Guild Wars 2

It seems like weve had a shift, where before the devs didnt seem to care much for ideas, they did respond to and acknowledge critiques or flaws.

Now it seems they want ideas? A few posts have affirmed idea threads and a critique thread has been closed, that ive seen.

Is this accurate to say?

I will say that developers always took ideas, but never made it apparent. But players were complaining about the lack of “openness”, so to give them the illusion of transparency they started being more obvious about it, so that players cannot QQ. notice how they never go above the it sounds nice blah blah blah, we will consider it

Another possibility is that they are trying to turn the tide of hyperbole on the PvP forum (which is jackpacked, I do it for the elementalist), by only rewarding constructive criticism this allows the following: gives an illusion of more communication for the forum warriors while reducing the amount of hyperbole since it trains players that, those type of comments wont get a response (personally wont, cant stop, cuz the ele suck and QQ makes me feel better for some odd reason).

Well, Ive seen Devs address issues discussed on the forum since day 1.

Im not sure if they listened but there was even an epic moment when I asked for clarification of the class roles so we as a forum could discuss class balance in a more constructive manner, and it was given! … my hopes for a shift in discourse were not, so I feel a little bad for that prediction.

The devs have always read the forums but I had seen them take very few ideas from us.