Guild Wars 2

I don’t expect anybody to take this seriously, but I was watching the debates last night and it got me thinking.

With all the economic hardship in GW2, it would be funny for the players to elect representatives to help with the economy.

Kinda like a “One Guild To Rule Them All” concept.

Would be neat if it was possible lol.

I bet a double digit percentage of the players will elect somebody called “Chuck Norris” as a representative.

I think our current in-game government works the best for us, a benign dictatorship.

Eve has the ‘Council of Stellar Management’, which is a player elected council that deals with the devs on behalf of the players

This would just end up being a popularity contest, haha.

It would be impossible as they would have no authority, since you don’t need guilds and groups in GW2. There was a time when this happened in games, though. I remember well when each Everquest server had it’s own governing body elected from the major guilds, and you had to schedule open world raid events. If your guild ks’d a raid, you’d lose rotation, get trained, etc. It worked for several years until raids became instanced for the most part.

When do we get to start sanctionaing the kittens who are selling under cost? :P

Xericor.9103:

Eve has the ‘Council of Stellar Management’, which is a player elected council that deals with the devs on behalf of the players

GW is partialy casual game, and it’s fine for me, but for this reason we have other player base than Eve. Or rather… let’s put it in the other manner – Eve has different player base than any other online game. It’s very devoted, hardcore, their game’s world mean a lot for themselves. It’s nor good nor bad, simply different. While GW has not – as far as I seen we have people who want to make fun, and that’s all.

And force me to pay in-game taxes or take my hard earned gold away from me to give to the other players that won’t do crap to earn any? Passs

:)

Haha I knew people would take this humorously =D

I know something like this would never work, but it is funny to imagine it.

I can’t see how letting the inmates run the asylum will solve the problems with the game economy.

The issues are largely technical, which is allowing cheaters and exploiters to pillage the TP, almost unchallenged. That’s a developer responsibility. Trying to correct the economy with those kinds of external pressures acting on it, will only result in heavy-handed over-reaction.

ArenaNet needs to get the engine running smoothly before we start discussing paint jobs.

Players in a virtual world don’t die nor starve. In that light, I stand by Darwin’s theory of evolution. Want to earn more gold, put in the effort. Tired of seeing people whining and blaming everything but themselves because they lack the skill to make money.

Yeah, smart idea. Put one group in charge of everyone else where you can vote on the players, but it won’t make a difference. That group will eventually amass so much wealth they can force the game’s economy to inflate and jack prices up so high only they will be able to buy anything. It’ll eventually become their server and we’re just playing on it because they allow us.

God Of Fissures.8627:

I don’t expect anybody to take this seriously, but I was watching the debates last night and it got me thinking.

With all the economic hardship in GW2, it would be funny for the players to elect representatives to help with the economy.

Kinda like a “One Guild To Rule Them All” concept.

Would be neat if it was possible lol.

It’s not actually a crazy idea. TERA has a political system and each zone elects a representative. AreneNet would have to build the political system though because the players electing a person doesn’t do anything unless that person actually has powers to do something. I do think it’s a cool idea though and if ANet could make it work and roll it out in a big update of some kind, it could be a lot of fun.