Guild Wars 2

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

You . . . probably won’t get a straight answer out of them anymore. The Internet has kind of squeezed that until it stopped being wise.

Far as I can tell, they listen, but they don’t respond to everything and they certainly don’t intend on making all the requests posted around here happen. Possibly because many of them just are completely opposed to each other. And that’s still too much conjecture for me to feel safe saying absolutely.

Not to mention, making a move that is satisfactory with 80% of the population will be met with sheer revolt by 20%. Go look at laurels, for example, and the people complaining about being ‘forced’ to log-in everyday.

Vol.5241:

MarcusKilgannon.5048:

Let me be clear too. I am seeing this population drop in-game! I’m noticing this myself, not just going off of the forum. The heart of the mists roster had less people, WvW was far less than I remember, Lion’s Arch same thing. This was all me experiencing the amounts in game.

For many servers that I have guested on, even on the low pop ones, I have always ended up on an overflow. That shows there are still as many people in L.A. as before you left.

WvW may seem empty, but they increased the cap limit lately and they have closed transfers, so many people on servers several months ago may have moved up to higher tiers for better play.

I updated that comment in my original post actually

Revolution.6301:

tigirius.9014:

I still haven’t seen anything on fishing which was talked about pre-launch also.

there was fishing? How neat. Would that work the same way some other mmos work where you can afk and ‘fish’ with the chance of getting armors and what not?

you mean how in WoW and Lotro even with heavy moding you can’t go afk? yeah….

I’m talking fish that transform you when you eat them, the chance to fish up valuable items, the chance to fish up resources like T6 mats, props outfits the whole nine yards would be nice. Give us something to do while they play catchup.

MarcusKilgannon.5048:

I’m not sure how my topic name got changed with a sentence from something but it’s fixed.

Don’t get me wrong everyone, I am happy with the constant progress in the game, I just have a hard time deciding are we being listened to when certain issues that I see the majority of players asking for haven’t even been spoken on. More direct answers would really help understand what Arenanet is thinking.

If it’s all time they need but have a straight answer for something, I’m 100% satisfied. They back the game and for no subscription fee with a smaller team than WoW or some MMO’s, that is completely acceptable.

I also updated my original post at the bottom.

So what are these issues that the majority of players are asking for? I know the culling issue is a big one and we know for a fact that that’s being worked on. We know people asked for leaderboards and tournament stuff and we know that’s being worked on. We know people asked for other ways to get ascended items besides fractals and that’s being worked on. A new PvP map was introduced, so they’re adding variety there. They’re adding the ability to preview items from the trading post in the next patch and that’s a big one.

I think what someone else said is true. They’re listening, but they can’t implement faster than they can listen. Things are changing all the time, but all of this stuff takes time. And you know, if there’s a bug in it, everyone will be screaming, so it has to be tested anyway. And there are still bugs and people still scream.

Put yourself in the developers place. Everyone wants everything yesterday but no one wants bugs. If they announce anything and use the wrong words, they get jumped on. And half the stuff people ask for, other people are against. It’s just not that easy.

I know they’re listening because they added stuff to the game people asked for. 90% of the bugs I’ve reported have been fixed, often without mention in the patch notes. They’re listening.

But they’re human and they have a schedule and they have an order of priority. Just like every other game developer.