Community Day Dev Roundtable Discussion - 26 January

little typo: AmunRa was from "Wartower" not Watchtower

I made a couple of corrections for things people noted.

Also, throughout the visit people did try to get info about Ch 4 and other "important" things, but these were all pretty much just not commented on. Even the timelines for things were not discussed, in large part I think due to the high level of uncertainty the devs have themselves about when thing would be done.

The way the process seems to work is that they have major things they work on, like new chapters, bugs/corrections to existing chapters, and then wish list things they try to incorporate. So they are constantly prioritizing what needs to be worked on more, balancing updating old content and bringing out new content.

Yes, it was very obvious that ANet was willing to clarify things happening now in GW, but reluctant to comment on the future.

I appreciated their "not against farming" statement. While it won't make farmers "happy," it at least reassures them that they are not on ANet's "got to get rid of" list.

The discussion about HA was also interesting. It seems they are caught between a rock and a hard place by trying to draw new people to this area of PvP. I suppose they are waiting to see what happens before making a final party-size decision.

@Billiard - in the Player Wants portion, did they give any indications of possibilities as each "want" was mentioned? Especially storage.

Billiard -

Thanks for the excellent reporting. Looks like the questions were well balanced between PvE and PvP, and your write-up is done very well. Not that you need my praise or approval, just thought I'd voice my appreciation. Thanks man.

When the wants were mentioned, there was like a nod from James indicating that they knew about it and were working on it - except maybe for that whole jump thing.

The auction house question actually came up again later when one of the Spanish guys asked about it again. At that time James said "its on the way." So I said okay its on the way - cool, then James amended his statement to say not to indicate it was coming in the next month.

So to me, I am guessing stuff like storage and such that pretty much is understood as being really needed are indeed in the pipeline - but it just depends when they can find the time to finish them up.

Also, I really do appreciate the feedback on the reports. I do quite a bit of academic writing, but not this sort of thing, so I wasn't sure exactly how best to present the information I collected. I looked at what some of the other sites put up and really wanted to amply things a lot more. Again as I did with my trip report, I wanted to try to give people a notion of what the experiece was like in the roundtable, rather than just dryly present the information I learned.

^^ well it was definately an interesting read!!! I really enjoyed the style and flow of the article. Great job

If people have questions about something, I'll do my best to answer them and/or explain some of the context of things a bit more since there is a lot that I left out in my write-up.

Please don't post unconstructive rants in this thread. The devs are not going to respond here and there are plenty of other places to post to concerns and dislikes on our forums.

Billiard; is that all the information you heard about storage? I mean- was there any news about having to buy storage with RL money ect?

Thanks-and nice report man.

They seemed to know storage was an issue, and in general when someone else mentioned pay real money for additional content for older chapters that didn't seem like something there were interested in.

So my impression from the roundtable is that increased storage is being worked on and it won't be an additional fee. No timetable was suggested though.

Ok. Thanks alot for that info Settled some personal issues

Same here. Seems like an ultra waste of space and time.

O_O Am I stupid or was this community day one and the same? I mean really they said they were going to be inviting some people from all the fansites with their questions from the community (I bet'cha that's where Billiard got some of his questions). If I'm completely wrong correct me.

You, Me and about everyone else who asked a question, even though we all knew not all of the questions asked would be answered.

But frankly, I didn't see anyone's questions answered...

You don't give the Black Moa to the tamer, you just simply run up to the npcs standing there and they you see one of them saying OMG a Black Moa Run!!! and then all 3 of them run away , its hilarious .. I took a screenie of it. for my own amusement, since I was the Representive, that Colin said to try that out =)

~Ezari

Thanks the info first,
I have a question about changing our characters' appearance.

This topic was mentioned many times before. Some players would pay their game money or cash to change their char's something.

Will we have chances to change our exist characters' hair, skin and face?

This was asked of the Devs and they said they know players want this. It seemed to me that this was something they were working on, but no time table had been set as of yet for offering it.

yeah lots of words and nothing said..........except 'we know about it' 'no comment', and then lets change the subject. Too bad these guys are gamers since they would make wonderful politicians!

The fact is, if they had said "soon" everyone would go OMG ITS COMING NEXT WEEK! They let us know what they were working on, but it would be wrong to give a time frame and then not make the deadline... Admit it, there are just way too many people with ready pitchforks for them to be careless about those things.
Even one day late is enough to make the masses gather the torches.

Great report Billiard, it answered some of my questions and concerns. Thank you for your hard effort ^_^!

Thanks for the report. It was well documented =P. Very interesting stuff. JUMP!!!

Yio Billiard

I think that the way that you reported your experince is Grade A stuff

You kept everything in a flowing sequence and keeping to the 'abc' principal.

Typos, LOL. who serac about typos

Thumbs up from me Mate - well done!