Guild Wars 2

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/march-2013/

We’re just over a week from the patch, and we still don’t have much info being released on the patch page itself, why is this?

I get there’s various sources, but previous pages ( https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/february-2013/ for example ) have listed the majority of the major updates we’d see for the patch, here we really don’t have that… why?

I figured it would be added over time or something, but even now that we have more info (Which isn’t much to be honest), we haven’t seen any change to the page..

There have been a few threads about this already (in this forum and WvW).

The prevailing fear is that anet are behind schedule on their update or having trouble fixing aspects of it.

Since March had been named (replacing February) as a huge update for WvW, including ranking, special new skills, etc., the silence at this stage and lack of confirmed functionality is, well, deafening.

If you’re going to deliver bad news, leaving it until the last minute will avoid a lot of howling on the forums in the short-term, but it is not exactly a sound PR strategy (look at Maxis and SimCity atm).

kiwiburner.2186:

There have been a few threads about this already (in this forum and WvW).

The prevailing fear is that anet are behind schedule on their update or having trouble fixing aspects of it.

Since March had been named (replacing February) as a huge update for WvW, including ranking, special new skills, etc., the silence at this stage and lack of confirmed functionality is, well, deafening.

If you’re going to deliver bad news, leaving it until the last minute will avoid a lot of howling on the forums in the short-term, but it is not exactly a sound PR strategy (look at Maxis and SimCity atm).

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, a teaser page does nothing more than teasing and you just proved it works very well.

We know for sure that WvW updates are part of the patch. These can’t be delayed any longer. Furthermore something will be done with the living story.
Any extras in the patch will be pure awesomeness in awesomesauce. As far as PR goes, I would say it’s brilliant. By not setting expectations, everyone will be blown away.