Guild Wars 2

Please, please, skip several living stories to focus on bugfix.

This is a great game. I enjoyed it every single minute I played it, but the more you release, the more you break existing things and we don’t see them fixed.

There’s this methodology named release early, release often. You’re following it nearly to the letter and it’s good! But the main problem with this methodology is that it introduces bugs more often too.

I would ironically say that the only permanent content that you add are the bugs, but well, I see GW2 evolving with each release and I like it and so far the contents outweighs the bugs.

Please take your time to polish the game and actually test it, even old features, because that’s where the bugs are the most introduced, not the new content. There will be a time where I’ll estimate the cup will be full and I will leave. I don’t know when or what will trigger it but currently I wish it’s really the latest possible.

Fror.2163:

Please, please, skip several living stories to focus on bugfix.

This is a great game. I enjoyed it every single minute I played it, but the more you release, the more you break existing things and we don’t see them fixed.

There’s this methodology named release early, release often. You’re following it nearly to the letter and it’s good! But the main problem with this methodology is that it introduces bugs more often too.

I would ironically say that the only permanent content that you add are the bugs, but well, I see GW2 evolving with each release and I like it and so far the contents outweighs the bugs.

Please take your time to polish the game and actually test it, even old features, because that’s where the bugs are the most introduced, not the new content. There will be a time where I’ll estimate the cup will be full and I will leave. I don’t know when or what will trigger it but currently I wish it’s really the latest possible.

You bring up some good points. A PTR would go a long way to help a lot of these problems.

They’ve said it before, but I’ll repeat it for your sake. There are 6 living story teams. None of them are working on bugs. There are, however, separate teams that are working on bugs. If you see a bug, report it, and it’ll get fixed.

And they are trying with everything they ahve to avoid Blanket Nerfs or unintended side effects when they can so every bug reported has to be:

reproduced
cause determined
fix found
QA tested and certified
Localised for game versions and any text and voice changes made
signed off by devs before included in patch and localised for notes as well if major enough.

This all takes a fair bit of time and doesn’t really take inot account the pretty decent amount of time it can take to actually fix a problem as a game of GW2 size can have all sorts of unforseen interactions if fixes aren’t careful enough.

Bugs are getting fixed by the bug fix team(s) – but it takes time, and we get bugs fixed in every single patch along with class balance changes and game content added – biweekly so Anet is scoring pretty high on this…

And a PTR would ruin the surprises included in the patch itself and I can see why they made the choice to not use this system. – somtimes yes it sucks but I don’t mind the fast fixes that come soon after to deal with it for the joy of experiencing stuff like this without every source of info being flooded with every little detail of it and noone doing much of it Live cause they all tried it on PTS.

Daedalus.4193:

And a PTR would ruin the surprises included in the patch itself and I can see why they made the choice to not use this system. – somtimes yes it sucks but I don’t mind the fast fixes that come soon after to deal with it for the joy of experiencing stuff like this without every source of info being flooded with every little detail of it and noone doing much of it Live cause they all tried it on PTS.

I can tell you that not everybody shares this opinion. Even if they did a PTR, they wouldn’t have to open it up for everybody if certain people are so worried about “spoilers”. Also, such information could be easily avoided.

Anyways, there’s so many bugs and issues that get pushed through every content update and then the many subsequent hotfixes…it’s just really sloppy. If they allowed some testing to be done beforehand by players or other people they can pay and hold to a NDA, then that would probably catch most of the problems. For example, this patch there has been bugs galore with the balloon towers and people are reporting it in the LS forum and devs have responded, yet it’s still broke.

Also, as far as the LS story goes, I wouldn’t mind if more people knew what to do before the update because especially with this one, I don’t even know what to do half of the time after looking over the achievement window. There’s rarely much information about where to begin or what to do or where things are. The only way I knew how to do anything was from the people that had read Dulfy(and yes she apparently gets early access to some things) and they share their information in region chat.

Thank you, oh Lord of the Labyrinth. You stated the case perfectly