Give Anet some credit

Isn't anyone tired of trashing Anet so much?

Sure they have their problems,but problems come with free gameplay.

So I propose we make a list of things that makes them a GOOD company.

I'll start:

1.Their support (helping with lost password,email,etc) is good.

2.They sell stuff in-game like costumes and all that. Fun stuff that IS NOT obligatory to buy.

3.Even tho their support to GW1 has lowered,we know that this means they are working VERY hard on GW2,and possibly everything will balance out once GW2 is done.

4.They rarely ever have server problems,although there have been it is rare.

5.They made Guild Wars very begginer friendly,let the community interact with order,and made finishing the game worthwhile (missions are fun+endgame areas)

6.You can play whenever you want. Want to take a break for 2 yrs and come back?Sure,your account will still be there,untouched.

You've been playing a different game than what people who post here play.

Server problems rare is debatable. I still recall being relentlessly booted from Urgoz back when Factions was still sorta new.

Anet has done a ton of things right and made an amazing game, but...

1. Their support sucks. Waiting for 3 days to get a response is extremely bad.
2. Microtransactions, WOOOO!!!! no.
3. How do we know it? By 5 mini-trailers showing 5 skills from one class?
4. How long have you been playing? Every summer they blame the heat wave for the lags.
5. Worthwhile how? You finish them once, then you remember them all. You get more for 30 minutes of UW solo farming than finishing the campaign, any campaign.
6. ...Yay. Just like with every single online non-P2P game. Diablo 2? 10 years and counting, Neverwinter Nights 8,5 years.

Sorry, in the past 2 or 3 years they haven't done anything redeeming enough to make me buy GW2.

I've had only good experiences with support. Especially compared to other games.
Compared to other games, the servers are very stable.
End-game content is more than exp runs or loot runs.
Major content changes compared to release, for the good.

Is the OP being sarcastic or not?

I really can't tell if he's being serious

Many people have had poor experiences with support, and believe it or not, NCSoft is well-known in the gaming community for having a terrible support staff (and you'll more than likely deal with them at some point).

So, I'm not trying to say you're wrong....but many many others' experiences would suggest you are.

People just want others to share their misery. It's sad. Join GW2G if you want less whiners.

Who the hell are people who say who should I give credit to?
AN had some successes, some mistakes and some huge failures.
For once, to this day I haven't heard one argument from AN against 7 heroes.

Oh great, because as it is GW1 is so perfectly balanced.

LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!

Sorry couldnt resist

I give Anet all sorts of credit and they deserve it. I play GW alot and so do most of the people in this forum that complain. GW has in a sense become like a friend. And when friends start to act wierd or not living up to our expectations we want them and our mutual friends to know about it. If we didnt care, we wouldnt even bother to post our QQ threads. So remember Anet, next time we say that last update sucks, it means we love you

Pretty much all you said was wrong.

Also, GW2 looks to me like a Aion coppy and the state of GW1 doesnt give me much hope for GW2.... Think i will stick with Aion (They actually update that woot!!!)

Well as much as I love Anet, I will also critizise them. Throwing roses at their feet really doesn't do much good to anyone, neither them nor us. Constructive criticism is the way to get things done and the way they can improve the experience for us and thereby the income for themselves

Although constructive criticism is NOT the same as trashing. However sometimes a trashing thread, can actually have a point. For example that the guy a couple of posts above who said: Worthwhile how? You finish them once, then you remember them all. You get more for 30 minutes of UW solo farming than finishing the campaign, any campaign.
This is an idiotic way of giving constructive criticism, since it means: "The rate of item gains during regular gameplay is too low compared to alternative ways of getting them. It would be nice if something could be done about this "
I for one would prefare my rewritten version XD

Course we love Anet, they've done great things, but that doesn't mean we should get all lovey-dovey about it. Our moaning keeps the bar raised high; respect the moan.

Have you read any of the GW2 info -.-

tldr: op has never played wow

As opposed to what, the months-if-at-all wait you get for quite a lot of other MMOs out there?

Well, Anet and GW is a business.

You would be pissed if you went to a restaurant and had to wait over a hour to be served. 3 days is kinda bad just to get nowhere.

While I agree that Anet is 'a good company', most people are not happy with how things have been since EOTN released. In-game support has dwindled, and MANY MANY promises have been broken without an explanation. Anyways, while I agree that Anet is a good company, all of your examples fail.

1. NCSoft, not Anet, provides account support.
2. Microtransactions are a BAD trend. This slippery slope only heads downhill.
3. That's great if I was playing GW2. Unfortunately for me and everyone else, we are playing GW1.
4. I concede that point. Server maintenance is excellent, overall.
5. This decision was made about ten years ago. It has no bearing on the situation we are in now.
6. See #5.

ANet are great because they made Prophesies with great story, gameplay and design philosophy. Then they gave us Sorrow's Furnace! Brilliant!

If they ever want to know what they did right, just look back to those days.

1.3 days is nothing compared to what you get from other companies (3 weeks)

2.I was just stating that even if it is a free game they still find time to do things like that

3.You just know,all ive said will be nothing if GW2 comes out bad. But i am 99% positive it will be good.

4. Four years in about a week.Ive never experienced serious lag for more than 1 day,and when the lag lasts 1 day it has been about 5 times in all these years.I live in Puerto Rico,so blame your internet.

5.30 mins in UW is your choice if you decide to use the fast way.

6.Was just stating that.



lemming tldr: op has never played wow

No i have not,this however does not matter IMO

galbat0rixx Course we love Anet, they've done great things, but that doesn't mean we should get all lovey-dovey about it. Our moaning keeps the bar raised high; respect the moan.

This is my point. Every day you see 1 thread complaining about Anet this and that,and barely 1 thread every 6 months about good things of Anet. I'm just trying to balance it,but i do agree ANET HAS A FEW THINGS TO RESOLVE

Commander Kanen Pretty much all you said was wrong.

Also, GW2 looks to me like a Aion coppy and the state of GW1 doesnt give me much hope for GW2.... Think i will stick with Aion (They actually update that woot!!!)

I see no way in how any opinion can be wrong. I am just talking about MY experience with Anet and the people I know in GW.


BlackSephir Who the hell are people who say who should I give credit to?
AN had some successes, some mistakes and some huge failures.
For once, to this day I haven't heard one argument from AN against 7 heroes.

Quote:
possibly everything will balance out once GW2 is done.
Oh great, because as it is GW1 is so perfectly balanced.

GW is old and unbalanced yes. But when I say "balanced"I mean we will get the attention we did some years before. GW is and was fun IMO(was FUNNER before)But i still just love it.




--------TL;DR I respect all opinions and am just talking about my expiriences and the people i know of's experiences--------------


PS: Sorry for bolding everything,I don't use the forums that much and don't know how to quote everyone....

A lot of other MMO's won't even bother answering your queries. Anet actually bothers to involve itself in the community, no matter how infrequent that is, which is a lot more than other companies can say.

Granted, account support is a serious problem.

Uh, no. For one, the "slippery slope" argument is a complete fallacy. It basically amounts to "the present is good, but the future could be bad, so the present is bad". It's like criticizing a person for the worst possible thing they could do when the haven't done anything.

Second, how are Microtransactions worse than monthly fees? Especially in the way that ANet has set them up (meaning aesthetic opposed to functional). Completely optional payments are probably the best way to support online games, provided that they give absolutely no in-game advantage.

What's hilarious is that when Guild Wars was first released, the expectations created was that new content would be created via purchasable expansions. We're still getting new content at a somewhat regular intervals (far more regular content than anyone who first bought Prophecies would have expected), without having to pay anything for it.

We're also getting regular bug fixes, at an acceptable rate. The ones that don't come out fast enough...well, take it from someone who's actually done programming troubleshooting, it's not a simple matter.

The only real valid complaint about updates and patches would be skill changes and game balancing.