Guild Wars 2

Really, guildwars2? I went through each of their “Press Round Up” articles and literally every single one was poorly articulated, some were less than 10 sentences, some had typographical errors, and most said something similar to the following…

“Wow, what an overall disappointing year for MMORPGs. The only major MMO to really show up on the floor was The Elder Scrolls Online, besides the Final Fantasy XIV Sephirot challenge, and even so it was overshadowed by everything else Bethesda had unveiled. Behind the scenes was another story, and ArenaNet had a lot of upcoming content to discuss in regards to Guild Wars 2.

Moreover, E3 is specifically meant to be an industry event, which means that the content relayed is more important than how flashy the booth was or how developers were interacting with fans. Unfortunately, nearly everything ArenaNet told us about upcoming Guild Wars 2 content is under a TBD embargo. However, what we can say is that regardless of the type of content you enjoy in Guild Wars 2, you won’t be left out. Keep an eye out on MMOGames for when ArenaNet lifts that embargo to find out what we saw."

I mean come on. If your E3 ‘roundup’ is less than 10 sentences worth of explanation or you refuse to talk about it in general, why bother making an announcement on your main page? I was looking to read about upcoming content, tweaks, fixes, balances, etc. Instead, I got ANET’s legendary “stuff’s on the table…eventually.”

Anyone else find every single one of these articles incredibly disappointing? Or did I just miss something completely?

As to not post a rant without a solution, ANET, instead of trying to convey information to poor mmorpg websites, why not just release an article on your main page of what you want the player base to know?

I must be missing something because it sure looks like you just made a post blaming Arenanet for other people’s typos and for not writing as much as they could have.

You’re not missing much.

Pretty sure the OP is just disappointed that the only news from E3 was to “look out for more news”. Ironically this goes pretty much against what Mo has been preaching which is less hype, more quality.

E3 is over hyped anyway. So many games over hyped during it, and most never live up to expectations.

The first six links to articles are better, some are quite good, especially MMORPG’s and Massively’s and GameReactor actually has a video interview with the Devs. You may be highlighting the worst of the bunch.

The last 4 don’t even link to articles about Season 3, or you must search the site for the correct article; I think someone on the Team needs to re-visit those links.

The links are billed as talking about LS3 and about esports; the last few links are about esports, so I think they linked what they meant to.

The video interview is the only thing in all of them that adds (slightly) to what we learned in the blog, though. All the text does is repeat the same talking points as in the blog, so either that’s all they told the press or they have a layered embargo.

Ahh, my bad. I was going off the blurb on the content (main) page of the Blog(s).

Therefore, all is good.

Serophous.9085:

E3 is over hyped anyway. So many games over hyped during it, and most never live up to expectations.

^This, the most resent offender that I can personally remember was Aliens: Colonial Marines. The E3 footage looks like a completely different game. I still enjoyed A:CM, but it was nothing like it was shown, it was about as close to a bate and switch I have ever seen.