Guild Wars 2

So I found out that there is new (at least new for me) activity, called Basket Brawl.
Its some kind of basketball with the Keg Brawl play mechanics.
Its a lot of fun and I’ve seen that there arn’t any achivments for that activity, unlike the others (keg brawl, southshore survival, ect.)

Will there ever be achivments for that activity?

It’s pretty fun and the mechanics are very smooth. It might be one more lab for ANet to test future skill mechanics.

It needs more awareness. Everyone should try it at least once.

It is new as of the last patch. It’ll be there full time for two weeks (as of the day it started) and then who knows?

Am I missing something? How can you tell where the ball is or who has it?

Hahaha, I couldn’t even tell I had the ball without closely looking at my skill bar :-P

I’m guessing it’s a beta test for a potential new activity. If people like it enough, it will be added into the rotation and there will be achievements (plus improvements, like making it easier to see who’s carrying the ‘ball’)

Is this a joke post? I played this today for the daily and we all thought it was the worst thing we’d ever seen in the game. A bunch of us just stood there and waited for the timer to count down because it was so unplayable and bad.

Will.9785:

Is this a joke post? I played this today for the daily and we all thought it was the worst thing we’d ever seen in the game. A bunch of us just stood there and waited for the timer to count down because it was so unplayable and bad.

I guarantee that as much as you disliked it, at least 20% of the community likes it. (I dislike Keg Brawl, but I like Survivor and Sprint.)

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Will.9785:

Is this a joke post? I played this today for the daily and we all thought it was the worst thing we’d ever seen in the game. A bunch of us just stood there and waited for the timer to count down because it was so unplayable and bad.

I guarantee that as much as you disliked it, at least 20% of the community likes it. (I dislike Keg Brawl, but I like Survivor and Sprint.)

20%???
you mean one out of five players actually likes this???
I think your statistics are way off point. I played 2 games, first one I was 2 vs 2 and we were trying to figure out how this works, second one we were (after a few minutes) 3 vs 3. The game was so horrible that the six of us ended up dancing at mid court. We were laughing with the mechanics, most of the time couldn’t understand we had the ball, a guy ran to defend and he had the ball all the time… sometimes there were 2, even 3, balls at the same time!

Laughable activity. I guess it is on beta though… the potential is great and with a few (major) tweaks it could actually become something you really want to play.
But right now, no, just no.

20% of the community likes it—-Ill can you link me up with the data on that please??

I think Anet forgot to add an “alpha” tag to this minigame. Its unplayable.

Blude.6812:

20% of the community likes it—-Ill can you link me up with the data on that please??

Sigh. How about if I said, “as much as [earlier respondent] hated it, lots and lots of people liked it.” There are other posts in these very forums of people saying they like it.

It’s simply human nature that our collective preferences are all over the map — we’ve seen posts of people hating on wings and people asking for more.

It’s really awful, but that’s okay, because today is Sunday, which means you can go play a much better game just like it.