A wild Anet Dev appears ! :D

[ChasingDreams.3250]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I think so?

First time I've seen a dev in-game and I've played on and off since the 2 day pre-purchase releaseAnyways, probably not news to a lot of people that the devs play the game, but him waiting for Teq tonight and clipped it:D

https://clips.twitch.tv/PopularSassyBatteryDatBoi

https://clips.twitch.tv/TrustworthyAmusedSkunkBudBlast

^What's up with twitches url names? lol

Anyone else here got any stories or pictures of Devs you've met in-game?:o

[Astrolicus.3716]

I saw a dev on World vs World today. I play in sfr, everyone was protecting the dev. ?

[mortrialus.3062]

If you kill a dev you get the Culling the Creators hidden community achievement.

[8235E844-3CC1-4724-8B86-45]

They've been told to be playing this event WB event. Literally a 4000% increase in dev contact this week, people been spazzing across discords.

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

I see them off and on all the time. Probably 2-7 times a month. It may just be the the region (NA vs. EU); they do play on NA more often.You can also see them playing every Thursday in WvW (and watch them on Twitch, if you've a mind to).

[Randulf.7614]

Try throwing a poke ball

[crepuscular.9047]

yeah, devs sometimes play the game during their downtime

MightyTeapot murdered a dev

[Urud.4925]

It's not something so rare. I usually see them after a big/medium patch. For example one of them was in our bounty group, a couple of weeks after the PoF release, while some other was in my sPvP team when the new Djin map was added.It's a good sign, they want to test first hands how the new contents work. I usually avoid to bother them.

[Danikat.8537]

I usually only see Anet staff just after a new release, but then I'm on EU and I suspect they mainly play on NA and only come over here for special occasions and to see people's reactions to new stuff.

One thing to bear in mind though is we only see them when they want us to. The tag identifying them as Anet is their guild tag, so they can turn it on or off at will, and I've heard some even have second accounts they play on when not working, so even if someone adds them to their friends list they can't track when they're online and not working.

[Ashantara.8731]

@"mortrialus.3062" said:If you kill a dev you get the Culling the Creators hidden community achievement.

Someone believed you and gave you a "Helpful" for that. ?

[Lonecap.4105]

@Ashantara.8731 said:

@"mortrialus.3062" said:If you kill a dev you get the Culling the Creators hidden community achievement.

Someone believed you and gave you a "Helpful" for that. ?

Its true. Got it when I killed a dev in WvW before.

[Ashantara.8731]

@ProverbsofHell.2307 said:Its true. Got it when I killed a dev in WvW before.

Really? Wiki knows nothing about it. ;)

[Lonecap.4105]

@Ashantara.8731 said:

@"ProverbsofHell.2307" said:Its true. Got it when I killed a dev in WvW before.

Really? Wiki knows nothing about it. ;)

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Community

CTRL+F "creator"

There's several believe it or not.

[Stalkingwolf.6035]

we had one on Svanir Bossfight. well i think they have disabled the chat ... it must be because else the game is unplayable for them

[Ashantara.8731]

@"ProverbsofHell.2307" said:https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Community

CTRL+F "creator"

Thanks. I couldn't find it earlier, because the post mentioning the achievement named it incorrectly: "Culling the Creators" (it's Conquer the Creator)

[Lonecap.4105]

@Ashantara.8731 said:

@"ProverbsofHell.2307" said:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Community

CTRL+F "creator"

Thanks. I couldn't find earlier, because the post mentioning the achievement named it incorrectly: "

Culling

the Creator

s

"

Yeah I just noticed that. Thankfully it doesn't give AP, but it was a cool easter egg.

[Fat Disgrace.4275]

@Astrolicus.3716 said:I saw a dev on World vs World today. I play in sfr, everyone was protecting the dev. ?

Same, though they were semi afk 23:30 UK time at mill.

[Thandaer.8105]

I seen them in WvW once. And more then one. AND they've captured a keep/tower in the name of Anet :)I still might have a screen on my old laptop.

[aspirine.6852]

Brave souls going out in wvw with their tags on, it's like putting a "kill me" sign on.

[Turkeyspit.3965]

@ProverbsofHell.2307 said:

@Ashantara.8731 said:

@"mortrialus.3062" said:If you kill a dev you get the Culling the Creators hidden community achievement.

Someone believed you and gave you a "Helpful" for that. ?

Its true. Got it when I killed a dev in WvW before.

Yep. Sadly it was worth 0 AP, but then I guess they wouldn't want to actively encourage players to hunt them down in a game they themselves designed :sunglasses:

[ChasingDreams.3250]

@Randulf.7614 said:Try throwing a poke ball

Poké Mart was closed during the night of the stream, and I was all out of balls :'(

[ChasingDreams.3250]

@"aspirine.6852" said:Brave souls going out in wvw with their tags on, it's like putting a "kill me" sign on.

True that, but I guess it works both ways, everyone from their world is going to go crazy trying to protect them ?

@Thandaer.8105 said:I seen them in WvW once. And more then one. AND they've captured a keep/tower in the name of Anet :)I still might have a screen on my old laptop.

Would love to see how that interaction works, hope you come over the ss again:o> @mortrialus.3062 said:

If you kill a dev you get the Culling the Creators hidden community achievement.

Someone is going to start playing WvW again a bit more often (A)Thank you for the info o/

[Ashantara.8731]

@Turkeyspit.3965 said:Yep. Sadly it was worth 0 AP, but then I guess they wouldn't want to actively encourage players to hunt them down in a game they themselves designed :sunglasses:

Well... here in Europe, we never get to even encounter one, so it would really be unfair to have AP attached to it.

[Ayrilana.1396]

Chances are you may be playing with Anet staff and not realize it as they don’t always represent the Anet guild.

[Rubi Bayer.8493]

We're on EU worlds pretty regularly–I'm sorry you've missed us! Irenio and I

just the other day. Some of our devs have been doing a weekly WvW livestream since February of 2018, and they play on a different world each week, alternating between NA and EU worlds. Yesterday's livestream was on Gunnar's Hold on the EU side.

It might be a case of playing during different hours sometimes--time zones are all kinds of inconvenient. That said! I mentioned in a meeting yesterday that I want us to make sure that we are consistent about playing on EU worlds as well as NA worlds when we do stuff in game, so I hope seeing us in game isn't a rare occurrence for you in the future!