Guild Wars 2

The recent PvE Evon & Kiel voting could be utilized to great effect in WvW. Imagine the devs gave us a couple of options to choose from. They can’t work on all, but they can focus on one – and we are the ones to pick it, through the voting system added with Evon & Kiel update.

Imagine a Council of the Tower Lords where all of the Keep and tower lords meet and each offers to improve one aspect of WvW. One may offer a new experimental siege machine (yay!), another may promise working on new masteries (booo!), another pledges to invest into new upgrades for camps (palisades!), another will work on polishing the existing maps (like making the centaur/skritt areas useful), and so on.

Vote tokens would drop through playing WvW. The more you play, the more votes you get to cast, the more impact you can make on what will be researched next. That way people who play WvW the most would have more influence on where to direct the WvW team’s efforts. Makes perfect sense!

This would also take some chains off of the devs, who are too afraid now to experiment with risky things, fearing it could break more than it adds. Let’s take the burden off their shoulders! If the majority says ‘we want to try this new risky feature’, let’s do it!

Votes could also be bought on the gem store. Another way to support ANet while finally having some influence on the game. This offers a new exciting posibility!

The Black Lion Shares! You can purchase these only with real money. The Lord of the Stonemist Castle himself is accepting these tokens. ANet sets a certain number of shares required to be bought. Once the number is met, and players deposit the required number of shares, the new WvW World Creation team, sponsored by you, goes on to create a new WvW map with all the bells and whistles! Think of it as a Kickstarter project disguised within the game.

Players funding content they want – that is the future.

Good idea so it’s not going to happen…