Guild Wars 2

We all know that designing a map costs time, but not as much as making sure the map is balanced and polished. Yet everyone wants new maps and cam’t wait to play on them.

So I came up with this simple idea.. Why not let the players find out the unbalancing. Release the map as a beta map when the design is done. People can now join the map and will be informed that the makitten till in beta state. The map will also not award points for your actions.

This way the map cant be unbalanced during testing, as no points are awarded, people can play the new map, arenanet can track all the logs and balance and polish the map and the players can give their feedback.

Wouldn’t releasing new maps go alot faster this way?

Its an MMO ffs! Its not supposed to have stuff like beta servers, beta content tested by players and people interaction.

Dawdler.8521:

Its an MMO ffs! Its not supposed to have stuff like beta servers, beta content tested by players and people interaction.

Why? because it’s an MMO?

Anyway I think you misunderstood me, It will show up that it is in beta state, people that want to play the map are able to, people that dont want to play on a beta map dont have to go to that map and just pick another out the list.

Also I forgot to mention that as an MMO its too complicated to patch and get the content out to all people at once, so testing a new map isnt really feasable.

If Arenet makes new maps, I expect a map for each race, and a random rotation every week/month.