Guild Wars 2

Dear developpers,
I know you already cashed our money, that you alreadu sold what you wanted us to buy. But could you at least acknoledge us? I mean the community is complaining a lot on the forums.
Is there a chance that you make a post telling us what the hell are you doing: concerning our complaints, the econoy, the DS crashes?

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

Thought you quit.

You are not the community. You do not speak for it. Speak for yourself and understand that the segment of the community that is most unhappy at any given point is naturally the loudest.

I do agree that more communication would be welcomed.

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

The irony is that Arenanet self created that environment with their refusal to communication. And it seems that they understood that they can´t fool the people here any longer.

warbignime.4610:

Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

Kind of strange that the Devs should be more active on an outside site then on Arena net’s official site for the game.
but we know from GW1 that the devs don’t give a crap about what we think.
You have to belong to the small faction that play PvP with the dev team to make your voice heard.

I think they just tried to get GW2 to fail at the same time they launched Blade and Soul to try to get better sales.

draugris.9872:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

The irony is that Arenanet self created that environment with their refusal to communication. And it seems that they understood that they can´t fool the people here any longer.

Point proven, people here are just so much more toxic and complain about every little thing in GW2 since day 1 of launch. I mean if some new player just read forum and don’t play the game they would think GW2 is one of the worst game ever made.

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client.

Sadly the 64 bit client doesn’t help everyone as people are still reporting crashes when they use it. It’s a memory usage problem, all the 64 bit client does is delay crashing by giving the game access to more memory to flounder in, so it’s more a band-aid than an actual solution.

Misguided.5139:

You are not the community. You do not speak for it. Speak for yourself and understand that the segment of the community that is most unhappy at any given point is naturally the loudest.

I do agree that more communication would be welcomed.

I am by definition part of the community. And i have the right to express what i feel about the game, my anger, and frankly what i have been reading a lot these past few weeks.

YaYa.5879:

Misguided.5139:

You are not the community. You do not speak for it. Speak for yourself and understand that the segment of the community that is most unhappy at any given point is naturally the loudest.

I do agree that more communication would be welcomed.

I am by definition part of the community. And i have the right to express what i feel about the game, my anger, and frankly what i have been reading a lot these past few weeks.

Correct, you are PART of the community, but you do not represent all of it or even a majority of it. Read what I said again. You do not speak for “us” or the community any more than I do.

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

Are you saying that Reddit has zero negativity? GW2 Reddit posters never express concerns? Is that it?

And if Reddit is a naturally superior venue for comments and communication, why don’t they simply close down these forums, save the money it costs to moderate it, and use that exclusively?

YaYa.5879:

I am by definition part of the community. And i have the right to express what i feel about the game, my anger, and frankly what i have been reading a lot these past few weeks.

Perhaps his point was in reference to your use of the plural. If you are speaking for yourself you would, ideally, be using, “me,” or, “I,” rather than, “us,” or, “we.”

Claiming to speak for others invites this sort of criticism.

Pandaman.4758:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client.

Sadly the 64 bit client doesn’t help everyone as people are still reporting crashes when they use it. It’s a memory usage problem, all the 64 bit client does is delay crashing by giving the game access to more memory to flounder in, so it’s more a band-aid than an actual solution.

It’s a solution if you don’t crash. I haven’t had a crash since using the 64 bit client. Not one.

OP, they aren’t silent, they gave us a 64 bit client beta, which shows us they’re working on the crashing problem.

Re the economy, they told us before HoT launched that the economy would be unstable for a period of time and then settle down. So the two things you’ve comment on, they’ve acted/commented on.

Price of T6 mats, for example is down almost across the board. People see what they want to see.

Ashen.2907:

YaYa.5879:

I am by definition part of the community. And i have the right to express what i feel about the game, my anger, and frankly what i have been reading a lot these past few weeks.

Perhaps his point was in reference to your use of the plural. If you are speaking for yourself you would, ideally, be using, “me,” or, “I,” rather than, “us,” or, “we.”

Claiming to speak for others invites this sort of criticism.

Precisely, thank you. I think it is important for people to express their concerns, but also to realize that not everyone feels the same way they do.

Celtic Lady.3729:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

Are you saying that Reddit has zero negativity? GW2 Reddit posters never express concerns? Is that it?

And if Reddit is a naturally superior venue for comments and communication, why don’t they simply close down these forums, save the money it costs to moderate it, and use that exclusively?

Reddit does have negativity of course, but there are also positivity. Player help each other, guide, news, shout out, fan art. This place is pages of complaining after complaining, nothing good ever comes out of here.

Where are ppl getting these stats that the population is plummeting? There was one post, of which I have no idea how factful it is, that showed the game had risen from 1.5m active players to 3m active players. If that is true, where are ppl pulling their figures to show it is decreasing?

warbignime.4610:

Player help each other, guide, news, shout out, fan art.

Hundreds, or thousands, of pages of this on the official forums.

warbignime.4610:

This place is pages of complaining after complaining, nothing good ever comes out of here.

Sounds like the real negativity is on your part if you can only see the negative.

Randulf.7614:

Where are ppl getting these stats that the population is plummeting? There was one post, of which I have no idea how factful it is, that showed the game had risen from 1.5m active players to 3m active players. If that is true, where are ppl pulling their figures to show it is decreasing?

Out of their kitten?

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warbignime.4610:

Celtic Lady.3729:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

Are you saying that Reddit has zero negativity? GW2 Reddit posters never express concerns? Is that it?

And if Reddit is a naturally superior venue for comments and communication, why don’t they simply close down these forums, save the money it costs to moderate it, and use that exclusively?

Reddit does have negativity of course, but there are also positivity. Player help each other, guide, news, shout out, fan art. This place is pages of complaining after complaining, nothing good ever comes out of here.

BUT IT IS A-NET’S OFFICIAL FORUM for GW2, if they are going to ignore their own forum what does that say about their opinion of their customers?

What i am complaining about is a lack of them speaking to us. Informing us.
Giving us milk and telling us it’s going to be ok while singing to us a lulabby.
I am on mac, there is no 64 bit for us, and yet i paid for the game (so are the people crashing on 64). The crashes have lowered down a lot. But not in ds which is frustrating as hell after taxiing people for 15 min, and playing for 45 min, just to have your game crash and not being able to come back to your server who is now ful

Eldbrand Charging.8902:

warbignime.4610:

Celtic Lady.3729:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

Are you saying that Reddit has zero negativity? GW2 Reddit posters never express concerns? Is that it?

And if Reddit is a naturally superior venue for comments and communication, why don’t they simply close down these forums, save the money it costs to moderate it, and use that exclusively?

Reddit does have negativity of course, but there are also positivity. Player help each other, guide, news, shout out, fan art. This place is pages of complaining after complaining, nothing good ever comes out of here.

BUT IT IS A-NET’S OFFICIAL FORUM for GW2, if they are going to ignore their own forum what does that say about their opinion of their customers?

This ^. To (mis)quote Jack Black from the Tribute music video: “It’s the official forum. Says so on the door.”

YaYa.5879:

What i am complaining about is a lack of them speaking to us. Informing us.
Giving us milk and telling us it’s going to be ok while singing to us a lulabby.
I am on mac, there is no 64 bit for us, and yet i paid for the game (so are the people crashing on 64). The crashes have lowered down a lot. But not in ds which is frustrating as hell after taxiing people for 15 min, and playing for 45 min, just to have your game crash and not being able to come back to your server who is now ful

Oh you’re on a mac, that explains everything.

Anet is talking to us, they’re just not talking to you specifically.

Did Anet address the complaints about elites specialization points needed? Yes.
DId Anet address the complaints about hero point difficult? Yes, they made changes.
Did Anet address the complaint about the poison gating in the HoT story? Yes.
Did they address the complaints about Fractal rewards? Yes.
Did they tell the WvW they’re still working on a solution but it’s coming? Yes.
Did they tell us more balance patches are coming and gave us a road map for the rest of the year? Yes.
Did they give us a 64 bit client for window’s users? Yes.

In fact, they’ve been communicating with us all along. They didn’t answer your particularly concern. Well you know, there are thousands of people with concerns. You’re just one of them. Anet answered a huge amount of stuff.

They’re not ignoring anyone.

Vayne.8563:

They’re not ignoring anyone.

cough visual nerfs [merged] cough

Vayne.8563:

Pandaman.4758:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client.

Sadly the 64 bit client doesn’t help everyone as people are still reporting crashes when they use it. It’s a memory usage problem, all the 64 bit client does is delay crashing by giving the game access to more memory to flounder in, so it’s more a band-aid than an actual solution.

It’s a solution if you don’t crash. I haven’t had a crash since using the 64 bit client. Not one.

Sorry, I don’t want to argue semantics, but any fix that doesn’t address the cause of the problem ultimately isn’t a solution.

I’m not denying that it might help, but nobody should be under the impression that “just” by using the 64 bit client is guaranteed to solve the crashing problems – which is the attitude I see too frequently when people dismiss crash complaints.

warbignime.4610:

Celtic Lady.3729:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

Are you saying that Reddit has zero negativity? GW2 Reddit posters never express concerns? Is that it?

And if Reddit is a naturally superior venue for comments and communication, why don’t they simply close down these forums, save the money it costs to moderate it, and use that exclusively?

Reddit does have negativity of course, but there are also positivity. Player help each other, guide, news, shout out, fan art. This place is pages of complaining after complaining, nothing good ever comes out of here.

Oh, come on. There are always threads from people thanking Anet and expressing their pleasure with the game. Plus, players do answer each other’s questions here and help one another. The only thing you mentioned that I don’t see a lot of on here is the fan art.

warbignime.4610:

Reddit does have negativity of course, but there are also positivity. Player help each other, guide, news, shout out, fan art.

And official forums don’t have community sub forums with art and more? Players helping players? Build, videos in class sub forums?

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Vayne.8563:

They’re not ignoring anyone.

cough visual nerfs [merged] cough

They talked to us about visual nerfs. It was in the patch notes. In fact, they nerfed the visuals specifically due to long term complaints about noise in battles and not being able to see what’s going on.

The visual nerf complaints is a tiny minority of posts compared to the noise posts.

Randulf.7614:

Where are ppl getting these stats that the population is plummeting? There was one post, of which I have no idea how factful it is, that showed the game had risen from 1.5m active players to 3m active players. If that is true, where are ppl pulling their figures to show it is decreasing?

People love to make up statistics, we can do it too.
The game is doing fine, in fact, my sources tell me the playerbase has gone up by 75% since HoT came out. Take my word for it, noone on the internet ever lies or exagerates anything.

Vayne.8563:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Vayne.8563:

They’re not ignoring anyone.

cough visual nerfs [merged] cough

They talked to us about visual nerfs. It was in the patch notes. In fact, they nerfed the visuals specifically due to long term complaints about noise in battles and not being able to see what’s going on.

The visual nerf complaints is a tiny minority of posts compared to the noise posts.

The visual nerf thread is now longer than other threads where anet have responded and it’s still growing when just a little communication from anet could soothe the savage beast. Curious, don’t you think?

Pandaman.4758:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client.

Sadly the 64 bit client doesn’t help everyone as people are still reporting crashes when they use it. It’s a memory usage problem, all the 64 bit client does is delay crashing by giving the game access to more memory to flounder in, so it’s more a band-aid than an actual solution.

errrr not really…… memory fragmentation is a much more different problem than memory leak.

Giving more memory addresses to memory allocate to play with allows it to make better decisions by stop forcing it to aggressive reuse memory addresses.

Memory fragmentation is a natural problem with memory allocators. Sometimes, I wonder about giving Anet lots of flak that their game is so huge and expansive that they are easily hitting 32 bits limitations which are commonly faced by server applications.

warbignime.4610:

draugris.9872:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

The irony is that Arenanet self created that environment with their refusal to communication. And it seems that they understood that they can´t fool the people here any longer.

Point proven, people here are just so much more toxic and complain about every little thing in GW2 since day 1 of launch. I mean if some new player just read forum and don’t play the game they would think GW2 is one of the worst game ever made.

Only, maybe, if they were a novice to games forums.

Anyone, who has any experience of them, knows that it is when people stop posting you really have to worry.

While they’re still posting, it means they like enough things about the game to care, or did like enough things about it to still care.

They just have certain issues with it and/or its new direction.

warbignime.4610:

Reddit does have negativity of course, but there are also positivity. Player help each other, guide, news, shout out, fan art. This place is pages of complaining after complaining, nothing good ever comes out of here.

Maybe you’re spending too much time in the wrong parts of the forum?

I, personally, find complaints interesting (even the rude ones!), as I feel they shed light on possible issues and hold the most sincerity.

But, if I found them disturbing, or upsetting, I either wouldn’t hang around on the parts of the forums that contained most of them, or I wouldn’t click on them.

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client. Dev respond more often on reddit because people there are not raging mobs who trying to burn down castle Arena net.

your statement about reddit is false. They only use it because it is populated by a large amount of fanbois that downvote anything that is not in their line of thinking, and therefore A-net has not to read it. It makes them feel good.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO communication the past few weeks. It is getting rediculous.
Also Why MUST I go on reddit when this is the OFFICIAL forums. HERE is where we need to read stuff about the game not a 3th party site.

Tigaseye.2047:

I, personally, find complaints interesting (even the rude ones!), as I feel they shed light on possible issues and hold the most sincerity.

So do I. Honestly, I’d rather wade through a thousand complaint posts than read a handful of ones BSing about how Anet can do no wrong.

No disrespect to Anet, of course.

Celtic Lady.3729:

Tigaseye.2047:

I, personally, find complaints interesting (even the rude ones!), as I feel they shed light on possible issues and hold the most sincerity.

So do I. Honestly, I’d rather wade through a thousand complaint posts than read a handful of ones BSing about how Anet can do no wrong.

No disrespect to Anet, of course.

Me too.

I know some of the compliment posts may be sincere, too; but, it’s pretty much impossible to tell.

Whereas, a good complaint screams honesty, whether you agree with it, or not.

I sometimes feel there is a passive-aggression to the fan club mentality.

They may be saying nice things, on the surface, but dig a little deeper and it’s all about control.

They’re pretending to be the world’s greatest fan, but they’re actually just trying to manipulate the target of their admiration, if you see what I mean?

I don’t trust it, frankly.

Tigaseye.2047:

I sometimes feel there is a passive-aggression to the fan club mentality.

Yeah, really. Or they ride into a thread on their white horses, waving their Crusade banners, and beating us all over the heads with their Good Books.

I don’t really respond well to the whole “Convert or Die!” approach.

YaYa.5879:

Dear developpers,
I know you already cashed our money, that you alreadu sold what you wanted us to buy. But could you at least acknoledge us? I mean the community is complaining a lot on the forums.
Is there a chance that you make a post telling us what the hell are you doing: concerning our complaints, the econoy, the DS crashes?

The community always complains a lot on the forums. ANet responding or not responding doesn’t result in fewer complaints. ANet addressing the complaints in patches and updates results in …more complaints. Basically, (some) customers like to complain.

And in fact, they don’t ignore our concerns. They make changes, sometimes quickly, while some changes take ages to test or need lots of design or mechanical changes.

What ANet is careful never to do is promise us anything they can’t deliver. So they wait until they are sure they understand the issue, sure they have a way to address the solution, and sure they can deliver it.

For me, the absolutely worst design change ANet made was when they required us to repeat identical challenges to level traits up. It ruined an aspect of the game that many of my friends loved and it discouraged me from creating new characters (and extending my interest in the game). They never admitted that entire concept went against their NPE principles or other design goals.

However, I am perfectly satisfied that they dropped the entire idea and made trait leveling identical to learning skills, even though it took over 18 months — they spent over a year designing the (in my opinion) horrid trait-challenge system; they weren’t going to be able to replace it any quicker than that.

So while I understand the frustration the OP has, I urge the OP to consider what it takes to change stuff in a game this size and wait it out. ANet will respond (although, as with traits, we have to be careful what we wish for).

Celtic Lady.3729:

Tigaseye.2047:

I, personally, find complaints interesting (even the rude ones!), as I feel they shed light on possible issues and hold the most sincerity.

So do I. Honestly, I’d rather wade through a thousand complaint posts than read a handful of ones BSing about how Anet can do no wrong.

No disrespect to Anet, of course.

“One complaint is worth five compliments” -Naoki Yoshida

It seems like ANet only uses the official forums(or complaint threads on Reddit) when they need to sell something, to make it seem like they’ll improve their transparency this time around. It’s all just marketing in the end.

Celtic Lady.3729:

Tigaseye.2047:

I sometimes feel there is a passive-aggression to the fan club mentality.

Yeah, really. Or they ride into a thread on their white horses, waving their Crusade banners, and beating us all over the heads with their Good Books.

I don’t really respond well to the whole “Convert or Die!” approach.

Quite.

Me neither.

Vayne.8563:

YaYa.5879:

What i am complaining about is a lack of them speaking to us. Informing us.
Giving us milk and telling us it’s going to be ok while singing to us a lulabby.
I am on mac, there is no 64 bit for us, and yet i paid for the game (so are the people crashing on 64). The crashes have lowered down a lot. But not in ds which is frustrating as hell after taxiing people for 15 min, and playing for 45 min, just to have your game crash and not being able to come back to your server who is now ful

Oh you’re on a mac, that explains everything.

Anet is talking to us, they’re just not talking to you specifically.

Did Anet address the complaints about elites specialization points needed? Yes.
DId Anet address the complaints about hero point difficult? Yes, they made changes.
Did Anet address the complaint about the poison gating in the HoT story? Yes.
Did they address the complaints about Fractal rewards? Yes.
Did they tell the WvW they’re still working on a solution but it’s coming? Yes.
Did they tell us more balance patches are coming and gave us a road map for the rest of the year? Yes.
Did they give us a 64 bit client for window’s users? Yes.

In fact, they’ve been communicating with us all along. They didn’t answer your particularly concern. Well you know, there are thousands of people with concerns. You’re just one of them. Anet answered a huge amount of stuff.

They’re not ignoring anyone.

Good post

loseridoit.2756:

Pandaman.4758:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client.

Sadly the 64 bit client doesn’t help everyone as people are still reporting crashes when they use it. It’s a memory usage problem, all the 64 bit client does is delay crashing by giving the game access to more memory to flounder in, so it’s more a band-aid than an actual solution.

errrr not really…… memory fragmentation is a much more different problem than memory leak.

Giving more memory addresses to memory allocate to play with allows it to make better decisions by stop forcing it to aggressive reuse memory addresses.

Memory fragmentation is a natural problem with memory allocators. Sometimes, I wonder about giving Anet lots of flak that their game is so huge and expansive that they are easily hitting 32 bits limitations which are commonly faced by server applications.

Thing is we still have people on 64-bit client and 8+ GB of RAM reporting crashes, so address limitations isn’t the only cause of this issue.

Pandaman.4758:

loseridoit.2756:

Pandaman.4758:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client.

Sadly the 64 bit client doesn’t help everyone as people are still reporting crashes when they use it. It’s a memory usage problem, all the 64 bit client does is delay crashing by giving the game access to more memory to flounder in, so it’s more a band-aid than an actual solution.

errrr not really…… memory fragmentation is a much more different problem than memory leak.

Giving more memory addresses to memory allocate to play with allows it to make better decisions by stop forcing it to aggressive reuse memory addresses.

Memory fragmentation is a natural problem with memory allocators. Sometimes, I wonder about giving Anet lots of flak that their game is so huge and expansive that they are easily hitting 32 bits limitations which are commonly faced by server applications.

Thing is we still have people on 64-bit client and 8+ GB of RAM reporting crashes, so address limitations isn’t the only cause of this issue.

I was still crashing, to begin with, but then what (I would assume) would have previously been crashes, turned into really long lag spikes (or whatever you would call a freeze-type situation, like that), but no crash.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Vayne.8563:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Vayne.8563:

They’re not ignoring anyone.

cough visual nerfs [merged] cough

They talked to us about visual nerfs. It was in the patch notes. In fact, they nerfed the visuals specifically due to long term complaints about noise in battles and not being able to see what’s going on.

The visual nerf complaints is a tiny minority of posts compared to the noise posts.

The visual nerf thread is now longer than other threads where anet have responded and it’s still growing when just a little communication from anet could soothe the savage beast. Curious, don’t you think?

I think it’s curious that you haven’t bothered to add up the dozens if not hundreds of threads over the years complaining about not being able to see. It’s been a major concern for a long long time.

And how many of the pages in that visual nerf thread are people arguing for it?

Vayne.8563:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Vayne.8563:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Vayne.8563:

They’re not ignoring anyone.

cough visual nerfs [merged] cough

They talked to us about visual nerfs. It was in the patch notes. In fact, they nerfed the visuals specifically due to long term complaints about noise in battles and not being able to see what’s going on.

The visual nerf complaints is a tiny minority of posts compared to the noise posts.

The visual nerf thread is now longer than other threads where anet have responded and it’s still growing when just a little communication from anet could soothe the savage beast. Curious, don’t you think?

I think it’s curious that you haven’t bothered to add up the dozens if not hundreds of threads over the years complaining about not being able to see. It’s been a major concern for a long long time.

And how many of the pages in that visual nerf thread are people arguing for it?

Except the nerfs they’ve done have done nothing to improve visibility, and if anything have made it worse because the particles are too muted for people to notice them. The impact particles, which are particularly awful, are also completely unchanged.

Vayne.8563:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Vayne.8563:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Vayne.8563:

They’re not ignoring anyone.

cough visual nerfs [merged] cough

They talked to us about visual nerfs. It was in the patch notes. In fact, they nerfed the visuals specifically due to long term complaints about noise in battles and not being able to see what’s going on.

The visual nerf complaints is a tiny minority of posts compared to the noise posts.

The visual nerf thread is now longer than other threads where anet have responded and it’s still growing when just a little communication from anet could soothe the savage beast. Curious, don’t you think?

I think it’s curious that you haven’t bothered to add up the dozens if not hundreds of threads over the years complaining about not being able to see. It’s been a major concern for a long long time.

And how many of the pages in that visual nerf thread are people arguing for it?

Players: “Please reduce the visual effects they completely obscure the targets!”
Anet: OK
Players: “I don’t like the visual nerf please revert it!”
Anet: sigh

Anet is obviously busy working on the game instead of replying to every post on the forums. Don’t forget Wintersday is right around the corner too.

For crashes – use the 64bit client. As for bug fixes and such – they already said there will be less small patches and fixes will be delivered in larger patches all at once.

maddoctor.2738:

Vayne.8563:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Vayne.8563:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Vayne.8563:

They’re not ignoring anyone.

cough visual nerfs [merged] cough

They talked to us about visual nerfs. It was in the patch notes. In fact, they nerfed the visuals specifically due to long term complaints about noise in battles and not being able to see what’s going on.

The visual nerf complaints is a tiny minority of posts compared to the noise posts.

The visual nerf thread is now longer than other threads where anet have responded and it’s still growing when just a little communication from anet could soothe the savage beast. Curious, don’t you think?

I think it’s curious that you haven’t bothered to add up the dozens if not hundreds of threads over the years complaining about not being able to see. It’s been a major concern for a long long time.

And how many of the pages in that visual nerf thread are people arguing for it?

Players: “Please reduce the visual effects they completely obscure the targets!”
Anet: OK
Players: “I don’t like the visual nerf please revert it!”
Anet: sigh

instead of sighing they should answer: We will try and make it an option in the graphical menu, like a slider or something, seeing other games have it we can look into it at the minimum.

Celtic Lady.3729:

I don’t really respond well to the whole “Convert or Die!” approach.

Oh, you would if the ‘or die’ part was more vigorously enforced .