Weekly Update

If you haven't yet, take a look at the Guild Wars home page and click the link for the weekly update.

It is forever amazing to me, how the GW Dev. Team seems to listen to (monitors) the suggestions and desires of players as expressed on this and other forums. Either they are prescient, or they have the heart of most of the playing community.

With a team of folks like this, GW is going to go right through the popularity roof. I cannot fathom what is probable to come forth in add-on's that will be bi-annual, when there is so much content change and beneficience from just a weekly update.

This is surely no "take-it-or-leave-it" team of folks. Responsiveness and even forethought are the keynotes here.!

I was just having this very conversation with a friend that plays GW as well. We both agreed that the GW development team listens more so then any other game developer that I've ever seen over the past 15 years. This is a tough feat to accomplish considering how well the CoH developers listen. Maybe it has something to do with NCSOFT allowing them the freedom to do what's in our best interest instead of just what will make the most money. Other development teams need to start paying attention and to start following the examples that these two teams are setting.

although i do enjoy the updates i hope this does not turn into a StarWars Galaxies all over again. so many people wanted changes made to that game and the developers made the changes and did them to the extreme and lost over 60,000 users becasue the changes that were made were so extreme that people no longer liked the game..

Customer impute is great and alot of people have some great ideas for making changes but they have to be stern about some things in the game and leave them as is.

I will give them a little credit here. They do listen very well. I still don't think they went the right way about killing farming though.

Yeah, I was on my way to making my Mo/Me to a Mo/W farmer.

In fact, I started a new Me/R and found 3 Runes before at level 8. With my old monk I never found a Rune until lvl 12. And that only found 2 Runes during the whole game. It pisses me off that just as I'm getting ready set up a good farmer they kill farming. I'm tired of those same old quests and missions and have no desire to "rerun" all that stuff.

GW has an easier job at hand. They don't have to worry about how to retain existing customers, which is a major pain for all mmorpg with monthly fees. that is why GW dislikes farming while others like EQ2 or WoW do not have an official stance on it.

I do not think that the Devs did anything overtly against farming. They did make a few things easier to get for the average player, but they did nothing to curtail the farming by those who chose to online farm an area, for whatever purpose they determined.

Most of those who farm different areas of the environment are Level 20 + players who are seeking drops, runes, and gold for fellow guild members or friends. What was being curtailed was the use of a BOT that individuals would activate, then go to bed and wake in the morning with tons of stuff, captured by the BOT.

To not have stopped BOT-farming would have been as criminal as the BOT farmers were themselves. I think we would all have to agree that it is not criminal to stay online in the environment, and farm an area for drops, runes, or gold; for the purposes of helping others in our guilds or just friends, who we play with.

To activate a robot program that will collect gold, runes, and paraphenalia; for the sole purpose of going to a website, or using a trade channel and selling this for real world dollars, is criminal in the extreme; to say nothing of the gross damage it does to the environment of GW.

I am personally very thankful to my guild leader for all the farming that he has done and the wonderful weapons and runes that he has given me. Yes, I said GIVEN ME. He is my kind of farmer!