Guild Wars 2

I think this patch demonstrates that “bug fixes” in patches simply causes more bugs. For example, jumping somehow stopped working magically. Another big thing that got through your QA team slipped through is that Cliffside can’t be completed. Also AC still bugs despite being fixed apparently, CoF still bugs, Arah still bugs. Worst of all, game breaking bugs that were acknowledged since August are still not fixed. Like if your QA team can’t be bothered to press space bar, I wonder how much testing actually went into each patch.

If little or no testing went into the patch, as it seems, that’s out of the control of the QA team. They can only work with what they’re given in terms of builds, time, and people. If there is no effective QA process in place at Anet, you should be asking them to replace their CEO, producers, project managers, director of operations, etc. It’s their failure.

If there was a QA process in place, obvious bugs like the jumping one would be known, which then makes it the developers’ fault for not fixing it, and again the fault all those people above for not requiring the developers to fix it.

While this thread will probably be locked, I agree with the OP.

I understand that coding something as complex as GW2, with the DEs and all, istougher than coding traditional questing. However… Every patch or every few days there are updates to fix bugs preventing progress in certain DEs and story quests. We are over 3 months into the game, and still squashing the same type of bugs. I see no end and I worry that this is something Arenanet does not have a handle on, that it is inevitable that these SAME bugs will pop up because of the pure rare nature of this particular game.

With that said, I agree. Fix the code before introducing more content. The time you spend on content could be better spent fixing the code. Not so bugs are squashed, but so they do not pop up in the future.

Most of the stuff that Anet has put out since the Nov 15th patch have been epic failures.

rchu.8945:

Most of the stuff that Anet has put out since the Nov 15th patch have been epic failures.

November 15th, 2005- the day Star Wars Galaxies’ NGE patch went live
November 15th, 2012- the day Guild Wars 2 Ascended Gear patch went live

Not the best day for MMOs =D

“Intended”

Silius

Tolmos.8395:

rchu.8945:

Most of the stuff that Anet has put out since the Nov 15th patch have been epic failures.

November 15th, 2005- the day Star Wars Galaxies’ NGE patch went live
November 15th, 2012- the day Guild Wars 2 Ascended Gear patch went live

Not the best day for MMOs =D

Also the day SWTOR went F2P lolol.

To be fair, it’s only been 2 weeks since the Lost Shores patch. A lot of people are rushing to snap judgements that I don’t think are accurate or set in stone. Most of the game is fun, they’re working on issues and they obviously responded quickly to this last patch’s biggest issue. I’m looking forward to Wintersday, and the next few patches after that will hopefully address some of these things (including a new QA process, please).

Gilosean.3805:

To be fair, it’s only been 2 weeks since the Lost Shores patch. A lot of people are rushing to snap judgements that I don’t think are accurate or set in stone. Most of the game is fun, they’re working on issues and they obviously responded quickly to this last patch’s biggest issue. I’m looking forward to Wintersday, and the next few patches after that will hopefully address some of these things (including a new QA process, please).

What he says is very VERY! true.
If we had these problems a year later after launch then I would be worried.

You only had to pay to buy the game and they have given us 3 free content patches.
You don’t get that with sub based games.

Just need to relax and understand they have find the problem, then come up with a fix, then patch it. That does not happen over night.

Gilosean.3805:

To be fair, it’s only been 2 weeks since the Lost Shores patch.

Hmm, with an MMO life of only 13 weeks – 2 weeks is actually a fair chunk of time

Rococo.8347:

Gilosean.3805:

To be fair, it’s only been 2 weeks since the Lost Shores patch.

Hmm, with an MMO life of only 13 weeks – 2 weeks is actually a fair chunk of time

Right, but for an MMO life of 52 weeks? How about 104 weeks?

If we’re still having these issues in a year, than I’m worried. For right now, I’m upset and disappointed, but I know they’re working on it. Communication has improved, bugs are being fixed, and they responded really quickly to the jumping problem last night. That’s all good.

Part of them working on it has to be changing their QA processes, and I have no doubt that’s something they’re looking at also because they don’t like a huge gameplay flaw in Live any better than we do. There’s going to be some serious conversations at ANet after this, and I think we’ll see changes for the better. We definitely already have – Devs were on the forums all over the place this morning and last night, with much better communication for one thing.

Where did you get the 13 weeks from.

1. Jumping works for me
2. The cattlepult works finally!
When I go around the zones again full of what used to be broken events, I can see what this patch fixed and I feel quite thankful for it