Guild Wars 2

Here’s the issue as a WvW only player I have 3 years of vague posts and hope to go on for everything that affects my beloved play type. After 3 years I’ve noticed a horrible trend of slim to no communication followed by something that most of the community doesn’t want or enjoy. I believe that with 3 years or this pattern it’s time for Anet to break the mold and give us some information on WvW and the “overhaul” that is being baited to those that haven’t given up full hope, yet. I am trying to be respectful because I truly believe this game has/had more potential than many others and I want to believe that I can go back to enjoying WvW.

Thank you
-Swag

They did communicate today. “We’ve focused a heavy amount of developer resources on this overhaul for WvW, and the team has been working hard for over a year now to solve these complicated issues. We may not be ready to reveal more in early 2016, but you’ll have an opportunity to get all the details and give feedback when we go into the beta phase of this massive project later this year.”

This vague overhaul won’t even be released until maybe the end of the year. Have fun!

Considering that the beta for the new maps was basically just a publicity stunt, and they ignored all of the feedback from the beta testers, this doesn’t bode well for the future of WvW.

Yeah as Spurnshadow and Phantom said, the WvW forum area is full of us communicating. And no one listened when people complained about the maps, nor about anything else really that people had issues with in the changes to WvW.

Then all of a sudden it seems they are using selective hearing and only adding or changing things that they think will keep some of us here. Yet not dealing with balancing the banners, nor providing incentives for defending and any reward tracks or anything.

Oh, but wait… So, things will eventually change? We’ll see…

Only topics that get over 3000 replies are read by anet. Didn’t you learn a thing from the hero point change shortly after HoT was released?

Osu.6307:

Only topics that get over 3000 replies are read by anet. Didn’t you learn a thing from the hero point change shortly after HoT was released?

Not that, but whatever is said on Reddit too. Which is said that they will respond and even mention Reddit, while paying little attention to their official forums. If they had paid more attention here, we would have kept the old maps or at least had smaller (incredibly smaller) new BLs.

This is why instead of buying gems anymore I am putting the same amount of money into upgrading my prepurchase tier in Camelot Unchained. The founder and lead developer of the project himself is answering questions on social media, everywhere from FB to Reddit to YouTube. You really get the sense of transparency and like your feedback can provide constructive input into the development process.

Compared to the brick wall that is Arenanet, it’s a breath of fresh air.

Phantom.8130:

Considering that the beta for the new maps was basically just a publicity stunt, and they ignored all of the feedback from the beta testers, this doesn’t bode well for the future of WvW.

The old feedback thread is archived. I got bored today so I decided to go and read it. To my surprise the feedback was all mixed feedback. I was expecting it to be all negative feedback since so many keep saying the same thing that no one likes anything we got. Apparently some people did like it and gave positive feedback..

Joey.2769:

Here’s the issue as a WvW only player I have 3 years of vague posts and hope to go on for everything that affects my beloved play type. After 3 years I’ve noticed a horrible trend of slim to no communication followed by something that most of the community doesn’t want or enjoy.

You forgot the part of the pattern where after the failure of their release, they take no actions and say no words about it.

Remember Golem Week? Basically the perfect example of how Anet handles WvW: from the failure to heed warnings by the community, to epically buggy implementation, to the warnings turning to truth, to the complete lack of action by Anet to deal with the problem, to the complete silence about the problems.

Can you really expect them to change their ways after three years of this? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me for three years, shame on me. Seriously.