Guild Wars 2

I play a lot of games, and a good bit of them are more indy/free etc.
I was reading thru the patch notes of one of the more recent updates on a game called ToME

http://te4.org/blogs/darkgod/2012/11/news/tales-majeyal-beta43-aka-coming-shadows

Look at these notes, then look back at our GW2 notes, why can’t we have a level of detail like this? This is 1 person working on this as well, GW2 has many many people.
Is it too much work to make a proper paper trail for every fix that has been made? I’m citing that because our notes aren’t detailed enough, things like a Jumping mechanic change, and rangers suddenly having their marksman vulnerability proc work correctly are not in the patch notes anywhere. (both unlisted but in the Dec 3 updated)
(I’m not sure if this is the correct sub-form, forgive me.)
I am sure plenty of other people feel that our notes are rather lacking.
What do you think?

I agree to an extent. In the DE threads they mention that most of the bugs in the strait that prevent progress to the temple had been fixed (which is true) but this information nor specifically what bugs they were talking about were described in the Dec 3 patch notes. (Unless theres been an update since then that lists them but still).

Yeah, companies that know that they have messt up and wont admit that they still havent fixt the bugs, tend to limit the patch notes as much as possible, and also sneak in a few nerfs here and there.
Valve doesn’t do it, Blizzard sometimes do. But Anet-eh you know.

I really would love a reply for a Dev as to why they don’t do this, even “we can’t tell you” would be nice.

McLeige.7625:

I really would love a reply for a Dev as to why they don’t do this, even “we can’t tell you” would be nice.

Because it would require more effort on the part of the dev.

McLeige.7625:

I really would love a reply for a Dev as to why they don’t do this, even “we can’t tell you” would be nice.

The devs used to do this in LOTRO, at least on major class updates (no idea if they still do), they called them “dev diaries” and went through the reasoning for the changes, why they didn’t change other stuff, what they plan for the future, etc.

Like this:
http://www.lotro.com/gameinfo/devdiaries/1015-update-2-minstrel-developer-diary

Coincidentally they also had the best, most polite community in any MMORPG I’ve ever played, perhaps there is a connection between being kept informed / good communication and a better community…

Noobkaka.5067:

Yeah, companies that know that they have messt up and wont admit that they still havent fixt the bugs, tend to limit the patch notes as much as possible, and also sneak in a few nerfs here and there.
Valve doesn’t do it, Blizzard sometimes do. But Anet-eh you know.

This.

At the blizzard example. Look at any of their successful games patch notes, ie WoW, SC2.

Then look at how much stuff gets thrown into D3 patches without any indication of what happened.

Companies don’t do it because they are lazy, they do it because they are incompetent and have something to hide.