Summer Update = Top Secret Agenda???

I should never type before I am awake and drunk my first cup of coffee in the morning, You do understand my point though, a summer update, would be june / july in 90% of people minds, it would have been better to have stated a autum date for the free expansion, as thats what it seems like it is going to be.
Thanks for confirming the expansion will be available by June of next year and No later

I really hope that there are more than 10% of us scattered around who have enough of a clue to understand that a "summer update" would refer to an update occurring at any time during the "summer", and that an update occurring in June/July would best be referred to as a "June/July Update".


Yeesh..

Half the time I expect to fire up the game and just see a big picture of GoatSe Man and the words "Thanks for the ulcers! Everyone here at ANet HATES YOU NOW! Plz use the search. Game closed."

So much love floating around in this GW community!

Gaile, I love you! ArenaNet, I love you! Guild Wars, I love you! Adriana Lima, I love you! Heidi Klum, I love you! Avril Lavigne, I love you! Jessica Alba, I love you!

now see, that makes more sense because they said first half of 2006. saying that 90% of people think a summer update will be june/july is the same as saying 90% of people expect the new release to be in January! because technically january is still in the first half.......

WOW knickers in a twist?

I should have said august as well, but definately not September onward, they have 3 weeks too go.

pay attention to the dye/material/rare market. Once something drops under what it's normally selling for purchase as much of it as you possibly can and sit on it until it goes up(which should be about a day or two). I made about 90 plat selling silver dye yesterday in about an hour. Also don't buy runes from the trader. I bought a Superior Smiting and Superior Divine yesterday for 35 plat(both runes)...

I shall notify the press immediately.

I am bored with all this Summer Update chat.

Whats next, asking in November when is the expansion comming out.

So let them release what ever they want to release and when ever they want.

If I am bored I play something else I don’t go on about when the next update is or whatever.

I have learn this after playing D2 for many years put it aside then d2 LOD again 2 years playing put aside and back again. if an update Comes it comes if it doest it doest dont act like this is the only good game out there.

Live it self is already stressful as it is so I am not going to stress out about a “Summer Update” that may be coming out in the autumn.

I have a question for Gaile and/or Alex....

What are the qualities you are looking for in an Alpha tester?

Cause I'm pretty sure I have all of them!!!!

Sent.-

Thanks for the words of encouragement, Gaile and Alex.

My favorite part of the original post is how at one moment the poster complains that the news was released too early, and then immediately complains that they shouldn't keep it secret until the last minute. I think that anyone who lives by that contrary pair of goals is setting themselves to always be unhappy.

next item on our list of demand is

we need to know specifically what the update is, the design layout of the new zones, the mobs' attributes, the loot table of those zones, what professional and skills are affected and in what way, and how we should be prepared for this update.

and those are just the initial demands.

just wait and see what else we will demand as our just deserts.

laughing to much to type

getting lunch plus deserts

We also demand that you release atleast 4 builds that will be best for explorer the new areas and a button we can hit to activate skills in a pre-set order of importance. No mobs should be able to do more than 4 dmg per hit and mobs should sensitive to all elements...not just one element.

Thank you.

Isn't that a catch 22. You want 4 sup runes to get the 105 build to farm (grind) UW/FoW, but you don't want to farm (grind) to get the superior runes.

many GW players will find this game much better for them:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=42557

It would be called the summer update so you can remember waiting for it all summer long. And it comes out at the end of summer.

Its like Christmas season, witch ends the day after Christmas. More then half the fun of Christmas is counting down weeks and days hurting yourself just thinking about the nice baseball bat your gonna get. Only Christmas always has a release date. So this is more of a one of those days pop-up surprize Christmas.

In latin, this concept is called 'carpe diem', and most people like it.

Depite all the sarcasm, I think you're getting my point.

Don't worry about being harsh. I'm used to it. My oppinions about things are not always popular and getting a reply is better than being ignored, like SOME people do.

As there are lots of absurd concepts like doing a summer update in autum or going farming, it's up to the individual to go with a concept or not.

Living the idea of 'carpe diem' is not easy and I fail a lot. But I'm confident, that I'm getting better at it.

If we all had realistic expectations, this forum would be overloaded with complaints about how bad certain things really are.

Christ, you people need to stop bitching.

If I were Gaile, I wouldn't even visit these forums what with all the constant bickering.

Oh, no, it's ok, really. I mean, yes, it would be nice to have a lot more positive comments and a lot fewer heated ones, but it's good that people are excited about the game and it's really good that they're looking forward to the Summer Update. No harm, no foul.

Maybe the summer update will even let you uncustomize items. :O

The bosses have been branded, the day is near!

*points at sky* "The update, boss, the update!"

(anyone know where that "phrase" comes from? I'm not even that old either ^.^)

Would be funny if they release the "summer update" in autumn.

NOOOOOOO!

Well, up until like September its still Summer so technically this could last till September 21, 2005. >.<

I don't care if it is next year, I'll still be playing.

Are the complainers forgetting that ANet does not work for you, they do work for your enjoyment. There is a HUGE difference.

You all are doing a great job of keeping the Magic The Gathering, minded players entertained, its a shame that some people don't like to use strategy and thought out plans. Keep it moving!

You couldn't be more wrong, their customers keep them in business.

Their customers keep them in business, yes.

But they do not have to bow to the people who constantly complain and will never be happy with anything. You know, the psuedo-industry types that think they could do it better, when they will never make it any further than knocking other people down on a forum for their own ego.

Wait, did I just do that? lol

Ok, i wasnt ranting and raving, just getting excited. I'll still be playing when it comes out, I'll still be playing next year when chapter 2 releases. I'll still be playing because I dont play GW 24/7/365. I play CoD, BF2, Warcraft, Starcraft, DoW, Heroes III (woot), ect... People start whining that they have nothing to do, well, go do something else for a change...

Me, i'll just sit here patiently in my corner whistling Dixie till the update comes out *starts whistling*

Well obviously these people think they could do it better, since they left Blizzard.

I am talking about the people who get on here and talk like armchair developers. People that think they know what makes a game good or not.

I am not talking about the developers of GW.

Heh, they left Blizzard when Vivendi Universal started to make demands not because they thought they could do better but because VU is an oppressive publishing company that can make a developers life miserable if you don't follow their every whim (see VU vs. Valve)

Gaile, remember, the main reason *most* people visit game forums are:

1) to troubleshoot performance issues and see if anyone else is having the same issues so that they can quickly solve their problem.

2) complain about how the game isn't balanced, stable, intuitive, long enough, laggy, and so on.

3) Other: Hints, strategy, builds, quick ways to progress with as little work as possible...

And seriously, if you go to ANY game forum you'll see that #2 (Complain) comprises of the overwhelming majority.

In very few circumstances will someone join a forum with the singular goal of praising a game for how well it's made/how fun it is.

Also note that the majority of game players don't actually go to forums anyways. They just play the game. It's only us select minority that actually go onto the forums.

Anyways, I think that Guild Wars was a great game. I unfortunately have to say "was" because I, like others, pretty much ran out of stuff to do pretty quickly and really have no reason to create yet another PvE character. This isn't a bad thing mind you....just not what I expected. I'm positive that I'll be buying Chapter 2 the moment it comes out but I think that I've pretty much had all the fun that I can take from "Chapter 1".

To close, I'd like to say that Guild Wars was an incredible change of pace and a welcome addition to my game library. It's focus on teamwork was a refreshing take on the genre. I hope that the developers have found this profitable enough to continue what they're doing as I look forward for something new to do/strive for.

I'm pretty sure all the kids playing the game consider summer to equal at least beginning of August so they would have had a good chance to enjoy it. I don't see what's hard to understand about that, most of them are going to be busy as heck once school starts and it's already looking too late for them to get a "summer" enjoyment of said content.

People only complain en masse when there are actual problems. During the betas messageboards were practically dead of any posts because everyone was enjoying the game. Then afterwards we'd post how much fun things were. So spare the psycho analyst stuff, we already have proof of how the community is when happy, and how it is when genuinely upset.