MisterB

I feel the need to attach a summation of points from the reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.co...ure_discussion/

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Currently, it's the top post and I'm actually rather surprised to see two piece of content that take shots at the game atop the reddit about the game.

I stopped watching at the 2:30 minute mark, because it was clear to me that the person in the video had no real idea what he's talking about.  He's quoting stuff about the earnings statement that is factually incorrect, has already been debunked by a variety of sources and it taken out of context.  Hint dude:  vitually ALL money GW2 makes goes to NCSoft as Anet is a wholly owned subsidiary.  NCSoft, in turn filters some of that money back down to Anet to produce content and maintain the game.  Sure, we could randomly believe that NCSoft isn't funding GW2 they way they should and that's why we've been getting subpar content and maintenance, but that doesn't mesh well with the fact that NCSoft is still paying for a studio of hundreds of people and even still continuing to hire at Anet. (http://www.arena.net/#careers).

Abstract Programming Interface

or Application Program Interface

https://en.wikipedia...mming_interface

Basically, you've written software that does something, and you want people to be able to call your code and use it, so you provide a way for them to interface with it.  Largely, on the Internet, it's used for accessing someone else's data (like Twitter has an API that lets you access and manipulate tweets), but in other cases, it can be used if someone's written something that can do some complex calculations.

In that context, it keeps people from spending extra time re-writing things someone else has already done, saving on levels of effort.

With this API, I could, in theory, create a web page for my server that knows about all the events happening, where, and when.  I keep asking ArenaNet for the information and update the web-page automagically so anytime someone visits it, they know instantly what events are happening at that moment.

Lordkrall, on 17 May 2013 - 08:04 PM, said:

Don't expect to get anyone to listen to or think about your comments when you trivialize the opinion of anyone who happens to disagree with you.  Intelligent people can reasonably disagree on this point, so you claiming that anyone who sees it differently than you do is just "nostalgia" is not only disrespectful, its plain factually incorrect.

Lordkrall, on 18 May 2013 - 04:32 PM, said:

Then it's not a Dragon Festival at all. That's not "modernizing" that's a completely different holiday that happens to have a similar name.

I would love to see magic find removed from the game entirely and the loot systems updated to reflect that (by increasing the chances of good drops in a way which is equivalent to everyone having tons of magic find.)  I personally have never felt that magic find made much sense from either a lore perspective or a gameplay one.

This pretty much sums up why GW2's design feels so grindy, IMO.

davadude, on 04 May 2013 - 06:36 PM, said:

So, there was no point in your post?

Lordkrall, on 04 May 2013 - 05:53 PM, said:

So you are saying that GW2 will definitely outsell GW1 because it sold a lot of early copies?

MisterB, on 04 May 2013 - 06:52 PM, said:

I think that is a very good point. We really should come up with an acceptable measure of success instead of just saying things are or are not successful.

I would honestly love to find something everyone can agree on.

However, from the conversations I have had with many people who defend ANet, either they say that GW2 sold 4 millions copies depending on one argument or, when faced with the argument of why they changed GW2 so much  they usually say it was to cater to a much larger target audience, which makes me believe that their success should be based on them approaching WoW sales.

Personally, I think sales is one of many indicators. Although, initial sales numbers are pretty bad as they are more a result of marketing hype and successful previous games from the same developer.

Something like length of time the game has a healthy population should also be considered. Of course, then we have to determine what is a healthy population and how to measure it.

I would like ascended armor to be non-existent.

Mike OBrien said:

Hopefully this answered everyone's questions.

NuclearDonut, on 15 April 2013 - 06:10 PM, said:

That would be interesting, a flaming axe/harvesting tool.

Im just gonna harvest this plant here with my flaming harvesting tool.. *plant burns up* Damnit!
Oh well, what about this tree over here, Im gonna cut it down with my flaming axe! *tree burns up* Damnit!
Ah, now there is a use for my flaming axe.. *shouts* Hey trahearne, come over here for a sec, Im gonna try something!

Gilles VI, on 09 April 2013 - 09:12 PM, said:

They are pretty evil. Reckless disregard for the health of our population. Deep in Washington's pockets. Suing farmers for replanting the seeds from their crops. This is to just name a few things...

Geez, maybe I should preface every post like this with how ArenaNet has different teams for different aspects of the game. :\ The people designing town clothes are not the same people responsible for bug fixing and other gameplay issues.

It's taken a lot of work and stress (A harddrive crash caused me to have to start this all over again) but our detailed analysis on why Guild Wars 2 isn't the Number 1 MMO is finally complete.



I realize the length of the video will put some people off so here's a list of each of the 10 points we cover in detail. I'm also open to people commenting on these points without watching the video or only the parts that interst them so please do.

Number 10: Poor Advertising - 1:01
Number 9:  World Vs. World - 2:54
Number 8:  Loot and Magic Find - 5:27
Number 7:  Personal Story - 8:22
Number 6:  Dungeons - 13:48
Number 5:  Guesting and Realms - 17:45
Number 4:  Events - 21:49
Number 3:  No LFG Tool - 26:52
Number 2:  User Friendlyness: - 28:24
Number 1:  Polish and Optimization - 30:47

I'm esspically passonite about point 7 as I belive anet missed some HUGE potential here.

Lordkrall, on 02 April 2013 - 10:18 PM, said:

10 points in the entire video. 10 problems well thought out and explained, discussed and presented. You choose to attack the word choice in the title.

Are you genuinely running out of ways to defend the game in a constructive manner?