Guild Wars 2

Boy, I’m starting to become like a certain other forum poster with how much I’ve been writing recently. I guess I’m just really into constructive discussion recently. The surge in Dev posts has encouraged me to write down my thoughts more than normal.

Anyways, What I would like to propose is something that has been brought up multiple times before but never really got anywhere, public beta testing. From a normal player’s view it seems to me that ANet want’s to take things slow and steady, and that’s not a bad thing. The problem is, those of us who’s primary interest in this game is PvP can get rather restless when we don’t receive consistent updates.

Public beta testing, to me at least, would seem like a great way to help gather more date for possible changes. In addition, it would also give us players the sense that PvP is indeed being actively worked on. Many competitive games have a Beta Client that the Devs can use to test possible changes to the game. Chances are someone will find any game breaking builds or bugs, things that may not show up if you are only doing testing with a small group.

There may be a lot of negativity on the forums, but honestly that’s pretty much every forum out there. There are also plenty of us who just want this game to be our competitive fix like GW1 was.

P.S. Hope the title doesn’t sound snooty or anything, my intent was for the tone to be as respectful as possible but that’s hard to do given the space allowed for titles.

Not enough players to split them between a test environment and a live one.

It doesn’t have to go live 7 days a week. They just need to open it on the weekend. And they can also open a Beta Forum for a place to give feedback and discussion, it also helps not to confuse people on normal forum. And once the Build go live on public they can delete all the beta Threads.

good idea

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P.S. great title it was perfect

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P.S. great title it was perfect

Too bad it got ignored :P

The only reason their is negativity on the forums is because we care about this game and want it to get better.