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I never got what made those clips so controversial. Mo basically just said a lot of people who play WvW also play PvE. I don’t doubt that. Yes there are a lot of people who only want to WvW, but outside of a bunch of roamers and gvg/zerg-busting havoc squads I’d be willing to bet most of the pugs making up the zergs that make the majority of the WvW population are indeed multigame-mode.
I never got what made those clips so controversial. Mo basically just said a lot of people who play WvW also play PvE. I don’t doubt that. Yes there are a lot of people who only want to WvW, but outside of a bunch of roamers and gvg/zerg-busting havoc squads I’d be willing to bet most of the pugs making up the zergs that make the majority of the WvW population are indeed multigame-mode.
He said people don’t go into Gw2 and play one thing and when he found out otherwise he was surprised….He has the delusion that who ever plays Gw2 loves every aspect of the game which is far from the truth.
Personally I have never met a single person who played all modes, really. People seem to be playing 2 modes at most, one being their main mode and the other being their mode to play when their main mode is boring them or isn’t fully available.
Sure, people dip their toe into PvP during leagues or swarm the WvW maps during the (two) tournaments (we ever had). But I always found ANet’s idea or rather claim that ‘people play all modes equally and that’s how we want it’ (as evident by the lack of split balancing and the daily system) hard to believe. I don’t have the metrics, sure, but I never met anyone in all my time and I find it hard to believe that people split their focus on 3 modes and play them all on a level more than ‘casual, here and there’.
I never got what made those clips so controversial. Mo basically just said a lot of people who play WvW also play PvE. I don’t doubt that. Yes there are a lot of people who only want to WvW, but outside of a bunch of roamers and gvg/zerg-busting havoc squads I’d be willing to bet most of the pugs making up the zergs that make the majority of the WvW population are indeed multigame-mode.
He said people don’t go into Gw2 and play one thing and when he found out otherwise he was surprised….He has the delusion that who ever plays Gw2 loves every aspect of the game which is far from the truth.
He also said “generally” and “typically”. And nothing in what he said indicates he thinks everyone who plays loves every aspect of it. Stretching words much?
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He said people don’t go into Gw2 and play one thing and when he found out otherwise he was surprised….He has the delusion that who ever plays Gw2 loves every aspect of the game which is far from the truth.
“People” not as in “each individual particularly” but as in “the playerbase as a whole”.
It’s not that every single player does everything, but very few players do all but one single thing.
Personally I have never met a single person who played all modes, really. People seem to be playing 2 modes at most, one being their main mode and the other being their mode to play when their main mode is boring them or isn’t fully available.
Sure, people dip their toe into PvP during leagues or swarm the WvW maps during the (two) tournaments (we ever had). But I always found ANet’s idea or rather claim that ‘people play all modes equally and that’s how we want it’ (as evident by the lack of split balancing and the daily system) hard to believe. I don’t have the metrics, sure, but I never met anyone in all my time and I find it hard to believe that people split their focus on 3 modes and play them all on a level more than ‘casual, here and there’.
3 tournaments. And Mo never said everyone plays all modes in those clips. Again stretching words.
Personally I have never met a single person who played all modes, really. People seem to be playing 2 modes at most, one being their main mode and the other being their mode to play when their main mode is boring them or isn’t fully available.
Sure, people dip their toe into PvP during leagues or swarm the WvW maps during the (two) tournaments (we ever had). But I always found ANet’s idea or rather claim that ‘people play all modes equally and that’s how we want it’ (as evident by the lack of split balancing and the daily system) hard to believe. I don’t have the metrics, sure, but I never met anyone in all my time and I find it hard to believe that people split their focus on 3 modes and play them all on a level more than ‘casual, here and there’.
3 tournaments. And Mo never said everyone plays all modes in those clips. Again stretching words.
Did I say that Mo said that? Stretching my words much? I was pointing out something that has been evident in their design philosophy (and can probably be found in statements if you care enough to search for it) in the past, which is related to the topic at hand. Even so, main-WvWers are still disgruntled about that. I wouldn’t want my main mode to be designed and balanced around people who hop between modes instead of committing to one, and I can understand their dissatisfaction.
Personally I have never met a single person who played all modes, really. People seem to be playing 2 modes at most, one being their main mode and the other being their mode to play when their main mode is boring them or isn’t fully available.
Sure, people dip their toe into PvP during leagues or swarm the WvW maps during the (two) tournaments (we ever had). But I always found ANet’s idea or rather claim that ‘people play all modes equally and that’s how we want it’ (as evident by the lack of split balancing and the daily system) hard to believe. I don’t have the metrics, sure, but I never met anyone in all my time and I find it hard to believe that people split their focus on 3 modes and play them all on a level more than ‘casual, here and there’.
3 tournaments. And Mo never said everyone plays all modes in those clips. Again stretching words.
Did I say that Mo said that? Stretching my words much? I was pointing out something that has been evident in their design philosophy (and can probably be found in statements if you care enough to search for it) in the past, which is related to the topic at hand. Even so, main-WvWers are still disgruntled about that. I wouldn’t want my main mode to be designed and balanced around people who hop between modes instead of committing to one, and I can understand their dissatisfaction.
Fair enough, forgive me for assuming you were talking about Mo in a thread revolving around (two) clips of Mo. And I don’t care to search for tin foil hat quotes or statements. I’m sure if they are that abundant this thread will fill up with them on its own. Yeah, too much PvE in WvW is a common complaint and if that is what you are referring to, I agree and understand that dissatisfaction. Just like I wouldn’t want PvP in open world PvE. I still doubt Mo (or Anet as a whole) assumes “people play all modes equally”. Otherwise why have a choice for 3 of 4 WvW dailies, 4 PvP, and/or 4 PvE? Also with the freedom to mix and match them?