Hello,
Thank you everyone for your positive and constructive posts so far, we really appreciate it.
Please keep this thread civil & constructive.
Thank you!
Forums are both for positive as well as negative opinions. I wonder why people get bothered by negativity so much?
Games improve only because of the ‘negative people’. Positive people who do nothing but praise game to 7th heaven add nothing to future improvement of the game.
I would rather read the negative posts than gushing fans giving high fives to each other.
There’s a difference between negativity and constructive criticism. Unfortunately, most people can’t seem to tell the difference. People get bothered by negativity when they like something because they feel they need to justify their approval of it. It’s a psychological thing (not disorder) but I forget what it’s called. Been a while since I’ve been in school. Irrelevant. Anyway, it’s not true. They don’t need to defend their enjoyment of GW2 to anybody.
Games improve because of positive feedback, too, because then the developers know what they’re doing right. A game should have gushing fans, that means that they are connecting with their players.
(And it means that they can gauge who likes what they’re doing, as opposed to the ‘endgame sux this game is dying need moar raids’ crowd.) And I think that it bothers that crowd that people DO like how GW is going so far overall, because they feel that it undermines their complaints.
I don’t think the ‘who’ is as important to ANet as the ‘what’. What people like and dislike is much more important. And the most important feedback (for me anyway) Is always constructive criticism; something insightful but not totally positive. Positive feedback is also useful if it is specific. But both angry rants and positive non-specific feedback are completely useless.
When im happy I don’t feel the need to discuss it on the forums yet when im not I tend to post and see if it is just me or if anyone else is feeling the same issues as I am.
I guess that comes from beta testing many MMO’s over the years and giving feedback on problems objectively.
Good news, you’re normal. That’s most people. That’s why there is “seemingly” so many negative posts. People come to the forums when they have complaints.
I’m a huuuuge GW1 fan and as such my expectations for GW2 were unrealistically high. GW2 is a good game but violates some aspects of the Manifesto that I held as divine. So now GW2 is more of a new MMO, like other new MMOs, rather than the ground breaking guild-wars sequel that I expected it to be. It’s still good, it’s just not what I expected/hoped it to be. I’m still playing it and that’s a testiment to the game (as well as the quality of its competition).
More of my opinions:
ANet has some great ideas, but they seem to be lacking in execution — there have been some class-A bungles in dealing with the Player base. This should improve with time. I think they were lacking experience in this department and that experience wasn’t required in GW1 or vacated before GW2 was released.
It’s also concerning that many bugs are still unaddressed. In software development, this is a red-light. It could indicate that the software is overly complex, has little process controls, the team has a talent vacuum (i.e. talent left), or some combination thereof. If you couple this with “defect injection rate” (defects introduced while fixing other defects), it’s very concerning. However the ship is still floating so here’s to hoping for the best!
Great, constructive post. I felt like everything you said could have come from my mouth.