Guild Wars 2

So here is my question to Anet really. Why do stealth nerfs? Why can’t you be more upfront with certain changes you do to the game. Sure, some people may not enjoy certain elements being nerfed but isn’t it a lot better to be upfront about it. I surely would be able to accept most changes you have decided if it was written in the latest update log. What we hate is when we have to find out by ourselves later on that a chest only appears once a day now because of a recent small patch which was told to just be routine maintenance.

The other problem is, why the lack of detail in the update logs? For example, the last routine maintenance just said, no content changes were made but you obviously fixed some bugs in that patch, why not list them out to players what bugs were fixed? Like I notice the achievements were now fixed in the last patch but it would have been nice to have known this just by reading the update logs instead of having to find out ourselves. I’m also waiting very patiently (and forcefully) that the dragon chest not spawning bug to be fixed (it’s been 3 weeks and counting now, no acknowledgement of news about it since then even though this is a game breaking issue for many many many players) and every update i’m praying for that bug to be fixed and since there is no detail in the update logs as well, I have to test it out by killing a few dragons and wa la! bug still exist, chest doesn’t appear and my event participation has some extremely low exp number like 700 exp 15 karma. (obvious some DR bug the game is persisting with, really begs the question maybe we’re all permanently in DR thanks to this bug and we don’t even know it because anet doesn’t know it or is being extremely slow to fix it).

There is no consistency when it comes to the update logs, sometimes they tell us this this and that has been fixed while others they either throw in a bunch of stealth fixes or nerfs. It is for this reason why there are so many conspiracies around, because Anet seems to be so secretive with everything they do, regardless if it was a nerf or fix?

Ultimately, I just wish they would post some clear and detailed update logs (I don’t mind if they take longer to be posted up, but at least I know what is working properly and what isn’t so I can resume playing that aspect of the game. (i.e kill dragons for their bad loot again).

I agree. The patch notes are really slim and every patch I come across fixes/changes that I did not read in the patch notes.