I’m questioning the attitude the ArenaNet staff is showing off. They accept flaws for the sake of change. They improve aspects without making sure it wont hinder other aspects. We can see that everywhere in the game. They want to do the Living Story, so the game feels alive and changing but they discount dungeons and PvP for doing so. They implement the Megaservers and streamline the worldbosses in order to do so. They implement the wardrobe and kill off town clothes doing so.
They are not adding first-person view or rework the AI because it would take too much time and wouldn’t progress the game as much as new half-baked content would.
All changes look like the staff is too small. Maybe they can’t do something about that but I question their attitude to progress at any price. If their staff is that small, they should first of all make sure that the quality isn’t suffering. Right now it is.
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I notice ever so often that the ArenaNet staff uses flawed arguments.
One example are the NPE changes. They said the game losing new players becasue they don’t get it, they say they lost more than 10000 players due to this. They said that the NPE changes got developed based on a survey filled by those players.And I’m just sitting here asking myself why they didn’t even bother to ask the 3 million players they claim to have.
Another example is the first-person camera. I would understand, eventhough I wouldn’t agree with them, if they would say that a first-person camera is just a minor tweak and therefore pretty far down on the to-do list.
Instead they say that they don’t want to implement the first-person camera because they want the player to be able to see their characters.
If that’s so important for ANet, why is stacking still possible?
Is that (see attachment) the intended way of keeping track of your character?I have no problem with them making decisions I can’t agree with as long as they are honest why they’ve made them. And I don’t have the feeling that they are sometimes.
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