Guild Wars 2

As the person who started the nega-topic that has all but exploded all over these forums in rage filled messy way I wanted to say something separate of that massive post-hemoth.

That 6k+ reply anger fest could’ve been avoided entirely if there was a little more communication between the dev teams and the players. Forget the FB page and Twitter, use your forums to communicate road maps and let us know clearly what you’re planning on.

When the other websites had the information that this one did not there was rampant speculation and negativity. When you guys posted that blog that was full of babble and spin the negativity grew to enormous sizes.

It could’ve been avoided right off the bat by making a post saying exactly what you all finally had to say to get things to calm down anyhow. So, instead of saying what should’ve been said from the start we got a cascade of insanity (started shamefully by yours truly) that just went out of control.

In the future, talk with us. We’re only irrational if we have to draw our own conclusions. If you explain ‘em to us for the most part I’m hoping we can see eye to eye.

I scratch my head wondering: They must have seen this backlash coming there is just no way they are that naive. But if they did, why didn’t they communicate more to prevent it? Was it because they wanted the attention?

This isn’t the kind of attention they’d want. People are still riled up now even after they’ve explained everything in a proper way. It could have all been avoided by just talking with us and communicating from the start.

I get the impression that they need to hire someone to actually TALK with us. Or if they do have someone like that then they need to allow them to talk more.

Personally I have found ArenaNet to be very communicative, but it never seems to be enough for players to feel really involved.

I don’t blame them for wanting to present ascended gear in a positive light from the start, rather than putting up a post that said “ok guys, we know this looks bad, but TRUST US” – how would we have reacted to that?

I also don’t blame the people (probably comparatively few) at ArenaNet who know the ins and outs of how ascended gear is going to be implemented and why it was designed the way it was for not spending the last 48 hours on the forums responding to every bit of speculative criticism. And it is speculative, at this point, because the gear is not in the game.

The only thing they can say to “you’re betraying the principles of your Manifesto” is “no, we’re not!” – and once again, what good would that do?