game.

Do you think that would work for GW2 ? Should it be something for Anet to look into? or should we just see where CDI takes us first?

I personally think it be a great idea to let players contribute, where they can, to the content of GW2. The CDI is one way to do so, but there are other ways they may be even more valuable to the Player, and perhaps also valuable to ArenaNet. Esp. in the case of a spoken MMO.