Guild Wars 2

Instead of polling players, why can’t Anet come into teamspeak of different WvW guilds and ask our opinions/suggestions for making WvW better? I think you’d be able to capture a lot of the issues more clearly and easily if someone explained them. I think this would be a great start to trying to improve our beloved game mode. Obviously not all suggestions and opinions will be correct or implemented but I bet you’ll get a better idea of what WvW “fights” guilds value and what more “ppt” oriented guilds value in terms of WvW.
It doesn’t have to be an hour long interview but just a quick 5-15 minute convo from a few members to get an idea of what people who play WvW very regularly would like to see changed or implemented to better their experiences. If Anet needs a list of some noteable guilds to talk to then I’d be happy to point them in the right direction.

Here here! Don’t the devs already talk to PvErs (IE: DnT and other famous PvE guilds that I can’t think of) as well as PvPers? Why is WvW left out of the communication?

ANET hasn’t cared about WvW in the 4 years since game launch. The best content addition that people actually like, the Obsidian Sanctum, was only given to the community because of some badmouthing dev who was kitten talking players who were GvGing in a borderland.

Obsidian Sanctum seems to be consistently empty these days

A couple of months ago, I was in TS during a raid and a WvW dev was with us in our channel, wont say who, but they were really cool and didn’t mind answering questions. I think it was during one of the tournaments, I might be mistaken, when they had the adopt-a-dev program where they would join guilds and communicate more personally with players. They are not all repping the anet guild 100% of the time, some actually do belong to other guilds and do talk with players.

Its been awhile, definitely before HOT came out, but ANET did do this. They asked for guilds to volunteer to have them guest. My guild at the time was one of them. They didn’t stay long and didn’t say much but they did join our TS. I think my guild mates were a bit scared to say anything and so not much came of it.

Exactly where they went wrong….listening to the big guilds and t1 tags. That worked out very well

Unless they visit every server 24/7 for a sample period, they’re subject to the same issues as the “he who screams loudest on the forum gets his way” laws.

The polls are really the better accurate measure of overall player views.

Jayne.9251:

The polls are really the better accurate measure of overall player views.

Not really if you don’t have a choice or if the question is asked in two parts – I’m not around for every poll.
Also everybody has got access to them and not everybody plays wvw.
In theory you’re right, but the reality is differently. We’re stuck with the DBL because of above reasons (and more) – but still nearly no one likes them and they’re a huge drag down for those assignet to it. I wonder if anyone measures the impact of the DBL and if so and it’s redeemed negative if they will ever be removed.