This will be a story of historical suceess in entertainment and a guideline for GW2 dev team from 31 year old guy, who’s knows greatness when he sees one.
Some of us (and i reckon gw2 dev team for sure, given so many references in game) know one of the finest comedy pearls to ever released was the infamous “blazing saddles” by Mel Brooks. A comedy as politically correct as walking buttnaked infront of vatican cathedral of St.Peter, yet so hilarious and spot on it made history.
So what’s the story here? Well story is..that thing is about 40 years old. Those were times when saying certain words was as badly censored as this here forum. Only it wasn’t forum, only real life that upheld such standards. And good old Mel Brooks was worried about that too. Then one glorious day a friend said to him:
“Mel, you went up that tower, so don’t you pull back halfway, you go all the way there and ring that bell!”. And so history was made with infamous yet genius scenes like the campfire farting scene, horse getting punched, town full of white racist singing song about their misery in church not sparing on profanities while at it, indian attack on caravan and so on and on. It became a block buster and made history, against it’s times and this politically correct (cool word here that good old Mel would not censor unlike this forum).
And what about “Married with Children”? Best comedy series ever that just puts anything before and after to shame. Why? Because it didn’t hold back in slightest in it’s merciless crusade vs all pathologies, lies and depravations of modern america. Everything was over the top but it cause ppl to drop to floor and spasm in fits of uncontrolled laughter because it hit it’s marks spot on, no mercy whatsoever for subjects touched!
Both of those became history as many others did for one simple reason:
They had the “Orbs” to go where no show had dared to go before regardless of fear that they may fail cause of that. They didn’t. They made history.
And so to GW2 team – i love your game to bits. I see the huge effort put into it. I see the love when i see birds flying over Rata Sum, or hundreds of meters of it’s inner and outside walls when i fall down rather then lazy invisible floor 30 meters below. The small golem running around first stage in metrica province delivering all the witty and snarly messages between asuras. Or those birds sitting on rock when in top of morgan’s spiral jq. Or Orr itself (straights of devastation) with all the orrian architecture and cool world events. Or tons of fun references hidden ingame (ill tempered barracudas ftw;).
So i’m gonna say what you all figured by now. You go up that tower and ring that bell!
Player input is fine, but don’t try to make a burrito outta hamburger of vice-versa. You know what you wanna do with GW2, what kinda game you wanna make it. Don’t hold back and do it. Someone will always be happy and someone will always rage, no matter what you do. But those that try to be in between may make evening’s entertainment for a while. Those that stay true to their goal when others don’t dare to, make history:)