Guild Wars 2

This is not a hate thread. Arenanet you did a fantastic job with this game. I wanted to point a couple of things out just to be considered.

Appeal to the competitive gamer – To get to the point, I do not believe this game has the competitive edge that many gamer’s (especially in MMO’s) love. This is opinionated but it seems like this game certainly veers more towards the casual less competitive gamer.

Suggestions:
- Create a PvP system that is ranked, where people can create a team and vie for certain rewards and achievements and maybe titles.

(People take a lot of pride in their accomplishments, if you can satisfy that craving you will keep many customers playing, and in turn more revenue from micro transactions.)

- Create boss fights that require much more coordination.

( Many bosses in this game are just “burn them down bosses.” If you created bosses that require extreme coordination and made it worth it to do so i.e. Accomplishments more gold, better rare materials drop etc… I can just about guaruntee that the PvE side would be satisfied for the competitive gamer.)

- Implement a duel system

(I think this would be a great idea for people who do not know much about other classes, implementing a duel system not only helps people hone in on their PvP skills before going in to HotM, but also gives them a great chance to learn about the abilities of other professions and how they work. Not to mention something fun to do while sitting outside a dungeon waiting for the group to get there!)

-Create more competition between guilds

(Hey this is guild wars right? Alright, lets live up to the title! I believe creating some sort of Guild Vs Guild competition would appeal to many people. It allows people to be more prideful about the guild they’re in. “Hey check out what my guild accomplished… etc” Maybe implementing dungeons with difficult bosses that require more than 5 people to bring down, coordination amongst an entire guild would be much more difficult and fun than just 5 people.)

Summary

In conclusion, the competitive gamer loves to be recognized. By creating this competitive edge you could keep many more people playing this game. People are getting burned out of farming easy bosses, and watching WvW zergs run around with very little skill involved other than mass AoE. Appeal to this competitive edge, and you could make this already fantastic game that much better. Thank you.

i only agree with the guild v guild side. but i dont and wont join a guild run by someone else because theres everything in it for them and very little in it for the lacky’s

the way things are with my own guild i have a ton of extra bank space all for me. not what they intended and i dont even use it in all honesty (relax anet i still bought a few bank tabs) its just nice to know its there.

Whether that would actually happen or not would be on Arena Net’s side, I would think they would reward all guild members who participated, and that achieved membership status.

Implementing everything mentioned here wouldn’t take away from casual gamers, it would just satisfy that competitive mentality. Its those gamers who are the first to stop playing.

You guys have to look at things objectively, and stop making assumptions.

ANet already stated in one of their youtube interviews with top pros that their approach is to have the correct lay-out down first, and then work on progressing through smaller balance changes in order to perfect the game. As of now, that isn’t happening because it hasn’t reached that point yet.

Come on, you guys need to get with the program. Google didn’t start out perfect, but it already had the perfect core mechanic and code at work, it takes time to work from there and turn it competitive.

If it was competitive from the start, it would mean something horrid, essentially it would mean that it would be shallow and uninteresting which ultimately leads to imbalance. If a company did that, you could call that company a faker for the sake of self-image. ANet is completely transparent, far more transparent than any company I’ve seen before. They have a lot of talent, so pls don’t discredit them anymore.

There are far too many people in these forums who rely on discrete math resulting in extreme brokenness of a game contrary to their belief that it would provide balance. Sure it’d be balanced #’s wise, but think of it this way, there needs to be depth for balance. With only 2-dimensional planar balance the player would have to resort to all sorts of hard counters which is entirely undesirable.

Man, I hate all these arrogant discrete math majors. They don’t know anything about math.

No ones discrediting them. Jesus dude way to blow up. You just took a non-hostile post, an opinionated post, and made it hostile. I had no idea about the youtube videos. You could of just said “hey check this out.” Or something of that manner.

relax, kittening troll. noone’s getting hostile but you, once again relax. troll