The temporary rule changes will be implemented with the release on December 16 and will last until the first release of the new year.

Source : https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/w … ost4607207

Hello Again,

I wanted to give you an update on some more changes that are coming out as part of the feedback we got during the Adopt-A-Dev program.

Siege disablers are getting their radius reduced from 450 units to 300 units. The skill recharge on siege disablers are going up from 5 seconds to 45 seconds and the duration that siege is disabled is going down from 45 seconds to 35 seconds.

The first change will make it harder for siege disablers to take out siege that is sufficiently spread out. The second two will guarantee a window that attackers can use siege if there is only one person disabling siege at an objective.

These changes are going out with next week’s build. Thanks again for all of your feedback!

John

Source : https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/w … ost4587613

Bonjour à tous les Tyriens,

C’est il y a quelques semaines, lors d’une discussion avec les membres de l’équipe McM où nous cherchions le meilleur moyen de nous rapprocher de la communauté, que nous est venue l’idée de rejoindre différentes guildes de différentes ligues pendant le Tournoi McM de l’automne 2014. Le tournoi approchait à grands pas, je décidai donc, après en avoir parlé à plusieurs autres personnes, d’écrire le premier billet exposant notre idée et de baptiser ce projet le programme « Adopt-A-Dev » («Adoptez un développeur»).

Nous espérions susciter l’intérêt de quelques dizaines de guildes, mais la réponse fut si énorme que ma boîte de réception n’en finissait plus de se remplir. J’ai dû arrêter de compter le nombre d’inscriptions au delà de la 150e guilde. Pour répondre à l’enthousiasme de la communauté, j’ai fait appel à des volontaires au sein de l’entreprise et reçu l’aide de 30 développeurs venus de tous les départements, prêts à investir leur temps libre et à se jeter à l’eau pour aller combattre avec de nouvelles guildes sur de nouveaux mondes.

Grâce au programme « Adopt-A-Dev » (« Adoptez un développeur »), nous avons jeté un nouveau regard sur le jeu et appris directement de nos joueurs ce qu’ils aimaient dans Guild Wars 2 et quels étaient les aspects que nous devions ensemble nous efforcer d’améliorer. Ces discussions se sont suivies de plusieurs conversations sur le forum, auxquelles j’ai participé avec la communauté. Ces conversations, conjuguées aux commentaires récoltés par les développeurs ayant pris part au programme, sont devenues un axe essentiel de nos discussions quotidiennes au sein de l’équipe McM.

Alors que nous espérions principalement glaner des informations via ce programme, les dévs participants nous ont non seulement rapporté leurs trouvailles, mais ils sont aussi devenus les fiers représentants des guildes, petites et grandes, qu’ils ont côtoyées. Ils nous ont ainsi fait part évidemment des besoins et des préoccupations de leur nouvelle guilde, mais nous ont aussi raconté ces combats glorieux, ces sièges épiques et ces scènes de fou-rire contagieux qu’ils avaient vécus.

Le plus important dans cette expérience est sans aucun doute d’avoir tous rencontré une foule de nouveaux amis. Notre rêve ici est que tous nos joueurs puissent avoir un ami à ArenaNet. Le programme « Adopt-A-Dev » (« Adoptez un développeur ») a très certainement été une étape majeure dans la réalisation de ce rêve. Je sais, pour ma part, que je me suis fait d’incroyables amis dans ma nouvelle guilde, Do More Damage. Et croyez-moi, ils vont avoir du mal à se débarrasser de moi !

Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur l’impact du programme « Adopt-A-Dev » (« Adoptez un développeur »), et lire les discussions des joueurs à son sujet, consultez cet article du forum. Pour en savoir plus sur l’expérience des développeurs ayant participé au programme « Adopt-A-Dev » (« Adoptez un développeur »), regardez la vidéo ci-dessous !

Avant de vous quitter, j’aimerais remercier tous ceux qui ont « adopté un développeur », ainsi que tous les dévs qui ont bien voulu participer. Nous avons vraiment tiré énormément de ce programme, et espérons pouvoir un jour renouveler l’expérience. Alors si vous n’avez pas eu la chance d’adopter un développeur cette fois-ci, ouvrez l’œil et guettez nos prochaines annonces !

Prenez soin de vous !
John
[DmD] jusqu’à la mort !

Hey Guys,

Just a quick update on some changes I shared with you in a previous post. With the build on Tuesday build site interacts will have text better describing them, the arrow cart and ballista build sites will now have a smaller footprint and the siege disabler has a more visible projectile giving you a better chance to block it. We look forward to seeing how these changes improve the WvW experience.

Happy Halloween!

John

Source : https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/w … nt/page/10

Hello All,

There was quite a lot of discussion around the proposal of removing white swords from objectives in WvW. We understand there are concerns about how this change might work in practice or how player behavior may change as a result of it. We felt like the best way to understand fully the impact, and give players a chance to see for themselves how it directly changes the WvW experience is to let people try it and see what they think.

We have decided to run a special multi-week event in WvW where we’ll be changing some of the “rules” of WvW for a limited time. This event will feature two major rule changes while it is running: we are planning to remove white swords from objectives, and add points per kill in WvW to the over-all score for the duration of this event. We are currently targeting December for this event but will keep you posted when we have dates nailed down for certain. If this type of event is successful, we may look to do more events like this in the future where for short periods of time the rules of WvW are changed to different rules, scoring and scenarios to help both keep the game fresh, as well as to change up the experience and try new fun things for WvW.

We look forward to your feedback once the event begins, both on the temporary event only changes, as well as the concept of these special events in WvW.

Thanks,
John

Source : https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/w … ost4513301

Hello!

The adopted devs got together again earlier this week for a lunch meeting to bring feedback from their guilds and discuss their observations. The team has already begun addressing some of the feedback the devs brought back as well as some of the issues that you have brought up on our forums.

Coming with the build next week, build sites for rams will be trimmed down in size. This is to reduce the visual clutter with build sites, since rams are often built very close to each other, and make it easier to tell a ram apart from other siege when you are building it. There are also changes coming later to label the build interacts with what you are building. So you should see “Build Ram”, “Build Catapult” etc. instead of just “Build”. These were suggestions taken from the discussion on siege trolls.

We are going to make a balance pass on Siege Disablers. This was one of the most common pieces of feedback both from our adopted devs and from the forums. We really believe that Siege Disablers were a great addition to the game. They gave defenders a better chance of holding off attackers, they created new strategies and they created some fun fights outside of objectives by buying some time. But we agree that they need to be adjusted. We will be looking at things like radius, cooldowns and duration of the effect.

There were a handful of other tweaks brought up in our discussions that we are planning. These include reducing the number of people who can rally off of a kill. Removing white swords from objectives to give defenders a stronger role in alerting their team as well as giving attackers more of a chance to get through having their siege disabled. We are also going to test out awarding points per kill. PPK was part of the scoring discussion and something we wanted to try. We will be looking for your feedback on that change after it goes live.

Some bigger issues are factoring into longer term work. For example, we have been discussing what we have learned from our conversations on the forums as well as the feedback our adopted devs brought back from their guilds on the topics of population imbalance and scoring. These are bigger changes and are factoring into longer term solutions that the team is working on.

The team has a lot to chew on but some areas that I’d like to discuss more with the community in the near future are rewards and supporting some vital roles like scouting and defending. I’ll kick off some discussions on these areas in the next couple of weeks.

I was happy to hear from the devs that they would all love to do this again and felt it was a very fun and valuable way to spend their free time. Many of them have made some great new friends and they all felt like this was a great way to really connect with the community by playing side by side with new faces and getting new perspectives on Guild Wars 2.

Thanks again to everyone who signed up for or hosted a dev! We had a great time!

John

Source : https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/w … ost4493275

Après quatre semaines de combats acharnés, faits d’autant de victoires durement gagnées que de défaites à vous briser le cœur, le Tournoi McM de l’automne s’est finalement terminé avec six mondes couronnés du titre de champions du tournoi.

Pour l’Europe, nous aimerions féliciter Repos du Marin pour leur impressionnante victoire dans la ligue d’or, à Place Piken pour leur victoire en ligue d’argent et à Détroit de Miller pour la ligue de bronze. Du côté de l’Amérique du Nord, félicitations à Portenoire pour leur victoire en ligue d’or, à la Courbe du Yak pour leur conquête de la ligue d’argent, et un clin d’œil à Porte de la folie pour la ligue de bronze.

Vous trouverez la liste complète des résultats sur la page du Tournoi McM de l’automne 2014.

Nous espérons que cet événement vous a plu, et attendons avec impatience de vous retrouver sur le champ de bataille la prochaine fois !

Hello Again,

With the WvW tournament drawing to a close, I’d like to thank everyone who participated in the Adopt-A-Dev program both as hosts and to the devs who volunteered their free time to make new friends and play with new guilds and worlds.

We collected a lot of valuable feedback. Some of that has motivated the discussions I’ve been having with you on the forums. I’ll be having another group discussion with our dev volunteers next week. Once that is complete I’ll get some notes posted on this thread.

It’s been both insightful and a ton of fun for me. My new guild DmD is full of dedicated WvW players, interesting characters, crazy stories, exotic beverages, fun-loving nuts, a pretty amazing guild leader (or three) and a guy who talks like a duck. I couldn’t have asked for a better group to get another perspective on WvW and GW2 with. Thanks for having me guys!

John

You’re making the false assumption that the participating developers took nothing away from their time with their adoptive guilds. This is untrue, many of our developers came back with feedback from interactions with their respective guilds, and in fact, we have a meeting today to discuss feedback, lessons learned and other relevant discussion around the program.

Don’t set yourself up to see changes immediately. The tournament just ended and the team still needs time to parse the feedback, identify issues and prioritize solutions. If you expect immediate change just because the tournament is over, you will be disappointed. Change takes time and careful consideration.

Source : https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/w … ast-Chance

Hi everyone,

We’re working on a cool project related to the Adopt-A-Dev program and we need your help! No, it has nothing to do with killing devs or Dolyaks We’d like your Adopt-A-Dev video footage, if you have any!

We’re looking for high quality footage of any guild that adopted an ArenaNet dev, the requirements are:
•HD quality; we need the actual video file, no link to YouTube please; the ideal way for you to share this with us is probably a hosting service such as Google Docs for example;
•It needs a dev, or even more than one! If we can hear you talk about him, see him with or without his ArenaNet tag, it’s acceptable
•Please no swearing (if there’s TeamSpeak or map chat), no music and clean game footage
•Please send links to the video file(s) at community@arena.net with the title “WvW Adopt-A-Dev footage” as soon as possible and at the latest on Sunday please
•If you could also include timestamps in your video when there are interesting bits, it would be fantastic!
•Last, your informal approval for us to use the footage (we may get more formal at some point).

Thanks a lot for your help with this, and have fun in the mists!

Source : https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/w … ost4459880