Guild Wars 2 Dev Tracker

It seems I have been summoned, haha. I was out on vacation when this happened so I missed it!

If you're curious as to what I would have said though, it's that I'm most excited for folks to get to run around Amnytas and discover the culture of the Wizards, the secrets held in each Bastion, and the things they can do to help deal a major blow to the Kryptis in that area.

I was the map team lead for that map though, so I'm a bit biased.

Gathering nodes are exciting! For some of us at least.

In all seriousness, as someone else mentioned on this thread, it's more of a running joke than anything, and I am really excited about the WHOLE expansion. I was just a player a bit over a year ago, and getting to see an expansion launch from the dev side has been a wonderful experience. It's been nothing but a pleasure getting to work with this incredible team, they've done amazing work. I'm very much looking forward to Tuesday.

And also I hope you enjoy the gathering nodes.

Aww you're gonna make me cry. Thank you so much! It really means a lot to hear this and it made my day! I tried really hard to make those Soo-Won ones as cool as possible, trying all sorts of things to get the surface to look like water, and it makes me so happy that you're enjoying them all so much! 💕

Thank you so much! That makes me really happy that you're going for Exordium first!

That is correct. When I do fractals, I don't put up the tag until the last boss is at like 5% health, and then I take it back down when the Transit Query comes up.

I love playing tagged up and seeing a whole zerg of players try to chase me down and murder me. I find it oddly wholesome.

There is also Carry the Creator (do a Raid with a Dev) Channel the Creator (do a Fractal with a dev) and Complement the Creator (do a strike with a dev.)

Love it!

I did those llama variants (but not the original model). I'm giggling so much at these - thank you for this!💕🦙💕

Shhhh!

I literally wore the suit last stream smh

Just for the record, Stan LePard, the person who passed away a few years ago, did not write the Metal Legion songs. That was Joseph Clark, who is still at ArenaNet. Stan wrote some ambient and combat music for a couple of those content updates, in addition to his many years of work on the game as composer and orchestrator prior to that.

This is awesome, you're insane.

If people dont get it, doesnt that mean you failed as writer to convey it?

The answer is always, "it depends." Some folks can miss details or subtext that was there. Other times a writer infers something that's too great a leap or leaves out important info. Every situation--and player interpretation--is different. And I think that's fine.

You're not the only dev, we're perfectly aware of your colleagues patting themselves on the back on twitter.

How dare they! /s

I get that the coders you have today are far less competent than the people that worked for arenanet in 2012 and you have to deal with it, but reality is that their incompetence resulted in you having to limit the amount of visible mobs, and as a result the city feels dead. And part of this is your fault as well - You could've worked around this with a story reason, perhaps the jade started decaying and somehow became toxic to people, Or some bullsh*t that explained why most people are indoors, but nope. the loading screen has more people on it than any actual area once you load in.

You're making a lot of false assumptions about my colleagues, and quite frankly you don't seem to know much about how games are made. That's OK! I wouldn't expect you to. But I can't figure out why you've decided to channel your energy into this discussion in this way. So I will take my leave now. Good day.

Why did it say meet with Taimi though, I think it’s a bug.

If it said to meet with Taimi, that's a bug.

he suddenly knew about Cinder and there didn't seem to be any indication as to how he found out, but maybe I did miss something in that regard

Oh, gotcha. Yeah, we didn't explicitly call that out but the implication is that Chul-Moo heard about the Commander's past events offscreen. I could see why someone might bump on that.

Ah yes the journal. You know only a handful of people will read that but sure lets put all in the journal and waste the resource someplace else like in oh .. lets see .. a date with random npc. Priority huh.

LOL

You realise we know that you're reading this and

choosing

to ignore criticism right? Commenting on this thread

but not others

actually made you look worse.

I was off work yesterday and not combing reddit or the forums.

I can only reply to one thread at a time, and my time is limited, so...I am focusing here for the next few minutes before returning to my other duties.

I'm also not choosing to ignore anything. If I was ignoring criticism, I wouldn't be here. I'm merely clearing up some confusion on some of the more subtle bits that people may have missed.

Not sure why that makes you mad, but I hope you have a good day going forward. Be well.

Oh man. Reading that and all the reddit comments regarding that episode.. people seem to have totally misunderstood why all these characters were there. Must suck as a story writer 😅

I think some folks are stuck on the idea that the only emotions one can have when playing a game story is "Make me cry about dead character" or "make me mad about bad guy." These releases were meant to go in a different direction but because we used some familiar callbacks I think they assumed we were just retreading old ground instead of reframing the emotional burden on the Commander.

I mean, I'm not surprised some folks didn't get it. They weren't looking for it. Hence, me needing to clear up some of the misunderstanding.

Some folks did get it, though, so that makes me happy. And for the folks who didn't, that's OK. I hope they're having fun playing the game or trying to peel back the layers of the story but they may not be used to that kind of anal...