Community report july 2014 to Arenanet

[I ride my Pokemon]

Arkon that's really really really noble of you


Honestly I think this is a message from the higher-ups at Anet showing us that they don't want to have any publicity and ties with Guild Wars anymore. Their long terms goals remain in Guild Wars 2 and we should just deal with it. If they were a little interested about the leftover community they would have tried to explain why they can't apply some measures that was raised at the interview.


But I'm willing to see if you get any results.


EDIT: Just an idea. Even if you can't have an "official" interview try to get the answers and give the Community an "unofficial" one. This way we at least get some answers. LOL.

[Izzy Ownz]

Originally Posted by I ride my Pokemon

Honestly I think this is a message from the higher-ups at Anet showing us that they don't want to have any publicity and ties with Guild Wars anymore. Their long terms goals remain in Guild Wars 2 and we should just deal with it.

That's what i'm doing right now, dealing with it.

To be honest i'm sure that they have answers for all of the questions that we made, and that those issues have already been addressed internally. David Ortiz is not just the Spanish Community Manager both for GW1 & GW2, he is also the European Community Team Lead. Possibly the one who declined the interview after the revision was Martin Kerstein (these are my guesses).

Since the interview is not going to be done, i leave here the image banner that i made for it. For the work not to be in vain! xD (the picture is of Embark Beach).

Thanks Arkon for making another try, good luck!

[I ride my Pokemon]

It seems that these attempts of ArenaNet to strangle the very last life of the game are having an opposite effect.

Someone went as far as creating a Website to reunite e reignite the flames of this game after Anet communique (closing the Support Page)

Kinda dreary seeing that ArenaNet will just trample. Just for Curiosity the link is in Guild Wars Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GuildWars?fref=nf#

[Bristlebane]

Originally Posted by I ride my Pokemon

Someone went as far as creating a Website to reunite e reignite the flames of this game [...]

I've been at it too, working on a web application to easier build groups for missions, ZMs, dungeons etc. I don't know if I can finish it yet, but I'm making it smartphone friendly so people easily can see current events and gatherings easily.
And I already got the coolest domain for it.

[I ride my Pokemon]

Originally Posted by Bristlebane

I've been at it too, working on a web application to easier build groups for missions, ZMs, dungeons etc. I don't know if I can finish it yet, but I'm making it smartphone friendly so people easily can see current events and gatherings easily.
And I already got the coolest domain for it.

Wow, that's madly cool. Any prognosis when it will be available?!

Geez this is a nice trigger of events. Interview - New Website - New App....

Pumps my old weary Guild Wars heart.

[DoomFrost]

Darn a little too late... my questions would have been.

1. What do you think of Guild Wars community now vs. past.
2. Do you still pop into Guild Wars from time to time?
3. What was your favorite community organized event?
4. Where do you see Guild Wars and it's player base 5/10 years from now?

Pretty much all I can think of.

[Atro]

Pfft I'm so disappointed lol, I read the whole thread thinking I would see an interview Oh well.

Honestly, I think Anet would make much more money coming back here and working on GW1. GW2 was a major flop (IMO), I tried it for 4 months and could not get myself to like it, it was too different.

One can only dream!

[Arkon Necrocannibal]

As I said, I sent a message to Stephane Lo Presti but also Stephanie Bourguet.

Stephane just replied to me:

Bonjour,

Comme vous le savez, la plupart des aspects de Guild Wars ont été construits de façon à faciliter l’automatisation du jeu et permettre à la communauté de continuer à s’amuser avec le jeu. Ceci étant dit nous ne donnons pas d’interview à propos du jeu étant donné que, comme nous l’avons expliqué à de nombreuses reprises, nous ne développons pas de nouveau contenu pour le jeu. Merci pour votre intérêt et votre soutien.

Cordialement.
__________________________________
Stéphane Lo Presti
Guild Wars French Community Manager
ArenaNet, Inc.

Google translation

Hello there,

As you know, most aspects of Guild Wars have been constructed to facilitate the automation of the game and allow the community to continue to have fun with the game That said we do not give interview About the game because, as we have said many times, we do not develop new content for the game Thanks for your interest and support.

Best regards.
__________________________________
Stéphane Lo Presti
Guild Wars French Community Manager
ArenaNet, Inc.

[Shasgaliel]

Ty all for the effort. They could at least add it to GOG or such sites to possibly get some new fresh air. That would mean money for them as well no? Heh.

[Lasai]

I have to look on the bright side, If they are ignoring GW that means we won't be subjected to the horrifying writing and lore revisions done by the LS writing team.

Don't know where Jeff and Ree are, McCoy and friends obviously have zero oversight.

I guess it is a small blessing that the New Anet is leaving this game alone.

Since Strain left it appears O'Brian only listens to the "good Idea Fairy"
"pssst. Lets merge ALL the servers and tell em it's a feature upgrade"

Thank you so much for trying to get some answers though.

[MaxBorken]

Originally Posted by Lasai

"pssst. Lets merge ALL the servers and tell em it's a feature upgrade".

Hmm... Merge all the servers = remove euro/Asian/American/etc districts? That would be superb from my point of view. 1000 people allowed in an outpost..... Less maintenance too.

That's so crazy it might just work.

Max

[fadekill]

Originally Posted by MaxBorken

Hmm... Merge all the servers = remove euro/Asian/American/etc districts? That would be superb from my point of view. 1000 people allowed in an outpost..... Less maintenance too.

That's so crazy it might just work.

Max

I think he/she was talking about GW2 Server merging into mega-servers.

[MaxBorken]

Originally Posted by fadekill

I think he/she was talking about GW2 Server merging into mega-servers.

Ah probably. I never bought gw2, so that didn't occur

Max

[Phaern Majes]

Originally Posted by Atro

Pfft I'm so disappointed lol, I read the whole thread thinking I would see an interview Oh well.

Honestly, I think Anet would make much more money coming back here and working on GW1. GW2 was a major flop (IMO), I tried it for 4 months and could not get myself to like it, it was too different.

One can only dream!

I'm with you I played it off and on since it came out but could never get into it. WvW was fun for awhile but then it got old too. I still have some fun playing GW1. If they close GW2 alot of the players would come back to 1.

[Atro]

Originally Posted by Phaern Majes

I'm with you I played it off and on since it came out but could never get into it. WvW was fun for awhile but then it got old too. I still have some fun playing GW1. If they close GW2 alot of the players would come back to 1.

Yep, I think the GW2 players would hate GW1 though :P But hey, we love it and I would love to see it revived somehow, but that won't happen :|

I miss almost every aspect of the game in general. As of late ESO has been filling the void GW1 left in my heart. But nothing will ever be as great as GW1

[GhostKairi]

Originally Posted by Atro

...But nothing will ever be as great as GW1

This is the problem I have with every new MMO I try.

[Ayuhmii Shanbwa]

Originally Posted by GhostKairi

This is the problem I have with every new MMO I try.

i have the same, thats why i'm worried now

every other MMO i do like a bit, i cant play without thinking its not as fun as GW
a few are lord of the rings online (i'm no fan of lord of the rings, yet i do like the game), perfect world (the game, not all games from the company)

and even older games like super smash bros brawl (on wii) and all other rpg's i once could play for hours

i do play portal 2, but i wanna make advanced levels..... i just dont have the patience to go on, which i CAN do in GW (although atm its kinda dead around me, but am waiting for a certain someone to make me play again)

[Nekodesu]

Originally Posted by Arkon Necrocannibal

Hello Izzy Ownz,

Please check this out:
https://www.facebook.com/GuildWars/p...2?notif_t=like
That is a letter the community of Guru made about 15 months ago.
There is currently 251 likes and still no answer. If you are talking to the community manager, please put the problem in front of him without escape

For those who didn't read, it's about crowfunding an other extension of Guild Wars.

That post has now been deleted by ANet. Go figure.

Anyway, I started reading the thread and got really excited but I sort of knew it wasn't going to happen. As dumb as that is.

if they ever close the servers I hope that we will see someone figure out how to host the game on their own, possibly even provide updates for it with other passionate players. Place the server in china or spread it across.

If they turn the servers off the only thing we can do is harass them on their GW2 forum. But their moderators there are vigilant and know how to rid people of opinions quickly.

[Bristlebane]

Originally Posted by Nekodesu

That post has now been deleted by ANet. Go figure.

Lol, so funny that a thread staying up for 15 months just happened to be deleted weeks after community started referring to it.

[Ayuhmii Shanbwa]

Originally Posted by Nekodesu

That post has now been deleted by ANet. Go figure.

Anyway, I started reading the thread and got really excited but I sort of knew it wasn't going to happen. As dumb as that is.

if they ever close the servers I hope that we will see someone figure out how to host the game on their own, possibly even provide updates for it with other passionate players. Place the server in china or spread it across.

If they turn the servers off the only thing we can do is harass them on their GW2 forum. But their moderators there are vigilant and know how to rid people of opinions quickly.

i can say this again "they wont, cuz it would be real stupid"
BUT, if they should do that, i dont think much of GW2 would be left, so harassing them would be impossible unless you do it right after GW would be down, before GW2 goes bad, then anet wont exist anymore (cuz as far as i know, GW and GW2 are their only hopes, its arenanet i'm talking about, not ncsoft)

many people would leave GW2 without GW (or even with GW, as far as i see lately), so would make GW2 less and less wanted after a while (ps. i dont say its gonna die, but has a big chance of dying off slowly.... even if its very slowly)

i see prices of RL money and shards are bad (or at least hear from people), and they ask too much for too little, plus most stuff is grinding

anyway, what i'm trying to say, is that GW might not bring as much as GW2 (still) does, but would bring a sh**load of people back and bring way more money in if they'd.... continue
i know i know, this time i believe the "its not gonna happen", but i think there's a small chance.... if anet would be smarter

i talk too much again, so i leave it at this

small EDIT:
i heard also that anet deletes gw related topics on GW2 forums, and that they dont watch fansites of GW anymore (maybe gw2 either, dunno)