Guild Wars 2

All I’ve seen from ArenaNet these past few months is discussion about plans and ideas and concepts for things to do in the future.

Even their ‘balance’ patch they announced over a month ago… and it still isn’t here.

Quite frankly, I’m sick of it. I’m sick of hearing about what they want to do and what great ideas they have 6+ months from now.

I’d like ArenaNet to fix something NOW. Not two months from now. Not a year from now, but NOW.

There are so many things in PvP that are broken that need to be fixed: Healing Signet, Double/Triple profession stacks, rank 1 players in queue, player matching, 8v8 hot join defaults, etc.

I’d like to see a measure of good faith by ArenaNet by having them take the initiative and fix something immediately. Show the player base they can make good changes in a timely fashion.

Am I upset? Yes, and you should be too! This game could be great. It could have excellent PvP. However, it doesn’t, and the main reason why it doesn’t is mismanagement.

ArenaNet cannot seem to get out of their own way and make a code change that doesn’t take less than 2 months. 2 months! I’ve seen other MMO’s capable of pushing out quality fixes and changes in days or weeks – and I’ve seen them do it many times over.

Let’s put 2 months into perspective: my father-in-law had open heart surgery with cardiac repair and was fully recovered in less than two months.

If surgeons can take someone apart and put them together with a full recovery in less than two months, I think ArenaNet can push out a small code change.

Its the opposite, actually.

This game is a helluva lot of fun and theres really just a large number of seemingly minor issues that make it all so frustrating. Each one of the individual problems wouldnt be so bad alone, but it all begins to add up.

I agree with the OP. Enough promises for the future and more fixes for today.

I think the OP fails to realise that the following words are not in the Arenanet daily vernacular:

A) Fixing.
B) Balance.

The following stuff are part of the corporate DNA though:
A) Making money out of the non-revenue area of the game (removing glory, gold as a standard system, removing ranks and finishers anyone?)

B) Paying lip service with [DISCUSSION] threads, but hey, it’s lip service! (Anyone remember Countless’ video that suggests balance?)

C) Making the game so casual friendly, so long as people can leave their brains outside of the house and just pressing a few buttons to win. BART-TARNS BART-TARNS LOLOLOLOL I SO SKEELED.