BW can learn a lot from ArenaNet

Well, therein lies the a problem though. Only a small part of ANY games player base frequents or even accesses forums for said games. SWTOR is a classic example of this. Most of the people still playing this game have NEVER been to these forums.

So if ArenaNet is building their game based on feedback from their forums they're designing a game based on the feedback of a very minute portion of what will likely be their player base. This is precisely why companies like Blizzard (and Bioware for that matter) tend to take what they see in forums with a grain of salt. And if you're going to say that's the wrong approach then you're bucking what has been a very successful business model, at least for Blizzard.

IMHO game forums are in general, the place to see people airing their opinions in a non-constructive way. Definately not a good place to base game design decisions on.

Then the company might ask themselves, "Why are so many dweebs tossing grenades in our lobby?"

While you don't develop a game for the minority, the people who come onto forums to discuss it constructively are the ones who are most passionate about it.

Either that or they're trolls and attention whores, and there's quite a few of them if you ask me

Nothing would be more counter productive than suddenly start cracking down on these people, they would use it as a sign that the game is failing and Bioware is shutting down all negativity, they do it as soon as they start removing duplicate threads about people saying they quit the game because it's boring, stupid, not WoW, too much like WoW, not enough like Star Wars, too much like Star Wars etc etc

Like you?

Yes, its much more productive to allow them spill bile and hate about your game on your own forums, while you are hiding in a corner, refusing to speak to the playerbase...

/agreed. In addition, right now GW2 fan-base are the Fanboys they pretty much have nothing but love for the game. The major complaint seems to be the that when you press a button and an ability fires off nothing happens, more base is needed. Unfortunately, I bought into the hype and pre-purchased the game and I wish I hadn't. GW2 really is poor game. its Warhammer online 2.0 with no feedback in combat and bad rotation design. Every quest is going to be a public quest from warhammer or rifts in Rift. Most classes are cool-down driven and most of the time your just auto-attacking.

The quest design causes them to become so oversaturate with players that you don't even know what you are doing. Down the line the will be hard to finish because not enough players maybe leveling. The story is interesting but the cut scenes are bad quality, think infamous. No to mention there is really no carrot or end game except for a carrotless; know, I know, COD and Battlefield have no carrot but they are build on fun game play and skills while guild wars 2 is a stripped down hot bar MMO. It feels incomplete.

I also don't like the cash shop, tbh it has all the problems of swtor, warhammer and maybe more, no addon support, no LFG, no raids. I only played the first 10 levels of 5 characters but that how I feel. I will level a character hopefully it will get better.