Some of the stuff in this thread is amazing. I don’t think some of the posters even palyed since near launch.
EotM was never asked for. It was a pleasant surprise. People had lots of things to do while waiting for ques. The problem was there wasn’t information on the ques. Was it first come first serve? Is there some weird algorithm to it? What is my position in the que? That is what players asked for.
And we got it! Yea! I now know my position in the que! Now I know about how much time it will be so I can go around and do other stuff.
We never asked for EotM. Sure, there were a few suggestions, a few people who had the idea. They were a very small minority. The vast majority, at the time, wanted things like the ques fixed, better rewards, unique rewards, performance increases, different color commander tags, the fulfilling of the promise to better legendary weapon access, and many more.
But devs made the map. Just the fact that they put so much time and effort into something that was beautiful and intricate kittened a lot of people off because they did very little to change the things that people have been asking for since day 1.
Re: beta, they asked for mostly WvW guilds to participate in the beta. Yes, it was mostly a debug thing. They aren’t going to change the whole kitten thing based on player feedback. They already built it. You can blame the devs for EotM design completely.
Regarding the original topic to this thread. There is no dev presence because WvW has been relatively unchanged since launch. Some of the biggest issues have been addressed, which really isn’t much as it’s really just fixing broken stuff, such as culling, lag, preformance issues, etc. Instead of figuring out how to stop hacking, they removed orbs. There have been a few significant changes, like getting rid of the lake, introducing the trait system, que revamping.
The thing is, since most of the changes are fairly insignificant, they are more insulting than helping. For example, the reward system that was introduced. It was just re-skinning of karma gear. Not only that, but not all the armors stats were available. So, their efforts are returned with scorn. This is what most of the changes reward. Scorn and negativity. As human beings are behind this stuff, why would they subject themselves to all the toxicity.
Another thing is that WvW is immensely complicated. PvP class balancing is nothing compared to WvW as we can wear anything and use buffs. Maps are not just cap and hold. Matches last a week and not 15 minutes. There are 3 teams of potentially 360 players as opposed to 2 teams of 5. There is so much more to WvW and there will never be satisfied people, and the unsatisfied are usually the ones who kitten and make irrational suggestions on the forums.
But there’s some things we, the long time players, just can’t answer, which are the corporate decisions as to why they don’t invest major resources to WvW. I’ve been on BG since Day 1, but I quit about 6 months ago due to the complete lack of actual attention to WvW players, not lip service. Every now and then, I log into the BG TS and the only time it’s full is on reset. It’s a ghost town most other times. They’ve lost a ton of players.
They need to stop putting band aids on the bleeding gorilla in the room, and need to get rid of it completely. Consolidate the servers to 9 new ones, make whole new maps, listen to the majority of rational issues and invite major WvW guilds to a meeting to discuss things before you start making them. Start a PTS.
Any whoo.
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