I’m a big gankarooing a-hole when it comes to MMOs, oddly enough I havent missed the PKing part while leveling one bit. The game is just designed in a completely different way, the way DaoC was designed back in the day. Level in a shielded really fun envoirment then go out and bash skulls in the frontier (RvR/WvW).
The game is designed with heavy cooperation in mind for the PvE part, W-PvP would never work as it is now.
However, they could add fully open “WvW” leveling zones in a future expansion. For every new questing zone added there would be a WvW zone aswell, no keeps to claim or queues, just zones to level in while fighting the enemy aswell. This way the server bond would still be intact and everyone on a server would strive for the same goal. There would also be no need for new PvP/PvE labeled servers.
These zone would sure be active but if you happen to be on lower population server you wouldnt have to participate since the regular PvE zone would be there too.
They would just have to have seperate hearts for each server in the zones.
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Apologies if someone has already more or less said this, as I’ve rather skimmed the thread…
I am not a “ganker” nor someone that enjoys griefing or annoying players
Good for you. Unfortunately, a lot of players are, and they will because they CAN. So much for that suggestion, because Anet are intent on running an open server architecture with a guesting feature, that makes defining servers for specific purposes very difficult. Doesn’t matter whether that’s PvP or RP; when people can just parachute in temporarily, you are asking Anet to make their own lives difficult. I don’t think they’ll do that.
As to the other point being brought up, this will not be the first time that I have said this; the game is very co-operative, it’s not very social. People will run up & help you, but they’ve little reason to actually interact with you. It’s a double-edged sword…
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to me, the last statement absolutely sums it up best. not all games are, or should be, all things for all people. past games that have attempted to do that have to a large measure hamstrung themselves. imo, we’re seeing a division in the genre, bringing elements to a game that people do want, then working to fully implement and develop those elements. anet has steadfastly stood behind their intent, and a part of that intent with this game was building cohesiveness and cooperation within worlds, not competition.
i’m saying this with all respect, please understand it: as wow is no longer my game, and rift is no longer my game, and tsw failed to grab me … perhaps gw2 isn’t your game because it doesn’t have these elements you seek. i don’t believe that’s a fault, or a lack, on the part of gw2; i do believe it is that this game appeals to players like me who seek cooperative play as opposed to competitive play. this isn’t a failing, it isn’t a lack, it’s just a different approach that actually does appeal to a great mass of players.
You pretty much said what I’d say on this matter. And I’m here as well for the PvE and cooperative aspects of GW2, and GW1 too.
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The thing that makes me laugh about this thread is that people are saying things like, ’Wouldn’t it be cool if we could do events, farming and leveling whilst under constant threat of being killed?!’
THAT IS WORLD VS WORLD!
They gave you what you wanted and now people are making threads about wanting something that’s already there?! facepalm
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