More Chapters, Less Updates....

ANET are really beginning to bug me at the moment. Its not that they are bad devolpers but they need to buck there ideas up
ANET are more interested in releasing more Chapters than take their time on the following chapters already out. I would much rather they updated on the following chapters than leave them alone, half bugged and continue with another shoddy chapter. There are still many things that ANET need to add to the games which people have been wanting for about a year now, the most obvious one being an update on the trade system or an auction house.
If they don't make these small but IMPORTANT updates I think i may lose interest in guild wars.
If you look on the faction map you will notice high amounts of the map have not been used. I would much rather see these area's taken into account so they can add those few new area's, than leave them alone and make the game look rushed. The Icons also look rushed and look like they were drawn on MS Paint.
All I'm asking for is ANET to spend more time on updates and less time on there chapters. One chapter every 6 months is not needed and too rushed. They should spend there time on the chapters and make them as fun and full filling as prophecies was. Maybe one chapter every year or so.
Thank you for reading my thoughts, please reply comments if needed.

yes i have the same thoughts as you. the factions map is very small and i would also like to see the entire map filled up. Factions is much like the first one imo. if you spend about the entire day playing it you could finsh the game.

also i heard that Anet is planning on releaseing 2 new GW games every year - i don't like the sound of that..also i think that Anet should some how retrict people from being able to skip over the prophocies campiegn. It is very annoying have to redo evry mission a couple hundred times becuase all yopu have to choose from are noobs (sry if this offends ppl) or the bots which are dumber then every. - it takes about 5 minutes before the monk henchie or rit hench to being to rez you.

ty for reading my thoughts as well....

I wish they'd do something drastic with the combat mechanic--adding hundreds of new skills, additional attributes, maybe a third class per toon. . . something to make the game new without having to really add a lot of meat.

Hmmz. It'd be nice if things were fixed, but at the same time when I've played through the game over 6 times I sort of stop caring. I'd rather they keep releasing content than nit-picking old content.

Didn't you know? Anet decided to scrap updates at the end of Prophecies. Instead they're just gonna release a new chapter and update things with that.
Perhaps they'll have our extra storage space and updated armour in time for Chapter 4?

when i first beat the game, in 1 day and a few hours, i was VERY angry.
at first i wanted to choke jeff strain, but then i realized they might add more updates like sorrows furnace types, i remembered them saying we will only get that update once.

2 games a year? good job anet, you can count on not having my 50$ for everygame your supposed to make.

If i remember correctly, factions was supposed to be better than WoW and its expansion Burning Crusade. Anet your game isnt better than any other game atm.

And they don't expect you to buy every one of their chapters; thats simple marketing. How you compare this to WoW is beyond me but ok... can we stop comparing games that are nigh in the same genre?

i mean any of the chapters they release, they wont get my money.

no we cant, because alot of people think gw is better than wow, and wow is better than gw.

ok before that comment goes any farther of some WoW vs GW thing again...

i'd prefer that they make factions not able to be a totally second account buit only able to add on to an existing account as in proph. but then again most poepl will buy both add it on and only play factions....so no real way to fix that...and anyway Anet isnt getting any of my money im lucky enoiugh to have a friend that buys games and iof he doesnt like them sell them cheap so if anything he is the one getting my money lol (just a little side note)

Thats the point, we will have to wait another year just for this extra stuff which we have been asking for say a good year or so.

The more half-assed chapters made with the fewer and fewer game updates, the less people are going to keep buying it.

it wasnt gonna go farther :P

misread the post, nevermind

I don't like how they plan to update things when Ch. 3 comes.. whats stopping them from using the same psycology with the later chapters? I mean, I suppose we deserve this since we don't pay to play.. but it still bugs me such a good game doesn't get some good updates. I mean, will they continue to rely on outside sources for voice chat which seems so crucial for pvp? Sorry, I didn't read anywhere when I bought the game that remaining competitive required someone have a server or pay for a voice chat feature through outside sources.

It seems sort of embarrasing that a game of this stature doesn't have the tools it needs to support itself (perhaps the game developers aspired too much and can't create features due to lack of funding? Should the game be pay to play to ensure features that seem necessary?). Trading in this game is possibly the worst system that I have ever seen (seriously, take a look at some other games and how they deal with it). There are many other core issues that can be attended to, and would almost guarantee a more successful future for guild wars. The only thing that worries me is if paying to play is the reason they cannot create additional content?

you basically are paying, just 50$ every 6 months. just like rent.
except you dont have 2 pay every 6 months

Uh...

http://www.guildwars.com/support/gameupdates/

13 updates since April 27th, which is when the FPE began. Thirteen! Why are you complaining about this?

Want to know when the last WoW patch was? Taken from www.patchtimer.org

"Since the last content patch on 3/28/2006 at 2:00 PM EDT, it has been:
68 days, 2 hours and 4 minutes"

1 WoW Patch is the same size as 80 GW Patches.
Dont ruin a perfectly fine thread.

please crawl back under your rock of ignorance or actually find out what you speak of.

2 separate staggered teams

is that clear?

Factions started April 28 of 05 and has had your one year of work on it.

CLEAR?

chapter 3 was started by the chapter 1 team 6 months after the release of GW in Oct/Nov 05 and will be released with a full year of work this (Oct/Nov) of this year (06)

chapter 4 was started by the switch team on the release of Factions which will have a full year of work and be released on the 2nd aniversary (April 26 07) of GW

Kalki, how many things does WoW need updating? And how many things does GW still need updating? I don't care if we've had 13 updates since the 27th April, none of them have been of the slightest benefit beyond sorting out the retarded AI in Factions. Once they pull there finger out and update our storage and our armour, then i will give them the benefit of the doubt.

So far the ONLY thing they've updated recently that has affected me even slightly (since i don't have Factions) has been the improvements made to Dwaynas Kiss and Vigorous Spirit, Kiss been now imo, extremely overpowered. All you need is 2 hexes and Aegis on a target and you instantly get a heal that WoH would be proud of. Although i don't get why its Enchantments and Hexes... surely if its 'soothing' you when your inflicted by things, Hexes and Conditions would make more sense...

Of course you could include them completely wrecking the MM... but i hardly see how thats beneficial. I'm still waiting for them to make up for it.

I'd hardly say 1 WoW patch is equal to 80 GW patches. Yes, each WoW patch will provide more "content" (usually another raid dungeon most people won't play) to the very content-starved masses, but if you want to compare the amount of end-game content in a game, then there is absolutely no contest. GW wins hands down. What's most important though is that everytime a WoW patch is released the goal is to find the most exploitable flaw in the patch, and exploit the hell out of it for a few months until the next patch fixes it. Just look at how fast 12 vs. 8 GvG issues were resolved in GW. Kudos to the GW update team. That being said let's hope to see the trade improvements and extra storage sooner rather then later.