new news kinda

[Nagash]

This is for everyone who's interested, but mainly aimed towards Brucie since we just happened to talk about the lack of GW2 news last night, and suddenly they post this...

http://www.arena.net/blog/when-its-ready

... spooky

wouldn't call it news as such, but it does give people a good insight to the development of a big game in general. You can then get an appreciation as to why valve don't talk about CS2 or Ep3, etc, and also why a MMO like WAR failed when it was promissed to be the next big thing.

If you dunno about WAR though, basically they were doing the whole, "when it's ready" thing, then their company got purchased by EA, who forced a release date on them and as a result they had to cut out many features and locations that never got added to make it the great game it was supposed to be, and so the game failed. I'm glad GW2 isn't being forced to make a release date before they are ready.

[Brucie]

They simple monitor in game chat, and act on it!!

Does that mean they have logs of me trying to chat up an attractive Elemenatlist doing the booby shake dance in Kamadan??? (when deep down I really know it's some middle-aged guy like ned stripping for gold, yet I continue relentless....)

[Nagash]

by "know" do you mean "hope", and by "some middle-aged guy like ned stripping for gold" do you just mean "ned"

[frags]

At least they taking there time to get it right, as you say valve have had the same attitude towards there big games for a long time and when they are finally with us there normally pretty dam good, so many games are just rushed out nowdays with deadlines and corporate pressure, so hopefully it will be nice and polished and not take 40 patches in the 1st two weeks just to get it playing right.

I just got fallout new vegas a few weeks ago and it has a good few bugs on it, but like all bethsoft games this is normal so it seems.

[Brucie]

Ok I wanna shag ned! So sue me!

[red_ned]

ready and waiting brucie, even have the goose grease and egg whisk

[Brucie]

eek!

[Nagash]

oh, GW2 will have bugs and loadsa patches when it comes out, i have no doubt about that, but only cos i've developed a game to release myself, but obviously nothing nearly as big as this. All i mean is that it's going to have bug naturally, but then it'll have even more bugs before they aren't doing an open beta. Thats a mistake really... not just because people wanna play the game and it's a good marketing tool to get people playing, but because there's only certain tests you can do on a small user scale. They have approx 150 people working on the game, so thats the max users they got to test the game properly, but with a MMORPG, you need to stress test your servers and encourage people to break the game. This can only be done with thousands playing at the same time, so i'm worried that the game will be a bit choppy to start with...... but what MMORPG isn't like that at release stage?