Where did I take this to the extreme?
Sorry, that wasn’t directed at you specifically. It was more of a preventative measure.
I apologize if I am coming off mean :P I am just angry with Anet atm. Given what I have heard about the Anet team and some of my own knowledge of the history of some of peeps working there, I was expecting a team much more passionate in their game then most of the gaming industry which primary drive is more about money.
Sadly, given what I have seen after months and months, they are pretty much coming off as money being more important then being proud of their creation.
For example, programming is a very complicated and delicated process. You are going to have bugs. And when you add stuff or patch stuff, you can create more bugs sometimes stuff completely unrelated such as you add a boss to the game and somehow its creates a bug with certain class skill no matter where you are in game. Something like this happen in WoW with the mage armor skill and something else I can’t recall but was completely unrelated in every form other then both being code.
However, the amount of buggy content in this game that is release, the amount of bugs that have gone unchecked is beyond unacceptable levels for anyone that really truly cares for what the are producing. This is the habit of money is number one.
Now its not to say money is bad, they need to make income too and run the company, but money can be too highly valued to the point of just being greedy. The gaming industry back in the day when people who played games were outcast and it wasn’t all that awesome of an industry, was not this bad and people creating the games were more into what they were doing then money being the main focus. Pretty much like an artist who creates art out of passion then more so for the money but can make a good amount if what they produced is love. Anet has a good product here but it could be far better then what it is.
Some other things they have done I cannot begin to wrap my brain around unless they have next to no experience with MMOs. One time worlds events should of been learned with what happened with WoW. I knew this and already knew how terrible of idea this was but they did not? The lack of commincation in the game with regards to events, when and where, what exactly to do. This stuff should already be common knowledge and I am seeing novice mistakes being made. Learn from others so you don’t make the same mistake and there has been enough examples with other MMO’s.
This is my opinion as person who appreciates art and the quality of making a game, of making a different world in which you want to share.
