Guild Wars 2

The forums are representative of only a small percentage of the player population. How can Anet get the majority of player’s participation? Developers will typically get a strong response when offering in-game currency. Whether or not the response will be click, click, click. Pay Me! or someone reading each question and using their brain…. I can’t say for sure. But there is a strong possibility people will actually care about the direction of the game and answer seriously.

The idea:

• An NPC located in Lions Arch that offered some form of game currency payment for the player’s opinion.
• The survey would be account bound so that the survey could only be taken once and the payment received just once as well.
• A short 3 or 4 question survey with a small area for comment at the end, limited by word count.
• When the player is done they can optionally view a graph showing where their answers fell as opposed to other players. And as the time progresses they could check back and see where the community stands via the continually updating graph.
• Then they get paid a small amount of ‘something’.

If it succeeds then Anet can put in a new survey on a time schedule.