Since the patch came out I logged onto my low lvl character to check how things have changed. And I was disappointed. A lot. So were many people. Today I have looked around various forums for answers, why was it changed like that.
The first thing that is noticeable is a large amount of rage topics. These are good topics, much needed to express the opinion of public, but their vast number makes it impossible to read through all of it. Most of them contain the same idea, that the changes were not for better, mainly changes to low level experience together with some others (e.g. changes to personal story).
First place to look for answers: GW2 forums. Check the discussion – full of hate. No response from devs. Lots of speculations / disappointment from players. But overall too much spam to say something was not overlooked.
Same GW2 forums. Dev tracker (I wish I started here, made looking for answers easier).
I have checked all the responses back to the release of “feature pack” release notes.
The devs have provided no response to threads of complaint.
The only response to the complaints I have found in “Communicating with you thread”:
Many others and myself are reading the other threads. i think its best to hear all the comments and give folks more time to play with their alts before discussing so……
Chris
and this might also be related to the problem, but it isn’t very informative:
I just want to quickly add, there are some errors on this chart of how stuff is unlocking, as well as 1st character vs. account unlocks when some of these systems were carried between regions. We’re trying to identify what happened and repair those things assigned the wrong account/character fields, as well as levels.
Then again, there haven’t been any responses for 13 hours by the time I am posting this, so maybe once their new day starts, they will have something more to say.
Another place to look was reddit. Once again a lot of similar posts, that give no information. More importantly, some people who actually liked the change can be found there.
In the following link, Merryeli, a person from art department responds to cries and promises to pass information to the design team: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2g003k/ladies_and_gentlemen_of_tyria_i_think_its_high/ckef1xz
Another piece of information I have found is that the same changes existed on CH version and were disliked there, but that did not change the thing.
[No link here, many various discussions contain this]
Further speculations come about VIP. http://imgur.com/qZCwB0m
The whole thing is already on the CH version, as is supported by several screenshots in here (I haven’t seen CH server and can’t confirm this): http://imgur.com/a/k9GA4#0
It has also been told by the devs, that it will not be implemented in EU/NA.
The next link and quote is just to show how ridiculous some of the changes were:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-On3Ya0_4Y&list=UUB5NQwWzEkr46VF6LMOeFJw
I remember the first time I saw Diving Goggles, conveniently placed on the precipice of a ledge above some water.
After the initial shock wore off, I stood staring down at them, my mind racing to comprehend their meaning, Literally a couple of possibilities swirled around my tiny brain but it was too much. Exhausted, I logged off.
I went for a walk just to clear my mind. The image of those goggles haunted me as I walked along the path, teasing me with their impenetrable puzzle. I saw the moon and the stars, and it dawned on me. Just like the endless mysteries of the universe, I was not meant to understand. In another life, in another time – maybe.
I had looked upon those goggles on that ledge like a mouse looks upon Michaelangelo’s David. They were simply too huge to comprehend, to hold their full meaning in my head would be like holding the sea in a teacup.
Sometimes I still dream about them, and the ledge. In the dream, the water below rushes up to meet me, an epiphany promised within its depths – but then I wake up, and the dream, like the answers, fade away.
And now what we as community can do:
1. Accept the change and live on.
2. Discuss the possible solutions on a single topic.
3. Stop playing the game for a while, as this should draw reaction from developers.
And what we shouldn’t do:
1. Spam the forum full of topics, as devs won’t bother reading past the first few topics (believe me, i tried to read as many as I could, and they are all the same, just worded differently)
2. Rage on forums/map chat (devs will likely ignore such posts)
Thanks to all those, who read this far, and I hope this will change the spam that discussion forum currently looks like.