Curse

El Presidente · Oct 01, 2009, 05:57 PM // 17:57

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Originally Posted by snaek

gw is not their lives, it is their job. they are free to do whatever they wish on their free time. however, 2009 has been full of delays for whatever reasons they might be, and i do hope they get their act together.

Did it say they did that on their free time? No ~ but it also didn't say they did it on company time. So, we don't know, except for the Twitter part, imo.

Delays? Absolutely! I'd rather see progress on what matters to most of the fanbase rather than some new content for Halloween...for that would be allocating/creating additional manhours and delaying all the other projects.

Martin Alvito · Oct 01, 2009, 05:59 PM // 17:59

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Originally Posted by Risky Ranger

What I see here are some of you people are a bunch of ungrateful bastards. You complain when you say no one keeps you up to date with what is going on and when they do, all you do is complain about what they have to say.

It does seem like they can't win, doesn't it?

In all honesty, I think that people are objecting to how things are being said here, rather than the actual content. Regina's opened the door a little too wide here and hasn't filtered properly. This makes it easy for people to hammer the post with criticisms such as, "So the henchman skill bar contest wasn't labor saving? So why did you do it again if the reason we don't get what we want is that you're understaffed and overworked?"

One could very easily rewrite this post to communicate the same content but avoid inviting accusations of mismanagement, bureaucracy and meeting-filled workdays.

You also have to keep in mind that a lot of people are upset about improper balance maintenance. The dev team whiffed on the R/A nerf last month, and the string is right back as Way of the Assassin because Escape and Blossom weren't the problem. SF has been hanging around for ages with no action. The GvG tiebreaker is hopelessly broken. Hero Battles are unplayable. The list goes on.

The to-do list seems to indicate that ANet isn't in touch with what its players want. My guess is that successfully bringing little projects to fruition like the skill bar contest is what gets you noticed and promoted, but players want ANet staff to do gruntwork that isn't observable to management and consequently gets shirked.

Aljasha · Oct 01, 2009, 06:22 PM // 18:22

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Originally Posted by Risky Ranger

What I see here are some of you people are a bunch of ungrateful bastards. You complain when you say no one keeps you up to date with what is going on and when they do, all you do is complain about what they have to say.

grateful for what? i agree with april's update being great and it gave me some great feelings of gw going into the right direction support-wise. after that we were fed with many redundant buffs and nerfs, mainly buffs which shaked the meta and pushed it towards a wrong direction.

soon we heard of the plans for a nice pvp content update and more frequent updates, but not much happened for 5 long months, upward tendency. now that we heard from bad priorisation, bureaucratic-heavy procedures and a dangerous illness my expectations are very low regarding updates for gw1.

at least we got gw2 to wait for.

ps. don't get me wrong. this is not meant to be a rant and i wish the live team a quick recovery, but this journal entry just blew my optimism away.

moriz · Oct 01, 2009, 07:14 PM // 19:14

anet's live team (and anet in general) suffers from the "making mountain out of molehill" syndrome. take a look at the live team Q/A, more specifically (and i paraphrase):

"when we skill balance, we try to look into the core of the problem. sometimes, a skill is overpowered not because it actually IS overpowered, but the supporting skills around them and the environment. so, we remove those support skills and adjust the environment, and the formerly overpowered skills are no longer overpowered."

the above is the perfect example of what's wrong with anet: they try to look for the magic bullet that's just not there. for example, the R/A template is as old as Factions. people were running R/A with escape and dagger attacks ever since Factions came out. it was never a problem until the fast activation/recharge dagger change. instead of making the easy and simple adjustment: revert the dagger attack changes for PvP, anet decides to nerf escape and death blossom. the end result: people change to a different elite and continue to truck along with the same broken dagger attacks.

i think the entire anet staff needs to have the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) rule permanently stapled onto their workstations. the game would be a lot better off that way.

KZaske · Oct 01, 2009, 07:49 PM // 19:49

Regina; Thanks for the update. Having missed three weeks of work (I got dumb and went back to work too early) due to H1N1 I can understand exactly how Lindsy felt. I hope everyone is better now.

Taco Fiend Taco · Oct 01, 2009, 07:51 PM // 19:51

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Originally Posted by II Lucky Charm II

Why would you waste your time writing this paragraph informing the public of the condition of the Anet team? For all we care, we paid you (ANET) so therefore you are obligated to serve us under any conditions. We could care less about the H1N1 virus, tough luck. Hire new people... Remember, your new franchise, GW2, depends on what you're doing with GW1. If you lose people's interest, then you know the outcome. Stop trying to come up with new stories to delay the updates.

NO SARCASM IMPLIED

Its your stupid opinion, so refer to yourself as "I" instead of implying the community is in line with your stupidity. And judging your words, I don't think you pay anybody to do anything. I think your mommy does. So next time please tell the truth ie: For all I care, my mommy paid you (ANET) so therefore blah blah.
Accuracy is important. Just remember that when you at some point have to seek employment of your own. Remember also, if you get sick, even for just a week, expect to be replaced as you suggest.

Shadowspawn X · Oct 01, 2009, 08:02 PM // 20:02

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Originally Posted by Taco Fiend Taco

Its your stupid opinion, so refer to yourself as "I" instead of implying the community is in line with your stupidity. And judging your words, I don't think you pay anybody to do anything. I think your mommy does. So next time please tell the truth ie: For all I care, my mommy paid you (ANET) so therefore blah blah.
Accuracy is important. Just remember that when you at some point have to seek employment of your own. Remember also, if you get sick, even for just a week, expect to be replaced as you suggest.

You are making a lot of assumptions about this guy, which are all probably false. I certainly sympathize with anyone who is ill and wish them a good and speedy recovery. However the point is well made, why don't you start pm'ing Regina and Linsey with your personal problems like your health, economic woes and other non game related trivia and see how fast they put you on the ignore list.

Oink The Pig · Oct 01, 2009, 08:03 PM // 20:03

I'm pretty sure I'd be hiding out if there was any H1N1 going around, so I appreciate everything the Live Team's been able to do.

Regarding Halloween, I love Costume Brawl as a format and would be thrilled if some of the proposed additions included Costume Brawl AT support.

II Lucky Charm II · Oct 01, 2009, 08:06 PM // 20:06

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Originally Posted by Taco Fiend Taco

Its your stupid opinion, so refer to yourself as "I" instead of implying the community is in line with your stupidity...

What I said was not an opinion. Please keep your language level out of the profanity range. I will disregard your message so that no conflicts will arise. I'm grateful that Regina delivers these news. However, you must understand that:

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Originally Posted by upier

...this is business. And people get pissed when one fails to deliver.

There are no needs to sympathize for someone you do not know personally.

MithranArkanere · Oct 01, 2009, 08:17 PM // 20:17

No new info for anyone following the info.

moriz · Oct 01, 2009, 08:24 PM // 20:24

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Originally Posted by II Lucky Charm II

What I said was not an opinion. Please keep your language level out of the profanity range. I will disregard your message so that no conflicts will arise. I'm grateful that Regina delivers these news. However, you must understand that:

There are no needs to sympathize for someone you do not know personally.

no, what you've said is pure garbage. not to mention, no profanity was uttered anywhere.

but hey, next time a tragedy strikes your family, be sure the invite us all over to laugh at you. after all, there's no need to sympathize for someone you don't know personally now, is there?

Yawgmoth · Oct 01, 2009, 08:30 PM // 20:30

We should be grateful that the long silence has been broken, but sadly the only good news here is more GW2 info this year and XTH not coming back anytime soon.

Short · Oct 01, 2009, 08:31 PM // 20:31

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Originally Posted by II Lucky Charm II

What I said was not an opinion. Please keep your language level out of the profanity range. I will disregard your message so that no conflicts will arise.

In short: You said stupid and I'm a carebear yet I am also trying to avoid the fact that I was wrong so I shall ignore what you are saying.

Rocky Raccoon · Oct 01, 2009, 08:35 PM // 20:35

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Originally Posted by II Lucky Charm II

There are no needs to sympathize for someone you do not know personally.

So you are saying we should only care and sympathize about those we know?
That is one very shallow way to look at life.

Obrien Xp · Oct 01, 2009, 09:09 PM // 21:09

Regina: if you typed in t-virus, I'd go grab some weapons and equipment and attempt to help hold off any assault as you guys work on gw1 and 2

(and an antidote

). At least it wasn't the g-virus, or are you infected with las plagas to hide more information.

/RE freakout off

Glad to see that people are recovering. Hope things get sorted out and we can all get back to normal.

Also, glad to hear about the twitter updates, i think its good for all of us.

Painbringer · Oct 01, 2009, 09:09 PM // 21:09

I guess I have been taught never bite the hand that feeds you. Catching the flu at a trade show is telling me one thing watch out when I go to them or working at one. Wash your hands for 25-30 seconds and hum the abc song

Ambitious · Oct 01, 2009, 09:28 PM // 21:28

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Originally Posted by Obrien Xp

Regina: if you typed in t-virus, I'd go grab some weapons and equipment and attempt to help hold off any assault as you guys work on gw1 and 2

(and an antidote

). At least it wasn't the g-virus, or are you infected with las plagas to hide more information.

/RE freakout off

Glad to see that people are recovering. Hope things get sorted out and we can all get back to normal.

Also, glad to hear about the twitter updates, i think its good for all of us.

They need...SERUM... Err, swine serum.

Anywho, I hope the Anet team gets well soon. I don't know about you guys, but I'm more worried about their health than the lack of updates. Auf Wiedersehen.

Cuilan · Oct 01, 2009, 09:31 PM // 21:31

My thoughts on this are pretty close to Lucky Charm's. I don't give my loyalty blindly.

Eragon Zarroc · Oct 01, 2009, 09:39 PM // 21:39

interesting stuff. sounds like content update wont be too soon though with henchman skillbar contest taking up time

Obrien Xp · Oct 01, 2009, 09:45 PM // 21:45

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Originally Posted by Ambitious

They need...SERUM... Err, swine serum.

Anywho, I hope the Anet team gets well soon. I don't know about you guys, but I'm more worried about their health than the lack of updates. Auf Wiedersehen.

I talked to regina via xfire, she said almost everyone had recovered. Seems my chatlogs were deleted by ccleaner so I can't find an exact quote.

Bis Spater.