Sprawl – Necro – Eredon Terrace
Why so much less interaction from ANet on forums compared to beta?
Workload and priorities.
Well, Gaile and Regina seem to be pretty active here. But yes, would be nice to hear of their plans. If we are allowed to hear, that is.
Some forums don’t have a stick up… are better than the official ones. Happens a lot.
Probably because they are working on the game, while the betas used to be at weekends. Let’s wait a few days.
The working on the game reasoning might work if ArenaNet hadn’t advertised that they have a “community team” that doesn’t work on the game or even handle customer support tickets, instead only focuses on the game community. One of their responsibilities is twitter and facebook communications, and they handled booths at gameshows too. Other then that, I don’t know what they do. There are videos from shows like E3 and PAX where the team shows off the game and mentions how they are better then other game developers because their community team exists. They even specifically mention their frequent player communication on the game forums (during the beta testing). I sure wish that persisted today. During beta I actually played with arenanet staff and my input was acknowledged.
Now that I have a complaint list a mile long…
Maybe they are just hiding.
Developers work constantly. The community reps will sum up everything we’re saying and pass it on. Once in awhile we’ll get a state of the patch or the game or something.
Developers work constantly. The community reps will sum up everything we’re saying and pass it on. Once in awhile we’ll get a state of the patch or the game or something.
Were you around for bwe? They were constantly posting in hot topic threads putting peoples concerns at ease or discussing future plans.
Sprawl – Necro – Eredon Terrace
They’re focusing on account and security issues right now.
The working on the game reasoning might work if ArenaNet hadn’t advertised that they have a “community team” that doesn’t work on the game or even handle customer support tickets, instead only focuses on the game community. One of their responsibilities is twitter and facebook communications, and they handled booths at gameshows too. Other then that, I don’t know what they do. There are videos from shows like E3 and PAX where the team shows off the game and mentions how they are better then other game developers because their community team exists. They even specifically mention their frequent player communication on the game forums (during the beta testing). I sure wish that persisted today. During beta I actually played with arenanet staff and my input was acknowledged.
Now that I have a complaint list a mile long…
Maybe they are just hiding.
Indeed, I share your thoughts. I wish they were more clear on what they intend to do next with this game, and what issues people are having with GW2 they actually recognize as problems they plan to iron out.
GW2 can use a hell of a lot of work still. It has potential, but so far it hasn’t been realized fully.
From what I’ve seen on other game forums is that when devs post something, usually threads derail or the devs get misinterpreted. Just because we don’t see it doesn’t mean they aren’t looking at it.