Guild Wars 2

Was it really necessary to remove the Quaggan ‘rave dance’ animation? Because that just took a huge element of fun out of the game… and I don’t see WHERE that would have a thing to do with balance.

Please restore our popular Quaggan dance style!

TYVM,
An upset Quaggan

Quaggan seconds this! It was the only fun Quaggan could have in such a violent land. Quaggan is not pleased with this!

Btw … complaining about this ? what about the important stuff like the dodge barrel roll ? it doesn’t work aswell …

Nooooo….why!?

Complaining about such a trivial thing feels ridiculous and yet, it was completely unnecessary to fix this innocuous bug that was so much fun that it could have been thought of as intentional for the sake of the enjoyment and entertainment of the players.

This is a sad day for every Quaggan

Please restore the rave.

GuuAlt.8349:

Quaggan seconds this! It was the only fun Quaggan could have in such a violent land. Quaggan is not pleased with this!

Are you speaking for yourself, some Quaggan, all Quaggan? How do Quaggan even get enough Quaggan together for a rave? How did you become so sapient and still speak in the third person?

Performed by Quaggan, the ’Who’s on First’ skit would tear kitten in reality or a whole.

…that was one of my favorite things about GW2.

Why did this even need to happen?

I’m all in favor of fixing all the bugs.. but this one hurts.

Maybe could we at least get some kind of explanation? Like whatever was causing this to work was also causing other unintended thing that was actually causing problems?

Quaggan baked you a cookie, but quaggan eat’d it =(

Tamasan.6457:

I’m all in favor of fixing all the bugs.. but this one hurts.

Maybe could we at least get some kind of explanation? Like whatever was causing this to work was also causing other unintended thing that was actually causing problems?

This seems perfectly reasonable.

Narrrz.7532:

Quaggan baked you a cookie, but quaggan eat’d it =(

“What have we got officer?”
“Well detective, nothing certain yet. Anywhere from one quaggan to all quaggan were involved in baking a cookie, anywhere from one quaggan to all quaggan were involved in eating that cookie.”
“You’re wrong about one thing officer, we do know one thing for certain….”
The detective removes his sunglasses with enough swagger to make his mastery of kungkittenobvious.
“The only cookie has crumbled.”

A krewe assistant came running in to the lab where Zerina was working on her Quaggan test subject number 1064, which was screaming in pain as the magineuroaoamplifiers were given more power.

“Some news just came in. Apparently it seems that Quaggans can no longer “rave” dance, whatever that is. What could it mean?”

“I’m not sure,” Zerina responded “but I do know one thing. An unhappy quaggan is no use at all to Tyria, and they aren’t that useful to begin with. They’re pretty much only good for front line fodder, which is why we’re studying how much pain they can take.”

“What can we do?” the krewe assistant asked.

Zerina pondered for a moment.

“I think we have enough data regarding how much pain the average quaggan can take, “Zerina said pointing at the large stack of lab notes covering over one thousand quaggan pain test subjects “and should be ready to discuss with the Arcane Council. If we can adjust the magineuroamplifiers from pain analysis to motor control, I bet we can have those useless quaggans dancing to their hearts content. It may hurt, a lot, but at least they’ll be happy.”

Zerina and the assistant began to remove the now lifeless body of quaggan pain test subject 1064 from the lab and resetting the lab for quaggan rave dancing tests.

“waves at momma” i agree. this was a super cute feature and added to those of us who rp quaggans. perhaps it was unintended and they will give it back?!
thanks.

you guys still havent figured it out yet… you are a cog in the cash machine for anet. You are not supposed to have fun… you are not supposed to be a hero or the focus… The onlything you are allowed to do of your own free will and volition is throw cash/credit cards at your screen for anet.

on a more serious note, it is likely it was causing other code to function improperly. but on the off chance it is not, I would like to thank the dev team for focusing on non issues over the real issues. Otherwise, thanks for the fix!

Therodin.2970:

Tamasan.6457:

I’m all in favor of fixing all the bugs.. but this one hurts.

Maybe could we at least get some kind of explanation? Like whatever was causing this to work was also causing other unintended thing that was actually causing problems?

This seems perfectly reasonable.

Let’s imagine that SAB bugs were related to this. One step closer …….

Andraus.3874:

Therodin.2970:

Tamasan.6457:

I’m all in favor of fixing all the bugs.. but this one hurts.

Maybe could we at least get some kind of explanation? Like whatever was causing this to work was also causing other unintended thing that was actually causing problems?

This seems perfectly reasonable.

Let’s imagine that SAB bugs were related to this. One step closer …….

Of course! now it makes complete sense. Sab things were one hitting the chosen one because they were angry about the quaggan rave dance! Good job anet, working on sab behind the scenes.

I don’t care if it was a pointless thing; it was so fun!

I can’t believe we can’t do that anymore… poor little quaggan can’t dance anymore, its so sad. Was so funny and it didn’t do any harm. Come on Anet, bring it back.

There is a big difference between “removed” and “bugged”

We need to find out first which one it is before we rant on the forums.

I think this was a bug that just got fixed on its own. Anet has mentioned in the past that coding is really complex, and that some thing break, without finding any fix, and then gets fixed by changing something unrelated.

They mentioned that in an interview about some dev’s favourite bugs, and it was the ones that let you dance and such whilst sitting, or able to combine the dance book’s dances with other animations. They loved it, but ultimately got fixed due to some unknown reason, which they were sad about.

nooooooooOOoooooooOOooooooo

This change reflects a complete and utter lack of prioritization skill on the part of Anet management and whomever is involved with deciding what gets changed/fixed and what doesn’t. This game has hundreds, perhaps thousands?, of bugs that need to be resolved because they affect gameplay, and yet management chooses to waste precious dev time removing something that the majority of players saw as nothing more than cute fun.
It is sickening to think that while they constantly beat the drum of “we’re working kitten the expansion” as an excuse for why they can’t focus on player issues, that they found the time to make the changes to prevent the players from having a little fun with the quaggan transforms.

Neural.1824:

This change reflects a complete and utter lack of prioritization skill on the part of Anet management and whomever is involved with deciding what gets changed/fixed and what doesn’t. This game has hundreds, perhaps thousands?, of bugs that need to be resolved because they affect gameplay, and yet management chooses to waste precious dev time removing something that the majority of players saw as nothing more than cute fun.
It is sickening to think that while they constantly beat the drum of “we’re working kitten the expansion” as an excuse for why they can’t focus on player issues, that they found the time to make the changes to prevent the players from having a little fun with the quaggan transforms.

As I said above, this most likely is a result from fixing a different bug or changing something that may have caused it from the start.

This is just a prelude to the coming Quaggan Genocide.

Can someone link an explanation of what this dance thing was?

The quaggan raised its arms in the air and “wiggle” its bottom as it moved sideways. Was too cute and hilarious mostly when several did it together.

Proof that ArenaNet hates fun.

If you would like to see the visual.

Quaggan dance video

Well, it’s obviously a bug, but yeah, that’s a pretty cute bug XD

Tyragon.2496:

Neural.1824:

This change reflects a complete and utter lack of prioritization skill on the part of Anet management and whomever is involved with deciding what gets changed/fixed and what doesn’t. This game has hundreds, perhaps thousands?, of bugs that need to be resolved because they affect gameplay, and yet management chooses to waste precious dev time removing something that the majority of players saw as nothing more than cute fun.
It is sickening to think that while they constantly beat the drum of “we’re working kitten the expansion” as an excuse for why they can’t focus on player issues, that they found the time to make the changes to prevent the players from having a little fun with the quaggan transforms.

As I said above, this most likely is a result from fixing a different bug or changing something that may have caused it from the start.

I somehow doubt it. Anet has been pretty stringent in combating animation glitches even if they have 0 effect on game play.

It all really started when people figured out the humping/thrusting animation glitch with the “How to dance vol 1” item.

It would have been pretty easy for a short quaggan flailing their arms in the air in a game with 10" men/women to get lewd very quickly.

Bring back my kitten jumping while sleeping glitch!

Neural.1824:

This change reflects a complete and utter lack of prioritization skill on the part of Anet management and whomever is involved with deciding what gets changed/fixed and what doesn’t. This game has hundreds, perhaps thousands?, of bugs that need to be resolved because they affect gameplay, and yet management chooses to waste precious dev time removing something that the majority of players saw as nothing more than cute fun.
It is sickening to think that while they constantly beat the drum of “we’re working kitten the expansion” as an excuse for why they can’t focus on player issues, that they found the time to make the changes to prevent the players from having a little fun with the quaggan transforms.

You have absolutely no idea what was involved in this fix. Maybe it was literally one tiny change that took all of a minute to identify and implement.

Maybe they didn’t even try to fix this, and fixing a more serious bug had a side-effect of fixing this minor bug.