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DutchSmurf

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27 Jul 2008 at 12:59 - 41

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Originally Posted by King Symeon

Gaile was bad because when she replied to people's questions she didn't actually answer them, and she wasted a lot of time trying to be friends with everyone. Regina is worse because she barely interacts with the community at all.

I call that a major improvement. Instead of typing a lot without saying anything (like Gaile used to), Regina just doesn't say anything. Both have the same result when it comes to info, except Regina didn't waste my time. I prefer no reply at all over a "passed to the devs" and then nothing happening for months. Regina never makes it look like she promises something.

And besides, everyone wants Regina to talk with the community. But talk about what? The thousands of topics we already discussed to death? GW1 is just done when it comes to discussing things. And she isn't allowed to say anything about GW2, which isn't her fault. By the time more information is allowed to go to the public, we can start comparing Regina to Gaile. Until then we can only blame Regina's bosses for not giving her something to work with. A community manager works as well as the info she gets.

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27 Jul 2008 at 13:14 - 42

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Originally Posted by Shadow Kurd

Plus you don't need a CR to contact Anet any more --> http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/ArenaNet:Portal

Once again, wikipedia is not a discussion forum. This is Anet just taking the easy way out and allowing for Regina to do nothing. Although I find it funny that you are trying to promote the wikipedia... conflict of interest much?

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27 Jul 2008 at 13:15 - 43

If I remember correctly, Gaile was oddly MIA before she left. She wasn't posting as much and threads would go for pages before she would finally say something. Maybe it's not something on their end.

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27 Jul 2008 at 13:20 - 44

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Originally Posted by DutchSmurf

And she isn't allowed to say anything about GW2, which isn't her fault. By the time more information is allowed to go to the public, we can start comparing Regina to Gaile. Until then we can only blame Regina's bosses for not giving her something to work with. A community manager works as well as the info she gets.

I'd agree with this. I'm sure its mostly true. There's nothing concrete that she can talk about, nothing they yet want released, they may not have even made decisions on critical parts of the game and development might have a long ways to go yet.

That said, she's in CR. Means dealing with the community. Means there shouldnt be topics like this. She should at least let the community know that they are batting around ideas and there is nothing yet she can share with us, that development is moving along but she isnt allowed to say anything yet or give information on features, that it may be upwards of six months before we hear anything (when in actuality its more like 3 months - she can pad the time estimate for release of more information liberally so she doesnt miss it). She should at least be saying something like that and we shouldnt have to play de facto CR for ourselves.

nekopowa

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27 Jul 2008 at 13:27 - 45

Regina doesn't really put herself on the same level as the players, but treats us as a higher-up. Too professional and cold, and that's not what a CR should be.

I always looked forwad to Gaile's posts because they had character, i never once felt excited about something that Regina wrote. No offense, but someone's character doesn't change, they can act it out but Gaile was for real. Info or no info, interacting with the community is her job, if she doesn't enjoy chatting to players and having fun then she's doing the wrong job.

Anyone can write up a brief explanation when it's required, even a dev on a 10 minute smoke break.

zelgadissan

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27 Jul 2008 at 13:36 - 46

Stupid me, jumping on this thread after seeing the title and NOT expecting CR bashing from the first response. My bad, I guess.

I'll go ahead and say this: I'm not really a fan of Regina, but tbh I haven't even seen her to say that I'm a fan or not a fan. I don't go out of my way to search for a CR, but I literally have not seen a sign of life from her with the exception of Avarre's letter to Anet, at which point she pulled a Gaile and said nothing in like 5 paragraphs. At least now and then I'd be dicking around in LA and go, well damn, there's Gaile.

Now believe it or not, ON TOPIC: Anet is killing themselves. In a game like this where the content is overall pretty good but everyone's still wanting something more, you can't release info like there will be a beta this year and then push it off until AT LEAST 2009, and the game probably at least 2010. All it's doing is making people go, "huh, I'm bored with this, let's go do some Baal runs" or "hey, WoW expansion, let's go check it out". At least show signs like you care - even if it's just little tiny bits of info that honestly don't matter, at least you're giving us something to hold on to.

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27 Jul 2008 at 13:41 - 47

is she ever online..!

Red Sonya

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27 Jul 2008 at 14:28 - 48

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Originally Posted by MMSDome

I might have thought Gaile wasn't good but compared to our current one she was amazing. We barelly even hear from regina.

That's because most of you bitched and moaned about Gaile so much that Gaile said to hell with it and stepped down and Regina is just a fillin that could care less if you get any information. Maybe next time you won't bitch and gripe so much and you'll get "EARLY" information. I think most of you are getting your just deserts now you just suffer through it and don't get any information until it's time.

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27 Jul 2008 at 14:40 - 49

GW2 is at least a year away, prolly more. I dont even see a trailer coming out this year. And prolly no beta till we're way into 09.

As for the CR issue, they both really sucked at doing it.

BlackSephir

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27 Jul 2008 at 14:46 - 50

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Originally Posted by Red Sonya

That's because most of you bitched and moaned about Gaile so much that Gaile said to hell with it and stepped down and Regina is just a fillin that could care less if you get any information. Maybe next time you won't bitch and gripe so much and you'll get "EARLY" information. I think most of you are getting your just deserts now you just suffer through it and don't get any information until it's time.

Complaining about bad CR makes AN give even worse CR. O right, good logic right there.

Oukanna

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27 Jul 2008 at 15:12 - 51

The last thing i heard about gw2, was on the main website answering questions that we all ready know the answer to...good job A-net on that one. I believe the words epic fail come to mind xD

A-net should not of said anything about gw2 yet, it gave people brief excitement, and now....well everyone is getting bored! they are not putting new content into guild wars1 because of guild wars 2. Now gw2 beta is pushed back and release date no doubt aswell.
Makes me wonder what the hell are they doing lol??
(on a side note il no doubt have more respect for them when i start games designing in Uni and begging my lecturer for a time extension xDD)

I am afraid by the time gw2 comes out not many people will be interested because of how everything was handled, people will have found new games to dedicate themselves too.

Either put something new into gw1 for the gw2 wait, or try and bring gw2 forward before everyone looses interest.

As for Regina...anywere i can keep up to date on when she comes online and actually talks??
With Gaile i never had to research much, she was always there. Regina is proving more difficult lol
If what the people say here is true and Reginas job is just to talk to the community, then im afraid she is not doing her job well enough.
Sure Gaile rambled on, but at least i found her meetings entertaining and slightly informative.

pamelf

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27 Jul 2008 at 15:32 - 52

There should really be some info by now. Given that the Beta was originally planned for the end of this year it really begs the question as to what they've been doing since the release of GWEN.

I was very outspoken about Gaile being a pathetic CR, and I still stand by it (too much of a popularity contest, not enough work), but I must say Regina is on the other side of the spectrum. I admire the fact that she's not sugar coating the lack of information, but I do wish she'd be a little more present in the community. You don't have to suck up to us all to have a presence.

I still have faith in Regina, but I hope she doesn't keep up this anonymity.

Vazze

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27 Jul 2008 at 15:36 - 53

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Originally Posted by Arkantos

Regardless of people giving her shit since day 1, it's her job to talk to us. She gets paid to talk to us. She's not talking to us, so she's not doing her job properly. I wouldn't want to talk to us either, but if I was getting paid to do it, I'd do it.

Anyways, ANet either want to keep everything a secret to really surprise us, or they have little done for GW2. I hope it's not the latter.

I would definitely not want to talk to us. We are bad company.

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27 Jul 2008 at 15:56 - 54

Well as I see it now, hopefully GW2 will be released sometime before 2013...but then again, we haven't gotten a single pic of the game, so I'm gonna go ahead and bet my money on a 2013 release XD

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27 Jul 2008 at 16:30 - 55

Yeah, I kinda wish Gaile would come back. Perhaps it's just a coincidence, but I haven't seen Regina online ONCE since she started working as CR (I even saw Gaile logged on once since she resigned). Anet could've at least tried to choose someone who wasn't "bored" with the game.

And what she wrote about releasing information about GW2 just seemed kind of rude and condescending to me. Maybe that's just me though.

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27 Jul 2008 at 16:30 - 56

I guess they will show when they are ready to do so.

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27 Jul 2008 at 16:36 - 57

I can't say I was a fangirl over Gaile, but she was a good enough CR imo. I used to hear about her all the time. I saw her lots in towns too, she was always friendly and answering peoples questions, no matter how dumb they were. Regina on the other hand...I've only heard from her in a town once. Just once and I think it was for about 15min. I just wish Regina talked more ingame like Gaile did, even if it is about a bunch of nonsense :P Now she probably does talk to people undercover or w/e..but come on >.<

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27 Jul 2008 at 16:56 - 58

The one and only time I chatted with Gaile, I asked her about the massive lag the community was experiencing, to which she replied....we aren't aware of any lag issues, what do you mean? At that point...I lost all hope for any and all issues to be resolved...when Regina came aboard...there was a bit of hope...but...sadly...she's not available to the ones that actually pay her salary...the community...were it not for us...she would not have a job

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27 Jul 2008 at 16:59 - 59

I said it before and and I'll say it again Gaile>Regina... any day of the week. I understand giving her a chance and all that but seriously I have only seen a few posts from her at most and she has been vague in each one. Blah, I miss Gaile, she may have given misinformation sometimes but she gave us a hell of a lot more than what we get now.

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27 Jul 2008 at 17:20 - 60

...i didint even realise there was a CR now. Even though im in Europe i seen Gaile many times and she always answered my questions. I havent even seen the new CR...i havent even heard of her till now.

Arkantos

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27 Jul 2008 at 17:21 - 61

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What more do you want from her?

Communication (not necessarily about GW2, just communication in general). As Fenix has pointed out, wikipedia is not a discussion forum. She should be posting on fansites, especially ones ANet call elite, like guru and GWO.

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I would definitely not want to talk to us. We are bad company.

As I said, neither would I, but if it was my job to, I'd do it.

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27 Jul 2008 at 17:23 - 62

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Originally Posted by Vazze

I would definitely not want to talk to us. We are bad company.

That would mean not taking up the job in the first place

lololololol

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27 Jul 2008 at 17:34 - 63

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Originally Posted by Evil Suzi

The one and only time I chatted with Gaile, I asked her about the massive lag the community was experiencing, to which she replied....we aren't aware of any lag issues, what do you mean?

What massive lag? I'm having no problems whatsoever.

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27 Jul 2008 at 17:42 - 64

I dont feel like getting into the regina debate. Regardless of regina, however, if anyone mentions bringing gaile back I will crap kittens and shove them down your throat.

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27 Jul 2008 at 17:48 - 65

in reply to the thread title, i was under the impression that they simply decided to move open betas closer to the actual release. for gw1 we had the first betas 1, 2 years before the actual release - but regina said something about the mmo market having changed over the years and that they don't want to do it like that anymore.

and on topic

with gaile it was quite obvious that she loves the game and loves the community. maybe anet felt it was wise to hire someone who has a broader perspective on things because she spends her free time checking out other games instead of browsing fan forums.
i agree though that actually enjoying to communicate with the community, even if half of them act like spoiled brats, sounds like one of the job requirements of a community manager

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27 Jul 2008 at 17:55 - 66

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Originally Posted by Arkantos

Communication (not necessarily about GW2, just communication in general). As Fenix has pointed out, wikipedia is not a discussion forum. She should be posting on fansites, especially ones ANet call elite, like guru and GWO.

I don't want her to post for sake of posting. I want her to post when she actually has something to say.

What do you suggest shes does when she does not have anything to say? Farming forums to raise ones postcounts is not how I imagine CM position. Nor do I want em to feed people with half truths that eventually backfire.

We all got tired of Gailes silly stuff. All it did was to make her look stupid, incompetent, and people angrier (especially if there was Serious Business thread ATM.).

Arkantos

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27 Jul 2008 at 18:10 - 67

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Originally Posted by zwei2stein

I don't want her to post for sake of posting. I want her to post when she actually has something to say.

What do you suggest shes does when she does not have anything to say? Farming forums to raise ones postcounts is not how I imagine CM position. Nor do I want em to feed people with half truths that eventually backfire.

We all got tired of Gailes silly stuff. All it did was to make her look stupid, incompetent, and people angrier (especially if there was Serious Business thread ATM.).

She's been on the job for about 4 months now, and she's said pretty much nothing. I don't want her to post for the sake of posting either, but at least if she did that it would show she's actually interested in communicating with us. In 4 months, you'd think she would have told us more information on whatever than she currently has. What's the point of having a CR if there's no information to give, or if the CR doesn't want to post on fansite forums? I don't want a CR for the sake of having a CR, I want a CR that actually does his/her job.

Yes, we did get tired of Gaile joking around in non serious threads while avoiding questions in serious threads, but at least she gave a crap and communicated with us, unlike Regina.

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27 Jul 2008 at 19:13 - 68

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Originally Posted by zwei2stein

What do you suggest shes does when she does not have anything to say? Farming forums to raise ones postcounts is not how I imagine CM position. Nor do I want em to feed people with half truths that eventually backfire.

Take the example of the "mega mega lag ... error codes ... mAT is screwed" threads. I believe that Gaile would have posted something as fast as possible, it was even at times reassuring, giving us the feeling that (little) things are happening. Even if the communication chain was a bit broken (cf. mini polar bear), it was functioning.

Now, what do we have? Regina mostly intervenes on the wiki and I didn't feel her messages so helpful, some were even of the same "I'll check with the devs" tone that Gaile used (yet people feel that her "cool" will excuse everything, just because they didn't like Gaile maybe?). GWG and GWO are fanforums with very little relationship to the mothership, we're out there discussing and speculating (they could at least tell us exactly their reasoning behind not releasing information: so as to not loose their edge when other MMOs get out? because they only want GW2 to be near-perfect when released? they still don't know what to do exactly? etc.)

Silence is generally the cause of many bad things in social environments. MMOs are social games and, even if fundamentaly/technically it was not their core business, Anet did care a lot more about their community than most MMO companies. Now it really feels that they've taken a "slow u-turn" in terms of CR. I once wondered whether the huge and sometimes inappropriate/unfair flaming of Gaile played a role (in addition to her realising the amount of time and, most importantly, energy that she lost in the way she dealt with fanforums), but it doesn't matter anymore.

A few days ago I wanted to start a discussion on the topic of: what will happen of GWG when GW2 comes out? Will it be a traditionnal fanforum where fan discuss with other fans, share fan-info, trade stuff, while there's the "official" wiki where Anet people are allowed to talk? maybe the user-unfriendliness of the wiki for discussions means that there's less interaction and flaming?

CR is not a title, it's a job. It doesn't mean that you have to dedicate your life to the game and the community, but it means a lot to a lot of players. So lack of it will harm the game and the company in the long run. (and I'd like to insist that the community is BOTH PvE and PvP, and Anet should SERIOUSLY show their support for the "PvP part" of the community)

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27 Jul 2008 at 19:22 - 69

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Originally Posted by fenix

So why is Regina the CR again?

"I'm not sure what information you'd like, apart from write-ups / summaries of what happened at our panels, and an in-game chat is not the best vehicle for that by a long stretch."

Pretty sure Gaile tried her best to give as much of that info as she could. Wtb replacement CR.

wtf seriously. What the hell kind of statement is that? I'd think it'd be obvious from the millions of threads on here about GW2. We want just something. It doesn't matter really what kind of info. Just give us a little more every once in a while. Been a freaking year.

Our mistake for wanting to know more information than what we learned a year ago.

Giga_Gaia

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27 Jul 2008 at 19:28 - 70

Isn't the reason why Anet is keeping quiet about GW2 is because another NCSoft game, Aion, is going to make its release pretty soon? I'm sure that once Aion is done and over with, NCSoft will be pushing Anet to release more info about GW2.

Now about the whole CR issue: I say Regina's doing fine. I thought that Gaile acted a bit too silly at times and wasn't really all that helpful. I prefer Regina's direct and straight forward approach when dealing with people.

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27 Jul 2008 at 19:33 - 71

Quote:

Now about the whole CR issue: I say Regina's doing fine. I thought that Gaile acted a bit too silly at times and wasn't really all that helpful. I prefer Regina's direct and straight forward approach when dealing with people.

If by doing fine you mean almost never visiting fansites and talking on wiki, I suppose she's doing fine.

Gaile did act silly, but guess what? She communicated with us. I prefer Regina's straight forward approach too. Now, if only she actually communicated with us...

Esan

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27 Jul 2008 at 19:56 - 72

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Originally Posted by Fril Estelin

CR is not a title, it's a job. ... it means a lot to a lot of players.

By "a lot", you mean a vocal segment of fansite forum posters, those whose egos have become too big for their pants.

It seems that you people want Regina to validate your existence. You are in denial about the futility of "discussions" on a fansite forum, and are frightened that no one at Anet is giving you the precious snowflake treatment any more. After how Gaile was treated, I doubt anyone at Anet is in a hurry to become the next community punching bag. Regina tells us what she is told to tell us---I hardly think she is hiding anything---and maintains a professional distance otherwise. Good on her.

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27 Jul 2008 at 20:03 - 73

Looking at her journal in the wiki (which she does regularly update), I noticed a message about transparency. Here it is quoted:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Regina

Transparency - 17 June 2008

One issue that was brought up in the community last week was transparency. Players want more transparency about what is going on at ArenaNet. Players want explanations for game changes. Explanations for game changes are found in our Dev Updates. I believe we have been addressing this desire for explanations about skill balance changes by publishing Dev Updates more frequently. Dev Updates reside on this wiki, and with these updates being housed here, there is a problem of visibility. To address this, we have been posting links to the more important Dev Updates to the News feed on the offcial website. Additionally, the Dev Updates are localized into several languages. We have been aiming at simultaneous worldwide publication of Dev Updates in multiple languages.

I am sure we can do more, and we are exploring options on what we can do to gather feedback intelligently. If you have suggestions, please leave a comment with a concise, bullet point summary of what you would like to see. Some suggestions I have spotted:

* A feedback form
* Official forums -- this is not likely to happen in the near future)
* Developers posting in the forums -- this is also not likely to happen in the immediate future, epecialy en masse. A move like this would require approval from particular people at ArenaNet and before that, a lot of discussion. Also, it would take developer time away from working on the game and raise expectations from the community for devs to maintain discussions in forums, and frankly, the priority for them is to work on the game.

A player suggested that I post weekly updates of exactly what the developers are working on. One of the issues with this is that most of those updates would read like this:

* The environment art team continued working on a region in Gw2.
* The programming team continued working on effects in GW2.
* The business development team continued working on contract negotiations for GW2.
* The writing team continued to work on quests and lore.
* Some new hires started this week.
* The QA team fixed some bugs in GW1 and you can read about them in the Game Update notes on the official website.

Week in and week out, you would have vague updates about what the various teams are working on in GW2, and honestly I would imagine that you would get completely frustrated by this. Working on a videogame is kind of like working on a Hollywood film set. There's very little we can talk about, and we have to get lots of permission from higher ups before we can think about sharing any single detail. Any potential leaks, like on a film set, could potentially jeopardize the project.

Although many of the developers do not maintain a visible presence on the forums or the wikis, they are out there, reading and discussing everything you have to say and as a team we all discuss these conversation threads and the issues you raise.

I am understanding about some of these statements, and angered by some as well. For starters, the development of GW2 is not the Manhattan Project. Although the competition is fierce in the MMO world, it doesn't kill people to give something, unlike the fact that we've received nothing about GW2 since it was announced and will not until 2009. But, I can understand the dev part, as we get random tech people all the time respond to bug issues that don't normally post. It's nice that they are taking suggestions, but it surely doesn't take that much deliberation in order to determine how to release GW2 info. A year and half before anything at all? It breaks my heart.

EDIT: Also, there is another topic like this, but it's in Dev Tracker. FYI

Giga_Gaia

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27 Jul 2008 at 20:17 - 74

I think of it this way Arkantos: it's better to shut up and let them think you're a fool, than to speak and let them know you're a fool (or something like that)

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27 Jul 2008 at 20:21 - 75

Quote:

Originally Posted by Giga_Gaia

I think of it this way Arkantos: it's better to shut up and let them think you're a fool, than to speak and let them know you're a fool (or something like that)

Judging by everything she's told us (which isn't much), we already know she's a fool. By not saying anything, she's not taking the chance to let us know she knows what she's talking about. So, not only is she a fool, she's a fool doing a bad job at CR, which is worse than a fool.

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27 Jul 2008 at 20:30 - 76

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Originally Posted by MarlinBackna

For starters, the development of GW2 is not the Manhattan Project.

No, it certainly is not, but you just can go around and be transparent. It screws projects up.

With each information given out they risk anyting in range from minor whining on forums all the way to actually dangerous stuff: ncsoft share price dropped by few cents.

Gmr Leon

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27 Jul 2008 at 20:37 - 77

Copying and pasting my response from a thread similar to this on GWO.

Good thing you're not a fan of Valve titles. You get nearly nothing for months or a year from them. They release their game when they're satisfied, and if anything, that shows me a better way of doing things. All of the Valve titles I've played are very polished, very fun, and exciting. Of course, there are people like you who are fans that feel a bit uneasy at the lack of information.

Thing is, the Valve fans have more experience with this kind of information drought. Their patience is paid off each time though.

Doesn't fit precisely, I know, but it still applies to the situation being discussed in this thread.

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27 Jul 2008 at 21:14 - 78

Some of you want Regina to communicate when there's actually something new to say. Well until GW2 there won't be much to talk about, so why does Anet have a CR?

I know more about the near future of GW1 by reading Lindsey's (the dev) page on the wiki than reading the one from Regina.

Replace her with another dev (focused on GW1). At least that way, there might be something to talk about in a year or so.

A community relation manager without communication is fail, no matter how you put it. I think the problem is more caused by Anet than Regina though.

When the discussion about the ways of communication was going on, I've send Regina a PM suggesting that an official forum might do the trick. No response. I had to look on that wiki to find out she actually thought about it, but that the thing was not likely going to happen in the near future. GG for Guru and other fansites. Only prob, it seems Anet doesn't post on forums anymore. Anet is posting in that wiki. Wiki is not a forum btw!

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27 Jul 2008 at 21:19 - 79

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Originally Posted by fireflyry

Glad I'm not as impatient as some here.

Anet shot themselves in the foot.

They should have kept quite about GW2 till next year.

Opps.

QFT. There would have been less QQ around here about info, if they had kept quiet. If they had come out, say, a month ago, or at E3, and said what they said a year ago, we'd have a lot less retards yelling about screenies and vids. Then it would seem like, "Wow, they're coming out with a new game in a year? Cool!"

As to Gaile, she was a vat of misinformation. She would say a certain practice or modification would never happen on Anet, only to have it happen a month later. She knew less about the game than a newbie in Pre-Searing, in some aspects. Maybe Regina is out there listening to people that are actually PLAYING the game, and not popping into the forums for her primary intel. Or maybe people should remember she has the little job of WORKING ON THE GAME. Anet aren't Blizzard. They have limited staff and can't be shelling out salary for a dedicated CR, only. One thing I do know. Soon after Regina popped in, they put in skill separation for pvp/pve. Gaile had it yelled at her for months. "I just don't see how we can manage that, guys."

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27 Jul 2008 at 21:29 - 80

Regina could be posting about problems like the lag that happened on friday night as there were tourney's going on>I don't think she know the importance of the information need to be on a fansite in an instanced like Gaile did as she goes back to beta and I can say the same for Martin from NCSoft where is he Alex Weeks was always on the boards as well.

Where is Martin and Regina I don't buy those who need to contact me get on my wiki talk page.This is not being a community rep you go to the players not them come to you.I have real life to and I Administate another fansite and visit others as well as checking up on Star Trek gaming news and related.If I were Billiard and Inde I would send an e-mail or write to Anet and NCSoft about this problem.