I mean, you do realize that every update they did to WvW or sPvP has been packaged with a grame-breaking bug of this kind for the last 3 months now ? At some point, there are responsabiilties that should be taken by the company, it is not a normal state for a game that has been in production for 12 years.
@Hasarian- I think there is a big misunderstanding on why this things happen in the first place, this happens BECAUSE the game is 12 years old. When you have a game that old it's very hard to update the code without fucking everything up unless you have a lot of support from your company to invest into tools that help you doing this. Not an excuse and whoever is in charge should but, not the devs fault either
@darensgw2 I'm a dev as well, and I support applications that are 10+ years old for a public institution of health in the EU. Saying that the reason those problems happen is *because* the game is old is itself a twist in responsibility : even if it was the case, it would be still anet's fault. Normally when you have complex applications such as video game, there is a whole process before deploying in production. That process goes from plain code reviewing to test servers via dedicated testers. You can decide to skip those steps because you want to be faster, but if you do it's your responsibility if anything breaks in production. What happened in WvW, both with the relink problem in EU or the contest problems + the fact that the tournament got cancelled are indicators that anet got ahead of themselves with their ability to release small patches without testing. This is a behavior that is not expected from a company that should have 12 years of maturity in maintaining this game.
So many of us keep saying it. The balance and class design team needs a hard change-up. They even put a mechanic in to kill bunker builds. They're saying they know its an issue when doing this.
@@alexm7537 to deal with bunkers do like wow, boost the hp pool and limit healing, so that a dps can slowly chip away at their hp. That way neither will be useless or op.
I mean, you do realize that every update they did to WvW or sPvP has been packaged with a grame-breaking bug of this kind for the last 3 months now ? At some point, there are responsabiilties that should be taken by the company, it is not a normal state for a game that has been in production for 12 years.
@Hasarian- I think there is a big misunderstanding on why this things happen in the first place, this happens BECAUSE the game is 12 years old.
When you have a game that old it's very hard to update the code without fucking everything up unless you have a lot of support from your company to invest into tools that help you doing this.
Not an excuse and whoever is in charge should but, not the devs fault either
@darensgw2 I'm a dev as well, and I support applications that are 10+ years old for a public institution of health in the EU.
Saying that the reason those problems happen is *because* the game is old is itself a twist in responsibility : even if it was the case, it would be still anet's fault.
Normally when you have complex applications such as video game, there is a whole process before deploying in production. That process goes from plain code reviewing to test servers via dedicated testers. You can decide to skip those steps because you want to be faster, but if you do it's your responsibility if anything breaks in production.
What happened in WvW, both with the relink problem in EU or the contest problems + the fact that the tournament got cancelled are indicators that anet got ahead of themselves with their ability to release small patches without testing. This is a behavior that is not expected from a company that should have 12 years of maturity in maintaining this game.
Just how? Like 3v3 has always worked, making it a tournament shouldn't require them to change anything, so how did they break it.
So many of us keep saying it. The balance and class design team needs a hard change-up. They even put a mechanic in to kill bunker builds. They're saying they know its an issue when doing this.
@@alexm7537 to deal with bunkers do like wow, boost the hp pool and limit healing, so that a dps can slowly chip away at their hp. That way neither will be useless or op.
Have you considered that Guild Wars 2's PvP mode was actually made to punish the participants?
"feature not a bug" is an interesting theory.