Guild Wars 2

… general engine related issues/improvements, or are the separate dev teams for stuff like fractals and living world seasons expected to modify the engine as needed independently?

Just curious about how ANet divides up workload, and if general engine improvements and upgrades are something that they work on at all outside of the teams we usually hear about.

(As an aside, 45 chars is WAY too limiting for thread titles.)

I am sure they do, but it’s a very small team of people. Probably smaller then anyone working on anything else. However if it’s a huge issue does appear they get other people to help them out to fix the problem as soon as possible. The general state of the engine looks like it’s difficult to work with. At least from an observation of every time they add new mechanics or do something with the UI. Something major seems to break. Hence why it probably takes them awhile to put out good quality content.

I don’t think they got dev assigned specifically for engine, most likely they improve the engine as they implement new features that require changes to the engine.

Here are just some of the ArenaNet staff:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/ArenaNet#Programmers