Seeing a TON of [suggestion] xxxxxx here, it would be great if all of these could be in a forum just for suggestions! (I know there use to be one, but it’s been archived)
The suggestion forum was where threads went to die many times over. I had mixed feelings about it going away at first. Now I am glad it no longer exists. Suggestions are now posted in the relevant forums and it isn’t a mash up of suggestions from all aspects of game play. The old suggestion forum was a real mess at times.
Yep, I’ve looked, I’ve also been looking at a lot of the [suggestion] threads flooding the guild wars 2 discussion posts.
Honestly the reasoning
“The Suggestions sub-forum has been archived and is read-only. We’re directing players to leave feedback & suggestions in the sub-forum which best fits their topic. As example, if you have a sPvP suggestion, we ask that you post in the sPvP sub-forum. If you have a crafting suggestion, we ask that you post it in the Crafting sub-forum. This ensures that the Developers on these topics will see it. For all topics which do not have a specific sub-forum, you can post in the Guild Wars 2 Discussion forum, which all our Developers visit.”
Makes some sense, but at what point is it just flooding other forums? I just don’t really think having suggestions mixed in with general discussion increases the ease of visability for devs and other players.
I agree to some extent. However, before when there was a suggestion forum everything went there. PvP,WvW,PvE,Crafting,Professions, and so forth were all mashed in the suggestion forum. Posts scrolled down the page faster than most people interested could probably keep up.
Now if there is a suggestion in a forum that it does not match, for example a PvP suggestion posted in general discussion, it often gets moved to the relevant forum.
In my view, the general discussion forum is more or less the PvE forum. So anything suggested that is not directly related to PvP/WvW/Professions or other sub-forum topics goes here.
Plus with the advent of fourm specilaists it helps them find relevant posts based on their specialty.
Yep, I’ve looked, I’ve also been looking at a lot of the [suggestion] threads flooding the guild wars 2 discussion posts.
Honestly the reasoning
“The Suggestions sub-forum has been archived and is read-only. We’re directing players to leave feedback & suggestions in the sub-forum which best fits their topic. As example, if you have a sPvP suggestion, we ask that you post in the sPvP sub-forum. If you have a crafting suggestion, we ask that you post it in the Crafting sub-forum. This ensures that the Developers on these topics will see it. For all topics which do not have a specific sub-forum, you can post in the Guild Wars 2 Discussion forum, which all our Developers visit.”
Makes some sense, but at what point is it just flooding other forums? I just don’t really think having suggestions mixed in with general discussion increases the ease of visability for devs and other players.
It keeps the devs looking for generic suggestions from having to sift through WvW, PvP, profession oriented, dungeon, etc suggestions to find relevant ones. It reduces the number of threads that just say: Suggestion. Reduces the number of suggestions that cover multiple topics.
Ahh that makes sense so rather then having to sift through suggestions for wvw, pvp, prof, dungeon etc they have to sift through general discussion to find relevant suggestions; which may or may not be posted in the right sections.
Like I said I respect the decision, I just kinda like the idea of having one place where suggestions could go.
Ahh that makes sense so rather then having to sift through suggestions for wvw, pvp, prof, dungeon etc they have to sift through general discussion to find relevant suggestions; which may or may not be posted in the right sections.
Like I said I respect the decision, I just kinda like the idea of having one place where suggestions could go.
If you see a post in GD that belongs in a more appropriate forum report it. From my expereince the mods do a great job of moving them to the proper forum.
You seem interested in helping Anet draw attention to relevant posts. My suggestion above is one way you can help. It not only helps by moving the thread to the proper forum but it also makes the post more visable to the devs responsible for that aspect of the game as well as the forum specialists responsible for that area.
I think the current set up is better. Devs (I would assume) consider suggestions that have a lot of people backing them, rather than just the OP. A suggestion is likely to get a lot more attention in the appropriate forum, rather than in a separate forum where players may never visit, and therefore not know about the suggestion, and therefore not reply and support the suggestion. Which means a dev would be less likely to consider it.
It’s more messy this way. But if a suggestion has a lot of support it is likely a Dev will notice. Ones that don’t have a lot of support will much more easily fall to the wayside which isn’t a bad thing.
