Guild Wars 2

Should they hold off on releasing new content until they get all the massive bugs currently plaguing this game taken care of?

I love the game, but patch after patch it seems like some pretty serious bugs get introduced with some pretty minimal fixes when, with proper testing, it should be the other way around.

Anyone else feel this way?

Nope.

I love the monthly content patches. No more bugs than any other MMO that I’ve seen and I’m very happy with their rate of fixes.

I’m torn. I want to say no, but I don’t want to come off that I don’t care about the bugs.

I want to say yes, but I’m afraid then it will come off as though I don’t want new content ever.

So I want to say no, but then it might make people upset that I play a ranger.

I should say yes, but then we might wind up getting caught in a classic cycle of fixing bugs and polishing what’s there and nothing else.

. . . decisions . . .

Why can’t we have both?

Why not have both?

I believe they have teams working on different stuff. So one team working on bug fixes and another working on new content and so on.

There are no “massive” bugs plaguing the game. Just the usual MMO ones and they sure don’t wreck anything, you can enjoy the game as normal. Stop with the drama already.

Gaudrath.6725:

There are no “massive” bugs plaguing the game. Just the usual MMO ones and they sure don’t wreck anything, you can enjoy the game as normal. Stop with the drama already.

People being ported into WvW battlegrounds where they aren’t even in the same tier, Mesmer’s core functionality doesn’t work properly all of a sudden, people getting rooted in place after using certain skill combinations, Ranger pets following people over entire maps without the owner anywhere near by…list just goes on man. It’s fine if you don’t care about these bugs but to a lot of people they are ruining the play experience.

So, if these bugs are so beneath your threshold for caring would you kindly keep from trivializing them? That would be awesome, thanks.

I would love it if we could have both, but just from a historical standpoint that doesn’t seem to be happening. Mad props to ANET if this suddenly became a reality though.

They can’t win either way. If they stop releasing new content to prioritize fixing the bugs, people will complain (more) that there’s nothing to do in the game. If they continue releasing new content, people will complain about old bugs that haven’t been fixed yet.

Business wise, it doesn’t make any sense to stop releasing new content. It’s shiny and exciting, it brings the money in. I know people feel that bugs aren’t being addressed, but without new content, ANet may not have the resources to devote an entire team to bug fixing, and so the situation would be worse. Personally, the only bug that’s ever hit me (the Sylvari glow bug w the makeover kit) was fixed within a couple weeks from when I was affected, so in my experience bugs do get fixed.

Like someone said, there are most likely different teams working on different things. And possibly, a few people who are only qualified to work on content. Since they may not be able to fix bugs, saying that they should stop working on content and only focus on bugs might be saying that those people would be temporarily out of a job, depending on their skillset.

So I’m all for having both. I don’t think it’s that they’re not working on the bugs, but that some of them are a bit harder to tackle. It could also be a management problem. Honestly, I have been questioning their testing system and how they go about testing patches before they’re released.

Kono.5947:

Honestly, I have been questioning their testing system and how they go about testing patches before they’re released.

I have been wondering this myself. Seems like the patches should be on a test server and given some thorough play time before they even think of updating the live servers.

I totally see where you guys are coming from. It’s very true that if they release less content people will get bored…by the same token if they keep releasing new content that is bugged then who will want to keep playing something that doesn’t really work. Double edged sword to be sure.

Maybe they should hire more people to deal with the bugs then since new content seems to be added pretty regularly but some bugs people have been having (presumably the tougher ones) have been around for several months now and a lot of current players are kind of getting tired of waiting for them. Glaring bugs will definitely sour a user base over time and that means people telling prospective players to avoid the game (whether the reason is justified or not). I guess only time will tell…

Harbinger.9645:

Gaudrath.6725:

There are no “massive” bugs plaguing the game. Just the usual MMO ones and they sure don’t wreck anything, you can enjoy the game as normal. Stop with the drama already.

People being ported into WvW battlegrounds where they aren’t even in the same tier, Mesmer’s core functionality doesn’t work properly all of a sudden, people getting rooted in place after using certain skill combinations, Ranger pets following people over entire maps without the owner anywhere near by…list just goes on man. It’s fine if you don’t care about these bugs but to a lot of people they are ruining the play experience.

So, if these bugs are so beneath your threshold for caring would you kindly keep from trivializing them? That would be awesome, thanks.

So you are saying everyone gets ported to a wrong tier all the time? Or one in a thousand players that port to WvW? Pets always follow across maps? Or just on a rare occasion? Bugs? Yes. Gamebreaking? No.

I got stuck in geometry twice the other day during a dungeon run because my teleports landed me inside the ground and a statue. Do you see me complaining immediately about it on the forums? That’s what some people do, and it is getting annoying. You’d think the game is a complete disaster, when it’s anything but.

Gaudrath.6725:

I got stuck in geometry twice the other day during a dungeon run because my teleports landed me inside the ground and a statue. Do you see me complaining immediately about it on the forums? That’s what some people do, and it is getting annoying. You’d think the game is a complete disaster, when it’s anything but.

Woah there chief do not presume that you are ever allowed to put words in my mouth. Never did I say this game was a complete disaster, but these are pretty gamebreaking bugs when they do happen. Let’s review the definition of gamebreaking…making the game unplayable. When you were stuck in those walls I’m pretty sure the game was unplayable for the duration. When someone gets loaded into a non appropriate tier server it not only breaks the game for them as WvW is non functional (and yes, it is because they aren’t able to contribute to the game as they should) but it breaks if for the other people on the tier because now they have people running around their borderlands that are flagged as friendly to all servers and they can rez people and buff everyone.

I’m sorry that you’re annoyed that people have complaints about the broken mechanics in a game but perhaps people are complaining in the hopes that things get fixed. Since you seem to be so frustrated by posts on a website maybe you should no longer frequent this place. The complaints aren’t going to go away until the bugs do and new bugs are happening everyday. So you’ll probably be happier if you stop reading all these posts then yea? Either way it seems you’re totally fine with ignoring problems, and that’s totally cool, but I’m not and if you can’t accept that then please stop responding in this thread and go bother someone else.

TL;DR: Just because something isn’t game breaking to you doesn’t mean it isn’t to someone else. So while I respect your opinion I do not respect you blatant hostility to people that are trying to help in their own way.