Guild Wars 2

Dear A-Net. Please forget 2 week content. It is not working, it is constantly bugged, and it is NEVER bug tested properly.

6 further updates were required to fix SOME of the bugs in this Queen’s Jubilee content and its still bugged.

This is one of the the things I posted about when they annouced 2 weekly content happening to the game, the other is that people would get tired of it.

Well at the moment people aren’t tired of it they are TOTALLY AGGRIVATED by it. You A-net wanted to stop people being bored I guess you managed that. They aren’t bored they are ready to leave.

Instead I think if this current situation continues of 2 weekly incorrectly tested, have to patch content, to make some of it work, you won’t have to worry about people being bored, you will have to worry about them leaving permanently and not coming back.

Elder Scrolls Online is just around the corner and people are already talking about moving to it. I hate Elder Scrolls and I’m thinking about it.

I 100% LOVED Guild Wars 1. I love playing the non broken portions of Guild Wars 2. Maybe you should get some of the guys in Guild Wars 1 to come help out more on Guild Wars 2.

I’ll be honest, I’ve been thinking of making a post saying look ANet 2 week releases clearly aren’t working for you.

The amount of bugs in the Gauntlet have been insane for something that will be taken away at the end of the month. Seems the Tremor gambit had to be totally removed from the game because it was just activating randomly. Dead-Eye can apparently teleport to different arenas. Subject 7’s oozes persist indefinitely. I’ve seen it put two people in to the same arena and spawn two bosses. Sometimes when the floor opened up it put the next person in too soon and they got stuck as the floor closed.

Definitely needed more testing.

New content means new items in gemstore (weapon and armor skins, minis, backpacks…), that the fanboys will rush to buy. That’s their current income source. So there’s no way they slow down the pace and care about polishing and de-bugging the game, because that would stop their income. If you don’t like the business model (and, hey, I don’t like it either), you can just move to a different game. You’ve alredy payed for the game, so if you’re not spending real money in the gemstore to buy new items each 2 weeks, you’re just a cost, not an income, and Arenanet will be happy to let you go.

No. Anet wont be happy when everyone goes because then the money drys up and they are out of luck.

But that’s not what the point is…. They can still easily introduce new items into the broker every 2 weeks without a broken 2 weekly cycle of content that upsets and annoys and frustrates people. Go look in the game and the amount of chat about the broken content is rather large. Somehow they manage to ignore it on the forums (actually its because the forum search engine is also broken and they can’t look to see what the problems are) but as a GW’s 1 player the difference in Dev teams is astounding. I truely believe that the GW’s 1 devs would NEVER have let it get to this stage.

I never said I didn’t like the broker model. I don’t like the content model which is hugely different so please don’t attempt to change what I said to what you think I said.

And as a actual real money in game spender they would miss my money spend each week.

Finally I will once again make the statement that the 2 week content system is broken (like the search engine in this forum) and soon people will become tired with the constant racing to get things done. Also the Dev’s will run out of fresh idea’s (yes it might take a year but it will happen). They have taken away our choice to play how we want.

I’m fairly sure someone figured out already that it’s not working from a player’s perspective. The problem is it’s working from a number’s perspective. With new content every two weeks and rewards that are unobtainable after that and account bound, they have the perfect solution to keep people playing this game.

You’re not gonna tell me that the people you see now online play it for fun. They play it for farming, minis, achievement points etc. And they’ll play as much as it’s needed in order to obtain what they’re looking for since they know they won’t have another chance like this. Thus an artificial increase of population, good numbers to show to the higher-ups, everyone’s happy and the game doesn’t get scrapped (we all know NCSoft is into that kind of thing).

So yes, it’s not working but it will keep the game afloat. A buggy game, with lazy design for some of the events, but beats loosing your job.

Actually NCsoft isnt into closing down games if that was the case Aion would have gone long ago.

And NCsoft is only the publisher of the disk portion of the games. I dont think that they have much say in the digital version (tho I could be totally wrong here and they may make a smaller percentage of money from each sale) and I’m pretty sure that it’s not in control of the Servers or the Gem Shop tho lots of people seem to think they are. NCsoft don’t actually own Anet, NCsoft don’t actually own anyone except themselves, they just publish the games and make a profit from doing that.

Anet owns the Guild Wars franchise and so as such can do anything with it in anyway they want.

You would be correct on driving the population figures upwards to make investors happy so that investors see a good return on the money they have put in, however again I state that this only works while people are happy and not tired and stressed out on attempting to keep up with the content updates. Lots of people have OCD in these area’s.

The instant people start feeling that they are working a job instead of a game they will leave. Point in case people are starting now to post more in here how they don’t like the 2 weekly content and they are ready to leave.

It will hit a breaking point and then it won’t be a game anymore it will have people leaving. So then they will lose their jobs after all.

Short term fixes are not fixes at all. Long term is what they should be working out. Finally I state once more the GW’s 1 Dev’s would not have allowed it to get to this stage so fast. Hence why people were playing that game 5 – 7 years after it was launched.

I would really like a Mod or Dev to actually have some courage and talk to us about this matter.

Come one Devs come and talk to us and explain to us how this 2 weekly content update isn’t broken or works perfectly.

Did the queen’s daily last night, got credit for it. That should have me given me my 16 out of 16, which I did not get credit for, (still showed 15 out of 16) so no mini for me.