Guild Wars 2

I was a huge fan of the first Guild Wars. I bought this game on December 7th 2012.
During my studies one day back in 2002 my PC refused to boot, I lost all my data and I decided to never get another windows system, moved to Mac.

In 2012 the Mac version of Guild Wars 2 is announced, when I finally have the chance I get the game asap, and no I do not read behind the box, it is a digital download after all.

After 3 days I had leveled my elementalist to level 80 and was ready for the competitive mode. I look up on the top menu for the GvG menu. Where is the GvG menu? I ask myself.

I come to this forum, register and make my first thread: “Where is the GvG mode?”
I’m thinking I must be such a noob the button must be somewhere I didn’t think.

You probably understand my disappointment, I was in a GvG guild playing air elementalist in GW1, now it’s “WvW” I’m told. OK, I’ll give it a shot!

I had a blast, except for getting 1-shot by thieves all over the place the game was so much fun. I still missed GvG however and kept asking on this forum but Anet always avoided answering.

Then to make a long story short: GvG scene organize itself in WvW, WvW dies, GvG scene dies.

When Stronghold was announced it was presented as a GvG mode. It has been nothing but the entire opposite.

I’ve made my farewell video a few months ago, but still waited a little longer. It contains only GvG footage, the game mode Anet never supported, I doubt today it is of any interest to anyone. After all, it’s hard to make something meaningful of a game mode that is denied by the developers. But we tried, and I believe at one point in 2014 we succeed at making GvG something real, despite all odds. I remember being there, the day a developer/tester told us we couldn’t GvG at the Windmill because we queued up people. We were probably the people having the most fun on the entire map.

When Guild Wars 3 is released I’ll make sure to read what’s written on the box about the competitive modes.

This is my Farewell GvG video I made for my friends, with September and November 2015 footage, when I gave this game a second chance. https://vimeo.com/139760047
It’s nothing interesting to you perhaps, but it’s my best memories of the game.

Maybe I’ll see you after the overhaul.

Xillllix.3485:

When Guild Wars 3 is released I’ll make sure to read what’s written on the box about the competitive modes.

Why do people keep bringing up the supposed GW3? While it makes sense that Anet would maintain its IP, a sequel or however you’d put it is most likely years away from even the early conceptual stages, much less development.

Also, Anet said very publicly that GvG, as it was known in GW1, wasn’t going to be in the game quite a while before beta, much less launch. Research things online, you’ll learn much more than whats on the back of a box.

The Greyhawk.9107:

Xillllix.3485:

When Guild Wars 3 is released I’ll make sure to read what’s written on the box about the competitive modes.

Why do people keep bringing up the supposed GW3? While it makes sense that Anet would maintain its IP, a sequel or however you’d put it is most likely years away from even the early conceptual stages, much less development.

Also, Anet said very publicly that GvG, as it was known in GW1, wasn’t going to be in the game quite a while before beta, much less launch. Research things online, you’ll learn much more than whats on the back of a box.

I was just making the point that when I bought the game I expected GvG, I took it for granted that they wouldn’t remove something as game-defining as that. I came around full circle and I am leaving the game asking the same question I asked on this forum 3 years ago: Where is the GvG?

Well, again, Anet did say quite a while before launch that there wouldn’t be GvG, most of us knew this at launch.
If I recall correctly the reasoning they gave was they wanted to simplify PvP in order to better balance it. They stated how the half dozen differing forms of PvP in Gw1 was apparently extremely difficult to balance. Dunno how legitimate an answer that is personally.
As for “game defining”, well a kitten ton of people that played GW1 hardly ever touched GvG, myself included, so its not so game defining for many. And as far as the name “Guild Wars” goes, Anet picked that for their IP before they had much of anything conceptualized, both mechanics and lorewise. Supposedly they had a very different game mechanic planned when they came out with the initial trailer back in 2003-ish, one that kinda seems more similar to Factions’ Alliance Battles.