Guild Wars 2

Genuine shower-thought question here. Seeing that ArenaNet has a poor record of keeping up with the wishes/concerns of the WvW community, and how recent news/leaks from reddit seem to make WvW players uneasy, and how reset change caused an uproar, and HoT changes caused an exodus in WvW population, and how stability changes before that cause another exodus… you get my point. So, would it be possible to outsource WvW to another company?

Since launch, very little development was done on WvW as opposed to PvE and PvP. So it is reasonable to assume that WvW is not high on Anet’s list of priorities. Therefore, it might be more logical to get more devs that would be dedicated to WvW. Or, this is probably a long shot, sell it as a separate game.

Benefits for Anet: getting the game mode improved by still not doing anything.
Benefits for WvW players: get to play a game mode we all enjoy without constant thoughtless changes that cause population exodus, and hopefully better communication.

Would this be doable at all? Please, share your thoughts.

I think it would certainly be possible to bring in a second development studio, but… I don’t think it would be likely for them to actually do it. While I very much agree that WvW needs a LOT more dev attention, I just don’t see Anet releasing control of any part of this game to anyone else.

Maybe Anet can start a kickstarter campaign to fund this…

The funny part is, there’s enough members of the WvW community that would gladly volunteer for the job to fill out a full WvW development team.

Phantom.8130:

The funny part is, there’s enough members of the WvW community that would gladly volunteer for the job to fill out a full WvW development team.

I would call that a lack of time use things like jobs. If ppl are willing to work for free (legally i do not think you can making all these saying we will do this and that for free something that cant be done by a game maker or any one) they may have too much time on there hands and need to fill it in with something productive.

rchu.8945:

Maybe Anet can start a kickstarter campaign to fund this…

I’d probably support something like that. While I’m just 1 player, atm Anet isn’t making any profit on me (thankfully, I didn’t preorder HoT). There are might be more people that are only left with WvW. So if something positive is finally done about WvW, I’m sure there is at least some profit to be made.

Jski.6180:

Phantom.8130:

The funny part is, there’s enough members of the WvW community that would gladly volunteer for the job to fill out a full WvW development team.

I would call that a lack of time use things like jobs. If ppl are willing to work for free (legally i do not think you can making all these saying we will do this and that for free something that cant be done by a game maker or any one) they may have too much time on there hands and need to fill it in with something productive.

Because the company is located in California, there’s laws, unfortunately, that prohibit any kind of volunteerism that profits a private corporation.