A good bit of constructive critisism from a anonymous source.
A player, and a mighty fine member of the community;This game has officially been released for a year now, and a lot of the problems that have plagued the game back then, still continue to do so.
Incentive, there is no real reason to play the game, the rewards are subpar, the glory rank curve is unrealistic, there is no unique rewards that are really sought after, the leader boards still make no sense to me to this day, there is no way to establish how many points you loose or gain.
There are no real unique titles to be had, apart from the previous qualifier points system, and even than there was no real mention that they would be giving away titles for it.
If you aren’t playing to be competitive in the game, than there is no real incentive, there is no real way of showing off those 500 hours you had spent playing spvp.The Bridge, by this I mean the connection that is meant to be formed between spvp and pve; because to the best of my knowledge the reason that the developers refuse to split pve and spvp balance, is so that a player coming from pve will not be surprised between the vast difference of his character in pve and pvp, but in order to that you need to be attracting the pve side of the game to come to spvp. In that regard ArenaNet failed, there has never been a reason for a pve player to come over to pvp, there were no rewards, titles, pets….there was nothing a pve player could gain from coming to pvp, infact it was a waste of their time.
Creating a symbiotic relationship between pve and pvp was paramount, if pvp players had a lot to gain from going to pve, than things should be true for pve players coming to pvp.Balance, now I understand that this is a difficult one, and I don’t blame the developers for making mistakes, the only thing was how long it took to react to the mistakes that had been made; you need only look at your forums to see how your player base is reacting to those problems.
I do believe that balancing will always be an issue; but talk to your community take their idea’s, try to fix the problems at the fastest rate possible, balancing should not stop for anything.Public Test Realm, make one available, that will greatly assist in the previous problem.
Community, talk to your player base, assist people that are trying to promote your game, create excitement I assure you nothing makes a player happier than knowing that they have taken a step to assist the game they enjoy playing so much. If I was you ArenaNet I would be down on my knee’s because you have the most disgustingly amazing community; a community that rose to the occasion more so than the company that owns the game.
Dear lord if there is something that angers me; its the fact that the community promoted your game, setup streams, leagues, some even invested their own personal money to make things better, they provide loads of constructive feedback day by day. I really want to stress, this community is awesome, you guys are the best, there’s never been such a friendly community, that are willing to band together for a game they all enjoy, even if this game fails you guys succeeded.