Guild Wars 2

in this subforum is quite akward. No answers, no statement, just pure silence.

The silence on WvW forum is much worse.

Holland.9351:

The silence on WvW forum is much worse.

There are no devs assigned to WvW. I think the objectives are in a board that someone take if they have spare time.
“Hey this weekend instead enjoying my family/wife/children i’ll stay in the office with this WvW stuff” said none ever.

Holland.9351:

The silence on WvW forum is much worse.

Camelot Unchained can’t come soon enough…

What can a dev say in here? Sorry we crapped on you?

Actually across all FORUMS. No Dev is replying to anything or anyone… However, they are “WATCHING”… keep that in mind…

From experience, the silence means some huge announcement or overhaul is in the works. Don’t know if that’s a good thing or bad thing though. . . .

There’s no doubt in my mind they’re reading the forums here and on Reddit though. The complaining has reached near-epic levels.

And rightly so.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

From experience, the silence means some huge announcement or overhaul is in the works.
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for their sake… i certainly hope so

Unnacceptable. Their silence has already made me stop playing. They do not care about their game, why should I?

Daharahj.1325:

Unnacceptable. Their silence has already made me stop playing. snip

I feel you, homay. I’m on an indefinite break until they start making some serious fixes and balance changes.

Daharahj.1325:

Unnacceptable. Their silence has already made me stop playing. They do not care about their game, why should I?

Actually a lot of players did already, the maps are deserted.

Although i think is has more to do with the fact that the loot from HoT release was turned down to be just trash, to force people to buy gems.
That could work with the F2P flock but the actual players that pay for the game i guess they don’t like the idea of being sucked dry.

This is the type of communication I would expect from a competent company.

ANet, start taking notes.

Back in the day, we had something like that . . . but it backfired on the developers when players started to quote them and their promises when things took a turn.

It’s my understanding, after the SAB debacle, that all comments on these boards, by any staff, must go through some sort of committee’s approval before it can be posted.

No, seriously.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

From experience, the silence means some huge announcement or overhaul is in the works. Don’t know if that’s a good thing or bad thing though. . . .

There’s no doubt in my mind they’re reading the forums here and on Reddit though. The complaining has reached near-epic levels.

And rightly so.

We had silence in the ranger forums for a long time before, no major overhaul ever happened.

i’m expecting a huge balance patch, God only knows where it will leave druid after, but prior to seasons returning in January(i think) they’re going to have to patch and tune a few things.

with all the pvp whine i’m expecting more nerfs for druid…

I was told that it would be a “bad presidence” if developers posted on threads that were demanding answers….

That’s all I was told on the matter….

Wolfey.3407:

I was told that it would be a “bad presidence” if developers posted on threads that were demanding answers….

That’s all I was told on the matter….

probably a good idea lol

Wolfey.3407:

I was told that it would be a “bad presidence” if developers posted on threads that were demanding answers….

That’s all I was told on the matter….

Even though a lot of my frustration is/was directed at Irenio and the rest of the Ranger design team, its not really fair to them since the real culprits are the people in charge.

It was clear to me from the beginning that you can’t just add a healer to a game that has been designed from the ground up for 3 years around the basis that healers were unnecessary/undesired unless you made major changes to the entire infrastructure of the game. (The thought of not doing so would be like selling an electric vehicle with no network of charging batteries for the buyer to use.) You also need to have a clear vision as to how a healing Druid would fit in the game for PVP and PVE since it goes against the core philosophies GW2 started out with. Creating a healing specced Elite is trivial compared to the real work of laying a foundation for a healing spec to be introduced into GW2.

When Anet anounced that they would be adding a healer class to the game, I had serious doubts considering all of the work that needed to be implemented. It also didn’t make sense from a business perspective that they would spend so much development resources trying to add a healer spec for what I considered little returns. (Again, creating an infrastructure would have been a huge undertaking for the little it returned; they could have easily have gone with just a different elite concept.) I pushed away all of my doubts though and got caught up in the hype train and wanted to believe that Anet could pull it off because that is the type of confidence I had in Anet as a company. I thought they were passionate gamers who wanted to implement something awesome in HoT that they could proudly play. Its clear to me now though that the people pulling the strings at Anet are either incompetent/clueless at realizing the amount of work involved to add a healer or they realized it was impossible but decided to promote it anyways because it would generate excitement/revenue for them. Either way, my confidence in Anet has been shattered.

Its easy for us to target Irenio/Ranger design team because he is the face of Ranger/Druid but the more I think about it, the more I feel he is just a scapegoat. (Yes, he is over his head when it comes to designing a Druid elite spec but he was given an impossible task to begin with and probably none of the resources to undertake such a huge task.)

NCSoft is known for screwing their playerbase if it means that they make a profit and that’s what I feel has happened here (or whoever is making the decisions). Setting unrealistic expectations for the staff at Anet and abusing the hard-earned reputation Anet developed over the years to promote and cash in on things that were never going to see the light of day at HoT launch (e.g. a Druid elite that makes sense and a Fractals revamp being nothing but recycled levels/weapon skins).

NCSoft has gone down this road with other games and this silence is what I expected from them. They knew there would be outrage but they also know that the outrage will die out over time so long as they remain silent. (They are old pros at this and know how to play this game.) They can also use Irenio/Ranger design team as an easy scapegoat knowing fully well that it would come down to this. They stand to make all the money from their false advertising/promises and the blame for the fallout can easily be directed at someone else. The only thing I can do in the face of such disrespect towards its playerbase and the good people who still work at Anet is to vote with my wallet.