Hey there Wuvers,
It’s my pleasure to introduce to you Devon Carver, the new coordinator of the WvW team. Devon is an excellent designer and is passionate about WvW so I know that both the team and WvW are in good hands. As I step away to focus on other projects you’ll be seeing more of Devon here in the WvW forums so please give him a warm WvW welcome!
I’ll see you on the battlefield!
:habib
Is he stepping down or was he poisoned by the cookies sent by tier 8? Who can know for sure? I’ll try and be as visible a presence as Habib, although his shoes are impossible to fill. I can guarantee an increase in the number of charr related puns, so get your punning dictionary out and let the fur fly!
I’m already feeling the Wuv. I’ll try and reply to some individual questions, but I’m not going to respond to all of them.
Quick. What is your personal vision for WvW? And what appeals most to you about gameplay like WvW?
My personal vision… it’s hard to say. I find that the thing about WvW that gets me excited to play it every time is that the challenge is different each time. I’d like for us to continue to add new ways to play WvW and new wrinkles that make it what it should be. That means we will continue to add new abilities and expand the existing ones. It means we’ll continue to work towards quality of life improvements like removing culling and the nameplate visibility. To be honest, while WvW is an amazing game type, there is always something I think we can improve and I hope to keep up the work towards the goal of making GW2 WvW the most amazing MMO experience around.
1. Please allow us to disable the really annoying titles below people’s names.
2. Please give me permanent invulnerability in all WvW maps. But just me, nobody else.Thanks!
1. Our goal is to make the WvW gameplay experience as good as it can be. To that end we are always taking feedback about changes and deciding how best to turn that into action.
2. I just checked in a change to give this to you. But it won’t activate until you run into the next group of 5+ enemies you see and /dance. If it doesn’t work the first time you do that, it’s probably because the group wasn’t large enough, so try with another group until you are invulnerable.
Hey Devon, welcome, can we have a little forum AMA?
Lets start with something simple:
What color is the shirt you are currently wearing?
Are quaggans adorable or are they adorable?
What is you /deaths on your primary or most played character?
Have you taken part in a quaggan drinking game?
If you had a choice between a strawberry or mint shake, which would you pick?
Red arenanet soccer jersey.
I’ll take the chicken then.
156, which seems low to me, but what do I know?
Can’t say that I have.
Strawberry. Definitely strawberry.
In the WvWvW category: The owner of all created siege equipment. Since you already track the creator, show it to the world. (Related note: show the guild name on claimed strongpoints.)
Thanks
Improvements to guild claiming are something I expect us to look very strongly into. What that will mean in terms of final product I couldn’t say, but I can say for certain that we want guilds to have even more to show for claiming an objective.
They you Habib for your months of hard work, and congratulations on achieving your long term goals within WvW. I hope you find as much success on your next project.
It’s good to see that ArenaNet has changed WvW lead from a programmer to a content designer, as it shows they’re finally comfortable with performance and are now ready to expand and refine the game mode. I look forward to seeing what Devon came come up with
I look forward to coming up with things too! Hopefully good ones even!
Similarly, why do vital logistical tasks such as upgrading, repairing, and escorting dolyaks go unrewarded?
We are in the process of evaluating the way the system is rewarding points right now and determining what we can do to make it more rewarding for players that aren’t just killing other players or capturing objectives. I’m an inveterate upgrader and repairer, so believe me when I say I’m with you on that one.
How do you feel about the Great Lord Flame Ram?
Woe befall all who earn its wrath. And great favor to all who show obeisance before the GLFR.
This has been fun and I’m really quite excited to be stepping up to keep carrying the torch where Habib has so ably taken it. I hope you all continue to enjoy WvW and look forward to providing many more things to keep you coming back for one last SM cap. See you on the field!
So I don’t know if this is the best place to do this (and it probably isn’t), but Habib started it..
The most recent update has finally realized most of the hopes and dreams I had regarding world versus world all those years ago when we first started talking about it around the office (somewhere in the 2007 or 2008 area). Wuv has been near and dear to my heart ever since, and I’m extremely proud of what the wvw team has created in that time. Wvw has been my primary focus for a couple of years now, but now it is time to hand the keys to the castle to someone else, Devon is that someone.
Devon and the rest of the wvw team will be fleshing out the new systems we’ve introduced and taking care of a lot of the long standing issues that we can tackle now that the great culling dragon is dead!
I’m extremely excited to see how the game will evolve and improve over time with Devon leading the way. He’s an amazing designer and I’ve seen the list of updates the team is prepping for April, I think most of you will be extremely pleased.
For all the conspiracy theorists out there, this is completely unrelated to any news elsewhere. I’m still at Arena.net, but the next time you see my name it will be for something other than world versus world. Something quite different indeed.
Until then..
I’ll see you on the battlefield!
Noooo ! I was planing to send you and Mike T-shirts with this on them but you already abandoned the ship
I was going to stay out of this thread and let Devon run the show, but this is just too good. Thanks for the new desktop background!
