State of the Game (and the main GW site)

Originally Posted by Shyft the Pyro

So what will you do when you find poorly edited text in the game? Because it's only a question of when, not if,

Originally Posted by Caleb The Pontiff

What will I do? I will overlook the editing error and continue on with the game I am enjoying. While I understand your fervor, I do not share it.

Originally Posted by bigwig

The grammar apocalypse is at hand! Repent!

Originally Posted by Skuld

Hmm, your very reply says a lot.

Originally Posted by Shyft the Pyro

I've been saying this for a while but I feel the need to say it again: the quality of editing on the main Guild Wars site (http://www.guildwars.com/) has been exceptionally poor lately. I say this not because I expect every writer of every article to have perfect punctuation and grammar, but because I already know - as Gaile Gray has posted - that professional editors are checking all articles before they are uploaded to the site. This isn't a post about a poor job on the part of the writers, whose job it is to create content. This is a post about a poor job on the part of the editors, whose job it is to make sure all content is edited properly.

Case in point: yesterday's State of the Game article. I don't know if this item was rushed or whether the editing process was skipped entirely, but there are things in that article that even Microsoft Word would catch, ranging from misspellings to multiple punctuation marks to missing words. The description of "The Crag" arena at the very end of the Random Arena section is a veritable minefield of editing errors, including things like "killsin 3minutes" and "akillA" and the seemingly ubiquitous double punctuation.

I understand that in online communication where time is of the essence misspellings will occur, and a lot of us read or use "unedited" language in the game itself. But official content from the company that releases this game, content that isn't subjected to the same time constraints as in-game speech, should be held up to a higher standard.

I care about this game and I can't stand the thought that its main, official website contains errors. Neither can I believe it's good business, not with a "Contacts from journalists" email listed on the Support page. A few editing errors aren't something to base one's opinion of the whole game on, but a journalist who finds them on the site and then finds them again in the game might just give a less favorable review.

I'd like to give direct feedback about this issue, but there doesn't seem to be a "Site feedback" email on the Support page. Not knowing which email address to use, I've mailed my specific editing concerns with the State of the Game article to the "General Community Contact" address. I am, however, getting a bit discouraged, what with no feedback going the other way. Only a month ago Gaile Gray started a thread on this very forum devoted to anything we as players could spot in terms of things that needed fixing. The only thing there I know was fixed is the wording on Knights and Ascalon armor, because I can see that in update notes. If someone is fixing things we're noticing, I'd like to see it reported somewhere so I can give the people a hand for making Guild Wars better. If nothing is being done I'd like to know that too, so that I can enter my "angry customer" mode and try to rile the community up to do the same

What kills me most is that people are getting paid to prevent errors, and yet errors are so numerous. If we're getting tapped by ANet to help find them, I'd really like to know what's being done to fix and prevent them.

Originally Posted by Shyft the Pyro

So what will you do when you find poorly edited text in the game? Because it's only a question of when, not if, with all the editing errors that have been pointed out in .

Originally Posted by Loviatar

Originally Posted by Shyft the Pyro

To follow through, I just checked on a factual error that was present in the 07/13 issue of the Scribe, and it appears to have been fixed. Where originally Rotscale "made the eastern boarder of Kryta its home," the sentence has been changed to read "made the western boarder of Kryta its home." How is it that while changing "eastern" into "western" the editor didn't notice the word next to it?

Originally Posted by majoho

LOL, this is a joke.

Originally Posted by majoho

But on subject again.

What's with the bolding stuff in all your posts?

Originally Posted by majoho

And just because you won every spelling bee you ever competed in most people still don't think it's much (or any) of a problem that things are spelled wrong on the site - it's a simple game homepage, not some fancy business page.

Originally Posted by Shyft the Pyro

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I don't know how much more of a "fancy business" Guild Wars can become. Think about it: with 2 million copies of Prophecies and Factions sold, Guild Wars has brought in $100 million. Of course the actual numbers are lower because not all of the $50 you pay for the game goes directly to ANet - unless you bought the game directly from the NCSoft online store or the upcoming in-game Official Guild Wars store. I'd call any business that boasts a revolutionary revenue model, 2 million items sold and a huge fan following of their product a "fancy" one.

Guild Wars is ANet's business since it's (right now) the only ANet game. The Guild Wars website is the main advertisement for Guild Wars. I believe it should be held up to the "fancy business page" standards because it is very likely to be the first place incoming customers will look for detailed game information.

Originally Posted by Shyft the Pyro

I've never competed in a spelling bee, and the only reason I've ever mentioned that I do editing for my college's literary magazine is because I hope my experience gives some validity to my statements.

Originally Posted by Loviatar

were you aware that everything you described belongs to NCSoft?

Originally Posted by Meo Yeong

LOL

Run-on sentence

Originally Posted by Shyft the Pyro

So instead of addressing the issue, you want to play the blame game?
Owned, yes. Operated?:

Originally Posted by Loviatar

i do not have the slightest idea what set you off on that tangent.

you made a list of Anet assets and i merely said that NCSoft is the owner of those stated assets as indeed Anet is

i was addressing the wealth of Anet assets listed as being NCSoft assets nothing more