Guild Wars 2

JonPeters.5630:

There are >500 skills in this game, 480 traits, and 2 designers working on this.

I am so confused by this statement. I understand the necessity of teams to address specific issues like events, skill/trait balancing, bot battling, PvP, bug fixing, etc. But every team is still a part of Anet. And Anet’s goal is for this game to be the best MMO out there. What I can’t figure out is why the allocation of personnel is so poor. Why are the multitude of bugs and broken skills and unbalanced professions not a top priority? When it becomes crunch time at my job, often times people will be pulled from their normal resonsibilities to help out where it’s needed. Is this not done at Anet? 2 people are the entire staff of profession balancing? Shouldn’t there be a team of people working on fixing bugged skills and broken mechanics, rather than 2 people whose responsibilities have become the cruz of all complaints on this forum? Can’t people be pulled from other teams to help out? You hired a team to battle the bot plague. Don’t you think it’s time to hire a few more people to fill the ranks of your profession-fixing team?

I’m not a developer. I don’t know what it takes to run a company or code a massive video game. But I do know that weekend events don’t mean a whole lot to people who can’t even get their skills working right. What fun is event participation if your involvement is hampered by pets that can’t hit anything that’s moving, or bows being dodged at whim, or minions aggroing the world, or traits not working like they should?

I’m not trying to be a hard kitten I’m just trying to understand how this is not the top priority. I guess you could argue that I’m assuming it’s not the top priority. But a 15 minute scan of the profession forums will tell you that there are certainly things that need to be fixed. And some posts have been responded to by developers (ranger forum), promising changes/fixes in the next patch cuz they just didn’t have time last patch. Well, the next patch is here and those fixes are not. None of them.