Hi there. Big fan of the game, but I need to let off some steam here, because I’m seeing things that I just don’t feel are acceptable at the moment. I’ll try and make this as constructive as possible.
At this moment there is a lot working for GW2, however for the more dedicated side of things, there is so much broken that it isn’t even funny. To come up with a small list, organising a worm kill is a nightmare, even more so because the timers mean only one time a day is actually feasible, but mainly because filling up a server with people willing to help is a task that takes an hour minimum, and requires trickery which just shouldnt be needed. Tequatls bugs, causing us to lose loot, and stress out a lot. The boss blitz again being difficult to organise, and as a side note are you joking with that lyssa drop rate?
Now that isn’t so much the issue I’m seeing, as just the cause of the issue. The main issue, is that these main issues are never mentioned by your staff. I understand that getting new players is needed for a business, but you don’t seem to appreciate that the thousands of us who have spent so much time in this game that these issues become a problem are actually considering leaving. For every 10 new players you get 1 dedicated one, and so us leaving is a big issue. We are dealing with hellish organisation, and massive problems, to the point where we have to actually organise a strategy around certain bugs on a daily basis, have sent countless bug reports and we get nothing.
On the flipside these forums are run in a way so that hardly anyone seems to be able to get a word in. For world v world, you made a seperate forum which i swear isnt moderated, so for the genuine issues there they get ignored, and for general discussion you have to wade through troll posts in the 100’s. Anything negative tends to get ignored, in the main forums, but clicking on the dev tracker the only responses seem to be one of two. 1) this thread is being locked for arbitrary reason, or 2) this is positive feedback so everybody responds.
It is not a bad thing to have problems in your game, It is however a bad thing to leave so many of your dedicated fanbase in the dark, and have a forum that feels like you are shouting into thin air. I dont know how your infrastructure works, but some of us need to know you are working on things. Is it honestly so hard to say something like : Tequatls bug is being fixed, lyssas drop rate is being repaired/working as intended, we are looking into megaserver instance changes.
I say these things not to point fingers or judge, rather to make a point. Us dedicated players dont have more rights than the new players, but we certainly dont deserve to be ignored. As a community, we feel ignored, and have had our experience hindered massively recently with no sign of help. So Im not expecting changes overnight, but there is a lot that needs to be looked at, and even more that you are telling us you are looking at.