Community report july 2014 to Arenanet

Hi guys!

I've got an interview with a Community Manager about Guild Wars 1. Here's where you come in.

I have in mind many current questions that are addressed in the community, however, I would like your help to develop the interview. How? Leaving the questions that you think should be included on this topic:

1) Well-elaborated questions that concern the community.
2) Questions that have not been clearly answered in the past: mail, action house etc
3) Clear questions

Finally, i will include the best questions to the interview, and to the ones that are already planned. Also, if you think any of the questions that will be exposed here are not relevant for the interview, let us know.

Advice: some questions may have no answer from the Community Manager or he will not be in a position to give it to us.

Thanks for the help! #AUnitedGWCommunity

Since we have been told on many occasions that they have no plans to do anything new with guildwars (outside of emergency updates), is there any hope that this will change in the future?

Next year will be guildwars 10th anniversary, do they have anything special in the works for that? (or does it also fall into the 'we have no plans to do anything with guildwars beyond emergency updates').

do they plan on doing anything about the Ha/GVG syncers? or the war supply bots?

#UPDATE 1

Well guys i have a little brainstorm of ideas for posible questions, but i need your feedback. To not making enormous quotes & messages you can asnwer this way: 1) Must be "blabla"/No "blabla"/Rebuild question: "blabla", 2) ""/""/""...

(btw questions are quick made, just to know if the ideas are ok for posible questions)

1)Before, the Community Managers used to stop by Guild Wars Guru (mainly Stephan Lo Presti) to stay in contact with players, answer questions and move the community feedback to developers. You have plans to stop by GWGuru again?

2)Nowadays the feedback portal at the official wiki is closed, there’s no sub-forum for players at the official forum, which should deal with players suggestion & feedback, and no COMA is appearing at GWGuru official fansite. So in this situation how can players move their feedback to developers if its not strictly a support case?

3)Years ago the Guild Wars team used to do events with ingame prizes: minipets and other stuff, and also merchandising of Guild Wars. Also you used to give GWGuru (and other communities) prizes so they could make some events too. Will we see these events in the near future?

4)Do you have plans on doing anything about the Ha/GVG syncers? or the war supply bots? (legend XIII) || Im just aware of PvP syncs and hacking, but i heard there are bots in Jade Quarry, Faction Farming and other stuff. Some extra info please?

5)Guild Wars has had an awesome community and it still have it, will we be able to see a new expansion for the game? maybe Guild Wars Origin? (rebuild question must be done xD)

6)Any plans to finish the Guild Wars Beyond story? || I need someone with ideas for Lore questions.

7)Any posibility for launch of pay content? like the old "Guild Wars Mission Pack Bonus"(content question here too)

8)You or any member of the Guild Wars team are gonna make any apparition ingame? to give some gifts to players or just to chat with them.


@cosyfiep your first question was already planned for the interview, the second one is going all the way in

@legend XIII was thinking about including that one, and its probably going to be added.

4) PVP:
HA= sync with alt acc already tons of pve players got r10-15 on this way. u can watch it on obs 24/7.

GVG= sync, bot vs resign bots, 3party programms like toolbox, rupt and prot bot... on obs to.

JQ = 90% Necro bomber bots even on events...

Ab= teams with the same 3 party programms like on gvg. for example: rupt , prot, cancle, kd bot........

Codex= bots vs resign bots

PVE:

Event bots that farm 24/7 events.. vattir farm bot for sweets and stuff, rollerbettle race bot etc.

Fow bot: farming shards

warsupplies bot: farming supplies


there is alot more that is just a shortcut. and all that is nothing new on gw. But since ha syncers on obs dont even get bann.. it got out of controll and its like a carte blanche...... for all parts of gw.
atm we have wild west here. so we really need a sheriff =)

@OoDAWN

Thanks for the info m8. I didnt know it was such a plague! oh my god

I will try to include all this in the interview.

Im interested in this the most. The most obvious ones are incredibly easy to spot and ban. JQ bots, HA syncer, codex shitters with r10+ sitting in kama saying they never synced...

But I actually have a question for OP. How are you getting this interview?

Getting in touch directly with the Community Manager in another Guild Wars community in which I'm a very active user and contributor.

jesus! you're serious? the game is riven with corruption, it's a cheat's paradise, anet/ncsoft's idea of ingame monitoring is pathetic

I would like to know.When will they buff up Monks smiting as announced but yet as yet to be done?I would say the same with slight buff to protection.

What about the account retrieval tool to turn it back on?

while we are on the subject of syncers et.al. how about the gold sellers (you know the names, they have been in gtob and kamadan for the past bunch of months...)--any plans to remove them since reporting does very little.

Just two questions. Nothing more.

1) Why not turn Guild Wars free to play (at least prophecies) so we can have a bump on the influx of new gamers/comers and revamp the state of the game? (For both, PvE and PvP).

1.1) Why would that not be a good idea for ArenaNet and NCSoft seeing the huge success of the currently MOBA games (PvP) ?! Specially remembering that Guild Wars started as a e-sport and there is almost no influence on maintaining the servers (ArenaNet said it once that maintaining GW server was easy and almost at "no cost").

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2) Why not use crow-funding to launch more in game content, Campaign , Skins, so on, without taking any financial risk? And Why would that not be a suitable idea.


If they answer these questions i think i could finally have some peace of mind.

And understand for once why they choose to ignore this market and public that made what they are today.

Pretty much nothing will ever get updated anymore.
Unless its good for the business.
All questions are answered, thanks.

will someone still check out the community made suggestions page on facebook? and if so, is there at least a chance there will be done something with it?

NOTE: reason i ask it, is cuz 1. many suggestions i like, 2. at least 1 place which can be used

link: https://www.facebook.com/notes/guild...51186055270754

ps. a few suggestions were made and done a little later, like favor not needed

now that we have that here, the question "will 'war in kryta' and 'winds of change' be able to be stopped right after the first quest?"
i mean, i dont even complete eotn and proph with chars who havent done yet, as i cant do WiK on my own.... and no help with it in GW anymore, and yes, i have SEEN the spawns come RIGHT AFTER eotn or proph are completed

plus i dont wanna have to do WiK storyline just to get rid of the spawns, and WoC is even worse, so if we'd get the quest to remove spawns right after the first quest done...

and exploreable missions for proph was made by me here too, so we can sightsee and explore without mission "events" like timers and npc's which may not die and such

i know these may be personal suggestions, but i havent seen any replies on suggestions anymore, so rather use any chance to ask about those whenever i can

let me clear them up
1. will someone still check out the community made suggestions page on facebook? and if so, is there at least a chance there will be done something with it?

2. will we be able to stop with "war in kryta" and "winds of change" after the first quest right away?

3. will prophecies get exploreable missions (like cantha and elona have) to make exploring a little exploring, instead of running around before the mission stops or fails?

reason for exploreable proph missions, is that exploring has always been a relaxing thing, and not something you have to do quick and perfectly to avoid failing
besides, some spots cannot be explored anymore, cuz of the teleport skills no longer "teleporting" anymore, so a bit nicer way to do would make it better

anyway, i hope to get a few answers..... no longer counting on it, but can always have (false) hope
i'm still playing GW1 and havent quit even once, so wish the best for my favorite game of all time (no MMO has been better than GW1 to me)

also, same goes for the elona content if they ever release that, to be able to stop spawning them whenever we want

I'll throw my 2 pennies in.

Instead of self-serving questions about new expansions or additional content or skill buffs (which the mature forum members already know are not viable), I would like questions like these answered....

1. Will Anet pledge to tackle the issue of the plague of botters? Its killing the game.

2. Will Anet do more to tackle account hacking, and do something about the unreasonable time it takes to contact them and restore hacked accounts?

3. Will Anet actually engage with its customers by providing some form of up to date and accessible customer service or support?

That about covers it.

Max

Okay, let me clarify one thing before: i know that you want to ask about new content as much as i I do, and we will include questions related to that, but we can not base the entire interview in the content because if they continue with the same plans of automation they wont answer anything, and would be mulling over the same thing, so let´s try to make varied questions.

@Age They did announce a Monk and Paragon update that never saw the light, am i right?

@I ride my pokemon The F2P issue was already in, because is something that have been through all the GW communities for a while. But i will probably have to modify the questions so that they are not so "aggressive" or "direct".

@Coast Thanks for the positivism...

@Ayuhmii Shanbwa if you read my previus options for questions, one is about where can we make sugestions since the GWWiki option is closed and we cant make it nowhereelse.

The other ones are, as you said, personal requests, that don´t really affect the whole community life. So probably wont be added, but ill take them in consideration. If you have anything else to report, let me know!

@MaxBorken The bot/hacking issue is already in too. The improvement of the support service could be take in consideration.

Have in mind that we can only make a certain ammount of questions, not too many. So we have to make a good selection!

https://forum.guildwars.com/forum/fo...t-Restorations
TOO EXPENSIVE/MUCH WORK
the botting part: make all drops bound on account, which makes trading pointless tho then.
free to play: would u open pandoras box?

What do you mean by pandoras box? haha

Now that the game is past it's due date (NOTE it doesn't mean it's dead, just not actively developed anymore).
How about use the new ingame store to sell some previous Pre-Order items:
Hourglass Staff, Sunspear Weapon, Soulbreaker etc.

So my most important issue about bots/cheats is already in. My second one about Beyond is in as well. I guess I leave it at that. I have a lot of question but they are all not important enough to be in an interview that could never be expected to exist.

I hope that was a joke...

@all: Please no questions about balance. That would need a close observation of the current meta by anet and constant updates again. Balance updates need to be done very carefully. An update once would destroy more than repair.