Guild Wars 2

1. Challenge: Once this weekend event is over, Give the community a report on how many players across all servers participated. I would like peak number of concurrent paid accounts. Total number of paid accounts playing this weekend and total number of trial accounts playing this weekend. No doubt this data is something you will have and be using internally to make some decisions. If these numbers are strong why wouldn’t you report this?. The only reason to not meet this challenge is if the numbers are as bad as we suspect they are. Show some integrity and be transparent with your community.

2. Question: I think we deserve a more detailed explanation of why you’ve chosen to go against your own stated philosophy on end-game. Many of us consider the end-game discussion (video is available) prior to launch being an amendment to the manifesto. We feel like you have gone against the manifesto in order to “fix” a fundamental flaw in your design. many of us feel there would have been a much better way to fix it, but we aren’t the designers… We do however feel we deserve a more detailed explanation on why? Are the numbers really that bad? Are you down what 50, 60, 70% load capacity since launch? Your integrity is being challenged.

3. Question: Where is Eric Flannum and Ree Soesbee? These two ANet employees were very visible prior to launch. For better or worse, they became part of the collective face of ArenaNet. It seems all other employees who played a roll in promoting the game have shown up from time to time in videos, post-release interviews or in the occasional forum posting. Not these two. Also AreanNet posted a want ad for a Game Architect and Lead Developer for GW2 in early October. The description seemed to match the duties Flannum was in charge of. Considering Flannum leaving ANet would be similar to Jobs leaving Apple I think this is worth some sort of response. Can you confirm that both of these employees are still with ArenaNet filling the same positions they were previously?

These three items are a call for transparency. They are reasonable request. If you infract and delete this post it will appear other places on the web with a note regarding your action to avoid transparency. I’m not asking for much. We continue to play your game and spend in the gem store.

You can check the logs on my account at my number of hours and USD spent on gems. I’ve supported your game as many have please show us the respect of being transparent and honest.

I also want to know where Eric Flannum has gone. I think Ree might be taking some personal time, but where is Eric? I trust Eric Flannum and would like to hear him discuss the various challenges the game is facing the game and have him address community concerns over what seem to be some pretty serious design reversals going to the core of the game’s design philosophy.

I’d also like to hear more from Mike O’brien.