To be fair, ANet isn't anywhere near the first company to purposely 'silence' their forums of stuff that appears negative. Its done on a lot of games, not every company is as willing as Trion in letting 'negative' threads wander around and would much more willingly cover up problems as much as possible on their own forums. 

Sadly, they have full right on their forums to do so as do other games and its not really unexpected. The easiest way to 'fix' a problem is to pretend it doesn't exist and let others who don't know about it have little way to see just that.

Don't worry, even our governments do it, its the in thing. :)

Bottom Line is this.

1. All you have to do is go to google and search for hacks for any MMORPG, and know the basic concept of how they work.

2. By using hacks you risk being banned, keylogged, malicous virus etc.

3. Arena Net is likely removing threads to cover up how bad their game is doing from the search engines.

4. I really quit GW2 alraedy it just feels not fun compared to Guild Wars 1, I am waiting for DFUW.

5. Whoever made  the Leather armors needs to be FIRED from GW2 Artwork seriously sucks (Opinion) but good lord i played a leather wearer as a Norn and they all look the same.

6. Not enough costumes make pirate costume and such wearable in combat add skills while in town or a toggle for them.

7. Add a function instead of using tramsute stones just to place armor into a slot like rift it changes appearance.

8. If they are removing posts they are no better than minea on the Tera forums fail community managers covering up how bad their game is doing.

Unless a forum contains foul langauge or breaks rules other than opinions they should not remove it because they should know the posts will go to other big MMO sites and just make their company look worse.

These are the reasons I quit besides bots/hackers they either fix it or they dont.

/end rant.

I can't tell about other posts but it seems the half image you posted here, indicates that your post had turned to a blaming and flaming tournament so it had to be closed.

That's also the main problem with many forums, many people have to flame or troll around 24/7, making many threads that were supposed to be constructive, turn into a flamewar which leads to closure.

Originally posted by Raekon

I can't tell about other posts but it seems the half image you posted here, indicates that your post had turned to a blaming and flaming tournament so it had to be closed.

That's also the main problem with many forums, many people have to flame or troll around 24/7, making many threads that were supposed to be constructive, turn into a flamewar which leads to closure.

This ^.

Anet has come out the gate stating that they will be moderating their own forums very strictly and to their own rules. This shouldn't be a shocker to anyone at this point. They don't host their own forums to provide a place for people to whine & complain about their game.

The primary purpose of their forums are to resolve technical issues, report bugs, issue updated statements to the community, and provide a place for friendly discussion / feedback on the game. Things a lot of people (especially on these forums) can't seem to handle very well.

They've made it quite clear that their forums are not a fansite. There's a huge difference between the two. However, there's quite a number of forums you can go to to complain about the game if that's your thing (and it looks like the OP is already aware of one of them).

Originally posted by Fusion

This is what happens when a B2P game gets released, they no longer "owe you" anything as you do not pay them monthly sub, so make stuff up as they go, how they go.

You're no longer entitled to anything beyond the basic game you bought with 60$. They can do just as they please and you have no say in it as they're no longer obligated to deliver you any services (beyond the servers to play the game)

That's why i like subscription based games the most, the devs have "obligations" to deliver stuff, if they don't, we the subscribers vote with our money.

 

This was my first AND last ANET game.

 

No, im not a hater of the game, it's fine, but the attitude towards the end-customers is below standards i've come accustomed to, so i'll steer clear of their next endeavous.

I believe that in certain conditions, they dont even have to provide server for you to be able to play the game. E.g. bunkrupt

good day to all, until last patch i was enjoying the game , but yesterday i got (as 1000's others) a DC issue, then i take a look on forums , at certain post i saw something as this from a ANET - staff employe :
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Hey guys as a temporary workaround if you have the mobile authenticator linked to your account I would recommend un-linking it for the time being until this gets worked out.

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Then i and many others post there and told its not acceptable to switch off authenticator,

Its very bad a person from ANET comes to their forums and talked about a fix by removing the only secure feature that we have in the game , well i stop to play for a day until they really fixed it

Originally posted by pedrostrik

good day to all, until last patch i was enjoying the game , but yesterday i got (as 1000's others) a DC issue, then i take a look on forums , at certain post i saw something as this from a ANET - staff employe :
...''

Hey guys as a temporary workaround if you have the mobile authenticator linked to your account I would recommend un-linking it for the time being until this gets worked out.

''....
Then i and many others post there and told its not acceptable to switch off authenticator,

Its very bad a person from ANET comes to their forums and talked about a fix by removing the only secure feature that we have in the game , well i stop to play for a day until they really fixed it

You mean the authenticator that is still in beta. Meaning it can cause problems with accessing the game. How can something still in beta be secure. 

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Originally posted by pedrostrik
good day to all, until last patch i was enjoying the game , but yesterday i got (as 1000's others) a DC issue, then i take a look on forums , at certain post i saw something as this from a ANET - staff employe :...''

Hey guys as a temporary workaround if you have the mobile authenticator linked to your account I would recommend un-linking it for the time being until this gets worked out.

''....Then i and many others post there and told its not acceptable to switch off authenticator,

Its very bad a person from ANET comes to their forums and talked about a fix by removing the only secure feature that we have in the game , well i stop to play for a day until they really fixed it

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Originally posted by PsyMike3d
Lessons over the years... never preorder, don't listen the hype, don't trust games with the label " WoW killers"

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I didn't listen to any hype, I didn't preorder, I just got GW2 because there were no other good MMO game interesting enough and my guild and I were sick of how SWTOR was turning out and we were busy playing SWG*cough* until GW2 went live.

Originally posted by PsyMike3d
Lessons over the years... never preorder, don't listen the hype, don't trust games with the label " WoW killers"

I preordered and the game lived up to the hype for me, unlike some i wasn't expecting the game to give me a virtual blowjob.

Originally posted by Istavaan

Originally posted by PsyMike3d
Lessons over the years... never preorder, don't listen the hype, don't trust games with the label " WoW killers"

I preordered and the game lived up to the hype for me, unlike some i wasn't expecting the game to give me a virtual blowjob.

Same here. I loved the game.

Sadly Guild wars 2 release around some truly amazing games.

There's not enough time in the day to play the best games out right now along with Guild Wars 2.

Thankfully i don't have to pay for a subscription, ss i can return later.

Something that really hurt SWTOR... Im sorry but When that game released Skyrim ate all of my time, then Mass Effect 3 hit and it was bye bye SWTOR. 

Originally posted by Istavaan

Originally posted by PsyMike3d
Lessons over the years... never preorder, don't listen the hype, don't trust games with the label " WoW killers"

I preordered and the game lived up to the hype for me, unlike some i wasn't expecting the game to give me a virtual blowjob.

if it lived up to the hype for you, then you are lucky, enjoy......

Originally posted by Istavaan

Originally posted by PsyMike3d
Lessons over the years... never preorder, don't listen the hype, don't trust games with the label " WoW killers"

I preordered and the game lived up to the hype for me, unlike some i wasn't expecting the game to give me a virtual blowjob.

 Same.

In fact, I think the game is actually better than I thought it would be because I didn't expect the PvP (WvW) gameplay to be so fun.

Originally posted by Randayn

Originally posted by dreamer05

Originally posted by botrytis
There is more to this story than meets the eye. Please don't come here and whine about forum where you are not following the rules and then you get a thread closed.

Because no company ever banned someone out of self interest? Right....

nah...because botrytis sees no wrong in his savior.....

Actually if you'd have read the thread the OP showed you'd see that what looks to be a well intended post started to go south fast. Hence the closure. But I know... you'd rather make baseless "They are only defending it because they think GW2 is the second coming" than actually read what you are discussing. Seems to be a trend from a few. 

Originally posted by Shroom_Mage

That thread was deleted because there are dozens exactly like it, but their moderation is outsourced, and it's obvious. Just take a look at this mod's amazing English skills: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Bizarre-Name-Restriction/first#post493033.

 

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Hello everyone,

 

it’s quite interesting how you wonder why words/shorts aren’t edited by the filter while others are. Does that mean you want those words to be filtered, too? Feel free to suggest some, then.

Greetings

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The thread was asking (quite clearly) why the name "Frostbite" was blocked.

Arbitrary locks and bans (without reasons given) are the result of their staff's inability to comprehend what they're attempting to moderate.

I don't see the problem here. The only time I've ever had a problem with a name filter on a seemingly innocuous name was that it turned out to be an NPC's name. It appeared to me that the moderator was responding to another poster who had wondered why certain "bad" names were allowed. Honestly- google arenanet moderators and see the complaints about moderation, then click on page 2 of google results (I know, it's a safe place to bury dead bodies). You'll see complaints of LACK of moderation at offsite forums. *shrug* It seriously easy folks. If you don't like Anet's moderation, start your own forum, or use on that already exists.