Guild Wars 2

This has bugged me for a long long time. On the front page of the forums on the right hand side is an “Announcements” section, it seems like the perfect place to put a quick link to the patch notes each time the game is updated. Why isn’t it used for that? A lot of the time there is absolutely nothing in there, and right now there’s just one thing – some WvW tournament.

Can we please put a link to patch notes in the announcements? It would possibly mean that more players actually see the patch notes and have a clue what’s going on in the game. This is especially an issue when there are smaller, post update, patches – a lot of players miss these and then you get 20+ threads popping up in the forums about how Silverwastes has suddenly become a wasteland and people asking what happened to the Amber chest farm.

Even if they put the patch notes right in front of peoples noses in game, people would just click it off and ask in map chat rather than read it. My point is that even if they put in a big notice on the front page of the forums, only the forum users will be the ones to see it, and the forum users aren’t usually the ones asking those questions in-game.

I would imagine that most people who regularly play the game check the patch notes link on their sign in screen, or hear about it from their guildmates. I would imagine that there is a very small number of people who actually check the patch notes from this forum.

It’s still a way of ensuring that more people can see it, or at least that more people know when there’s been a patch. Obviously it makes little difference to those who already read the patch notes and it only affects those who go on the forums – but I still think it would be nice to have the announcements column actually used to show people when there’s been a patch.

Didn’t they start off doing this and then sort of…..stop?

I’d like to see patch notes be more thorough, first. It is bizarre to me how incomplete they always seem to be.

There already is a forum for Patch Notes…and whenever it is updated, it changes from greyed-out (if you have previously read it) to black. And it sits directly below the Announcement sub-forum.

I’m not sure what difference it would make moving it to a different sub-forum.

Now, if you are suggesting it be given the ‘Big Red Splash’ treatment that ‘Announcements’ gets, I suppose they could do that. Though, I would hope we, as a playerbase, consider ourselves bright enough to see that there are new patch notes when the, as stated above, sub-forum has new posts.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

There already is a forum for Patch Notes…and whenever it is updated, it changes from greyed-out (if you have previously read it) to black. And it sits directly below the Announcement sub-forum.

I’m not sure what difference it would make moving it to a different sub-forum.

Now, if you are suggesting it be given the ‘Big Red Splash’ treatment that ‘Announcements’ gets, I suppose they could do that. Though, I would hope we, as a playerbase, consider ourselves bright enough to see that there are new patch notes when the, as stated above, sub-forum has new posts.

I don’t recall suggesting it be moved to a subforum… I’m not talking about moving the patch notes, I’m talking about utilising the “announcements” box on the front page of the forums that is frequently empty for having a link to the latest patch notes.

With a lot of the new LS releases Anet have started putting subsequent patches/bug fixes underneath the initial release – even if they’re days afterwards – so it isn’t always obvious that something has been patched and people miss them.

I suppose the big red splash that ‘Announcements’ gets could be utilized for patch notes, as I already stated.

Still, unless one never visits the front page of the forums, it’s hard to miss that the Patch Notes threads/sub-forum has been updated. I thought players were unhappy that the game is being ‘dumbed-down’, as they call it. Would they be happier with the forum being ‘dumbed-down’, as well, I wonder?

Either way, good luck with your suggestion. =)