What is your top 3 ArenaNet mistakes?

Signet of Might.

Ups.

MMO's are made for socializing, but you can't expect obsessive compulsive nerds to act social. That's the paradox.

As for Anets mistakes: Very few.The game only got more interesting over time wile still allowing people to do everything they originally did when it was all new. Nothing is forced upon you. And it's still better to play with two people and heroes then just heroes and hench. You just don't need to scoop up a pug anymore if you want a specific party setup..

The main problem tough, is that there are still not enough inherent reasons to be in a guild since you don't need one for anything. I still look around for one that isn't too demanding on the faction farming or not so small no one is ever on line.

1) I'm making more money after the "loot Scaling" then before & doing less farming
2) ecto prices have staied the same since the new favor system, so new excuse to whine?
3) I have sevral titles in my HoM that aren't max and any title is so easy to get the 1st level, if you think otherwise then you need to play another game pls.

Player perspective:
1. Only competitve PvP modes, no deathmatch battle royale, no fun pvp
2. titles based on timeconsuming repetition of content rather than complete coverage of content (e.g. rather have people grind factions than introduce an "all regular quests title")
3. Economy system still rewarding full frontal farming efforts more than anything else.

Big Whoop, external perspective:
4. Not having prepared small content packages, such as single BMP missions, for promotional release at strategic times of the year. Just look at how WoW is releasing a tiny dungeon from time to time just to stay in the news media (especially print), keep players excited and get a lot of attention in general. Events are nice, but events can't obviously compete. This is not ongoing content financed by monthly fees, this is media whoring financed by the promotional budget. GW needs that as well. Just look at how popular Sorrow's Furnace was, even a fraction of its size could get recognition outside the community, i.e. free ad space.

1. No auction house
2. Making PvE and PvP skills together
3. Making Guild Wars totally casual. I am a hardcore player. Cant really say its a mistake though because most players now these days are casual players. So Anet is just appealing to the majority, which is good business.

Wow. Anyone else noticed that pretty much all the whines are about PvE?

Less QQing. More playing.

Can all these idiots please take a hint - GUILD WARS ISNT AN MMO.

Its an instanced competitive rpg.

If you want to play an MMO, quit guild wars and go play an MMO.

1. Nc Buy Anet (super biggest mistake,

NCTAIWAN don't take care how many GW are sold in Taiwan,HK.

SO less 1000 GW player play gw in GW taiwan,HK server
)

What time Anet leave NC

2.Super stubid NCtaiwan Server(playing GW must buy gash[game money use real money buy.Then change gash to NCash[game money,too] .AND use 1300 NCash to buy GW.)

No new player want to buy GW because very hard to buy it.

What time Anet leave NC

good point, never thought of that. It is way more logical though

1. Loot scaling
2. No auction house
3. No real jump abilty as there's no Z-axis (this will be fixed in GW2)

1 Listening to the QQ threads on this forum

- instances only
- boring weapon mods
- uniques can be replicated under the inscription system (anyone knows what unique really means ?)
- title tracks instead of higher lvl cap
- if you want to be efficient you only have a handful of skills and not enough choices + not enough diversity

1: Deciding to move on to GW2 so soon.

2: Announcing GW2 so far before the release, so everyone starts assuming GW1 is "dying", ans shifts their attention to GW2.

3: Allowing PCGamer to plaster "GW IS DEAD" all over the front of its magazine. Genius marketing, that is.

Rats. I ran out of room so I can't bitch about the lack of auction house, or an equivalent.

1. Inscription FFFFS
2. Nightfall FFFS
3. Green stuff FFS

Lol i rly hate inscription it ruined oldschool stuff :P
cause so easy get perf items.

this is just part of GW, don't play it if you don't like it

PvE was actually just made as a tutorial for PvP.

This sort of statement has been made lots of times now and I'm curious as to what you are all basing this on?

Doesn't help the casual player, no but as the casual player I'd expect them to playing the game normally with a full team doing missions and quests and not farming. So it wouldn't affect them either way shape or form.

Doesn't help the HardCore players, thats true, its dropped down the gold you and I get from farming and has made things much less profitable. How ever because of such I adapted and now do a Hard Mode Mission or Vanquish an area with is slower sure, but is far more fun and enjoyable.

Doesn't hurt the gold sellers... ok this is where I start to think that people don't think things through properly. Gold sellers farm gold and if we thinkg about it, they are really the most Hard Core farmers about. All they do is farm. So if it's hurt the Hard Core players, then surely it's hurt them as well?

But because they are still selling gold then your assuming that no it hasn't hurt them. So do you have sales figures? How much gold they managed to farm from all their bots in a set period of time before that nerf and then after? How much gold they are selling now than compared to before?

No? Didn't think so.

Go ahead of flame me all you want now, I'm not support gold selling in any way shape or form, but I also do not support people who flame ANet (or anybody else for that fact) for a nerf. Saying its hurt me but it hasn't hurt that guy over there doing the exact same thing as me, when all common sence says "Well actually, it has hurt them as well".

Passing your opinion off as fact, FTW!

1. Inscriptions
2. Half baked lore
3. Half baked Ctrl + C & Ctrl + V dungeons

Poor PvE design leading to ridiculous stat-pumping of PvE skills and Hard Mode.

Poor handling of PvP community; setting up expectations with GWWC/FC and not carrying on with them, AT delays, balance issues, etc.

Anet's worst mistake?
Ever bothering to read these forums