Scrapper: “Frank from Research”
Is there any money to change scoring?
Lemme see, having a bunch of people sit on a point while 1 or 2 people go and duke it out or nobody sits on a point while everyone is duking it out.
Current system is fine, if anything you should get rewarded for finishing someone. You shouldn’t get rewarded for sitting on a point all day long and nobody even bothers to come and challenge you. Even if somebody comes along you get 10 points “Objective Defender” and if you don’t get it and you sat on a point for 5 mins than get your kitten wooped you don’t deserve any points anyways.
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My point was only that when people ask for changes, ANet has to spend money.
Scrapper: “Frank from Research”
Lemme see, having a bunch of people sit on a point while 1 or 2 people go and duke it out or nobody sits on a point while everyone is duking it out.
Current system is fine, if anything you should get rewarded for finishing someone. You shouldn’t get rewarded for sitting on a point all day long and nobody even bothers to come and challenge you. Even if somebody comes along you get 10 points “Objective Defender” and if you don’t get it and you sat on a point for 5 mins than get your kitten wooped you don’t deserve any points anyways.
So now we are gonna punish bunkers for playing a vital role in structured play? Without bunkers the game WOULD turn into a zerg fest as defending points would be pointless when you can capture another point with less risk then trying to hold your own.
I get it, as a back point defender there are some games where I do literally nothing because Im not needed in the midfight, but my role on my team is still vital, yet I am undervalued in points because instead of being in the action I was a deterrent.
Granted, who cares about glory points?
My point was only that when people ask for changes, ANet has to spend money.
I am a software engineer in real life. Would you rather pay me to do work, or sit here doing nothing. Anet isnt a contractor so its not like they are billing a 3rd party for their time. If they arent improving their product they arent going to bring in more revenue.
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I doubt their PvP developers have extra time and are sitting on their hands.
There are costs to undertaking efforts. Are they willing to pay those costs?
Scrapper: “Frank from Research”
My point was only that when people ask for changes, ANet has to spend money.
Depends, if they’re on a contract then they don’t have to pay developers anything but what they signed for.
Kinda like being in military, you on contract, don’t matter how good of a job you do or if they make you work 16 hours a day 7 days a weeks aka being on a ship deployed, you still gonna get same amount. If person A works hard those 16 hours he gets paid same as person b skating off those 16 hours and person c who doesn’t have anything to do but facebook browse because no troublecalls coming in… They all get paid the same if they all the same rank and been in same amount of time. Doesn’t matter if repair locker A put out a massive fire and saved the ship while Repair locker B didn’t do anything because there was no fire, they both getting paid the same on the 1st and the 15th.
I don’t really see point in this thread besides how they get paid though, but I aint no software engineer and it aint like they fixing some random persons computer and getting paid $80 an hour, I’m sure they get paid the same amount they get paid if they do something and not do something. All I gotta say is this game updates way too much, many useless updates if you ask me, but some good ones, its like a game of soccer and they keep taking shots at the goal and missing like 100 times but they taking so many shots some are landing. So updating a lot isn’t bad but sooo much useless stuff.
Like did all these balance updates really balance the game more than the state it was at before. Does game really need to balance every month? Do you really have to nerf something once a month? I could see other things with bigger issue than having to nerf stuff every month. WARRIOR OP, THIEF OP, ELE OP, MESMER OP, and now NECROMANCER OP. month after month a balance happens. uh oh RANGER OP. Gotta start working on BALANCE patch version 29.0.
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When there is more work than people can do, even working 12 hours a day, then you have to hire more people to do more work. And that costs money.
So ANet has to have a good business reason to spend the money.
Is there a good business reason for creating a different scoring system to reward more strategic gameplay?
Depends on how much they are making on custom arenas at the moment, I guess. And whether they expect that to fall unless they change something.
Scrapper: “Frank from Research”
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They have deadlines, so it doesn’t have to be done in one day, anet is known for pushing stuff back. A lot of games I see have tiny amounts of developers that get paid big money. I don’t work in the industry but a lot of MMORPGs are known to make you wait a long long time for something to happen. GW2 updates frequently I don’t see them having any issues right now other than getting the game esports status. An update once or more a month is healthy compared to other MMO’s and games out there. Also considering the size of the updates they bring.