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OP i’m sorry to say, but that’s entirely false, as much as i would love them to communicate to us and blah blah blah most players don’t read these forums, and every ranger i’ve talked to doesn’t even realize they’re “under powered” infact, the only people that think rangers are under powered are the ones who have only found bad rangers, or the ones that go to this forum (which if you haven’t noticed is about the same 5 people complaining about how we’re broken).
And as for your whole, “Oh waaaah they don’t cater to my every will this means they don’t care about me after i bought the game!” yeah, totally, that’s why they’ve had a patch every month, and it’s looking like it’ll stay that way, as well as making balance changes fairly regularly, i mean look at the whole OP backstab thing, that got changed pretty freaking fast, as well as a few other things.
Just because the prof YOU play solely isn’t getting very many changes going on with it doesn’t mean that they aren’t doing anything with the game, i personally don’t even see half of these problems this forum complains about, so i think this is just more over dramatization from this same forum area, surprise surprise…
Clearly a warrior in disguise.
but they as a company have a different perspective and have to do what they think is best for the business overall
Then why can’t they tell us anything at all about what their perspective is? The silence is deafening.
Because it’s a no-win proposition, IMO. No matter what they say, there will be complainers, and certain segments of their user base will feel alienated. How many other companies you do business with honestly explain all of their priorities to you? Do you really think you’d be happy with every company you do business with if they did explain their priorities every time you weren’t satisfied?
Generally speaking, the best public message for any business is that they want to fix all problems and always work make their product/service better for everyone.
I mean you are always going to have someone somewhere complaining. Yet if they told you that x changes were coming on the 30th of this month. I would be ok with that. Even if they weren’t exactly the changes I had hoped for. Yet as it stands now, we have no idea what their priorities are or when they are going to fix anything. We can’t even get them to admit the “animation fix” was a nerf.
John wants to claim that they only have 2 devs that do class balance and are hard pressed to find time to work in any of these supposed changes. At least that’s what they tell us and want us to believe. Yet 2 patches ago rangers were skipped and he said don’t worry rangers your patch is coming next. So we waited and the supposed “Ranger Patch” the rangers actually had the least amount of bullet points from any class. We had the least changed. No we didn’t get nerfed like some classes did but even so. Nothing was fixed not even our bugs. At the least some bugs should have been fixed.
At the current rate that they are pushing out content it is creating more bugs than the dev team can fix. It’s a never ending cycle they fix one thing but break 3 more because of all the new content.
Not to mention if the Devs say rangers are in rough shape then why wouldn’t they devote more time to the rangers than say warriors, Or mesmers? It just doesn’t make sense to me.
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but they as a company have a different perspective and have to do what they think is best for the business overall
Then why can’t they tell us anything at all about what their perspective is? The silence is deafening.
transparency with the players is also not always the answer. if you have played league of legends, you should be aware of the terms ‘magma chamber’ and ‘stealth rework’. these were 2 instances of transparency that went horribly, horribly wrong.
I never played LOL enough to know what those terms mean, So I would be in the dark there. Yet it sounds to me like a simple bait and switch tactic from the way you talk about it.
A-Net wants to sell more copies of GW2, more gems, future expansion packs, and other A-Net titles, so of course they care about their customers.
That’s exactly what I’m afraid of…
Come buy the new “Lost Shores Expac” 59.99$ Now with MORE RANGER FIXES
Why do things for free when you can charge people for them?
I’m not saying communication is the be all end all of what needs to be done, but it’s a start in the right direction. As of now rangers are a severely below par class with nothing to look forward to on the horizon, for all we know a patch could come out tomorrow to fix us or 6 months from now.
Do you want to continue to play in a game where when you whisper someone and ask for a invite they decline you based on your class?
I don’t want to re-roll to be useful and I don’t feel useful on my ranger, hell even my guildies ask if I have any alts to come on when I ask for dungeon invites now… It’s that sad.
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First off I would like to say I am a lvl 80 ranger and have played my ranger since day 1 of head start. 100% completion on him, halfway to the legendary bow Kudzu, 400 on 5 professions. He is my only lvl 80 and will always be my only lvl 80.
It is clear to me now after this last patch the way arenanet operates their game. They rely on the philosophy that once you bought the game, since they are no longer making any money from you, that they no longer care about you. It’s clear with their lack of bug-fixing and class balancing but with the extreme amount of new content that has been pushed out that they only care about trying to garner new players into this game. Not keeping old ones.
For this reason I am shelving my ranger, the ranger I bought gems with to support the company I had hopes for. This is an amazing game but with the current design philosophy that arenanet is taking it will be a short lived game with a few hardcore dedicated players, only playing the flavor of the month class.
To save this game, at this point, the first and foremost thing should be communication with your player base. Nothing would go as far as this to help alleviate the problems that are afflicting the community. Transparency and communication, which currently arenanet offers neither.
This is not a rant or bashing thread I just wanted to share my thoughts on the matter with fellow rangers. So if your a mod reading this don’t get mad its a discussion.