Ask ArenaNet Your Best GW Question

Posting this on Wednesday, probably won't count but I figured I would ask regardless.

Will there be more actual Role-Playing elements ever integrated, or will Guild Wars players constantly be pressured to PvP?

*edit, because I feel it valid*
If you do continue to try and force PvP on us, will you at least make it interesting, versus the e-peen tag match it is now?

Will ArenaNet as a whole, ever pull their heads out of their asses and address the real concerns with the game. Or will they only address the happy, fluffy topics as thier actions have shown so far?

Q:Will Assassins and Ritualists keep getting support throughout the next chapters, or will they only get support in 2 chapters. And if that is so, will Paragons and Dervish suffer the same fate?(support in 2 chapters)

Why is there no native linux binary?

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Originally Posted by Eleonora
Don't you think that the period of 6 months for development of a new chapter is too short





well you did not read the second part of my question:

[b]or in other word(s), don't you think that you overstrain players with this short period?[b]


what I meant is: people are overstrained to play through the whole game with their chars in such a short time.

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got it?

1. Will it ever be able to stack runes in the inventory or least put full bagged in the storage.

2. Will there ever be a Warrier who can handle 2 weapons or least a 2 handed sword.

3. Is it possible to play an unhuman charakter in the future GW.

And Thanks for this Game

Is it possible that we can have another PR Rep who can handle questions of more substance?

Will our responses from the PR department always be filled with BS like a 'free update w/ an elite mission!!11!1eleventy-one' and 'we never PROMISED you an elite mission, we just ignored your inquiries for a week and put it in the manual'? I'd honestly really enjoy some straight-talk from ANET and be happy to defend their ability to do so.

Why are there no chests in nightfall missions and will they be added in?

Why do you allow heathens to play the game?
Why do you not actively force trade spam to the trade channel (think email spam filtering)
Why isn't there a way to determine who in the party is scriblling all over the mini-map?
Why isn't there a boot from party option? (oh wait with hero's I don't have to party up with you losers anymore)
Why do you listen to your current Alpha/Beta/QA members, when clearly, they are not qualified for their positions. Allow me to show/train you how to test...
Why does your RNG favor non randomness?
Why is Anet ever doing anything about chat spamming? You know what I mean, got to LA, Ascalon City, etc.
Why can I not make a fat toon?
Why is your "luck" factor tied to certain account keys, rather than an actual working RNG?

Why do you like sundering so much? theres just 2 green axe's that has the Furious mod Razorstone and Cho Wei's Axe(non max dmg). is there any chance of geting a 15^50 Furious +30hp green axe?

Where's my hair stylist?

Hey you guys and gals of A.net!

I just have one happy little question concerning the pets of my heroes. Since Nightfall's release I never came across a possibility to rename my heroes' pets or even to get rid of them. I surfed through some forums and found many people with the same problem, but noone could tell anyone how to do this. Maybe you can.

Thanks for answering (at least I hope so, since many people have this problem) and for putting up this thread!

I realize it's too late, but this one just (re-)occurred to me.

Would it be possible to implement post-battle statistics, like:
- total damage dealt
- total skills used
- damage received
- skills interrupted (both offense & defense)
- total healing dealt
- total healing received
- total self-heal

etc., I'm sure you could come up with more. That'd be sweet.

Will Halls ever be like it was back in the day at ToPK and not a bunch of pve heroway teams?

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Lord Darkforge

Are you guys ever going to sell the old prophecies CE and preorders from all chapters. Okay, maybe not the preorders since that kind of defeats the name, but at least sell the CE again.

Are you guys ever going to respond to the multitude (and by multitude, I mean hundreds) of good questions asked here, or just the ones that say "Hi! What kind of shoes do you like to wear when you get up in the morning, Gaile?"

Or even answer any of these at all, seeing as to how you're like, several days late with them?

The question i really want to ask is:
Will new technology be added to the guild wars series?
examples weapons that fire(besides a bow)
Eginered machines

A less careless question:
or will the enemys be advanced, smarter to where it feels like we are playing realy players?They hide, set traps, quiter ambushes?

of corse it gives us a short time because they thought this out since the begining. When they stop making games it will give us plenty of stuff to do

Will Anet ever imcorpoate a full three cmapaign map so it would be easier to map travel, since elona is like diagonal from tyria?

Okay, I apologize majorly in advance if this question has been screamed at you guys a bajillon times over in this thread already, cos I'm wayyy to tired to check it all ^^;

However...My burning question is..

"Are you EVER going to add a Hairstylist?''

I've been known to unmake characters tooo many times, JUST cos a new campaign has been released that has nicer hairstyles for that particular class...xD yeah yeah, maybe its not sane behaviour; but I'm picky. ^^;

-Will mini-pet ever do anything besides fly there barking at me?

-Will there be any spaceball reference in Future campaigns (luv what u did with Monty Python)

When will we be able to actually jump not the /jump crap.... i mean like actually jumping like on top of a rail.

As said by many, many people, when do we get to see a hair stylists and dyes for our hair? I'd gladly pay for those services.

There are a plethora of skills, especially for the core classes, given that there are indeed a few useless and repeated ones for each class, how do you keep coming up with new skills that are different for each class?

I would have run out of ideas for ranger skills years ago.

Will we, like, ever be able to get naked and have sex? (I mean in the game...I already know I can do this in real life)

And if so, will there be special emotes for this? Will characters be able to try out different positions?

Sounds like you really need to grow up and stop being a pervert seeing as the games got a 12+ rating.

Will the bugs in the AI ever get fixed before Ch.4?

Obviously bugged as a single Corsair chased me 3/4 across the map all the way back to the outpost including me running round in circles, yet when I try to lure a group to kill a boss they come towards me then just retreat back and when I move a fraction they come back again?

If I'd known we'd be reduced to playing like this I'd have bought a yo-yo instead of Nightfall.

....If this is what your after sounds like your playing the wrong game. I hope your joking. I can't believe this would actually be important to some people, seeing pixelated cartoon characters doing this? This is a game not a playground for perverts, bear in mind a lot of children play this. I agree with Blackhawk.


On a more approproate note, Hairstylist ftw ^^

Agreed? Are you even going to acknowledge the bug? Or is half you player base just stupid in your eyes? My dear ANET, I am not stupid. Plans to fix this before we HAVE TO FARM for Christmas items, or are you just going to be Mr. Scrooge and screw over wintersday also?

1. Will the nerfs on farming continue?
2. Is is true Anet is trying to rid farming from guild wars?

What are the game designers doing to deal with the large amount of customer dissatisfaction on the basis that Anet is making foolish decisions on drops,AI abilities, Henchman AI,Patrol size/Placement, and ratios of gold drops?

Anet will you ever make better Chance or probality programming for us?
it's been like this for 2 chapters now, obviously youre not to that good in math....

/end semi semi rant

I know this has been asked several times here in different formats but I'll take a stab at it anway.

1) When prophecies first came out Anet's stance on farming is that they have nothing against solo farming except when done so by bot's and any measure's taken to curb the bot's that affect legitimate farming are incidental and are regretablly necessary.

Is this still Anets stance or has the view on any kind of farming changed since then?


2) I was hopeing you might be able to help me with a feature of the game that I'm not sure is easily exploitable or perhaps is working as intended. If your not familiar with it, it's where you basically take a team of AI cahracters ( Hero's, Henchman) of varying size and generally kill a group of enemies of monsters but leave the boss alone. You then flag you AI assistance to a location until they're names are greyed out and you then proceed to kill the boss solo and you get all of his/her drops which otherwise might have gone to one of the AI characters if they had helped. Is this a major exploit with a possible fix in the works or is this a by product of the current system and working the way it was meant to?

A quick response to this particular question would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I have a question for the game programmers at ANet. This is directed at people that work primarily with coding games, but also for those that work on server stuff.

What colleges did you guys go to? What do you reccommend for game programming? I'm applying to Carnegie Mellon and Ohio State University because a teacher of mine has had great experience with CM, and Ohio State U apparently has teachers that have actually worked as game designers and game programmers. The problem is that I live in Pennsylvania, so I feel as though my scope is pretty small. I don't know of too many colleges to consider outside of the North East, but that doesn't mean I don't want to. I've also considered Columbia's Fu University, but I'm not so sure that I want to go there.

Gaile, or anyone really, could you please ask around during lunch and tell some people that I'm interested in this? It would be very encouraging to my friends and I. My boyfriend and at least one of my other best friends love to learn programming languages and make little games for fun, and if my other friend doesn't become a psychologist, I think he wants to major in game design (that's a little different, and not what we're looking for per se).

Did any of ANet's programmers have any focus on game design outside of just coding in school? What I mean to say is, should I try to major in game design with a heavy emphasis on programming? To be honest, I've only really gotten into this with my friends over the past two years, and I'm a lot more experienced with graphic art and video editing.

We made "Textris" this week, and it's really cute. It was for a text-based game assignment in school. Anyway, my interest in programming grows stronger every week, and I plan to major in it.

Some things to consider:
- I am a girl. My teacher (also a girl) said that being a female programmer can be good because it can be easier to get jobs, assuming the girl is qualified (in your experience, is that true?). Maybe that would make me appeal to colleges a little more, also.

- Both my friends and I have pretty good grades and participate in the school's "gifted" program. We've also taken a few technology courses, and my boyfriend's going to take AP Comp Sci next year. The only AP course I've taken is American US History, and I got a 5 on that test, but I'm worried that that might not matter to people at technology-based colleges (do you think that's true, also?).

- We have a genuine interest in programming and learn about it daily in our free time.


What colleges should we consider? There are so many colleges that offer computer science programs that we really can't tell which ones are special. I only know about the three I listed above because people I know have gone out of their ways to suggest them to me.

And on a side note, I haven't seen (or looked for, so maybe this is why) anyone talk about the Behind the Scenes disc that came with Nightfall Collector's Edition, but I thought it was really nicely done. It was one of the first behind the scenes pieces I've seen that seems to give equal time to a lot of different areas of a project while showing a lot of what the actual workplace looks like. And everyone it showed seemed so nice and fun.

EDIT: I just wanted to add this. If two people are inseparable and (again, assuming both are qualified and have totally awesome personalities) they wanted to apply for jobs where they could work together, would ANet hire both people at once? We're worried that we'll have to start our own business in order to work together, but we'd rather work for a company that we like already.

Why do most of the female armors have phallic strips of cloth hanging from their waist?

Has Anet answered any of these yet?

I don't think so.

Well, did your henches / heroes have any part in killing the boss ? No, so they shouldn't share in the loot. They helped with the boss' mob, and they rightfully shared in the loot. I understand how people can suggest this might be an exploit, but if you really think about it, it is fair. You did solo the boss. Anyways, I know this is a thread about questions to ANet only, but it's pretty old now, and obviously no timely answer was afforded.

Does anyone bother to read the OP or do they just read the title and skip to the last page?