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over 5 years ago - /u/ANET_Byfield - Direct link

Originally posted by Kaneyren

It's so typical of Reddit to not follow instructions and then get mad when they're ignored.

It's so typical of Reddit to feel superior and not understand the point in the slightest. I am well aware that it was stated that questions should be limited to episode 4 content, but:

  1. The raid wing should be considered episode 4 content, because it was released with it. No raid dev's were available for the AMA. If they want to hold off on that for a future AMA they should tell their community so they don't waste their time asking questions that won't get answered.

  2. My problem isn't that they didn't answer a question about the future of the game, my problem is that they, first of all, have this retarded rule in the first place. Considering they have alluded to the cancelation of expansions in 3(!!!) interviews now and still haven't given their community f**k all in terms of an official announcement, question like these were expected and if they didn't want to have to deal with them they should have given us literally anything to work with. Second of all if you absolutely do not want to answer a question and want to keep your community deliberately in the dark for whatever reason, then why in the f**k are you commenting on a P.S., praising you, when the entire question beforehand was specifically adressing a topic you desperately want to avoid.

This entire AMA was a dumpsterfire and had literally 1, maybe 2 interesting answers. All they did with their blatant pussyfooting around the topic of expansions was fuel the rumors. I was in 4 Lions Arch map chats today that openly discussed wether ArenaNet was abandoning Guildwars 2 in the near future. Sure is a good look for potential new players when the busiest map in the entire game openly talks about the game ending soon-ish. And what gives me the idea that devs can talk about things that haven't been announced? Nothing, where the f**k do you get the idea that I was under that impression. What I wanted was ArenaNet making said announcement in, oh, I don't know, maybe in an AMA designed to communicate with their community, sure would have been great. But I get it, not like they ever announced anything in their AMA's, other like literally half the ones in season 3.

Second of all if you absolutely do not want to answer a question and want to keep your community deliberately in the dark for whatever reason, then why in the f*ck are you commenting on a P.S., praising you, when the entire question beforehand was specifically adressing a topic you desperately want to avoid.

That was my response. As stated, the main question was about a topic outside of the episode, however the postscript was specifically about the cinematics in the episode, and fair game for responding to. As a member of the cinematics team and somebody who was tagged to participate in the forum Q&A, I thought it appropriate to let the poster know that their thanks didn't go unnoticed.