Guild Wars: Someone Shoot Me Please
Late to the party – as usual – but people don't come here for news they come here to learn my considered opinion on important topics (What's that? People don't actually come here? ...shut up.)I actually can't look at this because there's a picture of Spooky and I have this weird thing about not seeing him (He's completely a girl, this whole “man” thing is just a carefully constructed ruse to throw us all off the trail.) but as I noticed at pal Clamatius's place the other day the whole Automated Tournament system that was going to replace the ladder, cure scrofula, end world poverty, and give everyone a pony has, indeed, been delayed.
Now, for my carefully considered, well reasoned, and moderate opinion – this blows. Big time.
Looks like I picked the right time to bail on this game. Again. I'll be back – maybe – when this shit is sorted out.
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2 comments:
To be fair, software sucks. And things get delayed. But when your plan is:
#1. Dork ladder.
#2. Time passes.
#3. Un-dork ladder via tournaments.
it seems like if you don't have a plan for #2 just in case #3 takes its own sweet time then there's a teensy chance you have made a mistake.
Right. It's not so much that the tournaments are delayed. It's that, at the moment, there's now nothing because they jumped the gun on #1 and underestimated the effects of #2. At this point, tournaments are vaporware - we don't even know if they're going to work. And the ladder is, you know, crap. HA is waiting for whatever "fix" they're going to try. Which leaves....what, exactly, for the hardcore competitive player? Why should they keep playing and making everything better by creating more competition?
Delays happen, schedules get borked, I think everyone would understand (If, you know, the developers bothered to be more transparent and explain these kind of things. This would be why things like official forums or regular Q&As with the people who actually make these decisions and not whatever PR flak gets sent the questionaire to fill out is important - it's not about managing expectations so much as it is creating an impression that feedback is valued and responded to in a timely fashion. And not being, you know, high handed and arbitrary.) but the real resentment comes from this on top of everything else. And the lack of any fallback when these sort of predictable delays occur.
And on my part the timing of all this blows diseased goats. Now is not the time to be grinding gears and alienating the fanbase. Not when new competition just came out and bigger and better games are on the horizon.
On the plus side this means that I can sneak into a guild and meet that ridiculous 30 day requirement for participation easier but really this has been handled about as ineptly as I could have imagined it. Just...argh, typical.
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