Guild Wars 2

In another thread, John Copening implied that Anet would like time to fix any bugs when the new BL maps are launched. His suggestion of moving reset doesn’t meet much favour so how about this instead:

Keep Friday reset.
Launch the new maps when planned with everything running as it would be.
Disable glicko for the first week (until the first reset with the new maps).
Then after first reset game on…

Advantage for Anet – you get more time to fix bugs, and can focus on the HoT PvE maps first (which I suspect will have more players and you’re going to do this anyway).

Advantage for players – we get time to learn the new maps before our scores start affect our matches. This is particularly useful for people who didn’t get to beta test the new maps.

Disadvantage for players – we get a week where scores don’t count (I’d happily trade this for a decent bug fixed map imho).

Disadvantage for Anet – the WvW community would expect you to deliver bug fixes for the more serious problems within this week. There shouldn’t be any catastrophic bugs following beta testing – anything that made WvW unplayable we’d need fixing earlier, but most issues could be dealt with after the first couple of days, and we’d expect you to have a decent go at doing so.

I think this is a better solution than shifting Reset or having developers spread thinly between game modes. Perhaps if enough people agree it may even come to pass!