Guild Wars 2

Hi!

My suggestion is adding a small box in log in screen, similar like the news are now, but that would show the latest changes in game. I’ve seen it in other games, Diablo III for example.
The same box could be used to notify players about any problems Anet is aware of that is going on. Like for example logging issues or trade post issues or like the latest apocalypse is coming issues.

This should release the pressure as people wouldn’t have to go dig that information, but also any patch notes would be very easy to check out.
Also that should release the amount of “My game isn’t working” -posts as you could easily just drop any information in a small box that you’re aware of on-going situation.

I know twitter is being used a lot for this type of communication between players, but adding this type of feature you can be certain that 100% of the people logging in game will get the message.

It could be also used to remind players to use their Living Story specific resources before the merchant packs his bags and flies back to moon.
The possibilities are endless.

Players can drop in comments their thoughts about this or what other purposes Anet could possibly add into log in screen or if you just feel like this is needed as I am, give it a thumb up.

It’s just one click on the log-in screen now to access the Patch Notes. Many of the announcements you suggested are accessed the same way.

I’m not sure how different you would want it to be. Where would this check/click lead to, if not the official website?

I’m not sure if you’re thinking about “News” -section now, because at least I haven’t found a magical button to this section:
Guild Wars 2 —> Forums —> News and Info —> Game Release Notes + Thread
And on top of that not all the patches find their way there.

If you’ve found a button to get there, and a button for the secret patch notes as well, please share it with me.

As far as I know when you’re getting hammered by ddossing or otherwise servers are being stressed the last thing you want is everybody to stress them even more.

Well, if you click on the item in the launcher that says ‘Patch Notes’ (or any other news) it takes you to, well, the Patch Notes (or the other news).

What kind of window did you want it to bring up? I mean it already goes to the official website (here).

As for other news (besides what is already listed), I’m not sure how that would be handled on the patcher, or how easy it would be to implement it there. /shrug

Yes, you can click read more and surf your way through to forums and patch notes. Or you can just open up a browser, type your way to gw2 forums and surf to patch notes.
That’s what I’m currently doing, but my idea is to cut that part and get the notes straight to the launcher window.

It’s not just the patch notes, I don’t see it as a that big of an issue when everything is working as they should.

More than that I’d like to get information through the launcher. Like for example if I want to know what has been going on whole week, there’s zero official announcements even here about what’s going on.

You have to go to official twitter to find out that they are aware of the issues and getting some kind of idea what’s going on. Or surf in forums trying to find a moderator posting information on some thread.
Forums that are most likely down, because the issues in the first place.

The way it is handled right now means that people has to go find the information/patch notes rather than that information would be given to people.
There’s a big difference in between and because of that, information will never reach everyone.

Hope this clarifies things for you and possibly to others.

Well, good luck on your suggestion. I imagine there would be a lot of scrolling if all possible information was included in the launcher, but maybe the Devs will do that for you. Hope you get what you want. =)