I certainly hope not. Although it would be almost impossible to organize and manage such thing, at the end yes our message would have to be addressed.
For over two years most of the issues the community has had with the game have been ignored, or when addressed the old “we are looking into it” response then stuffed back in the bottom draw in hopes that it would be a forgotten issue.
On the flip side, content that are irrelevant and sometimes harmful to the player base is released with no prior discussion or heads up. No need to beat a dead horse by listing the many issues the game has had since release. In all honesty I believe most of the playerbase wouldnt even want a rushed fix.
All I come to ask of the dev’s is roadmap or a direction that they are taking the game. Not to be told to stop whinning or “we are looking into it”. Im to the point that im ready to stop gambling wars 2 and looking for a new game unless i see a positive future.
Thank You for your hard work, even though it is very hard to notice sometimes.
Boycotting the game will only cause the game to die, we tried it with Tabula Rasa and after a few months they shut down the servers, causing me and my guild(R.I.P. SFD xD) to lose our favorite game. Where as if we(arguably the “community players”) of the game at the time had stuck it out, the game may still be around, and we might have seen an Expansion or something at least. Way it went that game had a decent playbase at launch, then we all “boycotted” cos it had a lack of end game content, and boom dead over night. That’s just my one IRL example of where boycotting got me for a video game. Unfortunately boycotting rarely works when it comes to these kinds of situations as a company like Anet will always cut their loses and re-invent the wheel(so new IP), rather than dump a bunch of money in a project in the hopes of winning back an already obviously fickle playerbase.
We love the game enough to post these threads, and spend hours kittening at each other over the specifics in the comments, so best guess for the way to get the devs to listen is keep playing. Keep trying to enjoy the bits of the game that you still do, and keep creating threads but constructively discuss specific problems in your thread, and specific solutions to those problems. If they get enough hits on the forums Devs are bound to read them and if the threads are offering tangible directions for an improvement to actually go in…maybe they’ll pick up on what to do before they lose us for good if these issues are so bad.
Personally I’m just getting back into the game after a post-launch hiatus of about a year. After my recent experience have to say surprised at all the complaints on the forums, been loving the game more than when it came out. Maybe we expect too much from an MMO than doesn’t have a monthly fee? I dunno lol
Also think some chilling is in need, living world boots back up on Nov. 4. They butcher that release, then lets talk about boycotting for real xD