Guild Wars 2

I was recently thinking how they would improve this game and my conclusion was ‘factions’. Like in Wow, horde and alliance. Like if they ever made an expansion, this should be included. And they should make the new areas all open world pvp. Do this Arenanet and you have me for a lifetime.

its sounds like you want to play WoW

why dont you go play WoW

Actually, Envy, if they made it like in GW1 where there became two opposing factions, it would become something different entirely from WoW.
- Don’t think that factions as they design it in WoW is the only way of doing it. Game concept and game design are two very different things.

- Anyhow, I would’ve liked more tension between the charr and humans in GW2. They were rivals in the first guild wars. Sure, EotN provided some alliance between all the races, but it would be nice to have factions to “join” as in when you pick a human, you’re not automatically against charr, but if, say, a human faction was against some charr faction, where players could join one side, it would provide some conflict in PvE as well.
- That would be one way of doing it. I think that GW Factions was a nice touch and a nice addition to the GW franchise back in its day.

Really the only problem for adding factions in pve is that pve is supposed to be ONLY pve, there’s not supposed to be any pvp in it at all. sPVP, tPVP and WvW are where the pvp happens and where you have different factions. Over in PvE, all players are allies with no opposing factions to create pvp. The game was intentionally designed to remove any feature of pvp within the pve world.

I am against the factions idea but i am all for the idea of having more tension between races and maybe between the three different orders? There are guild missions, maybe implement those tensions into guild missions somehow?

Also my reasoning for excluding GW Factions system: There is already WvW. Do not see much point in creating a bazillion different groupings instead of utilizing existing ones for reflecting the tensions.

Awee come on guys! Don´t you miss being a Tree Hugger or a Turtle Lover? Luxon and Kurzick in Gw1 were awesome! And although i understand you cannot bring those two factions back , there was a certain background story to both sides which made them more appealing to me than just WvW. I´m on the Gandara server and what I´ve been noticing alot is that WvW makes players dislike other Servers which turns into a nationality thing (French/Germans) . I´d rather focus my hate onto another faction instead of another Server and their main nationality

Nah, I’d rather concentrate all my hate on another Dimension in WvW. Hating someone across the street is so much harder work.