Guild Wars 2

So I’m sure many have noticed the various changes to the website, from the new log in and account interface to the quaggerific 404 page, but is there more to come?

I strongly hope Anet will use this opportunity to give the forums the overhaul they have needed since forever.

What overhaul does it need? Everything is organized and neat.

My guess is the new tighter integration to the Arena Net portal…… which is usually how most game specific sites get screwed up.

Warcry.1596:

What overhaul does it need? Everything is organized and neat.

Search function doesn’t work, lacks basic features found in even freely hosted boards like avatars, user groups and so on, the forum exposes your account name rather than lets you utilise a forum pseudonym, no easy way to read the first ANet post in a thread without going via the dev tracker, poor attachment implementation. I could go on and on.

About the only good thing about the current forum is the design looks pretty sleek, but the actual functionality is abysmal when you take in to account the fact that free hosted forums have many times more features and functions than a professional B2P game forum that requires game purchase to even participate in.I mean heck, GW2Guru has an infinitely better forum in terms of ease of use and functionality and it’s a fansite.

I just wish that it didn’t require me to log in (almost every time) just to view the forums.

Of your list, the only thing I would like is the search.

A better search function on the forums would be great!

As for the current changes… I’m not a big fan of the log in thing, every time I try it asks for my authenticator… I enter it and get “invalid entry” then just close the auth window and TA DA: It worked :/

rapthorne.7345:

So I’m sure many have noticed the various changes to the website, from the new log in and account interface to the quaggerific 404 page, but is there more to come?

I expect much more “quaggerific” 404 pages

We need a suggestions thread not just a bug report thread.

rapthorne.7345:

Warcry.1596:

What overhaul does it need? Everything is organized and neat.

Search function doesn’t work, lacks basic features found in even freely hosted boards like avatars, user groups and so on, the forum exposes your account name rather than lets you utilise a forum pseudonym, no easy way to read the first ANet post in a thread without going via the dev tracker, poor attachment implementation. I could go on and on.

About the only good thing about the current forum is the design looks pretty sleek, but the actual functionality is abysmal when you take in to account the fact that free hosted forums have many times more features and functions than a professional B2P game forum that requires game purchase to even participate in.I mean heck, GW2Guru has an infinitely better forum in terms of ease of use and functionality and it’s a fansite.

If they ever do avatars, it would be neat if they could API our characters in.