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MelkrowMelkrow Member Posts: 278

Either I'm blind or there are no official GW2 forums.  Does GW1 have official forums?  If there are no forums.... did they say they will make them when game launches? What gives?  Didn't they learn anything from WAR?



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  • Methos12Methos12 Member UncommonPosts: 1,244

    GW1 didn't have one and what you get at the official forums is mostly just concentrated whining.

    Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
  • MeowheadMeowhead Member UncommonPosts: 3,716

    Originally posted by Drvanitus

    Either I'm blind or there are no official GW2 forums.  Does GW1 have official forums?  If there are no forums.... did they say they will make them when game launches? What gives?  Didn't they learn anything from WAR?

    Nope, they've never had official GW2 forums... or official GW1 forums either, for that matter.

    They're not planning on making them, either.  I'm not familiar with what WAR did wrong so far as forums went, so I can't really comment on what they did or didn't learn.

  • ShojuShoju Member UncommonPosts: 776

    Originally posted by Drvanitus

    Didn't they learn anything from WAR?

    What is there to learn?  WAR eventually got forums and it did nothing to improve the quality of the game.  Mythic could have had forums from launch and the game still would have turned out the to be the same piece of crap that it did.

  • Loke666Loke666 Member EpicPosts: 21,441

    No, you do have to cut off a few things when you don't charge monthly fees. 

    This is the closest thing: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/ I don't hang there myself, but I do know that at least Strain used to post on the old GW guru forum when he still was the lead designer.

    I don't think WARs big problem was the lack of official forum. Sure, some people were upset about it but frankly is this forum better than any official forum anyways, and you have a lot more freedom posting here than in any official forum I been to at least.

    Arenanets support on the other hand is at least pretty good. It is really just when something is wrong you actually need the official forum.

  • MeowheadMeowhead Member UncommonPosts: 3,716

    Originally posted by Loke666

    No, you do have to cut off a few things when you don't charge monthly fees. 

    This is the closest thing: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/ I don't hang there myself, but I do know that at least Strain used to post on the old GW guru forum when he still was the lead designer.

    I don't think WARs big problem was the lack of official forum. Sure, some people were upset about it but frankly is this forum better than any official forum anyways, and you have a lot more freedom posting here than in any official forum I been to at least.

    Arenanets support on the other hand is at least pretty good. It is really just when something is wrong you actually need the official forum.

    I've had a lead developer actually mail me with a correction before at guildwars2 guru, and they have a few community managers hanging around who are pretty darn good at answering questions, and talk to whoever the pertinent person is for information when needed.

    Apparently some major employees at Arenanet read guildwars2guru as well.

    It's nice to know they're paying attention, anyway.  They're also really on the ball when it comes to answering false concerns stemming from confusion over points in blog/news posts.

    It's not THAT expensive to simply run a forum, but the problem is keeping official forums from ending up as insufficiently moderated cesspools. :)

  • k11keeperk11keeper Member UncommonPosts: 1,048

    I've always preffered fansites to official forums myself. So I guess this really doesn't effect me. Honestly I prefer it this way that way fansites are even better because they don't have to compete with an official forum.

  • EvilGeekEvilGeek Member UncommonPosts: 1,258


    Originally posted by Meowhead

    Originally posted by Loke666
    No, you do have to cut off a few things when you don't charge monthly fees. 
    This is the closest thing: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/ I don't hang there myself, but I do know that at least Strain used to post on the old GW guru forum when he still was the lead designer.
    I don't think WARs big problem was the lack of official forum. Sure, some people were upset about it but frankly is this forum better than any official forum anyways, and you have a lot more freedom posting here than in any official forum I been to at least.
    Arenanets support on the other hand is at least pretty good. It is really just when something is wrong you actually need the official forum.
    I've had a lead developer actually mail me with a correction before at guildwars2 guru, and they have a few community managers hanging around who are pretty darn good at answering questions, and talk to whoever the pertinent person is for information when needed.
    Apparently some major employees at Arenanet read guildwars2guru as well.
    It's nice to know they're paying attention, anyway.  They're also really on the ball when it comes to answering false concerns stemming from confusion over points in blog/news posts.
    It's not THAT expensive to simply run a forum, but the problem is keeping official forums from ending up as insufficiently moderated cesspools. :)

    What Meowhead said :)

    They do keep tabs on their listed fan sites, gwguru was the most widely used so it was inevitable that gw2guru would follow and get the most dev/cm input.

    They have 'listed fansites' which they rank according to news and information for GW See this page. I'm sure they'll be following the same path for GW2, it gives the player choice, go to the largest, which tend to read more like official forums (the good and the bad) or hang at the smaller ones which often get a more community feel.

    Anet have always been hot on community, if a fansite ends up as listed you can be sure the community team will be keeping tabs

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  • Master10KMaster10K Member Posts: 3,065

    Yeah, the guildwars2guru site is a great forum for the GW2 because it works as a very rapidly updated news aggregate, for finding about all the blogs, interviews and articles about the game, moments after they are released. Also everytime a new bit of info drops (e.g. profession reveal) then you can expect a Community Manager to be there in the forums, setting people straight.

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  • NelothNeloth Member Posts: 249

    lolwat no forums? That's ridiculous. It can cost next to nothing, just let a few trusted fans from guildwars2guru be mods or something.

     

    It's often a resonable way to keep a dialoge between the players and the devs

  • therez0therez0 Member Posts: 379


    Originally posted by EvilGeek
    Originally posted by Meowhead

    Originally posted by Loke666
    No, you do have to cut off a few things when you don't charge monthly fees. 
    This is the closest thing: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/ I don't hang there myself, but I do know that at least Strain used to post on the old GW guru forum when he still was the lead designer.
    I don't think WARs big problem was the lack of official forum. Sure, some people were upset about it but frankly is this forum better than any official forum anyways, and you have a lot more freedom posting here than in any official forum I been to at least.
    Arenanets support on the other hand is at least pretty good. It is really just when something is wrong you actually need the official forum.
    I've had a lead developer actually mail me with a correction before at guildwars2 guru, and they have a few community managers hanging around who are pretty darn good at answering questions, and talk to whoever the pertinent person is for information when needed.
    Apparently some major employees at Arenanet read guildwars2guru as well.
    It's nice to know they're paying attention, anyway.  They're also really on the ball when it comes to answering false concerns stemming from confusion over points in blog/news posts.
    It's not THAT expensive to simply run a forum, but the problem is keeping official forums from ending up as insufficiently moderated cesspools. :)

    What Meowhead said :)

    They do keep tabs on their listed fan sites, gwguru was the most widely used so it was inevitable that gw2guru would follow and get the most dev/cm input.

    They have 'listed fansites' which they rank according to news and information for GW See this page. I'm sure they'll be following the same path for GW2, it gives the player choice, go to the largest, which tend to read more like official forums (the good and the bad) or hang at the smaller ones which often get a more community feel.

    Anet have always been hot on community, if a fansite ends up as listed you can be sure the community team will be keeping tabs


    Martin Kerstein, one of the Anet CM's, has been known to lurk on these forums too. And I've seen Regina comment over at Ten-ton Hammer.

    Even the non-fan-sites that contribute to the MMO community get attention from Anet.

    So if anyone has a concern or opinion about Gw2, you can be pretty sure that if you post it in a forum about GW2, Anet will eventually see it.

  • MeowheadMeowhead Member UncommonPosts: 3,716

    Originally posted by therez0

     

    Martin Kerstein, one of the Anet CM's, has been known to lurk on these forums too. And I've seen Regina comment over at Ten-ton Hammer.

    Even the non-fan-sites that contribute to the MMO community get attention from Anet.

    So if anyone has a concern or opinion about Gw2, you can be pretty sure that if you post it in a forum about GW2, Anet will eventually see it.

    The lead developer who mailed me on GW2Guru?  It's because he was correcting something I said in a thread on MMORPG.com.

    That shocked the hell out of me.  It's like they're secretly everywhere. :D

  • djazzydjazzy Member Posts: 3,578

    Every single official game forum I have visited has been nothing but a cesspool. I have seen as much developer interaction at guildwarsguru as I have for most any other game forum for their particular game. The difference I have seen is that the fansites tend to have a stricter moderation than official forums do. While the mods at the guru forums can be a bit heavy handed sometimes I much prefer that than the mess I've seen at the wow or rift forums for example.

  • KaynokKaynok Member Posts: 111

    Originally posted by Drvanitus

    Either I'm blind or there are no official GW2 forums.  Does GW1 have official forums?  If there are no forums.... did they say they will make them when game launches? What gives?  Didn't they learn anything from WAR?

    Guild Wars didn't have a forum and it's still going strong to this day. ANet knows they don't need an official forum when they just can go on other reliable forums to interact with the fans.

  • cali59cali59 Member Posts: 1,634

    Originally posted by arenasb

    Every single official game forum I have visited has been nothing but a cesspool. I have seen as much developer interaction at guildwarsguru as I have for most any other game forum for their particular game. The difference I have seen is that the fansites tend to have a stricter moderation than official forums do. While the mods at the guru forums can be a bit heavy handed sometimes I much prefer that than the mess I've seen at the wow or rift forums for example.

     Amen.  I think when you have official forums for a game that isn't even out yet, the people who are going there are going to be passionate and hopeful that in some way they can contribute to steering the game towards their vision.  People are opinionated and most vocal when they feel negatively about something.  Every possible aspect of the game is going to have somebody who disagrees with it and that person is going to speak up.  It gets to be oppressive.

    At first I thought ArenaNet was missing an opportunity, but the more I read other games' forums I'm glad they don't.

    "Gamers will no longer buy the argument that every MMO requires a subscription fee to offset server and bandwidth costs. It's not true – you know it, and they know it." -Jeff Strain, co-founder of ArenaNet, 2007

  • SinbornSinborn Member Posts: 30

    You do not need an official forum for a game without a monthly fee. The active community and the innactive community are essentially the same, whereas the innactive community in P2Ps is likely to be talking out of their rear without anything remotely objective to substantiate their opinions of gamestate. You know, like here on MMORPG.

    Learning from WAR. Psh. WARs problems are not GW's problems. The fact that such a notion was thrown out willy-nilly really bothers me.

  • MelkrowMelkrow Member Posts: 278

    Bummer.  I can see the point about non-sub game not having an official forum because they don't have a way to separate real active players from trolls and haters.  Nevertheless tho, it's another point on the minus side of things on my personal GW2 score sheet.  I find forums essential for MMOs, and no fansite will cut it and I will never use a fan-run forums as a means of communication with devs.  I'm well aware that a lot of people could care less.  I can respect your opinion and your take on the issue if you can accept and respect mine.



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  • MeowheadMeowhead Member UncommonPosts: 3,716

    Originally posted by Drvanitus

    Bummer.  I can see the point about non-sub game not having an official forum because they don't have a way to separate real active players from trolls and haters.  Nevertheless tho, it's another point on the minus side of things on my personal GW2 score sheet.  I find forums essential for MMOs, and no fansite will cut it and I will never use a fan-run forums as a means of communication with devs.  I'm well aware that a lot of people could care less.  I can respect you opinion and take on the issue if you can accept mine.

    My advice then is that to show your disapproval for their lack of forums, you buy the box, then quit when your free month runs out.  That'll show 'em. :)

  • NightAngellNightAngell Member Posts: 566

    Originally posted by Drvanitus

    Bummer.  I can see the point about non-sub game not having an official forum because they don't have a way to separate real active players from trolls and haters.  Nevertheless tho, it's another point on the minus side of things on my personal GW2 score sheet.  I find forums essential for MMOs, and no fansite will cut it and I will never use a fan-run forums as a means of communication with devs.  I'm well aware that a lot of people could care less.  I can respect you opinion and take on the issue if you can accept mine.

    I guess it's back to the RIFT forums for you and the OP then. GW1 did okay without a forum and GW2 will be the same but i bet any money you will use GW2 Guru when the time comes lol.

     

    Did you ever visit the RIFT forums,i guess you have and you have no problem with thoses cess pit forums?

     

    And why would they need to learn anything from WAR?

    GW came out long befoire WAR...

  • RageaholRageahol Member UncommonPosts: 1,127

    Originally posted by Drvanitus

    Bummer.  I can see the point about non-sub game not having an official forum because they don't have a way to separate real active players from trolls and haters.  Nevertheless tho, it's another point on the minus side of things on my personal GW2 score sheet.  I find forums essential for MMOs, and no fansite will cut it and I will never use a fan-run forums as a means of communication with devs.  I'm well aware that a lot of people could care less.  I can respect you opinion and take on the issue if you can accept mine.

    I do agree that fan sites are bad, however the Guild Wars community is pretty solid when it comes to getting things through to Anet..but I do understadn where you are coming from.

     

    (edit) through the sites listed by the other posters

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  • MelkrowMelkrow Member Posts: 278

    Originally posted by NightAngell

    Originally posted by Drvanitus

    Bummer.  I can see the point about non-sub game not having an official forum because they don't have a way to separate real active players from trolls and haters.  Nevertheless tho, it's another point on the minus side of things on my personal GW2 score sheet.  I find forums essential for MMOs, and no fansite will cut it and I will never use a fan-run forums as a means of communication with devs.  I'm well aware that a lot of people could care less.  I can respect you opinion and take on the issue if you can accept mine.

    I guess it's back to the RIFT forums for you and the OP then. GW1 did okay without a forum and GW2 will be the same but i bet any money you will use GW2 Guru when the time comes lol.

     

    Did you ever visit the RIFT forums,i guess you have and you have no problem with thoses cess pit forums?

     

    And why would they need to learn anything from WAR?

    GW came out long befoire WAR...

    Yeah I guess you fail at reading (hint: I'm the OP and the post you qoted above).  I come from Darkfall, so you need not tell me about the cesspool.  I would still take any cesspool official forums over fan-run sites.  I mentioned WAR because at first they didn't want to implement forums, and eventually ended up adding them.

    Who cares about Guild Wars, seriously.  That's not even an MMO, we can argue that in another topic however.  Guild Wars 2 seems to have improved over the orginal GW ten times over and then some.  I was hoping they would also bring bring their community approach up to modern standards as well.

    And certainly, I will not use GURU, or any other fansite, ever.  I would sooner (and most likely) not play the game instead if it came down to that certain issue.

     

    Edit: Oh, and as far as Rift forums, it's fairly solid and informative.  There is a lot of whining in PVP section it seems.  But at least they have a "PVP" section.  I quickly scanned guildwars2guru and they don't even offer a section dedicated to PVP.  Fail fans are fail.



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  • romanator0romanator0 Member Posts: 2,382

    Originally posted by Drvanitus

    Originally posted by NightAngell


    Originally posted by Drvanitus

    Bummer.  I can see the point about non-sub game not having an official forum because they don't have a way to separate real active players from trolls and haters.  Nevertheless tho, it's another point on the minus side of things on my personal GW2 score sheet.  I find forums essential for MMOs, and no fansite will cut it and I will never use a fan-run forums as a means of communication with devs.  I'm well aware that a lot of people could care less.  I can respect you opinion and take on the issue if you can accept mine.

    I guess it's back to the RIFT forums for you and the OP then. GW1 did okay without a forum and GW2 will be the same but i bet any money you will use GW2 Guru when the time comes lol.

     

    Did you ever visit the RIFT forums,i guess you have and you have no problem with thoses cess pit forums?

     

    And why would they need to learn anything from WAR?

    GW came out long befoire WAR...

    Yeah I guess you fail at reading (hint: I'm the OP and the post you qoted above).  I come from Darkfall, so you need not tell me about the cesspool.  I would still take any cesspool official forums over fan-run sites.  I mentioned WAR because at first they didn't want to implement forums, and eventually ended up adding them.

    Who cares about Guild Wars, seriously.  That's not even an MMO, we can argue that in another topic however.  Guild Wars 2 seems to have improved over the orginal GW ten times over and then some.  I was hoping they would also bring bring their community approach up to modern standards as well.

    And certainly, I will not use GURU, or any other fansite, ever.  I would sooner (and most likely) not play the game instead if it came down to that certain issue.

    I find it funny that your bashing GW2guru because its a fan site yet it has a better community then any official game forum I have ever seen. Guild Wars also has one of the best communities out there, most, if not all, of that community is also moving to GW2. So I really don't understand your problems. To each their own I guess, just don't bash something because you don't like it.

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  • MelkrowMelkrow Member Posts: 278

    Originally posted by romanator0

    Originally posted by Drvanitus


    Originally posted by NightAngell


    Originally posted by Drvanitus

    Bummer.  I can see the point about non-sub game not having an official forum because they don't have a way to separate real active players from trolls and haters.  Nevertheless tho, it's another point on the minus side of things on my personal GW2 score sheet.  I find forums essential for MMOs, and no fansite will cut it and I will never use a fan-run forums as a means of communication with devs.  I'm well aware that a lot of people could care less.  I can respect you opinion and take on the issue if you can accept mine.

    I guess it's back to the RIFT forums for you and the OP then. GW1 did okay without a forum and GW2 will be the same but i bet any money you will use GW2 Guru when the time comes lol.

     

    Did you ever visit the RIFT forums,i guess you have and you have no problem with thoses cess pit forums?

     

    And why would they need to learn anything from WAR?

    GW came out long befoire WAR...

    Yeah I guess you fail at reading (hint: I'm the OP and the post you qoted above).  I come from Darkfall, so you need not tell me about the cesspool.  I would still take any cesspool official forums over fan-run sites.  I mentioned WAR because at first they didn't want to implement forums, and eventually ended up adding them.

    Who cares about Guild Wars, seriously.  That's not even an MMO, we can argue that in another topic however.  Guild Wars 2 seems to have improved over the orginal GW ten times over and then some.  I was hoping they would also bring bring their community approach up to modern standards as well.

    And certainly, I will not use GURU, or any other fansite, ever.  I would sooner (and most likely) not play the game instead if it came down to that certain issue.

    I find it funny that your bashing GW2guru because its a fan site yet it has a better community then any official game forum I have ever seen. Guild Wars also has one of the best communities out there, most, if not all, of that community is also moving to GW2. So I really don't understand your problems. To each their own I guess, just don't bash something because you don't like it.

    I'm not bashing anything.  For all I care GURU could be the best thing in the entire universe.  It dosn't matter for me.  It's the matter of principle.  I dislike middle man if you will, not because they are bad, they might as well do a better job than the official forums, but that is irrelevant.

    Also, I'm not so sure about the 'mature' community.  This thread has demonstrated that GW has strong fanboy following.  One of the reasons why fan sites are bad news, they are usually ran by fanboys.



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  • romanator0romanator0 Member Posts: 2,382

    Originally posted by Drvanitus

    Originally posted by romanator0


    Originally posted by Drvanitus


    Originally posted by NightAngell


    Originally posted by Drvanitus

    Bummer.  I can see the point about non-sub game not having an official forum because they don't have a way to separate real active players from trolls and haters.  Nevertheless tho, it's another point on the minus side of things on my personal GW2 score sheet.  I find forums essential for MMOs, and no fansite will cut it and I will never use a fan-run forums as a means of communication with devs.  I'm well aware that a lot of people could care less.  I can respect you opinion and take on the issue if you can accept mine.

    I guess it's back to the RIFT forums for you and the OP then. GW1 did okay without a forum and GW2 will be the same but i bet any money you will use GW2 Guru when the time comes lol.

     

    Did you ever visit the RIFT forums,i guess you have and you have no problem with thoses cess pit forums?

     

    And why would they need to learn anything from WAR?

    GW came out long befoire WAR...

    Yeah I guess you fail at reading (hint: I'm the OP and the post you qoted above).  I come from Darkfall, so you need not tell me about the cesspool.  I would still take any cesspool official forums over fan-run sites.  I mentioned WAR because at first they didn't want to implement forums, and eventually ended up adding them.

    Who cares about Guild Wars, seriously.  That's not even an MMO, we can argue that in another topic however.  Guild Wars 2 seems to have improved over the orginal GW ten times over and then some.  I was hoping they would also bring bring their community approach up to modern standards as well.

    And certainly, I will not use GURU, or any other fansite, ever.  I would sooner (and most likely) not play the game instead if it came down to that certain issue.

    I find it funny that your bashing GW2guru because its a fan site yet it has a better community then any official game forum I have ever seen. Guild Wars also has one of the best communities out there, most, if not all, of that community is also moving to GW2. So I really don't understand your problems. To each their own I guess, just don't bash something because you don't like it.

    I'm not bashing anything.  For all I care GURU could be the best thing in the entire universe.  It dosn't matter for me.  It's the matter of principle.  I dislike middle man if you will, not because they are bad, they might as well do a better job than the official forums, but that is irrelevant.

    So you would rather have official service even if its shitty over semi-official (the community managers hang out there quite a lot) service that is most likely better? Technically there is no middle man if you ask a question and get an answer from one of the CMs. Some rather dumb principles if you ask me, but to each their own i guess.

    Fanboys on a fan-run forum? Who the hell do you think uses the official forums? The haters?

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  • jeremyjodesjeremyjodes Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 679

    smart move. Look at swtor forums for an example why GW guys are smart not to. TOR forums reminds me of wows forums.

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  • MelkrowMelkrow Member Posts: 278

    "Fanboys on a fan-run forum? Who the hell do you think uses the official forums? The haters?"

    The answer to that question is: EVERYONE.  Not just fanboys.



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