It’s just a carrot on a stick where devs dance around the issues and tell us things we already know. It’s only meant to maintain a suckers interest till the next expansion.
Seeing as how they didn’t even mention the quickness nerf throughout all that balance talk in the last SOTG, this piece of PR is a total waste of time.
I was satisfied with last sotg, even though there was a clear room to improvement. However, because many of the changes they revealed there (warrior’s and thief’s boon-hate, for example) weren’t still ready for the last patch, I doubt it would be produtive to make a sotg this month. Some of these changes will probably come out late this month, the devs will start working on new issues once it’s out, and only then would a new sotg be worth it, imo.
Maybe a video format where they have to answer questions live isn’t the best way to do it.
It may seem efficient since it only takes 2 hours, but they need to prepare which can take unlimited time and they still might not have the relevant information.
Instead, the community should vote on topics they’d like discussed each month. Anet can take time to research the topics and make sure good answers are given. Either in video format or a blog post, it’s just about getting the information out there.
It’s like a take home test for them instead of a live test.
I mean all they would really be able to talk about is balance issues, ie; quickness nerf & eles (and we all know their positions on both of these for the most part). Other than that, we pretty much know what the goals are for pvp are at this point; making leaderboards viewable then getting custom games and spectator mode implemented (i’m very excited for the latter).
Once leaderboards are implemented there will probably be an sotg to talk about the issues with them lol.
oh right, they gave us class descriptions in the last one. then mentioned they are looking at thief, bunker and AoE, same as the said in the one before that with no changes to any
oh and remember how portal was gonna be addressed too? Lol
I hope they learnt and dont bother to do it again. There really is no point at all. If they cant tell us anything then there is no point asking them questions is there.
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SOTG is great but ATM I cant see this, there is nothing to talk about =/ devs dont care about PvP (at least it looks like that) We can run SGGD (Sadly Game Going Down) =(
We knew from last sotg that beam attacks would pierce, that elementalists’ heals will become more interruptible, what their new philosophy for what thief was, the new idea of boon-hate traits, and several other small changes that were either already implemented in the last patch or not.
To say that nothing new was revealed in the last sotg is just spreading false truths. I know some people love to be negative around here, but dismissing everything is not very constructive. There are many people that were left satisfied with the last sotg, as an user’s poll has proved.
We knew from last sotg that beam attacks would pierce, that elementalists’ heals will become more interruptible, what their new philosophy for what thief was, the new idea of boon-hate traits, and several other small changes that were either already implemented in the last patch or not.
To say that nothing new was revealed in the last sotg is just spreading false truths.
This boon-hate business has such a half-cooked name that part of me thinks it was improvised during sotg. At the very least, the idea is still subject to internal “testing” and it might still be vetoed at some point.
[quote=1567239;Lexie.5894:] My PVP experience is very consistent. I run around,
I fight people, sometimes they kill me, sometimes I kill them. Fun is had by all. [/quote]
We knew from last sotg that beam attacks would pierce, that elementalists’ heals will become more interruptible, what their new philosophy for what thief was, the new idea of boon-hate traits, and several other small changes that were either already implemented in the last patch or not.
To say that nothing new was revealed in the last sotg is just spreading false truths.
This boon-hate business has such a half-cooked name that part of me thinks it was improvised during sotg. At the very least, the idea is still subject to internal “testing” and it might still be vetoed at some point.
The game is full of terrible decisions, I wouldn’t be surprised if they throw out stuff only casually glanced at in a meeting just to keep people interested (even though its flaming obvious that the main focuses they are talking about, aren’t actually their main focuses… talking about kittening minor tweaks and boon hate but not even a vague referance to the massive quickness nerf?!?!? does he even see what the guys actually fixing the stuff are doing??).
kittening off players seems to be their MO and they are danm good at it.
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