Spotted an ANet member? Tell us here!

[Talindra.4958]

I saw an anet employee two days ago in chak meta... we made joke in map chat - oh a dev with VitV … he bought it or anet has dev that can play raid .. :p as a joke u know.. no heart feelings no discrimination.. only a joke.. and didn't expect he replied. I made the raid.. so I should know how to play itHAHAHA.. was good giggle.. :) +1 to this dev.. his nick started with J ... something ..not the Joker from the batman

[kurfu.5623]

I used to see them quite often doing world bosses, and I always called them out in /m chat with "everyone play nice, Anet is here!"... it's been a few months since I've seen one though.

[kurfu.5623]

@phs.6089 said:You just want their bosses give them hard time for playing at work, with this topic, don't ya? Not telling!

They often play on their own time, and can choose to display the Anet tag or not.

[Orion Templar.4589]

A couple times a dev had their tag on during the Domain of Kourna meta event. The players were being cool and not pestering him/her with questions, and the chat was lighthearted. We did try to casually point out that the portal from the village to the meta had been broken since 7/24, hoping the dev would comment on that and say "we're working on it" or something like that, but they never commented on that topic. I've spotted Gaile in the Mistlock Sanctuary once or twice. I apologize I didn't say hello or anything, but even though I was silent it was nice to see a "familiar face" so to speak.

[Turkeyspit.3965]

I've seen a couple. What I found distressing though, was a few weeks back, there was a player with ANET tag waiting for the Auric Basin meta to start, and once the players around noticed this, they began to bombard the ANET employee with questions:

"When will be fixed""Why won't you nerf "

I recall thinking, and then typing: "This is why we can't have nice things".

[mortrialus.3062]

I ran into an ANET employee repping the tag in SPvP a while ago. I knew there was a community achievement to kill them so I went at them as hard as I could as soon as I saw them. I got that kill and I spent the rest of the match farming them.

[Aye.8392]

I had just gotten my roller beetle mount the other day and was zooming around Divinity's Reach trying to figure out how to control it when I saw a Dev with the character name "First" going the opposite direction and just killing every turn and jump on their own roller beetle. It was fun and it made me happy :)

[gimo.3281]

Gaile Gray should do some QnA portion once in a while in Lion's Arch like she did in GW1.

[Majoras Mask.9546]

I just saw Zharra Embermane doing Chak gerent and Tarrir <3 im glad i met him ingame

[Tzarakiel.7490]

I have never observed this fabled Anet creature the rest of you speak of. Do I need traps? Or maybe bait? Does it only appear during a blood moon?

[Samuel.4812]

I ran into a anet charr named gar something by the malchors leap wood farm the other day. Very nice person who said they designed alot of the legendaries including the new one, I was shocked that they have to farm for their legendaries too lol even though he designed the new one.

Asked him many questions which he couldn't answer but I'm glad to know they are a choya enthusiast as well. I mentioned the Skritt or choya in a ball mount skin and they said he had brought it up several times with his peers so that's good news!

[Zushada.6108]

Couple of months ago I was running about in WvW during an afternoon off (I am on EDT) and low and behold a zerg full of Anet tags ran me over, kicked my butt and then took the Keep. :lol: I still see random Anet tags a fair bit in WvW it just depends on which server my server is up against and linked too. I have to say, those who play WvW are good players!

The other Dev I ran into was Gaile during the Festival of Four Winds; she was on checking out the Crown Pavilion and I think doing some recon at the same time. I have even had the pleasure of raiding with an Anet employee in hiding under a regular tag. That person offered brilliant insight into how the game works mechanically. Lately I have seen more Anet tags running about in all aspects of the game than usual which, I think is really a good thing for transparency.

[ShiningSquirrel.3751]

First week game was live, ran in to 2 devs trying to take down a champ in the swamp. I joined up and the 3 of us took it down after a long battle. The conversation was funny because the 2 devs where talking about the person who worked on the champ and mentioned going down the hall and giving him a slap.

[TheQuickFox.3826]

I saw a few of them in WvW last week. They were playing (SFR) against us (Surmia). As soon as it became clear that they were there and that there was an achievement for killing them, many Surmian players went bananas so we ganked them for the achieve. We quite a bit outmanned them and any rules of decency or fair play went overboard for the achieve. Sry guys.

The pleasure was all mine.

[Kanok.3027]

I've spotted plenty of ANET staff and even have one added on my friendslist. We WERE going to do Trib mode together, but she was busy, so I didn't bother her. Regardless, I've seen plenty and they are all good peeps.