Is anyone else tired of all the ANET bashing?

I constantly see people on this forum say ANET can do no right and are always messing things up. While they are not perfect I think they do a very good job and deserve credit for the good things they do. I just would like to see how may more people agree with my feelings, please let me know. I know that I am about to get flamed and called a Fanboy, but in all reality what is wrong with saying good things about a game you enjoy.

Yes and no. Some of it is justified.

It's common practice with any mmo. People play mmo's for a lot longer than other game genres, which makes the bugs and imbalances stand out and really become a thorn in your side if you let it.

GW is definately one of the most polished mmo's out there, but no computer software is without bugs and no game is perfectly balanced (let alone a game with 10 classes and literally hundreds of skills).

Some people let's it get to them more than others to the point of finding it unacceptable. That's when the bashing starts.

no offense, but if u dont wanna see anet getting bashed, don't visit the public forums.

there isn't a single forum for ANY game where the community doesn't bash the game manufacturer.

people complain, fact of life, deal with it tbh.

Quoted for Trizuth.

No, I'm not tired of it at all.

more bashing imo ...

i mean look how much bashing it took to minimize trade spam ..
now few more months of bashing and we might see some action against bots

im supprised theres no auction house though .. weve been bashing about that for months!


*End sarcasm* ive never bashed anet =]

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.....sorry what was the question?

you mean [skill]Hammer Bash[/skill] ?

Sometimes i bash Anet. Sometimes I defend Anet.

Theyve done things wrong and need criticism. Theyve done things right and deserve applause.

I would guess that roughly half of the posts on just about any mmo or mmo-like game are some kind of bash on the devs, but that's life and you aren't gonna be able to stop it. If they introduced a no dev bashing rule tomorrow, people would just complain about free speech, some conspiracy that gwg are working with the devs, a bit of spam, and then a lot of the user base would go to some other forum.

Oh and I dislike bashing, but accept that it is here, and will forever exist...

A.net DESERVES a lot of the flak they catch. Their vigorous nerfbat swinging has come around to bite them in the ass.

Dear A.Net: I would like to tell you a story. Once there was this MMO called Dark Age of Camelot. DAoC is pretty much dead now. Know why? Because they nerfed EVERYTHING. They nerfed classes, skills, drops... Now, in DAoC's twilight, they are scrambling to go to the other extreme, and easymode the entire game. That will be you. You will repeat their mistake, and you will repeat Diablo 2's mistakes, and so many others. You will go belly-up, Guild Wars 2 will flop, and A.Net will cease to exist, leaving so many heartbroken gamers with the memory of a gaming legacy that could have been. You are headed down a dark road, with your nerfbat.

BTW, be very careful about praising A.Net, or anyone else for that matter. They let it go to their head far too often. You are the customer. They are the vendor. Your job is to complain about every little thing in GW that annoys you. It is their job to bend over backwards to please their customers. THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT. This is not a matter of being friends with them. There are no friends in business arrangements. We have money, which they want. It is up to them to EARN that money.

Now, A.Net: Put your damn g-string back on, get back up on the stage of public criticism and MAKE US HAPPY.

[skill]You're All Alone![/skill]

Ever tried selling lately, ever tried farming lately? Just killed over 90 monsters in hard mode and got one crappy req 13 scythe from a boss to show for it.
You would do good putting on some [skill]frigid armor[/skill].

Tell me again why party search din't get a string length increase for trading?

Stop it, I'm having flashbacks to Ragnarok Online.

Comparing Ragnarok Online to Dark Age of Camelot is absurd. DAoC was actually a great game at some point. RvR was teh sex.

As much as I hate to sit on the fence, I do when it comes to bashing Anet. (ouch, crotch splinters.)

They can do whatever they want to their game but changes, like loot scaling, weren't justified to the community. If they provide a valid reason for doing so then I don't condemn them even though I might not agree with their decisions.

I do like the weekend events. Whether its a clever ploy to keep us sucked in until EotN is released or if it is plainly to entertain us, I know 9 times out of 10 they please me.

I hope your comment was sarcastic


In my opinion they deserve a lot of FEEDBACK on the changes they made to the game. I find they might wanna attempt to do more about making clear why they make certain changes but sometimes the forums make me think that there must be atleast 1 post saying something in the spirit of "OMFG U BROKE [ insert updated skill here ] U IDIATS NOW FIX IT". This I hardly call feedback, it sounds more like a demand.

I would personally like to see more positive feedback going towards anet and perhaps more feedback from anets side to why they make certain changes. Also it would be nice if they made changes sooner to things that are in fact broke (like this post here, my surviver died at vizunah square at lvl 19 even though the same bug had been known for a year without it being fixed).

To answer to the OP, yes, I do find that, despite their errors, they are doing a pretty good job. They could still improve by a significant margin but frankly, so can the people that give their feedback via this (and other) forum.

Woohoo! Someone get's it! That's QFT by the way.

^ That's very well in business theory but Anet isn't selling toilet roll. We have already bought the product(s) we're using and when they change it for the better or for worse the only real way of protesting is by not buying the next chapter. If a toilet roll felt like sandpaper, I'd buy a different brand the next time. If you're sick of Anet's decisions, play a different RPG.

Already devoting more and more of my time to LotRO. Doubt I'll buy GW:EN or GW2 unless I see a drastic change in A.Net's policy towards the average player. There are many things about GW that I do like, and I wouldn't be complaining if I didn't care where the series was headed.

Welcome to the internet.

Pretty much every single gaming forum on the history of the planet is like this.