Guild Wars 2

Waiting for adopt a dev for dungeon tours

EnemyCrusher.7324:

This is a great idea!

What do you mean by “region” though?

Server: Use command /ip in chat. That’s a server IP. GW2 keeps connections to at least 3 IPs.
World: WvW teams. Fort Aspenwood, Gate of Madness, Henge of Denravi , Aurora Glade, Vizunah Square Abaddon’s Mouth Baruch Bay, etc.
→ Region: US, EU, China. Players can’t play with people in different regions.

Do not confuse “server” and “world”. People do that a lot often because how other games use the term.

MithranArkanere.8957:

EnemyCrusher.7324:

This is a great idea!

What do you mean by “region” though?

Server: Use command /ip in chat. That’s a server IP. GW2 keeps connections to at least 3 IPs.
World: WvW teams. Fort Aspenwood, Gate of Madness, Henge of Denravi , Aurora Glade, Vizunah Square Abaddon’s Mouth Baruch Bay, etc.
-> Region: US, EU, China. Players can’t play with people in different regions.

Do not confuse “server” and “world”. People do that a lot often because how other games use the term.

I figured they would be able to tell NA vs EU vs China by the server.

I love love love this idea. I hope it’s very successful and you guys get lots of wonderful feedback. I cannot think of a better way than this for Devs to get first hand knowledge of the day to day life in a guild.

So glad you are stepping outside of the comfort zone to give this the old ‘college try’

Syndictive [Syn] is a hardcore WvW/GvG guild that has applied to adopt a developer, to give the devs an inside look into the other side of the WvW community!

This is probably the most exciting thing I’ve seen Anet do about WvW, and I’m really really happy to see it. Hope we get a dev.

Tried to send the PM to John but got the error message of go wait for 2 days. :/

Sorry, we left for Archeage.

Too late Anet, soon you’ll realize that you have lost your player base.

Anubis.9346:

Sorry, we left for Archeage.

Too late Anet, soon you’ll realize that you have lost your player base.

We’ll be waiting for your return, just as you returned when you left for TESO and Wildstar.

Please join my guild ‘s3x,’ I just started it yesterday and I feel like its already dieing. I would be happy if it was just you and me together. We could kiss and do guild missions alone. Please, I’m so lonely.

I’m curious: will the devs be playing as generic players, or will they be sporting a Anet tag? and can the enemy see our intimidating red tag ally?

Mystic.5934:

I’m curious: will the devs be playing as generic players, or will they be sporting a Anet tag? and can the enemy see our intimidating red tag ally?

The Anet tag is the tag of their guild… If the Dev will be representing your guild, they cannot be with the Anet tag.

Anubis.9346:

Sorry, we left for Archeage.

Too late Anet, soon you’ll realize that you have lost your player base.

Enjoy your pay-to-win game!

Nokaru.7831:

Anubis.9346:

Sorry, we left for Archeage.

Too late Anet, soon you’ll realize that you have lost your player base.

Enjoy your pay-to-win game!

You can buy gold in GW2, and use it to get full ascended, the best food, runes, and all around best gear. Also when gw2 first game out, buying exp boosters with gems was pretty p2w-esque too.

Ominous Threat [oT] has applied and we’re all really looking forward to hosting a dev if we get one! We’d love to provide insight on the GvG/Scrim scene as well as our terribad-skill-group raiding~

<3

Who was the key board turning Dev that did the ‘small man’ live stream where he ran around dying a lot while showing us places to put siege? He was the only ANET employee I ever saw outside of a blob, someone should snap him up.

Well, we do know in the past that J.Davis is in Blackgate and J.Boettiger is in NSP…
http://youtu.be/ysCGoW7MtMQ?t=12m10s

Would the finding from the WvW team be shared amongst the community after the tournament?

Could we request Gaile Gray to run with us?

Thank you Devs for coming out to play. We can’t wait to show you how much we love your game. And in the mean time we are having such fun trying the new WvW changes. Much props – Thank you

EK is looking to adopt Jessica Boettiger to make up for ram finishing her off a cliff

my guild use voice chat almost exclusively, are dev’s willing to join a guild that use mumble or TS?

Gismor.8407:

EK is looking to adopt Jessica Boettiger to make up for ram finishing her off a cliff

Oh God, that was you guys? Lmao, I approve of this idea.

i hope devs stay undercover , this means no anet tags , no unique , fancy armors / weapons and nobody will know about him/her except the leader of guild and ofc has a good and unique wvw build.

if a dev can follow these rules i can show him how fun is to play wvw outnumbered all the times

Too late anet.. </3 ily doe

So not to be negative, as I like this idea a lot. There is a real problem with this as I see it. If one assumes that most of the “devs” aren’t in real WvW guilds, which I think is reasonable otherwise they wouldn’t need to do this, their experience is going to be pretty dang fantastic no matter what happens in the tourney.

Those of us who are in well organized WvW dedicated guilds all experienced that feeling when you joined that guild, finally figured out what people were talking about when they said “get on TS”, when you finally were able to understand why your zerg was stacked up and why they all turned right without any warning. And, of course, we all have gotten a lot better.

So, I doubt any participating dev is going to come away from the experience saying, “wow WvW really IS stale and boring”, no they are all going to high-five each other yelling “OMG! OMG! WvW is amazeballs!!, we win!!” The real problem is that we all experienced that a year or two ago and we have been doing the same thing over and over and over again for 1 or 2 years which is the real problem. WvW is AWESOME, BUT IT HASN’T CHANGED AND THAT IS BORING.
Maybe the best outcome is that the devs come away with the feeling, "hey this WvW stuff is really cool, we should spend more time “developing” it. But the other possibility is they come away saying “WvW was really fun, not sure what the problem is….”

Tspatula.9086:

So not to be negative, as I like this idea a lot. There is a real problem with this as I see it. If one assumes that most of the “devs” aren’t in real WvW guilds, which I think is reasonable otherwise they wouldn’t need to do this, their experience is going to be pretty dang fantastic no matter what happens in the tourney.

Those of us who are in well organized WvW dedicated guilds all experienced that feeling when you joined that guild, finally figured out what people were talking about when they said “get on TS”, when you finally were able to understand why your zerg was stacked up and why they all turned right without any warning. And, of course, we all have gotten a lot better.

So, I doubt any participating dev is going to come away from the experience saying, “wow WvW really IS stale and boring”, no they are all going to high-five each other yelling “OMG! OMG! WvW is amazeballs!!, we win!!” The real problem is that we all experienced that a year or two ago and we have been doing the same thing over and over and over again for 1 or 2 years which is the real problem. WvW is AWESOME, BUT IT HASN’T CHANGED AND THAT IS BORING.
Maybe the best outcome is that the devs come away with the feeling, "hey this WvW stuff is really cool, we should spend more time “developing” it. But the other possibility is they come away saying “WvW was really fun, not sure what the problem is….”

My, and many who don’t bother with the forums, thoughts exactly.
WvWvW has housed some of the most interesting community events, group coordination, and group bonding I’ve seen in any MMO for a while. Yet you have done so little (or at least it appears to the community) to make the hardcore WvW guilds and players, both fight and PPT (but mainly fight), feel as if the game cares for them the same way it does the PvE and esports communities. Hardcore WvWers put in more time and energy playing this game than you realize, and they’re getting tired. Like many have made note of, most of the most talented fight guilds and players, have left the game out of frustration, boredom, etc.
Sorry for the rant, but I do feel like this is what the WvW devs should’ve been doing from day one. See who the hardcore people are, see who the best fighters are, observe the mechanics and coordinated guild builds in action at the highest level, and on the largest scale. Not trying to bash anyone, it is after all a great idea. Just late.

Tempest Wolves [TW] is excited for this opportunity. It’s a great idea to bring the devs and the players together in a an environment where the dev can easily see things from the guild’s perspective. We look forward to this opportunity and hope that we are allowed the chance to host an ANet Dev!

I feel this will end up just like the ‘amazing wvw video compliation’ with nothing but gushing positives.

They need to assign devs to each tier, and experience it from within an organised guild, then solo, then on ts, then not, and experience both prime time and dead time. On different classes. It’s a long project, that should be done OUTSIDE of the tournament.

Sadly what will happen is the devs will join big guilds on popular servers during the tournament when the population is hugely swelled by achievement hunters and they will get completely the wrong idea of what wvw is really like during a normal week.

Hopefully they won’t jump the huge prime time queue’s so they can experience the waiting too.

I still hope that at least one decides to visit Tier 8. Even if its not ET.

Before you all go on your jollies, get someone to take a look at this stupid light aura retal- or better yet, try playing FT engi, LB ranger or any type of ele or aoe user. It’s basically designed to make the only viable classes guard and warrior, with maybe necros. Eles don’t dare throw MS.

But I’m sure is OK and working as intended.

Maybe after the devs play wvw they will rework a lot of the skills when they see the effects of a lot of them in group play.

Can we get a list of what classes the devs play during this ‘test’- there should be an equal distribution so they can experience all the fun to be had from certain skills or being unable to cast anything in larger fights while warriors and guardian merrily press 1 and tag everything in sight.

Eternal Illumination, Seafarer’s Rest guild, would love to adopt a developer. (We prefer female cute asuras if possible.)

Sent some to EU tier 1, we will take good care of him and not cyberbully (Promise.)

Thank you very much Anet for doing this.
Have fun all in WvW and enjoy this League,

Best Regards,
~ Duke

Will any more Devs be contacting guild leaders? I haven’t seen a reply yet :*(

Anubis.9346:

Sorry, we left for Archeage.

Too late Anet, soon you’ll realize that you have lost your player base.

:D please

I was there already on russian localization, sandbox lineage clone that want’s to be innovative in class making , but everyone building same trash, cause from 70+ classes , only 7 is playable. When you’ll try everything like i did, you will get bored and get back to Guild Wars 2 ( like i also did ).

Looking forward to see what will this tournament bring.

Keep a good work anet <3

It will bring the usual huge queues and zerk warriors and guardians.

Baldrick.8967:

It will bring the usual huge queues and zerk warriors and guardians.

I don’t know what are these “queues” you people keep speaking off…

Tspatula.9086:

So not to be negative, as I like this idea a lot. There is a real problem with this as I see it. If one assumes that most of the “devs” aren’t in real WvW guilds, which I think is reasonable otherwise they wouldn’t need to do this, their experience is going to be pretty dang fantastic no matter what happens in the tourney.

Those of us who are in well organized WvW dedicated guilds all experienced that feeling when you joined that guild, finally figured out what people were talking about when they said “get on TS”, when you finally were able to understand why your zerg was stacked up and why they all turned right without any warning. And, of course, we all have gotten a lot better.

So, I doubt any participating dev is going to come away from the experience saying, “wow WvW really IS stale and boring”, no they are all going to high-five each other yelling “OMG! OMG! WvW is amazeballs!!, we win!!” The real problem is that we all experienced that a year or two ago and we have been doing the same thing over and over and over again for 1 or 2 years which is the real problem. WvW is AWESOME, BUT IT HASN’T CHANGED AND THAT IS BORING.
Maybe the best outcome is that the devs come away with the feeling, "hey this WvW stuff is really cool, we should spend more time “developing” it. But the other possibility is they come away saying “WvW was really fun, not sure what the problem is….”

^this

I think it would be appropriate for one of the devs to spend the season on Maguuma.

With the tournament starting today, are we going to get a list of where the dev’s went? We do not necessarily need the list of guilds where they went to, but the servers would be nice.

I don’t understand this. Why not just play as normal players and join guilds? Announcing it just makes you into a target for all the built up frustration at how the game mode has been handled(I can bet money you will be quickly made to feel uncomfortable and end up bowing out). I know new games are coming out and you now need to appear involved but I can’t fathom what will come out of this.

gennyt.3428:

I don’t understand this. Why not just play as normal players and join guilds? Announcing it just makes you into a target for all the built up frustration at how the game mode has been handled(I can bet money you will be quickly made to feel uncomfortable and end up bowing out). I know new games are coming out and you now need to appear involved but I can’t fathom what will come out of this.

I’m sure some guilds would treat people that way, but somehow I doubt many of those signed up for the adoption services. I know my guild will do a good job of welcoming the ANet employee (and save the snarky comments for a week into the season, once we know they can dish it out as well as take it).

I would hope all game companies would want to do this regularly, whether PvE, WvW, or PvP. It’s healthy for players to realize devs are also gamers and the company has solid reasons behind all of its actions (whether or not we agree or embrace the implementation). It’s also good for devs to get to see things from other people’s points of view.