Guild Wars 2

If such a list were published and stickied, and kept updated, I bet there’d be lest pestering from the community, because we’d know that you know!

It would probably work about as well as the ‘Phishing Emails’ or ‘Phishing In-game Mails’ Stickies work.

Not worth the Dev time to keep up, probably.

Chuo.4238:

If such a list were published and stickied, and kept updated, I bet there’d be lest pestering from the community, because we’d know that you know!

While it’s true ANet has a database of bugs it’s tracking, there are several reasons why it doesn’t make sense to publish it:

• The tracking system is designed to make it easier fix them; it takes an entirely different set of categories and language to make it so that it makes sense to players. This requires someone to translate the dev-oriented phrasing and requires more time from individual devs to help.
• When given an inch (cm), players (including myself) will take a mile (km) — for each item listed of interest to us, we’ll begin to expect updates and ETAs, so the pestering won’t stop, it will just change focus.
• There are all sorts of bugs that ANet might track which are of no meaningful interest to most players. ANet would have to find a way to filter these out, without hiding esoteric issues that turn out to have indirect impact on us.

In short, it takes an enormous effort to produce a customer/player-centric list of bugs and such a list wouldn’t actually reduce the pressure on ANet to keep us up-to-date.

What has worked well in the past is when individual players have taken it upon themselves to maintain a list of issues within a player-specific interest area. For example, recently I’ve seen lists of mesmer or thief or other profession bugs, list of dungeon and/or fractal bugs, list of duplicate or problematic skins, list of stalled events blocking collection completion, and so on.