Has there ever been a statement from ANet about why they won’t communicate to us their plans? Not specific ones, but just vague directions?
When I look at Blizzard, or Riot, there’s a ton of communication about why they make the changes they do, and what changes they plan to make. Not necessarily about specific things, but they talk direction a lot. I feel that is very lacking here. All the real “discussions” about overall game direction are in the form of Reds either asking us questions and saying “neat” to one or two replies, or just saying “here is where you will discuss the thing. Now discuss, but be nice.”
These forums have grown incredibly uninteresting, because every thread is just the same discussion about problems that have been around since the start of the game that have never actually been talked about by any devs. Even the CDI’s don’t feel worthwhile anymore, since the only official responses in the threads are “that’s a cool idea” and “stop being rude”. There’s no “we plan on implementing something like that” or “we tried that internally and it didn’t work.”
Is the official policy just to not say anything ever? And if so, why choose that, over the very effective and functional policy other companies have?
