Guild Wars 2

A little better communication about changes and general info about what you are currently working on would be nice. Player don’t stick around when there is little to no communication. I would appreciate if you could communicate with the community better than you have been. Anet is dropping new content without addressing bugs or giving us an explanation to the fact why bugs are not being fixed before new content is added. Thank Paintrain.

Actually, they did address that in a blog post:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-outlines-guild-wars-2-live-game-development/

As is, the content development team can’t just sit around twiddling their thumbs while they wait for bug fixes.

TheDaiBish.9735:

Actually, they did address that in a blog post:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-outlines-guild-wars-2-live-game-development/

As is, the content development team can’t just sit around twiddling their thumbs while they wait for bug fixes.

Thanks for the link. I’ll give it a read.

This is lackluster communication at best. I looking for more dailie communication similar to what takes place in Rift and wow.

An example for us who don’t play them games?

If you go to Rift.com, mmo-champion.com and even Worldofwarcraft.com you will be able to see all the communication that takes place with the community on a daily basis. This is like common practice for these games.

The devs can work on the game or answer your questions.

I think we both know what takes priority here.

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

The devs can work on the game or answer your questions.

I think we both know what takes priority here.

So you’re saying I should not expect as much form this game as other games? I thought this was a standard, but maybe I’m wrong and should’ve stuck with P2P in order to have the best gaming experiance.

You’re kidding right? Anet has a blog post up every 5 days communicating about changes and ideas in development.

This answered it all for me http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/ArenaNet-Reviews-E255820.htm. Bad leadership and horrible pay. Why would any of their employees give a rats behind about the bugs, lack of communication, ui options and anything else about this game. Also a crappy blog every 5 days is horrible communication.

This is clearly a trolling thread.

uknortherner.2670:

This is clearly a trolling thread.

Maybe I would like feedback daily and a game with less bugs. I come from a background of playing wow, aoc, warhammer, aion and rift, so I can honestly say that I have not seen another mmo start off this poorly, with this many problems.

Thapaintrain.9546:

Maybe I would like feedback daily…

>We’re working on this.
>Yep, we’re working on the same thing.
>While I’m writing this, I could be working on the thing I told you guys about yesterday.

Logic.

TheDaiBish.9735:

Thapaintrain.9546:

Maybe I would like feedback daily…

>We’re working on this.
>Yep, we’re working on the same thing.
>While I’m writing this, I could be working on the thing I told you guys about yesterday.

Logic.

I guess this is what’s to be expected from a F2p community!

Thapaintrain.9546:

TheDaiBish.9735:

Thapaintrain.9546:

Maybe I would like feedback daily…

>We’re working on this.
>Yep, we’re working on the same thing.
>While I’m writing this, I could be working on the thing I told you guys about yesterday.

Logic.

I guess this is what’s to be expected from a F2p community!

If you like the other games more then why not go back and keep playing them, as you said it,s a F2P game it will still be here in a years time,maybe what ever is troubling you will be fixed by then?

Thapaintrain.9546:

TheDaiBish.9735:

Thapaintrain.9546:

Maybe I would like feedback daily…

>We’re working on this.
>Yep, we’re working on the same thing.
>While I’m writing this, I could be working on the thing I told you guys about yesterday.

Logic.

I guess this is what’s to be expected from a F2p community!

What? The devs not wasting time coming on the forum everyday saying the exact same thing as yesterday?

When they got news, they tell us.

Kinda like if your computer goes in for repair. The computer place doesn’t ring every day saying ‘yep, we’re still working on your computer’. They ring you a) when it’s done or b) it’s going to take longer than expected.

Doomguard.5094:

You’re kidding right? Anet has a blog post up every 5 days communicating about changes and ideas in development.

You call that communication?

When a patch happens, have you ever read ANets patch notes? They are pathetic!
Rift, WoW, Aion, hell go back to DAoC, EQ, UO…every patch notes contained EVERY change to the game. If the math changed on an attack, the change was given, if an attack was increased in speed, it was stated.
Can you list every single change of the last patch? Bet you can’t.
The patch notes ANet releases are barely the surface of what changes. The Wiki is rarely correct either, I routinely find changes not mentioned in either location.

Then there is another large problem, ANet routinely posts to facebook and twitter things that should show up upon the main website first. Nothing that is posted anywhere, should be left off the main website, that is what having a website is for. I should not have to check other locations to figure out what is going on with the game, ever.

They do not tell you every detail….they might say something like “fixed several exploits” But you don’t know what that was till 2 hours later someone is going on a kitten about they took out whatever it was. I’d rather hear from them “that little jumpy thing all you was doing, you all get to go around now and do it like it was meant”!

Runiir.6425:

Doomguard.5094:

You’re kidding right? Anet has a blog post up every 5 days communicating about changes and ideas in development.

You call that communication?

When a patch happens, have you ever read ANets patch notes? They are pathetic!
Rift, WoW, Aion, hell go back to DAoC, EQ, UO…every patch notes contained EVERY change to the game. If the math changed on an attack, the change was given, if an attack was increased in speed, it was stated.
Can you list every single change of the last patch? Bet you can’t.
The patch notes ANet releases are barely the surface of what changes. The Wiki is rarely correct either, I routinely find changes not mentioned in either location.

Then there is another large problem, ANet routinely posts to facebook and twitter things that should show up upon the main website first. Nothing that is posted anywhere, should be left off the main website, that is what having a website is for. I should not have to check other locations to figure out what is going on with the game, ever.

Thank you! This guy seems to know what I seek for.

Runiir.6425:

Doomguard.5094:

You’re kidding right? Anet has a blog post up every 5 days communicating about changes and ideas in development.

You call that communication?

When a patch happens, have you ever read ANets patch notes? They are pathetic!
Rift, WoW, Aion, hell go back to DAoC, EQ, UO…every patch notes contained EVERY change to the game. If the math changed on an attack, the change was given, if an attack was increased in speed, it was stated.
Can you list every single change of the last patch? Bet you can’t.
The patch notes ANet releases are barely the surface of what changes. The Wiki is rarely correct either, I routinely find changes not mentioned in either location.

Then there is another large problem, ANet routinely posts to facebook and twitter things that should show up upon the main website first. Nothing that is posted anywhere, should be left off the main website, that is what having a website is for. I should not have to check other locations to figure out what is going on with the game, ever.

I agree with you. My first MMO was Everquest, they had extensive patch notes and quite frankly, I miss that. Sometimes the Gw2 launcher isn’t updated for weeks and that bothers me on some level. It makes me feel suspicious and makes it difficult for me to trust. Just one last thing to touch on, Everquest also had a test server where patch notes were readily available to read before the patch deployed and of course they didn’t list exploits in these early notes.

TheDaiBish.9735:

Thapaintrain.9546:

Maybe I would like feedback daily…

>We’re working on this.
>Yep, we’re working on the same thing.
>While I’m writing this, I could be working on the thing I told you guys about yesterday.

Logic.

You can’t be serious. Even while in the office, people get breaks, and even while not on break, it’s more than okay to take a little time out to communicate with your community – why is that not considered part of the job description? You act like consistent communication (every day) is enough to keep them from their work, even though they can practically be done at the same time.