Guild Wars 2

Hello GW2 Team,

I think you are not doing well with the expansion, It was very impressive as you talked about it some months ago, most of the people were hyped for it.

But with your current politic; (Showing a bit, a bit, and a bit); you are destroying the “we are amazed” effect.
The day you will release it, it will just be an add on nothing more. People won’t hang on it.

People are getting bored, it is not entertaining anymore what you are doing.
If you want to amaze customers, you give them a beautiful flash.

I mean if you want somebody to eat your dish with love. As you are cooking it; you don’t give him some meat, some vegetables, some beans from the dish. Because the time you finished it, he already ate and is not hungry anymore.

You slap on people’s hand and say wait until it is finished.

It is hard, but it may be the good way.

I don’t know if you can understand what I mean.

But I tried to give you my opinion.

Anet isn’t providing information the way it is for us. Most of us are going to buy the expansion, even those that say they aren’t.

Anet is doing what it does to get exposure out to people not already playing the game…and it’s working. Every time they go to a new convention and announce something completely new, all the MMO sites and some gaming sites cover it, and more sales are made.

Anet doesn’t have to try to sell the game to us. They have to try to sell the game to people who haven’t already bought into Guild Wars.

And in case you’ve missed it there have been a lot of new players around, so I guess it must be working.

Seyiwaji.4082:

I mean if you want somebody to eat your dish with love. As you are cooking it; you don’t give him some meat, some vegetables, some beans from the dish. Because the time you finished it, he already ate and is not hungry anymore.

You slap on people’s hand and say wait until it is finished.

But I tried to give you my opinion.

So you believe if they continue to release little bits of information, that come the time the expansion releases, that no one would want to play it because we would all be “full” from all of the partial info releases?

I understand your analogy, but it is a poor comparison. A somewhat better comparison would be them giving you bits of food until you aren’t hungry, but then still not giving you the meal for another day, until you are hungry again, and now you are extra hungry because you’ve already tasted how delicious the samples were before and so you are so excited to eat it.

Vayne.8563:

Anet is doing what it does to get exposure out to people not already playing the game…and it’s working. Every time they go to a new convention and announce something completely new, all the MMO sites and some gaming sites cover it, and more sales are made.

Anet doesn’t have to try to sell the game to us. They have to try to sell the game to people who haven’t already bought into Guild Wars.

I do think you’re right about that, but it’s really backwards from what they should be doing. It’s easier to keep an existing customer than to get a new one. Sure, they’re getting new customers with hype but that will run dry sooner rather than later. Keeping your existing customers happy insures stability and continued revenue.

Their entire marketing scheme for HoT just gives me the impression of a quick cashout, rather than a product they’re investing in for the long haul.

I want to want it. I want to be excited about it. But they just aren’t giving me the impression that it’s worth it in the long run.

Exactly what Vayne said. I guess it’s a little disappointing for us, but at the same time. Do you want Anet to recomfort you or bring more new players that will keep the game alive for years to come. I mean, most of us are kind of free buyer. Very very few of people that play gw2 and stick to the forum won’t be buying it. Of all my friend only one don’t think of buying the expansion and seriously, unless it’s really really bad, we gonna pressure him into buying it

mrstealth.6701:

Vayne.8563:

Anet is doing what it does to get exposure out to people not already playing the game…and it’s working. Every time they go to a new convention and announce something completely new, all the MMO sites and some gaming sites cover it, and more sales are made.

Anet doesn’t have to try to sell the game to us. They have to try to sell the game to people who haven’t already bought into Guild Wars.

I do think you’re right about that, but it’s really backwards from what they should be doing. It’s easier to keep an existing customer than to get a new one. Sure, they’re getting new customers with hype but that will run dry sooner rather than later. Keeping your existing customers happy insures stability and continued revenue.

Their entire marketing scheme for HoT just gives me the impression of a quick cashout, rather than a product they’re investing in for the long haul.

I want to want it. I want to be excited about it. But they just aren’t giving me the impression that it’s worth it in the long run.

It’s easier to keep part of the existing client base but there is always, and I do mean always, natural attrition. You can’t keep an MMO going just on the existing player base. You keep the existing players you can, and you try to get new ones to replace the ones who leave. WoW has been doing it for years.