Why must we elongate everything in gw2. If the balances previews for the classes are up and youve made short clips, why not show them in bigger groups instead of just showing 2. Also ToG ends in October? So we are going to have a ToL2 Repeat yet again? Why must these tournies take so long.
Allow me to clarify. The video for the last two professions is not done. Unless you want to watch Karl in front of a plain green screen, there’s no way we can show it tomorrow. These videos each take ~3 hours to film and another 8+ hours to edit. On some weeks, the video wasn’t even exported until the same morning we showed it on the stream.
We opted to do two at a time so as not to overload both you and Karl in the preview. If you look back to when we did previews live, one of those episodes was almost 2 hours long, and by the end they were trying to speed through in order to keep it from going longer. Both you and we didn’t think it was fair to the people who play those professions that were rushed through, nor was it fair to have to sit through two hours of a stream to see your profession’s changes. We feel that this format provided a better means of communicating these changes. We can now devote the appropriate amount of time to each profession and showcase the changes without having to wait for Karl to change builds and move between locations on the map.
11 hours. That’s insane for a 5 minute clip.
Don’t get me wrong, I do like the Skill Bar segments. But most of the abilities that are changed don’t require to be shown on camera. I’d be perfectly content with a detailed text write (explaining why you made the changes) up on the Profession Balance forums, instead of having a 3rd party source make one for us.
I think it may be better too to have discussions about all profession changes at the same time, rather than having 3x-ish(?) amount the time to talk about engineers/rangers than we will get about guardians/necromancers.
Just a thought. Thanks for your hard work.
As a filmmaker i would like to note that noone has any idea how long the post process takes for film. filming is one thing, editing is another. and 12 hours for a 5 minute segment with bluescreen is really not bad tbh. Rendering alone probably takes an hour on HD.
Anyway… the productionvalue of skillbar is pretty nice and i wish balance could adopt the same format in the future.
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