A question for Gaile Gray

No, it's not another complain about how DoA is hellish hard.

On November 5th you've said:

Are those new stuffs included in yesterday update or is there more to come ?
I know I sound like a kid who got heaps of Xmas presents and ask for more

She wasn't directly referring to the Anguish update, which introduced two things the community was already told were coming and were expecting (Razah, Elite).

Grouping with NPCs like a Charr could count as a nice surprise though

Well, you never know.. Gaile always has some tricks up her sleeve

Let's hope for some nice surprices

*Gaile uses special trick up the sleeve skill*

I wonder if they up the budget and make it so its doesn't have the same picture as Monster Skill =D

worth mentioning this quote too
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10083642

Where are the promised Sunspear Points to go from Rank 8 to rank 9? ~Rud

I bet with Wintersday comes some "presents" as in new features like autcions hopefully

Sorry, but this thread absolutely reeks. A few of you need to stop, on several fronts.

I am a member of the Design Team. I am not PR, don't work for PR, and don't get my direction on what to say, what to talk about, or how to act from anyone in PR. I get my information straight from Mike O'Brien, James Phinney, and other members of my team. I speak to you as a Design Team member, as a developer. No one asks me to lie. (And all know if they did, I would not do it.) No one tells me to "hype" things, or bend the truth. My value to you is liaison, communicator, listener, explainer, and advocate. I'm a player, a lover of the game, and a person who truly enjoys interacting with people. (Or at least most people; you'll excuse me not being so masochistic that I claim to love to interact with those who abuse me. ) I have the great privilege of sharing news, forecasting things to come, and listening to your feedback so that everyone at ArenaNet can work--as we do every day--to make Guild Wars even better.

I am not always able to say "Hey, here's what we're working on, and here is the exact day and hour that it will be in the game." Not giving firm deadlines for some features is a wise and practical choice, learned from experience while at ArenaNet and at other studios, too. It's true, stuff happens -- something might be delayed and we sure don't want to set a date and postpone. We always strive to outperform your expectations, which is why this week's update had more content than anyone expected, offered more rewards then were dreamed of, and came out a month before anyone thought it would. If you want to gripe about it, get a grip on the proportion of what you're looking at, and then get a solid grasp on a clue.

I'm here, daily. I will post, when I can. Or not. There is, after all, a limit, a true and real limit that you must respect. You are not owed my presence or anyone else's. You are not entitled to our interaction whatsoever. The box didn't mention in-game visits and forum reads 7 days a week. The game advertisements didn't tell you you could rely upon frequent communication with the team. Your $50 does not entitle you to abuse, insult, and attack anyone on our team because you feel you can or should or are allowed to vent about petty and illogical grievances.

Now, we can withdraw into an "ivory tower" mentality like most development studios. Or we can do what we've done for six year, and continue to try to inform when we can, share what we're able, and listen to legitimate concerns and the plentiful wonderful suggestions that make for a better game, suggestions that provably are incorporated in nearly every update, as they have been since we started the development of the first campaign.

I am angry. But more, I feel obliged to protest the content of some of these posts, and to prove the error of your ways in insulting the game and the team who is making it. How can I prove that you're wrong in what was said above? That it's not all hype? That we're not promoting that which you feel you were "owed?" The comments I made, and about which the team has been attacked, speak of another, future update.

So stop the insults. Stop the attacks. Or continue, and operate in an informational and interactive vacuum.

And yes, gabazieute, to your cheerful inquiry (and thank you for that ) there is more to come. I'm sorry that this thread devolved into such utter garbage, but I surely want to show you the respect of an answer to your question.

Hi Gaile. I'm sorry about all the negativity and rude idiots out here. People seem to think they're entitled to anything and everything and worse yet, don't know how to ask and express themselves in a mature manner.

Now maybe the mods will start cleaning up around here? All the complaining and rudeness on these boards have gotten out of hand. You dont want to drive Gaile away do you?

They may not be polite, I agree, but they are being honest. If you restrict honesty, opinions, and this forum, would cease to exist.

However, being honest does not mean that civility goes out the window. Nor does it mean that every thread in which Gaile's name is brought up is a thread in which you can flame her. If you have serious problems with how Arenanet is doing, post in another thread about it or create a new one - don't hijack other topics to do so.

To clarify, this thread isn't to talk about Gaile in either a positive or negative light. It's not about Gaile, period. There isn't any productive reason to leave this specific thread open, so closed. Feel free to make another thread about it without the flaming.