Give GW some love and see everyone happy

They don't need to tell us anything. They tell us a lot more than many game developers. Players should step away from the feeling of entitlement that pervades the forums.

As for hiring more people for the live team...well ANet have given the official line over on GWGuru2

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/...&postcount=370

I find it amusing how anet has stated they would continue to support gw1 after gw2 release and keep updating it etc etc. Seems to me they abandoned it already before gw2. And no i do not care for the wedding stuff (if i did, i would buy the sims and its one million expansion packs). I would like a skill update please.

i think they want to bridge the gap between gw1 and gw2 in a timely manner. it's true that the number of skill updates is very low and it probably won't increase by much this year. however imo the general direction of the skill updates is right.

from a marketing perspective it would be most effective to show the most influential (the last) events in guild wars beyond very close to the release of gw2. i don't think they will show something of the past in gw2, because they haven't mentioned anything at all in this regard in the blog posts. basically drawing more people from the development process of gw2 to support gw1 more intensively won't help much, if that process is slowed down.

my guess is that we'll see some more people assigned to the live team, when gw2 is mostly completed. some people might argue it will be to late then, but i think the original playerbase is going to revisit gw1 from time to time, because gw2 and gw1 are pretty different.

Blizzard's developers output information constantly about what they're doing and why they're doing it.

It also has 28 times the workforce and a title that holds over 60% of the market.

We'd all love more communication, but it's not really worth making comparisons. Anet holds its cards close and doesn't talk until it feels ready to publish. I think that's a fair philosophy, even if it upsets some people.

On the odd occasion that Anet is ready to publish, we get justifications like this:
It's like the people writing developer updates don't play the game at all.

You're definitely right that it's not worth making comparisons - what Anet passes off as communications with the community is, for the most part, so outclassed by blue posts that it's not even worth mentioning.

Jesus people, stop moaning.

Guild Wars has been out for over five years and to get the campaigns one would have probably paid around 80 dollars. That will last you for just over five months in WoW or EvE.

I think we've gotten our money's worth a few times over already.

How much was that in the past six months? You should also take into account the additional costs of server maintainance & co.

You realise you're saying this not ten days after the last skill update, right?

Yeah, I agree with you that some more people on GW would be nice. But I don't think it would be feasible. The people have spent most of what they were going to spend on GW already. It's unlikely that costumes alone every few months would supply enough income to support a bigger team. And the new content you're getting for free.

I personally can't ask for anything more.

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...you can't just say that they don't care and aren't supporting the game and have abandoned it because you personally do not like the stuff they have added. It's content that exists, there's no two ways to argue about it, and just because you don't like it doesn't mean you can pretend it doesn't exist and whine that there's nothing new being done.

Skill balance updates require a lot of insight and testing. Hiring more people to the Live Team needs money and shifts ANet's focus from GW2.
Solution: TK. Make it bigger, reorganise, set better priorities, whatnot. No idea how many people are there and how do they work exactly, as most of info about them is super-secret, but getting n-teen skills updated after six months points out that something's wrong.

Hahahaha. You were joking right?

The Test Krewe is already pretty big, and they provide plenty of love for GW1. Both for pvp and pve. There is testing constantly. What most people seem to want is more content and more updates, so what you really want is a full GW1 content team. That's simply not realistic.

Do tell me, how many people should be working on creating minor content updates for GW1, and how many people should be working on an entirely new MMO that currently has production priority? Since you seem to be the expert.

You do realise how much content and updates everyone has already received, without any monthly fee what so ever? Right? It seems odd to mention abandoning the game, right after new quests have been added, with no idea how much content is still to follow up on that.

Do you really think what PvP is getting right now constitutes "love?" The common perception by far is that credible PvPers in the Test Krewe are usually disregarded.

However , they're only doing updates on GvG and these aren't that good apparently . Heroes Ascent was the only other PvP arena that could still work ( it's right now kinda completly empty for month), and when you see some update such as : Jagged strike : not changed ; black mantis : nerfed ) you just wonder wtf ....

Anyway , /agree with ideas , but i don't think that they will change things that late in game and that close to gw2( they will just probably go on with costumes and usual GvG nerfs each months )

I do wonder what that perception is based on. The Test Krewe has a dedicated group devoted to just pvp, and pvp only. And I think the team listens to them very well. They would be fools not to. That's why they are onboard, are they not?

People who are actually in Test Krewe.

Just look at the past few PvP skill balances if you think that their input is being used appropriately.

And I hear just the opposite from the PvE side, who constantly tell me that the Test Krewe must contain only PvP players. But the TK is not a solution to release quicker fixes. They are there to TEST, not solve/fix/implement skill updates, format changes, bugs, content.

I find it amazing that ArenaNet continues to support a five-year-old game as well as they are.

Throw us a bone then. Much of the whining could be cut by letting us know what - and when - is coming. While we know about WoC, it's placed 'somewhere in the mysterious future', same as the incoming wedding - and when people don't even have a prelim date to look for, they are more eager to complain.

Come on, drkn. You know the stance ArenaNet takes on information and release dates. They give none until the update/fix/content is ready to go live. Let's not turn this into a GW2-style thread - full of complaints about no info.

/agree

Why not releasing some paid mini-content? like the bonus mission pack. When it comes to costumes, its a quick way to make money, but not everyone likes'em. But everyone likes more content and/or lore.

I believe theres still some profit opportunities in GW1.

Maybe people should just be less eager to whine? Be excited. You know there's more content coming, WiK and the new Keiran missions are a lot of fun, and the new costumes look great. Be positive for a change. There's every indication that the team still loves GW1 very much, and are dedicated to bring you fun and exciting new content for free. Would be nice if the players were thankful for a change. Merciful Grenth, that would be a Wind of Change for these forums I'd love to see.

I find myself not caring much anymore whether they update it. Maybe it was those 3 years off before we even got to GWB that made the games feel comatose to me... When we get an update it's like we wake it from that for a day or a little bit then it's right back in the coma.