Q&A with Colin Johanson

Question about custom chat channels.
Colin: Something that we can do that will help communication across communities is critical.

Question about addition functionality with the commander book.
Colin: Honestly there will be. That is on the list of stuff that we're not working on currently, although down the road that is we definitely want to make that more involved, more stuff that you could do as a commander. That's the kind of stuff that is honestly anything you guys can picture that is robust community supporting tools - those are the types of items that we really need to do this year to make it less difficult to play with other folks, coordinate with other people. The more of that we can do, it's just better for the game.

So you'd like to get as much as that done this year as attainable?
Colin: Yeah, if we genuinely can I think that weblog post I did earlier this year was kind of trying to set the table for expectations of what we're going to do this year. It is a lot less of opening new zones and factors like that along with a lot more of, let's take the core of the Guild Wars 2 gold game & try to make that as solid as we perhaps can & construct on that and make that a lot better for the reason that there's a lot room for improvement in that & I think that we've got to focus on that.

Question on the commander book being character bound rather than account bound. Any possibility of that changing?

Colin: I do not in fact know. I asked the WvW team about that & they had several excellent causes why [...], for getting to know who the commander is & they do not want that notion where if you have got 20 characters on your account & you login with each one as a distinct commander - they honestly want individuals to get to know & recognize a specific commander. That was the reason why they made them character specific. If that were to modify, if it started to become less key for a commander to be a known name that folks recognize and follow, that may be distinctive, but I think that is the main reason behind that - so that you genuinely get to know someone & know that name.

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