mercury ranique.2170 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Sorry if it is allready posted elsewhere and I missed it, but I ran across this article : https://kotaku.com/guild-wars-2-developers-donate-thousands-after-fan-s-ho-1822299397 Arenanet often calls us the greatest community (and I agree). But a great community is made by a great example and a great bunch of people called Arenannet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardenwolfe.8590 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Wow . . . amazing. Thank you for posting this. I had no idea ANet came to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrubySzymek.1362 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 +100 points to PR mastery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadFable.1978 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Gives me fuzzies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArenaNet Staff Gaile Gray.6029 Posted January 23, 2018 ArenaNet Staff Share Posted January 23, 2018 > @"mercury ranique.2170" said: > Sorry if it is allready posted elsewhere and I missed it, but I ran across this article : https://kotaku.com/guild-wars-2-developers-donate-thousands-after-fan-s-ho-1822299397 > > Arenanet often calls us the greatest community (and I agree). But a great community is made by a great example and a great bunch of people called Arenannet. Thank you for your kind words, MR. This is something we came together as a studio to undertake. We were very happy to be able to help the family who suffered such a tragic loss and I'm happy to report they are making great strides towards getting things back to normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdack.6714 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Here's some people who make this world such a better place to live (not only Tyria) . Proud to play with u all, both developers and players...oh, and developer players aswell ofc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliamRationem.5172 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 That's beautiful! I had no idea. Thanks for sharing! Just for that, I'm going to add $10 to my next monthly gem purchase (just as soon as I catch up to my GW2 budget that has been a little overdrawn since PoF and all these nice mount skins!). Thanks for giving me just one more reason to be a fan of GW2 and ANet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeyteriKiyeri.4207 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Wow, so nice that Anet is helping this woman out with the donation and other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ithilwen.1529 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Wow, that is impressive. Well done ANET. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProverbsofHell.2307 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 > @"Gaile Gray.6029" said: > > @"mercury ranique.2170" said: > > Sorry if it is allready posted elsewhere and I missed it, but I ran across this article : https://kotaku.com/guild-wars-2-developers-donate-thousands-after-fan-s-ho-1822299397 > > > > Arenanet often calls us the greatest community (and I agree). But a great community is made by a great example and a great bunch of people called Arenannet. > > Thank you for your kind words, MR. This is something we came together as a studio to undertake. We were very happy to be able to help the family who suffered such a tragic loss and I'm happy to report they are making great strides towards getting things back to normal. That's such a nice gesture. You guys are great! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 It's great that you did that! :D Also I think @"mercury ranique.2170" is absolutely right about the community. I often see people saying that (in general) GW2 players are more friendly and helpful than they'd expected after experiences in other games and I think a lot of that is influenced by the game design. Simple things like no kill-stealing and being able to resurrect anyone for free quickly get people into the habit of going to help if you see someone struggling with a fight or downed/dead - because you know you can do some good with no downsides for either of you (except maybe a few seconds of your time), and that habit easily extends to other areas of the game. It's kind of surprising sometimes. I can be pretty cynical and when I've played a healer in other games I'm very much the "if you stand in red circles you're not my problem" type, but in GW2 I will literally run through fire to save a total stranger. (I mean I'm usually in the fire anyway...but I take the long way out.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urud.4925 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 > @"Danikat.8537" said: >[...]GW2 players are more friendly and helpful than they'd expected after experiences in other games and I think a lot of that is influenced by the game design. Simple things like no kill-stealing and being able to resurrect anyone for free quickly get people into the habit of going to help if you see someone struggling with a fight or downed/dead - because you know you can do some good with no downsides for either of you (except maybe a few seconds of your time), and that habit easily extends to other areas of the game. > > It's kind of surprising sometimes. I can be pretty cynical and when I've played a healer in other games I'm very much the "if you stand in red circles you're not my problem" type, but in GW2 I will literally run through fire to save a total stranger. (I mean I'm usually in the fire anyway...but I take the long way out.) Totally agree with you. Also the quest-sharing system. In another MMO that I played, I remember once one of my group-mates that told me "don't ress him, so he won't steal us the quest" (talking about another player who was doing the same quest and asked in /say to be invited, to get credit both. My group leader didn't invite him and he died alone). I really felt sorry for him, and sad for playing in such a community. However the karma striked and he found the boss before us and killed it in front of us. So we had to wait 5 minutes for the respawn :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArenaNet Staff Gaile Gray.6029 Posted January 24, 2018 ArenaNet Staff Share Posted January 24, 2018 > @"Danikat.8537" said: > It's kind of surprising sometimes. I can be pretty cynical and when I've played a healer in other games I'm very much the "if you stand in red circles you're not my problem" type, but in GW2 I will literally run through fire to save a total stranger. (I mean I'm usually in the fire anyway...but I take the long way out.) If I'm not mistaken, I was the recipient of that kindness once, myself. :D As someone who always plays Ranger/Monk in Guild Wars, I like the way you think! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 And just in case there was any doubt about how friendly this is I just made a new character and encountered 2 separate mentors waiting in Queensdale to greet and help new players, then when I got to DR someone randomly mailed me a bunch of dyes. :D (I told them I'm not new and to give the dyes to someone who is.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal.1670 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Wow, that's a nice gesture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldirtbeard.9834 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 For the most part you are right, as long as you are dealing with people while logged in. Don't go to Reddit or you might be in for disappointment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGrimm.5624 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Nicely done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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