Guild Wars 2

The only real feature I miss is from CoH whereby you right-clicked on a player and had the option to read their personal bio or “story”. It was self-written, from memory you only got a short paragraph, but it was such great fun to read and it really added to the humor but more importantly individuality of each player.

Some were witty, some serious but all were in the context of expressing individuality as opposed to the cookie-cutter format of GW2. It was such a simple feature but it was a great aspect of the game and imo these type of games should be about self-expression.

Would be cool to see it, but dreams are free.

Suggestion for vote: I hate walls of text, so short and sweet it is.

Guild capes/halls/GvG with up to zerg level type numbered fights to fit large guild raids at once, and if not too much trouble, can the guild use bloodstone bricks to work on upgrades for the castle..that requires bricks to build.

Harper.4173:

TheFool.4589:

Draknar.5748:

Harper.4173:

Let me explain to you why this won’t work.

It won’t work because there’s no way to reach out and ask every player playing the game what they want and how they want it.

You mention making use of player suggestions and using votes – my question is where?

The forum population is a very small part of the total population of players playing the game.
More so – the forum population isn’t even representative for the majority of players in game as the people who post on these forums are usually highly invested in the game and at least more knowledgeable about the game than average.

So you want to ask a minority of the player base how to change the game? It might work ( in the small picture) and those who posted, suggested and voted and whose voices were heard might be satisfied but in the big picture you might lose more players who never even touch the forums and who will feel too alienated by the changes.

Though the idea has merits in theory the bottom line is you can’t have people “vote” because you don’t even have a means to reach them.

What about returning players? There’s a sizable amount of players in hiatus right now – and while they’re not here at the moment they might be back with the new LS patch. Do you exclude them ? Do you include them?

How do you determine who gets a vote?

Ultimately it isn’t doable.

On log in: big pop-up in the middle of your screen. You get a reward for filling out the survey. It will exclusively hit active players of all types. That’s how you do it. You don’t need facebook, you don’t need forums, neither of those are representative anyway. You need the players and where better to reach the people who play your game than in the actual game.

This. You knocked it out of the park. Your idea surpasses mine and I give you a one up good sir! Im all for this. Reach the players in the game through this.

You might think that’d be effective but actually you’re only targeting one active segment of the player base for a short amount of time. You’re not looking at future or returning players. Just the ones playing now – which is short sighted.

I’m willing to bet you that the majority of players now in game didn’t play at launch – and decisions that could have been made back then could have impacted whether these players ended up with the game or not.

Targeting future players is practically impossible. Plus what would be accomplished by surveying people who have potentially never heard of the game nor ever played it, I mean what would they know about anything, that data would be completely useless. Returning players would get the same survey so you aren’t excluding them, as they would be returning and thus in game to take the survey.