Guild Wars 2

Can we get more player polls and we can vote on future updates? I felt like this was a great idea for players and Anet Devs to connect or at least come to a mutual agreement on future content.

I would like to see ANet asking the players about some decisions. However, it really depends on the decision (and the options we get).

For example, choosing the name of the new guild was disappointing for me (as well as many others) — I didn’t like any of the names and would have preferred ANet having chosen the least bad among them.

In contrast, I thought it was great that ANet has asked us about the length of time between changing links between WvW worlds, about whether to focus on rewards first, and the like. I especially liked when Linsey Murdock was able to take the time to ask us about what materials we thought did (or did not) belong in material storage.

In other words, I prefer being asked about changes that have a meaningful impact on gameplay rather than cosmetic changes that ultimately do little.

I agree with what Illconceived Was Na said, but wanted to add:

I would like, if they are asking for community input, for them to let people know it’s actually happening.

I mean, not everyone who plays visits the forums or reddit. would be nice if there was a notice about it in the game or something. maybe in the yellow panel they use to announce pvp stuff, or something similar.

nottsgman.8206:

I agree with what Illconceived Was Na said, but wanted to add:

I would like, if they are asking for community input, for them to let people know it’s actually happening.

I mean, not everyone who plays visits the forums or reddit. would be nice if there was a notice about it in the game or something. maybe in the yellow panel they use to announce pvp stuff, or something similar.

More in game mails would be a good idea, IMO.

As for these polls, well, I’m not surprised they’ve stopped, ArenaNet seems to decide to introduce these methods on a whim and drop them on another whim.

We’ve had two relevant polls so far.. three if you count the ambient poll
Who runs the BLTC, what do we call the new commander’s squad, regardless if its falling apart, and what do we call the aerodome.

Polls like these have either ambient or visual impacts of the game without the course of the story. I wont mind if anet doesnt want to, but it would be nice to have more of these kind of polls. It gives you a sense of involvement with the world

Amaimon.7823:

We’ve had two relevant polls so far.. three if you count the ambient poll
Who runs the BLTC, what do we call the new commander’s squad, regardless if its falling apart, and what do we call the aerodome.

Polls like these have either ambient or visual impacts of the game without the course of the story. I wont mind if anet doesnt want to, but it would be nice to have more of these kind of polls. It gives you a sense of involvement with the world

We’ve had more polls than that.

There have been several different kinds of ‘polls’.

Several WvW formal link-to-site polls asking whether, or not, to add/remove a feature.
One or two formal link-to-site PvE polls, such as naming ones.
An in-game ‘voting’ poll for future content.
Several ‘should we do this or that- yes/no’ informal polls on the forums.
Feedback threads that are a loose form of polls.
Finalization CDI threads; again a loose form of polls.

Some of these polls had in-game mail notifications; some had email notifications to account addresses.

Probably some I’m missing.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Amaimon.7823:

We’ve had two relevant polls so far.. three if you count the ambient poll
Who runs the BLTC, what do we call the new commander’s squad, regardless if its falling apart, and what do we call the aerodome.

Polls like these have either ambient or visual impacts of the game without the course of the story. I wont mind if anet doesnt want to, but it would be nice to have more of these kind of polls. It gives you a sense of involvement with the world

We’ve had more polls than that.

Maybe, but they must’ve been so minor I forgot about them

Poll…not a good place to get feedback on what updates we want. It is more like what updates we don’t want.

Amaimon.7823:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Amaimon.7823:

We’ve had two relevant polls so far.. three if you count the ambient poll
Who runs the BLTC, what do we call the new commander’s squad, regardless if its falling apart, and what do we call the aerodome.

Polls like these have either ambient or visual impacts of the game without the course of the story. I wont mind if anet doesnt want to, but it would be nice to have more of these kind of polls. It gives you a sense of involvement with the world

We’ve had more polls than that.

Maybe, but they must’ve been so minor I forgot about them

There have been several other polls, some about various skin designs, many about WvW (maybe you don’t play it?), others about rewards. Plus (while Chris Whiteside was around), there was an entire set of long discussions about various aspects of the game, many of them leading to changes to GW2 down the road.

One problem with asking substantive rather than ‘cosmetic’ questions is that the community tends not to remember all the other opinions and cons of their own preference. That leads to people being especially unhappy with the outcome, regardless of the choice — if ANet listens to 50%+1, 50%-1 are salty (I exaggerate to highlight the point).

It also takes huge amounts of developer time — just look at Linsey Murdock’s questions about material storage. She asked an essentially simple question with lots of potential nuances. There was a ton of feedback, including people repeating what others had said, contradicting the principles of the project, and so on. Just writing her posts probably took a lot of her time (it takes longer to write succinct posts than wordy ones, especially about all the bits & pieces involved in storage). She responded individually. She cross-posted on Reddit (and responded there, too).

And that’s all awesome — I love the fact that she did this. Unfortunately, it’s unrealistic to expect that ANet can do this consistently or often, unless they dedicate someone to it nearly full-time. That’s a salary that could have gone to more actual development. It’s very difficult to justify the costs.

In short, ANet has polled the players a bunch, but it’s not realistic to expect that they can do this often, much as we like being asked, much as we (sometimes) like the outcome.

Ah, yea, i was never really involved with wvw until now.
But i do just remember another poll, where i voted for 2v2 pvp over 1v5 pvp