Guild Wars 2

A little over a year ago a giant karka showed up in Lion’s Arch and players had to fight it off – the trial run for LS. I remember after that event Arenanet invited everyone to fill in online feedback forms. The forms were simple to complete (ranking things on a scale of 1-10 etc) and I imagine that the data was easy to analyse.

It’s almost the start of a new year and I think it would be a great time to collect some thoughts on how people feel about the living story now. I think this would benefit everyone:

- Players will feel like their opinions are appreciated and will ultimately find the living story contains more of the things that they like and less of the things they don’t like.

- Story writers and developers will have a clearer picture of what has worked the best and what could be improved. This might make their jobs easier.

- Arenanet staff in general…I’ve seen so many complaints on this forum recently that it must be quite demoralising for the people who spend hours working on the material. A lot of the threads are about the same issues that could easily be fixed.

Some people might disagree with me, but I think that offering a survey is one of the best ways to get an overview of exactly where the problems are and what keeps people playing the LS. We already have forums to voice our ideas and complaints, but a multiple choice questionnaire would allow thousands of people’s opinions to be collected quickly.

Anyone else up for another feedback questionnaire?

Honestly, I liked the feedback method they employed during the beta where after events we had the option to state our enjoyment levels of each event or story mission right there in game. That seemed like a powerful tool and it boggles that they have not made further use of it.