Guild Wars 2

Thought I may as well start this thread on this forum as this is where it will end up.

I do wonder why some players are so anti the GvG player community. As far as I can make out, the only reasons to have an issue with GvG are as follows:-

1) Thoughtlessness (ie a Guild being stupid enough to arrange a GvG in its own BL)
1i) Thoughtlessness, doing a GvG on reset night on a server that actually gives a crap about PPT.
2) High handed manner (ie ‘Get off this map you random scrubs we are doing GvG here and its much more important than your pathetic PPT play you worms’) genuinely never experienced anything like that ever happening (prob because I am on an EU server) tho I do recall thinking RG were mostly a bunch of kittens when they passed through my server on their grand tour.

That’s about all I can think of reasons for people to be anti GvG crowd that could lie at the blame of GvG players

So assuming that most GvG players do not do any of the above I guess I have to look at what could be the reasons by the anti GvG players themselves. As I am not anti GvG I may need a hand here…

1.) Possibly they are part of the pug blobs and upset about being wiped by much smaller organised Guild groups so they (not unreasonably) assume these are the guys that are also regularly doing GvG. So its a possible spite/payback thing?
2.) I do not see a credible PPT argument against GvG unless the Guilds in question are doing 1 or 1.i above and then surely its a discussion rather than scorched earth policy on the activity?

That’s all I got unless anyone else can come up with credible reasons.

Yes I know I am effectively saying that all the GvG hate is being caused by a couple of thoughtless idiots amongst those who do it and a few spiteful scrubs who would rather change what others do than get better themselves. I am making this thread because that’s not what I want to think so am hoping to get some other views.

I think a key factor is how they act high and mighty. They love to talk about how much they contribute when they aren’t GvGing. It gets to the point that they make it sound like they think they’re superior to the rest of the population.
It’s a smack in the face to dedicated WvW players that don’t GvG. (GvGing doesn’t automatically make you an elite WvWer)
This additude extends to how they interact with other PvP modes too. Disrespecting TPvPers certainly doesn’t anything good for the GvGer’s image.
The GvG community is going to need to practice some serious humility if they want to be a respected part of the community, especially since they aren’t a sanctioned game mode; because if they keep acting like an angry mob of elitist jerks, they’ll never get rid of the negative perception of them.

Dual.8953:

I think a key factor is how they act high and mighty. They love to talk about how much they contribute when they aren’t GvGing. It gets to the point that they make it sound like they think they’re superior to the rest of the population.
It’s a smack in the face to dedicated WvW players that don’t GvG. (GvGing doesn’t automatically make you an elite WvWer)
This additude extends to how they interact with other PvP modes too. Disrespecting TPvPers certainly doesn’t anything good for the GvGer’s image.
The GvG community is going to need to practice some serious humility if they want to be a respected part of the community, especially since they aren’t a sanctioned game mode; because if they keep acting like an angry mob of elitist jerks, they’ll never get rid of the negative perception of them.

From my perspective, the contribution thing arises from the accusations that we don’t contribute anything to WvW ever, so…it’s really a chicken and egg sort of thing. There are rudebois on either side and it gives rise to a lot of annoyance. I don’t think it will ever go away because it’s not like we’re the only elitists in the game.