At first glance, there really appears to be nothing wrong with the official statement about the loot drops.

But when you think about it, they're running tests, and they don't "think" the randomness mechanism is misbehaving, but they're not sure, and they haven't found anything "suspicious." But what exactly would be suspicious to Anet? How credible are these tests if the community is noticing issues, and the tests are finding nothing?

Then they basically ask the community to solve the problem for them on another thread.

I see what you're driving at, Red.

I honestly don't understand why you are so upset over their reply.

They said they've received similar reports, they've done some checking and haven't found anything wrong but just in case they may have overlooked something, they are going to do more extensive testing.

What did you want them to say? OMG You are so right! The system is completely out of whack and we are going to fix it right away so that it quadruples drop rates. And to make up for your frustration here is 100000 gems for the gem store and also a full set of Legendary weapons.

As you can clearly see, that response was as overdone as yours.

Originally posted by MyTabbycat

I honestly don't understand why you are so upset over their reply.

They said they've received similar reports, they've done some checking and haven't found anything wrong but just in case they may have overlooked something, they are going to do more extensive testing.

What did you want them to say? OMG You are so right! The system is completely out of whack and we are going to fix it right away so that it quadruples drop rates. And to make up for your frustration here is 100000 gems for the gem store and also a full set of Legendary weapons.

As you can clearly see, that response was as overdone as yours.

I don't particularly care for GW2 anymore, but I would agree with this.  I don't see how they said anything insulting.  The only insulting thing in this thread is the OP's response to the post.

Originally posted by MyTabbycat

I honestly don't understand why you are so upset over their reply.

They said they've received similar reports, they've done some checking and haven't found anything wrong but just in case they may have overlooked something, they are going to do more extensive testing.

What did you want them to say? OMG You are so right! The system is completely out of whack and we are going to fix it right away so that it quadruples drop rates. And to make up for your frustration here is 100000 gems for the gem store and also a full set of Legendary weapons.

As you can clearly see, that response was as overdone as yours.

Welcome to official gW2 forums! And I'm not exagerating here. This part of the internet is one of the worst I've ever seen. I'm actually frightened how terrible playerbase GW2 has.

Originally posted by taziar

 The op has serious issues.  The official reply was basically 'we don't think there is a problem, but are looking at statistical data to verify'.   How is that in any way disrespectful?   All the anger in the post is clearly coming from somewhere else.  

This response isn't the worst, but ANet tends to have a 'You don't know what your doing" tone behind their responses. Its a real smug kind of response where they protray themselves better then the players and treat them like idiots. A good example is some time ago their 'there is plenty to do in GW2" list which basically just gave fanbois stupid things to put in favor of the game which could be basically copy and pasted from virtually any game out there. 

Anet is pretty good at having a smug little snip at the players with how they word it. The 'we are listening to you, but your just morons' kind of response that just feels half-assed. 

Heck, maybe they don't, but unfortunately wording wise they tend to really miss-step quite a lot in this area.

This is pretty Interesting.   Arenanet is actually one of the better companies at listening and adapting to their player base.   From changing GW1 expansion release schedule,  all the way to realizing that some players know more about PvPer balance than they do(with more indepth anaylasis than they done).  And actually admitting to the two in past blogs several times.

OP is most likely just raging about to rage.

CM fail.

You dont leave the ragers steam with a problem for a month and then waltz in with a half assed "we dont think anything is wrong, but you are free to give us CONCRETE DATA proving that it is".

You can NEVER EVER mention that everything is allright or request data from the angry people at this point, they already made hundreds of posts with data.

At this point you HAVE to admit something or not reply at all.

Flame on!

:)

its funny becouse i just played 2 hours

and got loot worth of 14g :)

all these threads about rare drop nerfs or ecto salvage nerfs

RNG is RNG deal with it even if the chance is 50% you can still hit the 100 unlucky streak :)

Well, I can certainly see why you'd be a little upset (the answer they gave was fairly flippant) but I think it got taken over the line a bit.

Although it certainly was an entertaining read.

loot drops have been fine to me; working as intended I guess

The whole drop rate nerf(s) [and continued nerfs] comes down to ArenaNets inability to combat bots.

If I choose to farm an area for hours on end, I expect to have equal treatment amongst those who actively play.  The bots ruin this ideaology, and thus ArenaNet neets to make bots ineffective, which in turn, affects normal players too.

All ArenaNet had to do was actively identify bots.  Bots don't even run very clever scripts either, so it's not like ArenaNet couldn't pick them out.  Teleport hacks are rampant. Repeated pathing bots are rampant.

ArenaNet did delete a bunch of bots, but they need to keep a dedicated team to do this for the life of the game.  If they are having problems determining if someone is a bot, they need better tools.  Sure bot programs get better and better .. but companies also need to get better and better to pick bots from the general population.

WoW's Warden is an interesting anti-bot tool (installed on every customers machine) to sniff out automated processes.