Guild Wars 2

We were told many times that developers are checking forums and that they are reading feedback, but sometimes it doesn’t feel like it. The best thing that can happen as proof is post from developer. It is a sign that he read the topic, that he thought about it. The problem is that this doesn’t happen often enough. Some examples would be profession forums where wasn’t single developer post in several months and last one was about merging threads or something like it. (Examples could be found in necromancer and thief forums but probably in other places as well.)

What I propose is very simple:
At least 1 developer post per week in major forum sections. What is major forum section you might ask? All profession subforums, PvP, WvW, Dungeons&Fractals and general discussion.

I know there isn’t always something important going on or you can’t talk about things, that’s why I am not asking for super serious post every time. Developer can pick anything. Thread with a lot of feedback? check. Some funny thread? check. Community event? check…

I know that developers are busy, but don’t tell me that writing 3-4 lines per week would be too much to ask for.

What it will bring in return? Less toxicity in forums and more feedback, happier community, better connection to players and with that better insight into things.

They chose the Forum Specialists to read the forums and forward interesting ideas when they merged the forums together. Those people do post on threads, so their posts can be considered a “Dev post by proxy” when they post on a thread.

Then at least post on profession forums because:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Has there been any progress on finding profession specialists?

At the present time, the developers are discussing whether having profession specialists will be a viable inclusion in the program. So at this point, applications are on “hold” with another view planned in the next week or so.

This post is from March and no progress since. And to be honest profession forums are suffering most atm.