Give GW some love and see everyone happy

Tip for ANet. It seems that Guild Wars still can be AND is a profitable game. Just as you can see the game needs some love. If you could expand The Live Team size to let's say 12-15 people, it would take the game for a whole new level.

Costumes are a nice way to make money. It doesn't require so much resources and I'm sure many people buying them, while it's totally optional. Win-win situation. What I suggest is to bring back some love to GW and the earned money devote only to GW. All that negative aura around lack of GW2 would shut off, because players would be busy doing GW stuff.

Also let me quote my respond about 'When It's Ready' blog post made by Eric yesterday.

I agree completely, and Iv been saying this forever. They (NCsoft, anet, whoever is in charge of the allocation of labor) need to put some more people on GW1's team. The current ratio of people working on GW1 to people working on GW2 is just... rediculous.

i agree having this little amount of update is almost as good as abandoning the game. way to tell us how u will treat gw2 after u take our money.

/agree. We aren't going to get GW2 "until it's ready" anyways so why not make the waiting period less tedious and more enjoyable. I absolutely love the expanded content. I quite literally did a happy dance when I saw the wedding stuff was up.

Anet, don't abbandon your nest egg until a new one has been hatched. Common sense 101. Keep up with supporting the game and putting in the new stuff like this and people won't mind waiting for the great sequel.

/Signed

I'm extremely excited about GW2, but would like to see more tender loving care spent on GW1. I'm not sure who is in charge of managing the team's work size, but they should allow them to have at least 15 members on board. That would be a significant help in their workload and really cut down on all the QQ'ing you see here.

With the amount of people jumping ship to head to Undead Labs, it couldn't hurt to throw a couple people at GW1.

I mean, GW2 is probably all about done just fleshing it out and polishing up the pretty parts, prolly don't need the massive manpower anymore.

This game could well be successful years after GW2 is released due to microtransactions and new DL content like WIK, Hearts of the North, and Cantha: Winds of Change.

ANet has proven that costumes, Bonus Mission Pack, extra storage space/character panes provide moderate profits.

Use those profits for the continuation of GW1.

More GW:Beyond content, costumes, BMP-like purchasable content, and etc.

Skill balancing, reviving PvP, fixing professions, heroes, and more could be done with more than a small team.

Get to work ANet. Use the money I gave you to add some people onto the GW1 team.

/signed

So much whining. Geez. I think 5 quests is enough. WiK was the same more or less, with bounties.

lol, its not whining and it has little to do with the content. In fact, I think anet has been spending too much time on the new content. Content-wise, I think that people are just hoping that anet pumps it out at the rate that they already are, since they are producing more content pretty rapidly considering how long it takes to make new quests.

The issue here for me is the lack of skill updates. If they could get enough people on the live team to give us monthly skill updates again like they used to, I would be very happy. If they gave us every-other month skill updates, I would be slightly less happy but still happy.

Every other month skill updates is a tall order. Every season is more reasonable (Spring, summer, autumn, winter).

I agree!

The live team really needs more people to help out with everything anet promised. Personally i dont really care about pvp, but i do understand it needs balance updates, a way to keep it fresh. I can wait for GW2, but in the meantime it would be fantastic to have 7 heroes while im waiting, but at this rate that may take another year for all we know.

Seriously, put some more effort into it, i spend well over 400 euro on this game, and it has been well worth the money, but things are becoming a little dry now, also a new bounty rotation would be nice, especially for the boss bounties, we need more bosses to kill, there are plenty of them in the game.

Id say, focus on embark beach + 7 heroes + winds of change for pve, give pvp a much needed hug of love and add/change boss bounties.

I'd prefer getting GW2 four months later, but getting regular bi-monthly skill balances and some new content in GW1.

Out of curiosity, what blog is this?

Huh? They used to do skill updates monthly. If the GW1 team's staff wasn't rediculously understaffed, it wouldn't be a tall order at all.

It's not that they are neglecting GW at all. In fact, there are over 20 job openings at the company right now.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/...ng-t10818.html

There's no simple way to throw more people at something. People are resources, too, and are in demand.

Hello?

I understand ANet can't simply hire people to work in the Live Team, keeping GW1 alive and kicking as it used to be (years ago...), mainly due to their budget limits, probably set by NCSoft itself. But what about the TK? I always had a feeling that the TK is a group of volunteers that get no payment and are independent from NCSoft, co-working with ANet itself. Why not increase the TK size, maybe divide it into subgroups focused on certain tweaks, balances and tests, so that GW1 can actually still get some love?

You realize this is the same company? They don't even have as many people as they need for GW2, and people are saying that GW1 deserves more attention?

Yea... well they may not have as many people as they need for GW2 but they dont have as many people as they need for GW1 either. That is the point we're trying to make. The current ratio of people working on GW2 to people working on GW1 (I believe) is around 100:4. What we want is for anet to devote more than 3.8% of their manpower to GW1. If they get, say, 4 more people, I would prefer that those people go toward doubling the output of GW1 updates than go toward increasing the manpower of GW2 by 4%.

At this point, what Anet really needs is more transparency. A simple "this is how we're changing Mysticism" would suffice.