It has been a bumpy ride since the HoT reveal. From outrages to exultation you’ve pushed through to the moment of truth. Before that moment, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for all your hard work and care. Whether the price of the expansion or the number of hero points, these forums have been filled to the brim with alot of not-so-constructive ‘feedback’. To those who provide genuine feedback, thank you for contributing to the quality of GW2. I just thought I would post this so I could thank Anet. It’s never easy putting out a product before the ruthless internet.
I invite all members of community and forum-readers to post their appreciation and gratitude here as well. Maybe even tell us what feature you are most impressed with or excited for. I’m sure you know that the forums represent the critical and vocal minority of players, but here is a thread for you to see all the positive and supportive forum-posters. In the immortal words of Taylor Swift—-whether you consider the song a scar or a blessing—-: “…players gonna play…haters gonna hate”. For every 1 venomous thread, there are 10 people too absorbed in the game to be on the forums. Thank you.
Wow this outcome has been sad. I was planning to write post just like that after work. Visiting this forums for past week or so is nothing but toxic boiling mess. Why is there no gratitude towards all that is happening. I wont say it’s all lovely dovely, but hell..it’s not that bad and I don’t want to bring that in this thread too. It is nice to see that there are people who take this relase with a bit happier tone. So All Devs here, belive that not everybody is full of poison here. Hope you wont have very messed up patch day
It’s my way of saying Thank You. I have enjoyed last three years and waiting for tomorrow to enjoy it even more. Keep up the good work.
ArenaNet is a business. They’re developing “new content” only to get revenue.
Until they go above and beyond that like they initially did in their manifesto, which is now long-inaccurate and apparently forsaken, they deserve no special thanks from me, especially since this hero point grind effectively killed the expansion for me.
People with complain create posts. People happy and excited go play the game waiting for HoT launch, this is the reason you dont see post of appreciation
Thank You A-net! You guys rock. I’m most excited for guild halls. Finally! And everything else, the expansion will be awesome. All the haters are little privileged kids. I’m a grown man playing your games since GW1 beta. Keep up the good work!
Thank you Anet for the tremendous effort, the past three years of fun and all the fun I (and my guildees) anticipate having with you for the years to come.
Thank you for everything you have done, I don’t agree with all of your decisions but that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate the hard work and many hours you put in to bring us this expansion.
I’m not sure I can say that I’m “excited” for HoT at this point, but I am definitely curious about it and will download the content and go see what’s new later tonight or tomorrow. I hope I actually like the new content and feel as though I can navigate the jungle maps effectively.
Thank you ANet. I’m very disappointment about Elite specs unlock req and feel everyone should be able to play with these from the start but I understand you are a business and have to do things to funnel us to the cash shop sometimes. That said, there’s still a lot I’m looking forward to and I realize behind all of the crunch time are employees who have had to sacrifice time with family and friends to get your team to the finish line and give us the starting line.
Please reconsider the casual GW2 player and the tenants of your original manifesto and the vision behind it regarding being a game for everyone from the high school kid playing with friends after school to the investment banker who grew up on games and loves to spend to occasionally spend his free time in GW2. We all come from different places in life and some of us have more money than time to spend in game and would be willing to pay to unlock the hero points to get our Elites. You’ve already got the mechanic for this banked into WvW please consider making a similar item for the gem store so those of us who have more money than time don’t have to waituntil 2016 to make a viable build to play our Elite Specs in Hot.
Congratulations on product delivery and meeting your deadline. If you do consider making a hero challenge point unlock available though Black Lion Trading Compnay, please keep in mind you have many working adults who love your game who are just requesting this so we can spend time with our family and friends and still not feel left behind in the game. It’s the right thing to do and I have faith you will ultimately do the right thing.
Not sure why everyone is so kittened at elite specs actually requiring stuff to unlock. Its not like when you bought the base game you got a free level 80 with all your traits unlocked and could do lvl 80 content the first hour. Yet suddenly people feel like they should be able to unlock everything in HOT in the first day? Odd.
Anyway, I second the OP, even though no one takes the forum trolls very seriously (though they are entertaining) someone has got to post something positive every once in a while.
Not sure why everyone is so kittened at elite specs actually requiring stuff to unlock. Its not like when you bought the base game you got a free level 80 with all your traits unlocked and could do lvl 80 content the first hour. Yet suddenly people feel like they should be able to unlock everything in HOT in the first day? Odd.
Anyway, I second the OP, even though no one takes the forum trolls very seriously (though they are entertaining) someone has got to post something positive every once in a while.
It’s been exhaustively discussed in the other thread…. It’s entirely different than working your way to 80 in the base game…. No one is asking for “full unlock” (elite skins, weapon mods, etc…) we’re fine working for the parts of it that make sense as being horizontal progression based, we just want to be able to enjoy the core mechanics of the Elite Specs and make a viable Elite Spec build and play though most of HoT content enjoying our Elite Spec. Unlocking utility skills along the way. As they have it implemented someone who has spent all their hero points coming into HoT will not have the trait line maxed until somewhere around 65-70% of the content has been played (two maps worth of hero point gathering in HoT). That will drive many players to focus exclusively on grinding hero points instead of playing the game and we feel this is bad for the game in general not just us. The opposition is grossly misunderstanding what the casual base is asking for. We just don’t want to make it though most of the game before we’re finally able to use the Elite Spec while those who grinded their way through world completion in the core game get to enjoy it long before us. That that goes against the vision of GW2 being anti-grind and casual friendly. I know they will do the right thing in the end. If you want to debate this more we can pick it up in the appropriate thread.
Not sure why everyone is so kittened at elite specs actually requiring stuff to unlock. Its not like when you bought the base game you got a free level 80 with all your traits unlocked and could do lvl 80 content the first hour. Yet suddenly people feel like they should be able to unlock everything in HOT in the first day? Odd.
Anyway, I second the OP, even though no one takes the forum trolls very seriously (though they are entertaining) someone has got to post something positive every once in a while.
I also wanted ro thank Arenanet for this wonderful new expansion.
I’ve only been playing for a few hours, but I love it! I love the new jungle maps and that you have to skill the masteries in order ro get better and be able to explore the maps and do more things (like gliding) in the jungle. I also think it’s ok that we don’t get access to the elite spec from the beginning, but rather have to work hard for it. Because that is the reason why I bought the game – I wanted new content, new things to do, hard challenges, beautiful maps and fun. As far as I am concerned, I recieved all of that. And many of my guild mates think the same.
I’m sure you know that the forums represent the critical and vocal minority of players
Really?
People on forums are the most caring players, otherwise if they don’t like something, they quit without even writing anything.
P.S. the way you write these posts are too obvious. Please do something about fixing this rather than having anet employees/friends write stuff like that.
Not sure why everyone is so kittened at elite specs actually requiring stuff to unlock. Its not like when you bought the base game you got a free level 80 with all your traits unlocked and could do lvl 80 content the first hour. Yet suddenly people feel like they should be able to unlock everything in HOT in the first day? Odd.
Anyway, I second the OP, even though no one takes the forum trolls very seriously (though they are entertaining) someone has got to post something positive every once in a while.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
and all opinions are subject to criticism….most importantly, the dumb ones.
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I’m sure you know that the forums represent the critical and vocal minority of players
Really?
People on forums are the most caring players, otherwise if they don’t like something, they quit without even writing anything.
P.S. the way you write these posts are too obvious. Please do something about fixing this rather than having anet employees/friends write stuff like that.
Not true, offical forum is knkw for being toxic and overly negative about everything, if you want see true caring loving gw2 community go on reddit.
Not true, offical forum is knkw for being toxic and overly negative about everything, if you want see true caring loving gw2 community go on reddit.
I see your point, but the main reason people show anger here more than reddit, is they want their complaints to directly reach the devs, since it is the official forums, that’s why.
I want to join the “thanks!” here… I am impressed. It’s beautiful. It’s fun just to run around in and look at the art, listen to the music. There’s an awful log of work here, and it shows.
