Guild Wars 2

Please bring this awesome contest back.

For those of you who don’t know:
The Design a Weapon Contest was a special contest held in the original Guild Wars where players were asked to design concept art for weapons that would later be included in game.
(http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Design-a-Weapon_%282007%29)

yes would be nice

some of the best looking skins came from there

User-created content is one of the most cost-efficient ways of adding to a game, and also rewards talented members of the community for their work. So yes please, anet, take a page out of your own book (as was in gw1) and give us the chance to design some weapons!

https://player-studio.soe.com/

I’ll just leave this here, I think they handled it perfectly, I don’t see why every company doesn’t do this kind of thing. Exploit the passion of your players!

I’m still waiting for more people to get behind this. Too many views, too few replies.

Also bring back celestial compass and dye-able weapons..!

But yea that contest was nice. Awesome weapons came out of it. It could also give Anet fresh new ideas.

Agreed 100%. They should port over the weapons…ALL the weapons. Anthony Lopes is a friend of mine…and he won in BOTH competitions:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Design-a-Weapon_
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Design-a-Weapon_%282007%29

MakubeC.3026:

I’m still waiting for more people to get behind this. Too many views, too few replies.

User created content is nice and all, but i’m guessing that the devs are afraid of stolen designs. With player created storyline/quest content it might be a little harder to spot if your Asura is playing out the story to 50 Shades of Grey. But with a 3d model its a little harder to disguise. Star Trek Online had a contest a while back where players could suggest ship models and the winner would get picked. But there ended up being a controversy in that one or some of the designs were stolen ( i cant remember if it was the winning design though). If you are interested in it do a google search for “Star Trek Online Odyssey fiasco”.

cosmatman.9306:

MakubeC.3026:

I’m still waiting for more people to get behind this. Too many views, too few replies.

User created content is nice and all, but i’m guessing that the devs are afraid of stolen designs. With player created storyline/quest content it might be a little harder to spot if your Asura is playing out the story to 50 Shades of Grey. But with a 3d model its a little harder to disguise. Star Trek Online had a contest a while back where players could suggest ship models and the winner would get picked. But there ended up being a controversy in that one or some of the designs were stolen ( i cant remember if it was the winning design though). If you are interested in it do a google search for “Star Trek Online Odyssey fiasco”.

A couple things come to play with this:

1. Stolen ideas will always surface. And I don’t really like the idea of stolen, but to “resemble” something existing. For example a weapon that looks like a Xenoblade is not totally bad. As long as its just a resemblance or a kind of tribute. In the case of total copycat, the community would notice and the winner just gets invalidated, no big deal.

2. The choosing of a winner involves a lot of things. One of them is that the weapon has to be “thematic” with the GW’s world, which makes it less prompt to plagiarism, but also the judges would have to do a minimal research, at least google image it.

In the end, plagiarism is an issue in any kind of competition, but that’s no reason not to make them.

Also, the people in Dark Souls did a VERY nice shield design competition.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/363032419935726557/

Stolen designs is definetely not an issue for calling off a competition of this kind.