Guild Wars 2

This is a thread solely about the size of the arena. For other concerns check out this thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/The-Arena-Wait-Time-and-GvG-take-2

Since the last Guild Chat stream we know the new arena will be 75% the size of the OS arena. It is sure that this won’t be enough for the standard format of 20vs20 GvGs because “it feels pretty full” according to the game designer.

One thing I dont get is this quote from Collin
“We are looking into adding a bigger arena in the future outside guild halls in support of bigger battles.”

It is honourable that the devs are having the GvG community in mind but it’s still disappointing. Couldn’t you just make it like 50% bigger since one of the arenas is up in the air with plenty of space? This would prolly solve all the problems the GvG has atm and you wouldnt have to burden yourself with an extra arena.

Last concern is when do we actually get the new arena and will we get it with the same features of the arena which seem to be literally EVERYTHING the GvG community needs.
Not trying to blame anyone but we know that Anet likes to take their time to make features perfect but there are guilds and many WvW players which have a limit of waiting and with HoT and all the people who will come back it seems to be perfect to have everything done on HoT releaese and not MONTHS later.

I feel stupid at this point to still care so muchto write a thread about that after years of “hope”.

They said they are making another bigger one also. For 15s this one is gonna be great and for 20s we can still go to OS until the new one is ready.

10s and 15s were meta for a long time until a bit over a year ago and the scene – before it died recently – had shifted back to a lot of 15s over 20s. You could still do 20s here; it’s just that 15s feel like you have more space he said.

My personal guess is since the arena instance can only hold 80 people max (including spectators, I think?) they want to create a larger, OS-style arena where the instance could hold more people like the OS technically can at the moment.