If you’re considering how the GW2 Team can best hear your input about the game — such as what you’d like to see in the future, how things are working now, etc. — I personally don’t think a survey is necessary. Honestly and truly: These forums are a huge and very effective medium for communication. They are read daily by members of the team — probably more people than you think! — and the forums, as a whole, give us a much better view of what’s important to Guild Wars 2 players than most surveys would do.
Too we have interaction here that’s incredibly effective. Yep, I’m thinking CDIs and I’m glad they’re back! (Even if I marvel how Chris is able to keep up the pace!
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Surveys are difficult to devise in a way that makes them unbiased and statistically accurate. That’s not to say it cannot be done, and the idea of surveys linked to an active game account certainly sounds better to me than those random Internet surveys, like “Who’s your favorite singer,” which get gamed through fan groups, artist management companies, publicists, agents, and the use of “ballot-box stuffing” methods, like vote, clear cache, vote again; vote, change computers, vote again; vote, set up 100 fake e-mail accounts, vote again.
Anyway, just wanted to add a couple of pennies about the subject, fwiw.
If these were read daily then why are leaps broken for nearly every class in this game since the release of the game?
The fact they still need to be pointed out what the bugs are shows that it doesn’t even phase them. I am just having fun with it just like the dev’s are
What is more sad to me is that this is probably not even the developers fault. Based on what I have read over the years, the devs are just so limited by the management that they cannot develop anything real. Such as their inability to know the basics of good business.
Broken record moment. Nearly every successful business has always thought in the long run. Key word, nearly. Not saying all but you get it. When you build a computer do you build for now? No, you build for the future, when you fix up a car, do you buy parts for tomorrow? No, you buy for years down the road so it is as easy to maintain as possible. Why should this game be any different?
It has been proven time and time again that if you just wait and take your time with development and release a solid quality product/content whatever you want to call it, the community will be more pleased then releasing half baked products/content like a machine gun. This Living Story thing is a joke and it always will be. It has a story yes, but the execution is the worst I have ever seen. Giving no time to any of the writers to make a good solid story, they are forced to just put it out asap. And this pans out to every aspect of this game and it is heart breaking, truly heart breaking.
As I said before, Guild Wars 2 is not long for this world with this sort of business model/thinking. No business has ever thrived and is excepted by the sane public by doing this. Your reputation is your biggest product, if you lose your reputation then you lose your product, it is as simple as that.
I felt I needed to clarify what I meant when I said “Anet”. I am not saying the dev’s arent a part of this but from what I see this is a management screw up. In my business I will never ever ever let a suit manage a game. They have no interest in it. You must have a love for your product or you mine as well toss it out.
TL/DR When you let someone who doesn’t have a love for the product take over, the product is doomed to fail eventually. You can try and try and try to hype it all into the sky but in the long run, you will fail I can promise you that. Guild Wars 1 was a masterpiece. Some of the best PvP/PvE I have ever seen in an MMO. Guild Wars 2 is the worst PvP/PvE I have ever seen in an MMO (That is functioning).
gw1 wasn’t the best pve experience.. Everything was instanced and it kill the immersion of what an mmo is.. It felt more like a glorified version of diablo 2 with 3d graphics. I can’t speak to the gw1 pvp.. But there were way better pve mmo’s out there than gw1.
I did say SOME of the best, not THE best .
This isn’t even only about the matchup system. The glaring issues of kitten near every single leap sending you off of an edge, or send you in the direction you are looking not the direction you are telling it to go (Earthshaker), skills canceling out for no reason, massive lag during large scale battles when they boasted the awesomeness of it during their hype train of the game. I mean hell they even denied help from Nvidia and AMD when they were struggling with the GPU vs CPU usage issues.The serious neglect to this game is just amazing to me. How can someone make an amazing product and then completely ruin its massive potential. It still makes me facepalm, it really does.