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#1 - Jan. 21, 2014, 10:47 p.m.

Hi, I have noticed that over the course of my time playing GW2 the WvW forums only really get developer attention when a thread is being locked. Do you guys ever talk about the new content you are making in this subforum, answer people’s questions, or keep us hyped up? I think that the WvW team has completely lost touch with this subforum and the hardcore WvW population as well. The lack of attention that WvW gets is depressing and it almost makes me look forward to leaving GW2 to pay 15 dollars a month to an MMO who actually cares about the non-eSport PvP crowd.

This game had so much potential but then you invented seasons as an excuse to not release any new content or features for WvW for the entire length of the season so as to not “unbalance” anything. Then you let the entire month of December, and now it looks like January as well, go by without a single addition or change to WvW. This means that since mid October, absolutely nothing has happened as far as WvW development, and October’s developments were extremely small and trivial. The last time we got something was the Obsidian Sanctum, and the only reason we even got that was because an ANET employee trolled the WvW community and it was wrapped up as an apology. If he never trolled us, we would likely never have gotten a single addition.

Please spend more time communicating with your WvW audience. You have failed so badly at keeping me interested in your game that I’m looking around hoping another game comes around willing to take my $15 a month for a better experience.

Hope you guys get your act together.

Sincerely,
A Concerned Player.

Josh Davis

#54 - Jan. 23, 2014, 2:21 p.m.

/shines a bright light on himself interrogation style

We’ll be talking about upcoming WvW stuff starting next week. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you what we’ll be talking about quite yet, but I figured at the very least I’d give you folks a timeline to go off of.

As an aside, we’re also expanding our bi-weeky livestream (Ready Up) to cover WvW in addition to PvP and balance. WvW will be the main topic on our next episode (1/31). I’ll officially announce the stream with a post next week sometime.

Anyways, I hope this helps!

-Josh

Josh Davis

#66 - Jan. 23, 2014, 9:25 p.m.

melodey.4652:
Snip.

I understand where you’re coming from. Heck, the ‘shower of responses’ on the sPvP forums is probably from me.

WvW is an incredibly complex game-type that caters to individuals with a wide array of interests, whether that’s coordinated large-scale guild groups, havoc groups, small-man roaming, roaming alone, zerg surfing, and whatever else floats your respective boats. I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time reading through threads in this forum – the good, the bad, and the ultra ugly. Getting your finger on the pulse of WvW can be difficult when there’s multiple perspectives on every issue. This is on me to sort through, and I want to make sure I do right by you guys.

In the meantime, please continue to provide feedback. This is essential. In case you’re wondering what I want for Valentine’s Day: I like lists, break-downs, and bullet points.

Josh Davis

#99 - Jan. 24, 2014, 6:29 p.m.

Locking this thread before it gets too out of hand. Criticism is cool, but bashing my coworkers is not.