Guild Wars 2

First of all, hello everyone, I would like to present a few credentials about myself and explain the purpose of this topic.
I am not a native English speaker (you might notice that perhaps), I’ve been a player of GW2 since 2012 Wintersday, I have 24 years old, my current occupation is university (I study engineering), and I worked 5 years for an private server of another MMO developing content (which I don’t consider by any mean a professional enviroment, but I tried my best to use it as a learning experience).

Today I want to do something I might not be entitled to do, but I hope the person I will speak off forgives me for that, if it bothers him.

I bet many of you know the youtube showcaster WoodenPotatoes, and since I’ve seen the team of ArenaNet recruiting some community members, I would like to speak about WP. Before I elaborate, I have to make clear that I do not know WP personally, have never spoken to him, never seen him ingame either.

Talking solely based on the content of his videos and podcasts, his opinions about content, his research on GW and GW2 content, analysis and conclusions, I must say that he appears to have the most essential qualities of game developing: the ability to watch yourself as you experience content, the ability to draw bright conclusions over game mechanics problems or community reactions toward content, the display of logical and realistic ideas toward improving the game, good memory and extense knowledge of ingame lore, and overall being very resourceful, without mentioning his charisma and ability to present things that are not “the cup of tea” of most players, and yet, making those things interesting to many.

I do not know if WP has any interest at all in being a game developer, but I think that ArenaNet could benefit a lot from his talent, being it by schooling him in this trade or just inviting him to participate more (if not already) into game testing or even taking his advice.

Again, I might not (certainly not) be entitled to say this, but I find ArenaNet the place where “things happen”, they’ve showed us many times that they are willing to rebel against the established, and by doing so, advancing game developing (at least in MMOs) years if not more, so, I think it’s worth the try to say this, and if anyone else agrees with me, to say so too. You never know, maybe if both parts are willing, it can happen.

I hope you can forgive any typo, or missuse of your language, and if this offended or bothered someone, I am very sorry, I just want the best for this game, which has given me hours and hours of fun and learning.

This is a cover letter? :-O
Btw anything than the current game tester team could be done much better quality work.I was a Game Master and Game Tester on private servers too and yes I know that’s not easy and sometimes not even fun to test the same area of a map over and over and I know that too for a game company is much cheaper to release something unfinished and the players will complain where the problem is then they repair.
I personally don’t watch these kind of broadcasters for own reasons but there’s many others ingame and forum who cannot even bother broadcast what are they doing and they know what are they saying.
I hope they take some of these kind of players into team even if it would be a volunteer work and listen to them.

You are right Amnariel (Except about the cover letter lol), I’m pretty sure there are many capable people on the community, but I found that WP also had made a lot for the franchise itself, with his work, I don’t know if I speak only for myself or if someone else would agree, but his work has made the GW2 experience more interesting, specially in terms related to lore and what the Anet team is doing with the living world.
There are many interesting and talented people that gathered around this community, an special mention to the showcaster Blu (on TwitchTV), that has made watching spvp much more enternaining too.

If the guy wants a job, he should check out ArenaNet’s career offerings and qualifications required here:

http://www.arena.net/

I think he already has a job. Keeping up his various YouTube offerings. I’m sure if WP wanted to work with ArenaNet in any capacity, he would investigate what might be on offer.

I’m sure he will appreciate your tribute. =)