Admin John in Lions Arch

Theres a GM going around in Lions Arch AE Dis 1 called Admin John typing in blue text. Is this the real deal, he said he likes to come on and talk to people. Also someone asked him to summon Dhuum but he said that only worked when he bans people

yes, it is the real deal

Hes standing on the edge on a hill inside the keep so no one can get to him. He's not letting on alot of information but he said they have been testing more woc content and should know more around the time of PAX / end of the month.

To ensure us that everything is going smoothly, some random person is here to ensure us that everything is going smoothly.

So wait, am I incorrect to say they didn't finalize the entire WoC saga?

Better yet, good to know someone came on to say hello, but unless we get actual definite answers about anything, thanks for coming and enjoy the spam from random sheep.

Do you really think it was actually finished, they can always put more work into it, testing and watever.

This was John Stumme who made an appearance in game. Nothing special to be seen here ^^

what a shame, missed the first GM appearance in awhile. oh well hopefully this will be a more common thing again.

yeah it was nice when Gaile and the frog used to show up and talk with peeps for a bit...miss that. and missed John...(hope he had a good 'honeymoon' )

Aww, I wanna see regular GW Staff apperances even though it gets virtually impossible to get inside the district.

Hm, this gave me an idea, gonna post it in Sardeliac hehe (always the optimist someone actually reads it..)

umm why?

I know a some people are annoyed by how he has downgraded the game ^^ but even if they were silly enough to want to hurt his char they can't....or can they?

Good for him for popping in

Y'know, it'd be nice if I actually got to see a celebrity like that in the game... unfortunately, the already low odds that they'd go in "officially" and not incognito on their real characters are made even lower since I'm Euro and they're US...

Anyway, John Stumme has nothing to fear from me. He does an adequate job - considering his resources, the product is good enough to satisfy me. So, i'd neither want to tear his head off OR drool on his feet

no one made a screenshot ?

I love how some people are bashing him on these forums.

John Stumme alone did more, and better, what the previous people in charge did in the past 5 years. Obviously it's too little too late, but that's not something he can change. The PvE market crashed a long time ago (and nothing can change that) and PvP is beyond saving (most players have moved on, the ones that didn't haven't got much influencial power to actually do anything).

Atleast John realizes the final option is to squeeze every single bit of fun out of GW, and he's done an amazing (Obviously minor nitpicks for improvement) so far. He's also actually the first guy to take in advice from the community, or have we all forgotten how the new WoC foes, for the first time in GW history, actually have intelligent bars?

Or what about the dervish update? Did they not, succesfully, introduce an intire new class into GW without completely breaking it? Last time I checked they did, under his guard. Sure, the balance was far from perfect -Mainly cuz I'm not in the TK - but it's not like people were running 8 derv teams. (Though I tried with reasonable succes)

TL;DR:

There's no point blaming John for shitty management the 5 years prior to his arrival. He's done a way better job so far, and actually listens to/reads the forums. If he's the guy that's going to lead us into GW2, we should be more than glad it's him.

I think it's wonderful our Community Manager's don't ever enter the game. It sounds like the best job ever - you get paid to not interact with people - it's a massive step up from Gaile who talked to players, showed up ... she was just crazy.

For those people that liket to meet GM's there is a big possibility that some of them will show up during pink day in LA, obviously i can't make any promisses but from what i recall they showed up last year, and the year b4 and quite possibly the year before that ... ... if not for the GM's then show up for the fun event or for the fundraiser for BreastCancer Research, which ever floats your boat ...

So, John is the Community Manager for GW now? Or is he just showing up instead of the real CMs because he and them aren't talking enough that the CMs know everything about what's being developed in the game right now?

I guess it's kinda cool that he showed up and stuff. Hopefully, we'll see more of that in the future.

Stumme is good peeps. He is doing a bunch for the game even if some of us don't agreee with it.

I hope there will be a Q and A period with more CM's, I really like what ANET stands for I hope we see more of this.

Can we keep this thread on topic please?

We already had to delete a number of posts already.

It's good to see that they at least check the game... it would be nice if they did random logs daily in PvP to see how inactive it is though but well...