Hey all,
It’s come up a couple times now that a number of you don’t know me very well, or don’t know what I work on. So, for the next episode of Ready Up, I’m going to introduce myself and answer questions from you!
I have a bunch in my inbox already, but if you haven’t already asked, feel free to do so here.
Thanks!
Hey guys,
If you don’t mind, could you keep this GW2 or Community Coordinator related?
Thanks 
Next RU is this Friday at 12. I’ll be posting details on it hopefully tomorrow, if not by Wednesday.
We want to do an All-Star scrimmage and are still trying to get in touch with some of the players.
I’m going to try to answer as many of these questions as possible, but keep in mind that some of this stuff we can’t talk about.
I posted the essence of this on another thread but I’ll get right to the point.
When will ,you, the Anet pvp dev’s grow some dang balls? (yourself excluded Allie)
By this I mean when will you shake up the current “meta”?
I’m not talking about slight changes to observable metrics. I speak of a complete overhaul. Give us something fresh! Obviously new game modes are out the window or at the very least on the distant horizon. IE. Mars….
So my true question would be this:
Can you effectively disrupt any current “meta” on a monthly basis?
If you dared to do such a thing you would cure GW2 of the current stagnation that we are all experiencing barring new game modes.
For better or worse if you could shake up the “meta” on a monthly basis; encouraging me to play unfamiliar classes or unused trait lines (builds) to be optimally effective then you have my attention. Perhaps you might come close to that gamer utopia that we call “balance”.
Or do we as pvp’rs not garner such consideration from Anet?
edit – oh wait this is a meet and greet BS session. I apologize. So my question would be this Allie….
Boxers or briefs?
We expect the feature build to sufficiently shake up the current meta. There will be lots… of fresh… stuff…
Monthly basis is not 100% feasible right now like it was before. We tried to bring you guys consistent updates, but as you noticed not all of them really shook up the meta. The upcoming build will do a better job at that for you. Hopefully in a good way.
Can you please show us the armor you were issued to survive the forum?
This made me chuckle.
There is no armor, but knowing there are people who understand makes it a little better! 
I got a question.
What is the purpose of Ready ups?
Good question. I’ll take this one! Before I was hired at ArenaNet I ran show called “Guild Wars 2 Guru’s State of the Game”. Aside from the forums, it was one of the main bridges we had with the developers behind PvP and balance. Unfortunately for the show, last summer I was hired on at ArenaNet and had to shut it down.
I know we can’t always talk about extensively about what’s in development, but ideally we’d like for Ready Up to fill that gap, even if we’re just goofing around on stream a bit, playing some casual games. Ready Up happens twice as often as State of the Game did, and we won’t always have things to preview. That said, when we are finally ready to show something off, Ready Up is going to be the place you’re going to check it out.
The topics for each show are posted prior to each episode – allowing you to choose if the show is worth your time or not. They’re not mandatory. Even if we’re not talking about balance or features, etc, I’d still love to have everyone come hang out for an hour every two weeks. If you’re not interested in watching scrims, or whatever else we happen to be doing, then we’ll see you at the patch previews.
Hope that helps.
Edit: If you have suggestions for segments or topics for the show, outside of “tell us all the things” feel free to post them. I don’t spend as much time working on the show as I did when I was on the PvP team, but I’m all about improving where we can, and I know Allie feels the same way.
PS, Hi PvP forums, I missss youuuuu!
I like both ideas, Thedenofsin. I’ve actually been talking with someone in the community about bringing SOTG or something similar back – I hope it works out.
Thank you, Dahkeus.8243, for the kind words!
Since a lot of the questions seem to have fizzled out, I’m going to go ahead and lock this.
Thanks everyone for taking the time to ask such great questions! I appreciate those of you that kept it constructive and on-point.
Much love
