Guild Wars 2

Nothing pleases me more than hearing stories about the devs also playing the game, and as an EU player I’ve only seen screenshots posted by NA players from various events with lots of players around with all their Anet tags.

With the weekend sale, I picked up a 2nd account (never thought I’d hear myself say that) to play PvP (mostly) on NA too, and with yesterday’s Stronghold event I guess I was sort of awestruck to see so many devs around.

I even was so lucky to be put in a Stronghold game with a dev on my team (Melnetta) for my first ever Stronghold match.

And this is after I’ve played 2+ years on EU and never once seen a dev there. I know it’s not much, but I was very appreciative of this. Even when the Stronghold beta started yesterday it was more or less prime time EU, so it would’ve been great to see some devs on EU as well from time to time.

Mostly because it’s nice to see them play the game they’ve made and to be given a chance to just say hey and thanks in-game!

Again – just a little post in appreciation of finally seeing devs in-game on my new NA account – and a thank you for the fun, new PvP mode!

I too like that anet devs have good visibility and you can follow them and see that they actually play the game quite a bit. Too often with MMO’s you question changes that are implemented in the game and feel like “do the devs even play this game? Why would they do this?” When those devs do play they’re on secret accounts in private guilds and often in invisible mode or something, and the only “devs” you ever see in those games are just GM’s, moderators, not actual developers. But here at Arenanet, you can easily see Hugh Norfolk, one of the PVP developers at Arenanet, in heart of the mists, queuing for matches, playing PVP, maybe even on your team or against you, and it’s encouraging to see that the devs are playing the same game we are, and they’re a friendly sort.

I try not to bother them too much but from time to time I might axe a question.