Guild Wars 2

“NEW FEATURES AND CONTENT
Lunar New Year

• The Lunar New Year event has ended. Thank you to everyone who participated, and have a joyful and prosperous Year of the Ram!
• Finolla and Phaedra have left Divinity’s Reach, and the Dragon Ball arena is closed for repairs.
• Celebration firecrackers have been removed from Divinity’s Reach and the WvW citadels.
• The Memories of Home effect has been removed.
• Lunar New Year food items no longer provide a bonus to magic find. Their other effects still apply.
• Quartermasters in WvW maps will no longer create fireworks when they spawn.
• Lunar New Year daily achievements and bonus rewards are no longer available."

Lol. Suggestion: Don’t call removing stuff “New features and content”.

I consider the end of dragon ball a feature.

I guess you missed the part where they added new functions to the dye tab, a new finisher, a new weapon skin, and some bug fixes.

Which was under Balance, Bug fixing and Polishing.

Yeah I did miss that, cause that’s not there.

Pockets.3201:

I consider the end of dragon ball a feature.

Heheh amen! Forced to do that by that juicy Laurel was hellish.

it’s the new meta, you guys don’t know anything

The update notes are part of a pre-existing template that doesn’t really change between major updates. The top part of it is used to say what’s changing in general, instead of say bug fixes or cash shop upgrades.

I suppose someone could have thought to change the header, but you know, what’s really the difference?

Some people will complain about anything.

The thing is this was given tought.

In most patch notes, there is nothing about the previous patch, maybe some extra rare times there is a mention of something being over.

In these notes they take time and effort to make a bulletin board about what’s being removed. I mean… just, why? It’s not like after Halloween they bothered to do a list of every NPC, activity, item, vendor, etc.. that it was gonna be removed.

And the differnce being: my dissapointment.

I wasn’t really expecting an update or anything major (well, I’m expecting SAB every week), but:

I opened forums -> saw new update notes -> get excited → new features and content -> we removed a bunch of stuff.

Well that’s… great… I guess?

Considering the comments that show up when they don’t talk about things removed in the Patch Notes, maybe this is in response to said comments.

Changes can be considered ‘new’, as well. Whenever a product on the shelves in stores gets its formula changed, it is advertised as ‘New and Improved’. /shrug

Vayne.8563:

The update notes are part of a pre-existing template that doesn’t really change between major updates. The top part of it is used to say what’s changing in general, instead of say bug fixes or cash shop upgrades.

I suppose someone could have thought to change the header, but you know, what’s really the difference?

Some people will complain about anything.

yeah, but this time it’s funny, because it very much doesn’t fit.

@Incu: If we are thinking about the same comments/threads, then those are about that it would be a good idea to announce removal of certain vendors (eg.: holiday vendors) in advance so people can sell up/exchange. Cause sometimes they stay, sometimes they don’t.

And I agree, changes can be new, but this is just removal, nothing new.

With an analogy, it’s like:
You are going to your favorite theme park, when a guy at the entrance says:
- Have we got exciting news for you!
- ?
- We demolished two of our roller coasters!
- Uhm…
- Not only that, but you cannot take anyomore photos on those rollercoasters!
- Ooookay..
- We also fired the staff working there!
- I gotta go now…
- Have fun!

Edit: Hah, I’m a funny guy, I made myself smile.