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Takes a tag issue to go viral to get them to do anything…awesome.
Then it’s acknowledged like we haven’t been making suggestions since April?
Of course there’s some good suggestions, they can come from the player base as well as your own in house team.
Thank you, but don’t care as it’s too little too late. The only reason for any of this is because the tag issue went viral. Now that it’s a public issue, Anet did a 180 for good PR. Nothing more, nothing less.
You had plenty of chances to communicate with the players before this and say the exact same thing. It took bad press for you to finally do anything.
^ This x 1,000,000.
Agreed. If they can not or will not engage us in a transparent dialogue regarding the multitude of issues with WvW and bring about substantive improvements to this game mode in alignment with what the community requests, then better to simply continue with their silence and neglect.
Coming to us asking for assistance in creating what is very likely going to be used as a marketing tool (PAX is just around the corner; no wonder the short notice and rush to get these videos by next Tuesday) is condescending and perfidious in the extreme. It amounts to, “We’ll ignore you for two years but as soon as we need your help we’ll come begging for a favor from you.”
Sadly, it’s likely going to work. They’ll receive enough submissions from those who are taken in by their promises of being publicly credited for their videos to put together some kind of montage. They’ll then roll it out as an example of the SUPER-AWESOME-FRAGALISCIOUS game play that is WvW which – for only $xx.xx – you TOO can be a part of. I pity the poor souls who are going to buy the game on the promise contained in this deceitful ploy, only to discover it was a lie when they come to realize that WvW is utterly neglected.
For the rest of us who are a bit older and have experience working in corporate America (or corporate anywhere, for that matter), this is nothing more than pure, unadulterated PR BS spin while enticing their customers to do their grunt work for them with vague promises of “credit”. At least they’ve finally achieved transparency; because it’s so easy to see right through what they’re attempting.
To all of you who may be a bit younger and/or may be considering submitting a video, I don’t fault you; just realize you’re being used by a corporation. If that sits well with you, then by all means submit your videos. Understand, however, this isn’t going to improve WvW; not even indirectly.
They’ve been making money for the past two years and just recently launched in the biggest market in the world, China. Yet we haven’t seen any substantial improvements to the fundamentals underlying the WvW game mode for two years. A few WvW videos trotted out at their dog-and-pony shows won’t change that.[/quote]
Wow, both great posts. I’ve been thinking these same things and wondered how others couldn’t see through all this transparency. Thank you both for restoring my faith in humanity.
Spent a coupe hours doing the first two stories and just unlocked the third. Haven’t worked for one achievement, as I don’t want to do the story twice on all my characters and am bored with the Achievement grind. I also don’t care for the Mario Bros area or the LS one or two.
Personally, I would have rather had expansions and more permanent content or at least bug fixes that are still here from 2 years ago.
How about some equity in this ?
You’re asking a community that you’ve long shunted for free promotional material, yet wont actively engage them aside from telling them to be quiet every time they have a legitimate complaint or concern.
Exactly. Also if they actually play their game, why can’t they take the time to make a video of their own? Too busy with China?
Same issues as both of you above me and it started happening after the first LS2 patch. First time I’ve encountered any issues with the game crashing since beta and have not changed my system specs at all. I ran all system tests and malware etc…thinking it was something on my end. I noticed it tends to happen when I go windowed and back numerous times to check dragon timer etc… Almost like it causes a bug or memory leak. As long as I stay in full screen, it’s fine.
It’s really frustrating waiting on one of the blob “world” events for 30 mins. only to crash in the middle of the fight and receive no rewards for the wait.
The other thing I’ve noticed with the player reduction settings set to Minimum…. so it’s not a slideshow, is that it will sometimes not show the mobs as well. I get hit or die and can’t see what hit me until it shows up at the last second or fades in and out. I can see some players, the boss(usually) and a sea of green names fine. It tends to be the trash mobs that don’t show.
I wonder as well. They don’t have a problem deleting my posts, but I notice the white knights hardly ever come down and they can say the same things I get mine deleted for verbatim. Like advertising links to people whom may or may not have been responsible for the DDoS attack in Tech Support. They must really be upset to allow a hit list on the official forums.
After all this great communication from Anet and these wonderful patches, why would I not stop playing it! (sarcasm) I’m still adjusting to the shock from the last two patches, trying to figure out why I bother to log in.
Not yet, but I did waste 11 gold last night on a superior sigil of bloodlust for my new 80 guardian.
I did not know about the nerf to losing the 250 power stack upon weapon swap now:(
On Devonas Rest when I ran with the Queen’s train, we were always respectful to others that may have killed Champions. We’d just skip on to the next one and many times have others join in and explain the route.
The gold was nothing to write home about and many also used it to build the cringe worthy grind for 300 luck. It was also a decent method to level your 5th 80 with boosters after seeing the entire map numerous times.
We didn’t even run across the zone like a mad swath of zombies killing everything in our path and scaring all the newbs. We’d incur the cost of waypoints.
I was only 2 dungeon runs away from finishing my (1st?) monthly, since I started in beta. I spent the last 3 days trying to get in 5 runs and it was a horrible experience. This is running CoF, AC, and CM on a 80 exotic mesmer and/or a 65 well equipped thief (no MF!).
Forming a full group was harder than I thought, even using a couple guildies if you can find any that want to do a dungeon. I found no one communicates and was surprised how many didn’t know what to do. Even when questions were asked, no one says anything.
I guess the zerg groups that always run these in 15-30 mins. making 5-7 gold a run must be few and far between. All I saw were frustrated groups, dropped or dead toons or only certain classes allowed. It’s almost like everyone in this game was told not to talk to strangers??
3 days for 3 dungeons…um no thanks. Atleast I really tried to finish my monthy, but never again. Total waste of time for maybe a profit of a couple silver after all the repairs and traveling….Thankfully alts are still semi-entertaining for now.