Guild Wars 2

Mark Katzbach.9084:

The forum specialist program was announced to the whole forum via this post in the News and Announcements section and more than adequate time was given for applications to be sent in.
Now, we are not having a discussion on how you feel about who was chosen, because he has yet to have the time to submit a single report yet. If you feel disregarded, blame the others who do post here for not submitting an application.
Now, the WvW forum is not to discuss the merits of this program or those who have been chosen to represent each game mode. If you had been paying attention, you would notice that Marmatt is attempting to reach out and work with the players who do post here, despite the less-than-warm welcome that he has been greeted with.
Consider that he is a volunteer and is acting as a forum specialist in his own free time and of his own free will. To me, that means something. To me, this means that he’s committed to our goal of improving communication between players and the development team. If you think he doesn’t know enough about the game mode to accurately represent your interests, then talk to him. Explain your passions and why you feel the way you do. You might be surprised at how receptive he is.
Now, this is the last time I’m explaining this. We’re not having more threads about Marmatt or why he was chosen and not somebody else who may not have submitted an application. Instead, try working with him, and if you want to apply in the future, keep your eyes on the areas where we make forum-wide announcements.
We are serious about communication, but there appear to be a lot of people who would rather complain about communication than actually attempt to communicate.

It’s hard to believe you are serious about communication when we have 5 pages where the only red posts are in threads being locked.

The majority of the people that frequent this forum don’t bother checking the News and Announcements section for 2 reasons.
1.There are far more “news and announcements” on reddit, facebook, twitch, etc. than there are in that forum.
2. Because most of us only care about and only play the game for WvW and it would make sense for anything that affects WvW players to be posted in the WvW forum.

I have nothing against Marmatt and it’s great that he volunteered, but I’m not going to, “blame the others who do post here for not submitting an application” because I am positive they had no idea you were accepting applications.

1400 WvW ranks…thousands of hours. I check this sub forum daily, but I’ve never once loaded any other forum other than the PvP one. So yes, you sir are correct.

They also said that to volunteer you had to be in the US etc etc so basically that leaves out over 60% of the playerbase right there. RIP.

I love the end :

We are serious about communication, but there appear to be a lot of people who would rather complain about communication than actually attempt to communicate.

hehe. after all the posts/cdis/suggestions all that is left is to complain.

Lol complain about communication… We complain because there’s been none for the past 6+ months except some hacker related stuff

The real kicker:

They’re so serious about communication, they have someone else do it for them.

It’s like a comedy club on this forum.
But, the jokes are all overused.

I pity this Marmatt guy so much to be honest because he is somebody who puts his spare time in this game and this community as a volunteer. I guess by now he found out how toxic this environment can be because of Anet ignoring players for the time being. And i can only imagine how frustrated he will get when he realizes at some point that his reports will be ignored the same way by the devs how they ignored the players. This is only some maneuver by Anet to calm the playerbase to give them the impression that feedback means anything.

Anet if you would really care about what players have to say about the game you wouldn´t need a forum specialist just get your kitten over here and read the feedback yourself instead of beeing so busy closing threads. And please please please don´t tell us the story that you don´t have enough time, nobody buys that anymore. The forum is full of red posts about CDI, living story, armor skins etc. etc. You know it´s strange that you have time to talk about everything in depth with the exception of wvw and class balance.

Mr Ko Killer.7206:

The real kicker:

They’re so serious about communication, they have someone else do it for them.

It’s like a comedy club on this forum.
But, the jokes are all overused.

Actually Marmatt cannot communicate to us in an official manner. Essentially what they’ve done is given themselves a good excuse to not communicate ever again. I’m guessing many WvW players laughed when they read this:

We are serious about communication, but there appear to be a lot of people who would rather complain about communication than actually attempt to communicate.

We already communicated, almost two years ago. Anet failed to reciprocate. All that’s left for us to do is complain. And a new map isn’t going to fix anything.