Just a reminder how fast Anet is at fixing bugs and problems :)

[sasya neko.1985]

@kharmin.7683 said:

@Just a flesh wound.3589 said:

@sorudo.9054 said:

@Just a flesh wound.3589 said:

@sorudo.9054 said:

@Just a flesh wound.3589 said:

@sorudo.9054 said:in the original GW a bug, regardless on how insignificant it is, was fixed extremely fast.

in GW2 however, a bug being fixed is a rarity indeed, they only fix things when it would cost them money, not to maintain a proper level of game quality.

......i really miss the old Anet.

Really?

February

The warclaw's endurance now displays the correct number of ticks.Fixed a bug that caused armor rewards from the new tutorial achievements to give players the wrong attribute selection options.Fixed a bug in which learning the chef crafting discipline from a capital city trainer would not progress the Interest in Food achievement. Players who are chefs can gain the achievement by deactivating the chef discipline and activating it again, or by activating the chef discipline on a character that does not have it.Fixed a bug in which Warclaw Mastery Tier 2 could apply its speed boost to players in siege golems.Ice Shard Stab: Fixed an issue in which the damage increase for this skill was applied in all game modes instead of only PvE.Mesmer:Vicious Expression: Reduced the damage bonus from 25% to 15% in PvE only.Bountiful Blades: Fixed a bug that caused this trait to grant the old functionality for Confounding Suggestions.Guardian:Inspiring Virtue: The bonus damage effect from this trait no longer stacks duration, instead resetting its 6-second duration when triggered.Warrior:Earthshaker: Fixed a bug in which the spellbreaker's version of this skill did more damage than intended in PvP and WvW.Fixed a bug that prevented PvP seasonal achievements from progressing.Fixed an issue in which the light puzzle under Drakkar wasn't removing players' abilities to dismount.Fixed an issue in which the "Defeat the patrolling Fallen / Sons of Svanir / Aberrant enemies" events would sometimes not increment progress toward the "Koda Be Praised" achievement.Fixed an issue in which the "Luminiferous" achievement would sometimes not retroactively give progress for previously completed puzzles.Fixed an issue in which players could become stuck inside of the tier 3 essence chests.Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause moveable mirrors in light puzzles to incorrectly register the lights, resulting in them being destroyed.Fixed an issue in which the "Destroy the corrupted shard" events would sometimes fail to complete when entering Still Waters Speaking.Fixed an issue in which episode 1 was still unlocked during the episode 2 release window.Fixed an issue in which the achievement "Truly Nimble Onslaught" was showing incorrect text dataResolved an issue in which the Corrupted Ox Shrine guild decoration lacked collision, preventing it from being removed

January

Fixed an issue in which red lines were outlining parts of the Grand Lion Griffon and Cozy Wintersday Mounts Skins when certain dyes were applied.Fixed a bug in which the Winter Monarch Cape wasn't displaying properly in the preview window of the Gem Store.Fixed an issue that caused utility effects to expire when players used the Snowflake Gobbler.The Mythic Weapon Collection was never intended to have an achievement associated with it. The achievement has been removed from the Black Lion Collections section of the Achievements tab.Fixed an issue in which players who were not instance owners could be removed from an instance when its boundaries were updated.Fixed an issue that prevented the final reward chests from appearing for some players in the "Shadow in the Ice" light puzzles.Fixed server crashes.Fixed an issue that allowed the Sacred Pegasus Griffon Skin to be rewarded multiple times from the Black Lion Chest.Fixed a bug that prevented the Ruler of the Skies meta-achievement from correctly tracking the progress of the Skyscale Rider achievements. The Skyscale Rider achievements are now visible in the Ruler of the Skies meta-achievement in the Explorer section of the General achievements category.Fixed an issue that prevented Drakkar from properly transitioning through phases.Fixed an issue that caused players to remain in combat in Whispering Depths after the "Champion of the Ice Dragon" meta-event ended in failure.Fixed an issue that caused Jhavi Jorasdottir to lose focus on the task at hand, stalling the "Champion of the Ice Dragon" meta-event.Fixed a client crash.Fixed a server crash.Fixed an issue with the Strike Mission timers in Bjora Marches.Fixed an issue in which being downed or defeated while running through certain light puzzles resulted in certain rewards not appearing until reentering the light puzzle.The merchant Humble Stone in the village of Still Waters Speaking now offers a limited supply of spare Restored Boreal weapons to players who have previously crafted them.Damage from the boneskinner has returned to intended levels.Opened up the Strike Mission: Whisper of Jormag to all players, not just players who have completed the story content.Prologue: Bound by Blood: Braham once again will be able to overcome the mental prison of his guilt and leave his cell in the "Bad Blood" chapter.Fixed an issue that blocked players from accessing the Bjora Marches Reward Track if they had previously unlocked it.Increased the drop rate of Ice Shards for the Eternal Ice Shard Home Instance Node.

December

Fixed an issue in which players received essence chest rewards even if they failed the strike missions in the "Whisper in the Dark" episode.Fixed an issue that caused the Emblazoned Cape to incorrectly appear locked in the Gem Store for players without the Heart of Thorns expansion.Fixed an issue that caused cape skins to animate oddly on female sylvari characters.Fixed an issue that caused some odd cape collision on charr characters due to bone scaling.Fixed an issue that caused the completion of Light Puzzle achievements to reset daily.Fixed a bug that caused players to be kicked out of the Boneskinner Strike Mission at the beginning of the fight.Fixed an issue that prevented the Black Lion Season 4 Expedition Board from appearing correctly in players' home instances under certain conditions.Fixed an issue with notifications on the Black Lion Trading Company icon in the menu bar that caused errors for Play for Free players.Fixed a bug that caused the Endless Choya Dance Tonic to be hidden in the Novelties section of the Equipment tab.Adjusted the stats and damage of the boneskinner in the Boneskinner Strike Mission to closer match its intended difficulty. Changed how damage is inflicted on the boneskinner's Tormenting Aura mechanic to preserve the integrity of the intended fight mechanics.Engineer—Utility Goggles: Fixed a bug that changed the tool belt for this skill to its previous version when traited with Gadgeteer.Fixed an issue with the Sweet Campfire Treat that prevented players from moving or deleting the item from their inventory.Fixed a client crash.Fixed an issue in which warrior banners could last longer than intended.Fixed a client crash.Increased the maximum duration of the Wintersday Boost granted by the Snowflake Gobbler from two hours to one day. Prevented the Snowflake Gobbler from purchasing additional Snowflake Gobbler's Blessings if the purchase would extend the Wintersday Boost beyond its maximum duration.Players are no longer unable to use weapon skills 4 and 5 after switching to an Equipment Template in which the active weapon set is empty and the other weapon set has a two-handed weapon.

And so on and so forth for the previous months.

and none of them are things they should've fixed months ago, you're looking at stuff they fixed for that one patch, not for old bugs they never bothered to fix.also, all of the fixes they did would cost them if they didn't fix it, they even add stuff to hide their own lack of support.

That wasn’t your post. Your post wasn’t ‘old bugs being fixed is a rarity’. It was ‘bugs being fixed was a rarity’. And that’s what I responded to. Perhaps you should edit your post if you said something different than what you meant.

no, every bug, even from 7 years ago, has the right to be fixed.don't try to hide behind current fixes of current problems when bugs that exist since launch are ignored, so yes i responded correctly.

If you assume infinite available budget and dev manhours then of course all bugs should be fixed but if budget and manhours are finite then the most important bugs should be fixed first and longevity of a bug is not the most important criteria. The impact of the bug on players is far more important and I doubt people would be happy if the devs spent time fixing bugs based on how old they are instead of how important they are.

Not to mention that it has been stated before that fixing some bugs may very well break major things, so they have decided not to expend resources toward them.

i seriously doubt correcting certain dye channels would break major systems, it's just them taking new stuff as priorities instead of fixing the old stuff.

[Obtena.7952]

@"meikinator.8057" said:I always love it when i encounter bugs in this game and then look in this forum and see posts about this exact bug from YEARS ago. Like this bug:https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/6541/is-there-a-way-to-replay-the-way-forwardOctober 2017... its now almost march 2020, 2 and a half years later, and absolutetly NOTHING has been done to fix this. The only thing that happened is that the linked thread got locked...Simple bugs not being fixed in literal years... just sad...

That should tell you that Bugs are prioritized for fixing based on severity. I don't see anything wrong with that.

[Hashberry.4510]

@Blocki.4931 said:

@"Hashberry.4510" said:This acceptance of bugged product is why the software industry is so sloppy in general, and will stay that way.

The acceptance of *playble product.

It's absolutely insane to believe games can be bug free, especially not ones with thousands of variables that can change from day to day like an MMO. What if one skill interaction from a class that wasn't originally released just happens to break this one part of the game that's been that way for 6 years? There is no "perfect code", devs work on making things run as flawlessly as they can, but just like the balance of an ever evolving combat game it's an impossible task.

Insane hmmm. Nice.

[Syrus.2174]

If you want an example for how long a bug causing quite severe issues can stick around, try using the Coalescence of Ruin when using Hammer as a Revenant. After years it still doesn't handle non-flat terrain properly ... or at all.It's quite fascinating to see, that it got worse instead of better even, considering how clunky it handles after the previous change.

Then again, besides some terrain testing I didn't check it after the big update - so far I know it still doesn't travel up or down hill. Really wish they would just finally give up on how it is "intended" to work and make it travel through the air, instead of on the ground, thereby allowing proper aiming ... and make it go towards the target again, instead of to wherever your character is looking (unless that was fixed in the big update).

Or how about the Weaver's problem with dual attunements when (dis)mounting, as in, you get the dual attack of the attunements you had before, but you are now double attuned to whatever your primary attunement was. Can be really quite annoying in WvW.(Reminds me, I also felt like Twist of Fate does not evade anymore...still need to check on that...)

Things like these bother me a lot more than a story mission's replayability to be honest. And there are probably more bugs like these...

[Hashberry.4510]

Well they touched it and it broke, sooo, not their fault! /s. No such thing as perfect code doncha know.

[Qaju.2058]

Obstructed!Obstructed!Obstructed!Obstructed!

[whateverthisnamecanbe.3615]

Saying without knowing is easier than choosing what to do 1st when everything in this game is connected to the other.Imagine if they fixed that and instance crashes? or if they fixed Coalescence of Ruin when using Hammer as a Revenant and damage is greatly reduced unexpectedly or game crashes when using skill? there are many bugs out there but they choose not to fix them as they can create new bugs and/or break the game like candy corn nodes flashing (appearing and disappearing) in mini-map everywhere around Tyria now (not Halloween, i know) and they tried to fix them, past Halloween (event in Lion's Arch) didn't trigger after 1st build so they unloaded changes to that bug fix so we can play Event. ArenaNet are doing a lot of work, they just don't want to talk about it or "why they didn't fix something" !