Guild Wars 2

All we get is “eventually”, “one day”, “soon”, etc, etc, etc.

Most of the AMA didn’t really say anything other than how you are working on a lot, and promising a lot. We have no idea what you all are doing. All we know is that a raid wing comes out next week.

Fractals, WvW, Dungeons, etc were not really talked about. Every single one of these were answered as basically, “we might be doing something”.

If you’re all really this busy, then where is the content? What plate is full? We have no real info.

All we can do is wait, and wait some more, until we give up, then move onto something else.

We need dates so we can actually have something to look forward to. Right now, there really isn’t anything to look forward to. It’s just going to be more waiting.

They won’t because plans change and people will make such a big deal if they don’t meet those dates. Just look at the people who still bring up that blog about things to come in 2013.

I disagree with dates. When its done is the best policy.

I think 4 times a year they should have a "this is what we hope to have done and available in our next quarterly update (tho things can happen and they might happen at a later date).

This Reddit Dev AMA they just had should be done every 4 months. And people will be happier because they are being given some information and clarity that they are hopefully being listened too.

I do think this should be done on their own forums instead of Reddit. They could have a sticky post saying please post questions in this post 1 month before hand. Then they can go through the questions had them out to the relevant department and then collate them and post them on the front page of their website. Then they can delete the sticky post until 1 month before the next one and then redo the questions post. In this way they can not talk about what they don’t want to and talk about what they need to.

I actually hope they aren’t able to tell us dates for a lot of those things because hopefully they’re working on them and will release them when they’re ready to release instead of because they’ve reached an arbitrary date they picked at the start of the project.

If they make a nearly complete update, pass it over to QA and get told they need to totally re-do some major features I’d much rather they re-do them than say “yeah that would be better, but we have to release it on XX/YY/16 and we don’t have time to fix that”.

Also agree that specific dates shouldn’t be given when it’s only speculation. Most players will cling to any speculated dates with a gun held to Anet’s head. “YOU PROMISED IT IN 3 MONTHS, BUT IT’S DELAYED, THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! #BrokenPromises #Lies #SinkingShip”

They told us exactly what they knew. It’s hard to give a specific date when something is still being developed because you don’t always know what bugs and issues you’re going to encounter along the way.

I think the way they say they are aiming for this certain quarter, without promising a set date is the best approach.