Guild Wars 2 introduced the first wing of its new raids to players yesterday. To make these new raids as good as they could possibly be, ArenaNet recruited high-end guilds full of raiders dedicated to achievements like world first clears. The idea was that these guilds would take part in the testing but would not then immediately brag about world first kills after months of practice on this content no one else had played.
It appears that the guild Death and Taxes did not get that particular memo. The guild has now been removed from further raid testing, and a valuable lesson has been learned about raid drama. Further raid testing is ongoing; you can read the full statement from ArenaNet regarding the removal just below.
As many in our player community are aware, we invited the guild Death and Taxes [DnT] to our raids testing program a month ago and gave them unlimited access to the three raid wings currently under development. Upon public release of our first raid wing today, DnT decided to go against the spirit of our relationship by promoting the speed with which they completed the raid wing without ensuring that those reading their comments were fully aware of the fact that they had been given early access. In taking that approach, DnT showed that they do not fully respect everyone in our community, and that is something that we take extremely seriously. As a result, we have decided to remove DnT from our testing program. We want to thank them for their involvement.
Moving forward, ArenaNet continues to be excited about the possibility of collaborating with guilds in the spirit of creating great raids and fostering a positive relationship with our community. We’ll be watching as other groups attempt to defeat the raid with the goal of identifying additional likely test candidates.
