Guild Wars 2

Although I don’t play gw2 anymore, at least not actively, i do keep up to date with their patches just to see which side of the scale they’re tipping towards. It seems with the recent announcement of the edge of the mists and open recruitment of players to test their content long before release is finally a true step in the right direction of making good quality future content updates. I still don’t see eye to eye on their zero tolerance no negative constructive new feedback policy but at least we’ll get more than a bite size of the population now involved with beta testing stuff.

I think you’re confused; it’s personal insults and attacks they have zero tolerance for, not negative feedback. So you can say that you don’t like something and say why, you just can’t call the person who developed it a schmuck or say they should be fired.

Lafiel.9372:

(…)zero tolerance no negative constructive new feedback policy (…)

That’s a bit of a misinterpretation and they have said quite a few times now that this is not the case. Even from browsing the forums I can see that that is not the case.

Maybe it’s not popular to give a “warning”, but it’s more than fair in my eyes. As far as the rules go nothing has changed, you weren’t supposed to insult staff or anyone for that matter before and that is pretty much standard across all boards I’ve ever been on.

Sorry I just felt it’s worth pointing that out, I’m glad you feel optimistic about the future. I thought something similar seeing that there is no NDA for the new GvG map (I believe that’s the right term).

Cheers

I’m quite happy to see offensive people banned for being offensive. That has nothing to do with criticizing the game. If someone can’t be polite while offering their critique, they have no business posting.

I agree that it’s nice to see invite-only testing before a release. It’s absolutely a step in the right direction.

On the other hand, I’d hate to start seeing WoW PTR-esque spoilers and data mining. Mystery is what make the living world interesting to me.

Rouven.7409:

Lafiel.9372:

(…)zero tolerance no negative constructive new feedback policy (…)

That’s a bit of a misinterpretation and they have said quite a few times now that this is not the case. Even from browsing the forums I can see that that is not the case.

Maybe it’s not popular to give a “warning”, but it’s more than fair in my eyes. As far as the rules go nothing has changed, you weren’t supposed to insult staff or anyone for that matter before and that is pretty much standard across all boards I’ve ever been on.

Sorry I just felt it’s worth pointing that out, I’m glad you feel optimistic about the future. I thought something similar seeing that there is no NDA for the new GvG map (I believe that’s the right term).

Cheers

I say this only because of the several examples they given out were not very personal attacks to begin with. e.g. saying they were lying is enough to be consider non-constructive. Regardless, this was not what my post was about anyways, i’m just saying, they seem to be “aware” of players now or at least trying to keep us somewhat in the loop unlike before where they “may” have listened to player feedback but it was complete secret what was heard and what wasn’t.

I like to think of it at a lack of exposure. There have often been those little things, even some larger things that were great, sometimes you couldn’t be sure if they listened or if it was in the works all along.

A different kind of example for me is their twitch channel. A lot of work that I am not sure is seen much.

Too soon to tell with this future WvW thing. It’ll either work out well or blow up in their faces, and we’ve seen both in the past.

Ideally, testing would be system testing as opposed to unit testing. I really don’t see how you could manage true player system testing in a 2 week development cycle. It seems that this will be cosmetic at best.