[Dev Update] - 15 January 2009

I still dont get why they said they are going to make the account based HoM a few months ago when they plan to develop it on April.. but what can we do.
Nice to have a bigger storage though...

If they increase the gold storage and trade transaction from 100K/1000K to 500K/5000K or anything, that could potentially degrade the value of ectos extremely.

So, sell your ectos now and wait and see what happens.

No longer will you need ectos to trade over 100K now or Z-Keys for that matters.

When I first read the announcement, I started thinking "cool", then at the "content updates" section I said to myself "excellent", then I was surprised that the last paragraph was about storage and Hom. It was a sort of anti-climax.

On further reading (it's always good to do that, begore rushing to an interpretation), I'm a bit confused on whether they're keeping the nice new stuff for a bit later, say March (since we've got Canthan New Year next month), or not. Because given the size of an update like the title rebalancing, storage change seem like peanuts, and yet they say it's going to be bigger.

We'll see, it's quite good that the Live Team is getting bigger .

I indeed vaguely remember something like this, but couldn't find a reference to it. Anyone has it?

As we said in the Dev Update, a lot of this content would not be possible to implement if we were held to a monthly content schedule. Larger and more complex projects like storage need more lead time:

You'll still get the monthly updates with the tonics, skill balances as needed, etc.

Yup, they did this to extend winter break until April. Then in April, they extended spring break for four months. They just go to work every four months and delay all their promises until GW2 comes out in 2012 (<---that date may be changed to 2013 if they decide to have another break)

7 heroes in a party is the only thing that would bring me back and I doubt that's going to happen. (although the thing about tackling projects previously thought to be impossible gives me a slight sliver of hope).

I'm going to interpret this as they're spending most of their resources and people on GW2 right now, but they've brought back a few people to continue regular, large updates on GW1 . I'm not really sure why everyone is complaining, I mean really, you bought the game for anywhere from like $20 to $50, from any time between 4 years and 4 months ago. The fact that we're getting updates at all is pretty nice, considering most of the money they received is going towards keep the servers maintained .etc. I just wish everyone wouldn't be so bitter, sheesh if you hate the game so much, stop playing.

That's it?

Well, good thing I didn't get my hopes up.

Talk about wild goose chase. Oh, and cool Regina finally posted something on this forum. After almost a month of silence.

Way to go, Community Manager.

Some people just hate to see their game they came to love nearly 4 years ago to turn into a sorry excuse of a game by keeping people hooked by promoting grinding.

But that's a whole other discussion, let's not go there now.

lol 3-4 months, this wouldve been fine if it was at least new areas, but noooo. well at least its better than nothing.

I agree, how dare people have opinions. Guild Wars Guru you suck, please replace your memberbase with robots that don't think and are incredibly biased in favor of Anet now plz?

That said, it's probably going to be 20 slot customized belt/bags from some new elite thing like MOX or something. Probably enhance the storage with more tabs also unlocked in some way.

Its nice to have more storage, but I have to wonder whether or not its even worth spending time implementing it when the number of people playing the game is continually decreasing. It would make more sense to focus time on producing something like the BMP to make a little money (hay...They could use that for "GW2") and spur a little interest in the game.

I do recall someone (Regina or Linsey maybe) stating that increasing storage was an issue with having server space and money. I'd like to know how this is being remedied. Are we going to have to pay for storage or is Anet making money from somewhere else?

I also doubt we'll see any Guild Wars 2 in the coming months. Hell, I doubt Anet will go to E3 this year either. (Since its reverting close to its previous glory.) If we even hear anything about the game, I expect it will come out in the Fall (September).

*runs off to play Valkyria Chronicles*

Well, look at it this way, worst case scenario we get tonight's updates then nothing for 2 months. As she said, there is an off chance at skill balancing for Feb. and March. Hopefully we'll get some good one's tonight to hold us over the next 2 months.

Then there is the off chance we don't even get an update tonight, which would lead the vultures into asking "WTF have you all been doing the past month that we don't get the update we've been expecting all month?!!?!!111oneone".

I'm an optimist therefore my hopes lie in paragraph one.

Its a good thing I didnt get my hopes up when I clicked on this thread. Just what the game needed, more storage...

My life doesn't revolve around GW, so I've missed all but two of the monthly tournies. This skill chart was about the only way I could keep up with the tournament meta.

...?

Storage already increases when you add campaigns and they even added a whole new type of tab with the materials update. Is this something not related to xunlai storage, or am I honestly being asked to believe that something that's already been done to a trivial piece of the game's mechanic justifies being called a "larger" or "more complex" project?

um wow, unexpected dev update Thanks for letting us know. Ofcourse theres alot of stuff they can't tell us because etierh they dont know whats planned or they can't tell us as it would ruin anything fun. Besides if they told us now and changed there minds they'll be called liars
Also am i missing something here..why are some of you people complaining...all i can say is get a life. Surely some contents better tahn nothing- they dont' have to add anything. Besides everyone has been wanting more storage since day 1 and wil always 'need' it for random junk. Atleast hold you rant until they make the change because you can't complain about it until its implimented

Its a interesting thought, but I don't think they see that as an answer to inflation. I don't remember what happened to the economy when we got all the tabs in the xunlai chest. I don;t think there was hoarding or inflation immediately following that update.

I love the amount of QQ from ppl whenever a-net announce anything

Weird how a game that costs little to buy & nothing to play as much as you want, is fail whenever they released anything to the playerbase

The fact that people are still playing after a year or even 3 years surely proves the game is less than fail doesn't it?

No matter what they do with GW, what they release or try to change they are always going to upset someone but it would be nice if just once there was not a QQ-fest about every single thing a-net try to do

I'm starting to wonder whether this announcement is for another part of the GW community, the one which is on the wiki discussion webpages, not Guru where discussion is tougher, notably because there are a lot of retired players and trolls. (knowing all well that it's going to be discussed here, Guru-ers are well-informed people ;P ) I miss the days when Gaile was here, in the middle of the discussion.

Nice to see Regina here, and I surely hope that the part of the announcement that said "during development we will be more open about our process and what we are working on" is going to change the community relationship and we'll get more communication (rather than Q&A).

Sincerely, I <3 to hear "We want players to feel connected to what we are developing", I'd like to know how you prioritised the various tasks you got on your todo list, where you fish for this information, etc.