Guild Wars 2

Gaile Gray.6029 & John Corpening,

First off, I would like to say that I understand that you have been met with extreme hostility over the changes that you are making to our beloved WvW community. That being said, I feel that your changes have been made without regards to what the WvW players want nor have requested.

1. You claim that this is due to the HoT release. Ok, we all understand that this is a huge undertaking. We get that. We don’t have an issue with that.

2. Why did you drop this in our laps 1-2 weeks prior to the expansion release? And why have you not directly answered our questions with direct answers other than this is how it is going to be. Period.

3. WvW players are some of the most competitive players in GW2 and yes, we can be a hostile bunch. We are extremely competitive and VERY PASSIONATE about this aspect of the game. So in a way of expression, yes, you will be met with hostility since this information was literally dropped in our laps without much notice nor regard for the player base that plays this aspect of the game.

4. Can we get an HONEST answer and a direct, no B.S. answer to why you decided these changes were needed and why they were made. No more dancing around it, no more vague descriptions. Just an honest and true to form answer that would satisfy our understanding of your choices. Giving us vague and nonchalant answers that have been provided, have not given us a true understanding of this decision that ANet has come to.

5. Are you going to have a dedicated team that will work and ACTUALLY PLAY WvW and deal with our concerns in the same manner you deal with the PvE and sPvP aspects of the game? And yes, I mean actually play in WvW….in tier 1 all the way down to the bottom tier, since in essence, they can be wildly different. Are they going to look at ONLY the WvW populations and not megaserver populations? Since this is a server based part of the game, judging numbers and data on megaserver populations is not truly looking at the correct picture.

6. What are your future plans for the WvW aspect of the game? Are you going to put out the new borderlands, leave EB, and then abandon us? Are you going to listen to us as you do with the PvE’ers and the PvP’ers?

7. I understand that you want everyone in the game to experience the ENTIRE game to explore all of your hard work and dedication to this new expansion. But once we have been through the new content…..a few months/years down the road, what do you plan on doing for the end game? More raids? More content changes to PvP? More content changes to fractals/dungeons? More content changes to WvW? Tournaments? Seasons? Rewards? Loot changes? Or just release another expansion?

8. Are you honestly going to look at the WvW only numbers when you “evaluate” the changes that you have already made apparent that you are not wanting to budge from (aka Saturday resets)?

If you wouldn’t mind actually sitting down and answering these questions so that we, as the player base can fully understand why these changes have been forced on us and have been made, then we as the WvW community (or at least I would since I am only one of the many voices here) would better understand the changes and know what we mean to the ANet team.

Please I beg of you to give us some answers instead of pushing us aside or as I have felt that the previous reasons you have given has made me feel that as a WvW player has felt. I mean, I have been with this game since Beta of the GW2. I use to love this game and praised that ANet was always honorable in giving to the players and was open to conversations. My hope is that I can then trust ANet again and return to loving the game wholeheartedly with the passion that I had previously. These are my opinions and questions that I have. I do not want anyone to think that I am speaking for the whole community, but I feel that this would answer a lot of our questions and help us understand the reasons behind your choices in this aspect of the game. I sincerely hope that you change the reset back to Friday nights as it has been previously, but with solid answers to the questions I have presented, I could then decide if I can past my anger towards the changes.

I appreciate your time. Thank you for taking time to read this if you do….. I await your feedback.

Barabajagal.6147:

The ‘review’ is very non-commital, I don’t believe Anet has any intention of changing it back. That, and the offering up of something even worse, is throwing us a bone to get us to accept it. Give it a few weeks, and who will still be arguing for a return to Fri reset? Those it kills the game for will just stop logging in and drift off, and Saturday will stay. Anet will have their increasingly casual WvW, with stealth fountains, golem events and gimmicks that destroy the game mode for those that truly love open world, large scale pvp.

For the record, I have never asked for any change – all I want from a game is a balanced environment, with objectives, to pit my wits against our opponents and enjoy being part of a team where the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts. I was truly impressed with the design and mechanics of the BL and this game mode when it launched, it had clearly been designed and put together with a lot of experience and love for this game mode.

The way this has been handled, even more than the change, gives me the most concern. This is a big change to our WvW culture, and it was landed on us with no explaination a week before release. No-one to my knowledge has ever asked for this to be changed. Thoughtfulness goes both ways, and this is extremely poor customer service that doesn’t bode well for the future of WvW.

For all the reasons listed by others Friday is my favorite night of the week, and I have popped a blue tag on all but a handful in the last 2 years. Without it, I will care less about WvW, and if I don’t care, there’s no incentive to play. I’m waiting for a firm commitment from Anet to change it back to Fridays on a set date, before I make a firm commitment to continue playing this game. I’m not hopeful ^^

Very well said! I applaud thee! <3 Truly, I do!

Jski.6180:

LetoII.3782:

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Jski.6180:

That would be mega servers this is just the biggest “fear” of changes type of changes.
Most ppl who played Friday night can play Saturday its just going to require them to changes there habits some. Where the “fear” of something new comes into play.

I’m not afraid of half my gaming time (read:weekend) being lost/marginalized.
I’m going to be very angry about it. If I get too angry, I may spend my money elsewhere.

It’s a good thing that Arenanet panders to it’s consumers a bit.
Lots of old sayings about that being a smart way to do business.

When it comes to changes anger is a type of fear.

Hop on over to origin or steam or battle.net and lets talk about who’s fear and what changes.
That’s the gist of this thread.

Not comply sure what going on on thoughts threads web pages etc.. but the thing is here WvW is not going away. The way ppl seem to be talking about this changes as if wvw is going away for good when realy its just going to up the number of ppl who can play during reset. Yes you may lose the rush of reset but a lot wvw players do not get to play that due to not having Fridays nights off. If all you played was for the reset i think you missed the point of wvw comply and if you where a “gvg” player reset timing is not important to you more so after HoT.

Jski……

This is a what we would call a slap in the face to something we are extremely passionate about and care about and to a point “live for”. It cuts a lot of the “hardcore” player base and we will lose a lot of good fighters/commanders/players for something that was done with dishonor and for B.S. reasons that were given by a game that we are passionate for. If this thing changes, you will not have the same system or the same player base that you might have had if they had not spit in the face of the customer. We are angry. We love this part of the game. It is more than just reset. It is when the fiercest battles were fought, when we put in more than just a few hours playing with our friends, we played until we couldn’t do it anymore. We fought great battles against other like minded players with strategy and strength. It was a WHOLE weekend of blood, battle, sweat, and tears that went into it. There was lots of gold spent, lots of sacrifice on our parts for things we wanted or needed to have in order to hold the land we proudly called our own worlds. We have server pride that a lot of people do not understand and will not understand unless you have become one of us. We devote hours away from the game researching builds and making strategies. We scrimmage our fellow guilds to help improve our battle techniques. To us it is more than just “reset”. We have hours that will be cut from the majority of time to have this epic battle that we cherish every week. We have victories, we have defeats, we have massive fights that never seem to end……this is what we are in this game for. Some people do not get to do this every day. Some only have the weekend (Friday night through Sunday evening) to hang out with their friends and mates. To battle and have fun with on teamspeak, to laugh….to fight….to focus….to maintain….to destroy what we have in front of us as our obstacle so we can claim the prize and be the victors of the great fight we just ensued. With the reset time change, you take 24 hours away from many hardcore wvw’ers. Not just from NA, but from all of the timezones. We are all affected. To us, we are a band, a world, a server. We will fight and set the tone for the week and we give our last breath to be victorious at the end of the week. That is what it means to us, if that even gives you such a small glimpse into our way of thinking. This was also announced a week before the expansion came out. Kind of sneaky and cowardice. With no explanation, no viable reason, and when they did attempt to give us a small bone, they spat nonsense. Then when they see that we didn’t see through their B. S. then they tried to give us more. But we do not believe them. For they have already lied and our trust is shakey at best when it comes to the ANet WvW crew. They changed the time, but not to something that almost the entire community wanted. To something that would make it easier on them. That is where they spit in our face. We are competitive and do not go quietly in the night. We stand for what we believe in. When they are starting to figure out is that we will take this lying down. We will continue to fight. We do not die on our backs or knees. We stand and fight, just as we do in game. They are starting to see that we will not, they changed the time back to Saturday night again. But that will not be satisfactory. They will need to fix it back to the way it was (the proper time on Friday night resets) so we as a community will be happier with the aspect of the game we love. And if they eventually turn their backs on us and tell us they do not care, then they will lose an extremely loyal and dedicated fan base that will take this spirit somewhere else, and that is where we will call home. We can leave the mists just as easily as they can turn their backs on us. That is why we are angry. We are not afraid. We are passionate. We are Hardcore WvW’ers.

I am able to purchase the firestone now from the heart vendor. Went and made the elixir………………poof! Nothing. Out of the karma for the firestone, out of the achievement for the elixir, unable to go to the bitter cold area to help a friend out. I don’t know if this is going to be fixed or not.