Arenanet employees do read all suggestions. They do not involve in discussing things here. This has to do with copyright claims. As long as they can claim they didnt saw it, the poster of a suggestion can’t claim to be the intelectual owner if it really gets implemented.
Did they state this somewhere explicitly or is this like a “most-likely” kind of thing? I did not even think of this but you do have a very good point on this matter
Sorry,
I haven’t seen this post for ages and missed the question. Yes they have said it, but please don’t ask me to quote them. It has been recently confirmed by mods that they do read all suggestions. The point bout not commenting has been said a long time ago before there where official forums. In those time (pre-gw2, but during gw1) suggestions where made on the wiki. On the unofficial then independent forum guildwarsguru a discussing was going on that making suggestions was useless. An arenanet official (don’t remember who) jumped in and explained that they read everything but can’t comment or discuss them cause it might give copyright issues.[/quote]
Well, this is the answer I got from them when I contacted them through another chanel (direct report): “Unfortunately, we do not have any information available about this particular topic (…). We have found that the best way for the development team to gather and review player feedback and suggestions is through our official forums. We ask players to post their ideas in our Official Forums, within the Suggestions sub-forum located here. Members of the Development Team read the Suggestions Forum daily, and while they usually cannot respond to individual suggestions, the fact that team members can review those suggestions in a public forum helps them gauge the level of interest in a specific idea, and also allows other players to discuss and offer feedback of their own.”
So yeah, apparently they read it. I found no info on the matter however. But I do think allowing guilds to change their name would be well received, and here I give the example of my own guild, who was meant to be a small one, only with friends in it, and the name was kinda weird. It didn’t matter then, but our idea of the guild itself changed, and we would want to expend it, and now this name is only a hindrance. I don’t think I’m the only one in this case, so really, it would be a great update to do.