Guild Wars 2

This site is pretty old / not updated (just check professions and you see) / bugs / no 1 theme

-The pulldown ‘Community’ is empty on most pages (see the pulldown when your on guildwars2.com/en/ and now check it again from forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum)
-‘Support’ in the top head and ‘support’ from the pulldown ‘Services’
-Maby remove support in the top head and also the rest of those links, “wiki” could be below ‘community’ just like ‘forum’ should be below ‘community’
-‘online manual’ should be below ‘game’
-Allot of the HOT stuff should be visual from the normal page also, like revenant missing in the ‘professions’
-Why is ‘HOT’ not a link below ‘releases’ ??? i cant find any decent link to the HOT page
-‘News’ page should have the same look as the news on the main page, main page is much better

no 1 theme:
When you view the main page and then swap to lets say Pro League / Partner program / support, they all have a different look.

Forum:
-make it more like reddit so you could use the gw2 forum instead of using reddit?
-fix the search option
-something that bugs me.. we have the news on the main page, and also news in forum (in forum is pretty old stuff or almost never used..)

The forum cannot be fixed since they do not have a relationship with the contractor anymore and no devs free to make a new one.

Im sure we would all welcome an improved forum experience

Cant comment and n whether this affects the main site though in the same way

Getting an update to this forum is not a priority for them and they’ve already said they’re not going to spend the money on it anytime soon.

Answering a question on about updating the forum to be capable of hosting an AMA..

Gaile Gray.6029:

(Snip)
To answer the question of whether we’ll someday have software to host something like an AMA, let’s just say I very much hope and believe so but like SAB, that’s “someday” not not “[this day].”

Look at the war forums, the last time a dev reacted there was 7 months ago before HoT lol! This game is dying!

Since the Dev’s can’t be bothered with it they really need to just move the whole ball of wax over to Reddit where they actually post and keep up with the threads.

BuWahaha – Much like the game, Anet has no idea how to fix the forums. They do know how to delete forums within the structure (Black Lions Trading Post) and to combine threads so that communication becomes ignorable or unseen.

Guild Wars 1 didn’t have an official forum and several cropped up. They were informative and at time a bit of a zoo. But they also had sales forums (ingame currency) and that would be problematic in our Gem-centric game.

Fixes? Not until you hear cheers of profitable quarters and rightly so. Make a game that ppl want to play and are happy to spend dollars first.

This subject is something lots of folks have suggested in numerous threads.

1. This thread

2. This thread

3. This thread

This place is more for sales polling than anything else unfortunately.

Regarding the forums, it’s interesting to note that they’re actually running on Ruby on Rails, which is interesting since ArenaNet are primarily a Windows-oriented development team (i.e. the main site if memory serves runs off ASP.net).

Basically the forums were written by an outside developer, and in the nicest way possible (really, I mean it) they probably don’t have many developers on staff with experience working with Ruby on Rails, and probably aren’t interested in investing in people who do since it’s not a priority for them.