Guild Wars 2

We’ve had a couple posts asking for questions. I want to know what you think of the questions which are being submitted and getting some kind of asurance (heh) that you won’t just be afk like Grouch, Java and Lowell were.

Before anyone reads further I just want to clarify some of my feelings:
-I don’t hate the Jons. In fact, some of what you guys said had something which resembled merit to some degree.
-I think Java is a kittencat for only saying “I really like this. I really like that. You did a good job with __” It’s like his only problem was the fact that he was playing 10 hours a day.
-I think Grouch was kindof winging it and found everything to be “fair enough”
-I think that Lowell was watching camgirls or something

Do you have questions to which Anet can’t respond with
“it’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when”
or
“it’s further along than you think and I can’t talk about it”
DINGDINGDING! That’s right! You can’t ask about new features!

If I could ask one question it would be “why is it that the majority of the problems GW2 has are lessons which were learned by the GW1 development team?” of which there are probably about 50 examples.

I’m sure I will get called out on not being able to do a better job since I’m a nobody in the community, but it doesn’t change how easy it was to be more demanding of the Jons. Besides, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. Now it’s too late, we have a thread full of bad questions and they won’t have to answer anything hard (or they can use one of the above responses for 90% of them – like all those questions about banner warriors).

“we had these 8 team tournaments and it wasn’t the right fit, and we kindof learned and moved to team versus team”

This would’ve been a good time to mention that 8 team tournaments are no problem if the player base is big enough. Or maybe it would’ve been a good time to mention that 8 team paid tournaments had a huge intimidation factor for publics and ask why that hadn’t been addressed in any way (until the removal of the sign up cost months later)? Did they not know publics would be intimidated by paid tournaments? Did they do any kind of polling / survey / anything to try and find out? Since, you know, it caused paids to become very inactive.

“just because another game might have a lot of infrastructure set up for something, that doesn’t mean that we could just have it.”

This would’ve been a great time to mention the fact that GW1 and GW2 are…..well…

“we can’t borrow their code and borrow their art. We have to build those things ourselves.”

GW1….GW2….hmmmmm

30-40 minutes is where the above took place, after which I stopped listening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0togRMEc_o

Thanks for reading, sorry that it’s long and rambly.

I think I also remember some argument presented by the Jons against having random maps for paid tournaments. Something about causing people to run more generic builds?

I don’t think I’ve played with any teams who would change a character out depending on the map – especially since many players only play one class.

Well… Grouch is the person who coordinates/hosts the show (he’s not just some rando player that happens to be on there every time “winging” it). And it’s worth noting that they do this LIVE, it’s extremely hard to think up good questions/answers to responses on the spot, much much harder than you would think (if you ever conduct or participate in an online interview you’ll find this out).
Also, you have to remember that grouch has to respect these devs in order for them to actually be willing to participate in future shows. You think the Jons would come back if every time they said something like “we can’t talk about this” Grouch interrogated them for information?

The point of the show is to provide at least some assurance to the players that the devs know the actual state of the game, not a place for them to drop a bunch of announcements or give sneek peaks (legal conflicts between NCsoft and Curse prevent this).

Zodian.6597:

it’s extremely hard to think up good questions/answers to responses on the spot

What I typed above were things that I took issue with as soon as I heard it. I would never have said “fair enough”

Zodian.6597:

Also, you have to remember that grouch has to respect these devs in order for them to actually be willing to participate in future shows. You think the Jons would come back if every time they said something like “we can’t talk about this” Grouch interrogated them for information?

That’s why I said it was futile to ask questions about upcoming / expected content, because we already know the answer to those questions.

Zodian.6597:

The point of the show is to provide at least some assurance to the players that the devs know the actual state of the game, not a place for them to drop a bunch of announcements or give sneek peaks (legal conflicts between NCsoft and Curse prevent this).

I don’t feel assured.
Also; see above for that sneak peak nonsense.

mbh.8301:

Zodian.6597:

it’s extremely hard to think up good questions/answers to responses on the spot

What I typed above were things that I took issue with as soon as I heard it. I would never have said “fair enough”

Zodian.6597:

Also, you have to remember that grouch has to respect these devs in order for them to actually be willing to participate in future shows. You think the Jons would come back if every time they said something like “we can’t talk about this” Grouch interrogated them for information?

That’s why I said it was futile to ask questions about upcoming / expected content, because we already know the answer to those questions.

Zodian.6597:

The point of the show is to provide at least some assurance to the players that the devs know the actual state of the game, not a place for them to drop a bunch of announcements or give sneek peaks (legal conflicts between NCsoft and Curse prevent this).

I don’t feel assured.
Also; see above for that sneak peak nonsense.

Your missing the point man.
It rely doesn’t matter if they say they can’t talk about certain details of what they are working on, it matters that they acknowledge to the community WHAT they are working on, so that we can give them feedback like “hey x should be prioritized over y” or “that idea is lame, we want this”. The show would be pointless if we just brought devs on to roast them by asking them why their team is inferior to the team that designed gw1.

Zodian.6597:

The show would be pointless if we just brought devs on to roast them by asking them why their team is inferior to the team that designed gw1.

Oh, but we already know the answer to that.

The company is not willing to spend money on PvP. So PvP team is like… 10 people?
It’s a matter of being understaffed. And well… ignoring about 80% of community feedback, or acting on this feedback way too late.

Harrier.9380:

Zodian.6597:

The show would be pointless if we just brought devs on to roast them by asking them why their team is inferior to the team that designed gw1.

Oh, but we already know the answer to that.

The company is not willing to spend money on PvP. So PvP team is like… 10 people?
It’s a matter of being understaffed. And well… ignoring about 80% of community feedback, or acting on this feedback way too late.

Disagree. They know the feedback. They respond to it ALOT. And they know what is needed. The problem is they are under resourced. The only thing that annoys me if they cba to change the maps more than once a week when this tiny task would improve our lives so much.

Zodian.6597:

The show would be pointless if we just brought devs on to roast them by asking them why their team is inferior to the team that designed gw1.

That’s not even what I was trying to do. I don’t hate anyone. I just feel like too many answers were just freely taken and not put under any pressure to expand on.

“just because another game might have a lot of infrastructure set up for something, that doesn’t mean that we could just have it.”

It’s not immediately obvious to me why resources in GW1 (such as an existing automated tournament infrastructure) cannot be borrowed for GW2, and I don’t think it would’ve been a big deal to ask why.