Guild Wars 2

Well its not really a secret anymore if youve asked or payed attention to members of abjured or tcg, but from what they’ve said, the matches at the finals were extremely laggy. Not just a little lag but a significant amount. This along with the fact that there was no one dedicated stream for the finals to be watched on, makes Anet still look very amateurish in the esports arena.

You have people competing for 5 figures and you can’t host the game on a LAN network? Its either they arn’t very smart or don’t care that people’s money could be lose on something as important as a full second delay.

All this feels sorta like a desperate attempt from the devs to keep the esports chances alive. Throw money at it, not quality.

SkylightMoon.1980:

Well its not really a secret anymore if youve asked or payed attention to members of abjured or tcg, but from what they’ve said, the matches at the finals were extremely laggy. Not just a little lag but a significant amount. This along with the fact that there was no one dedicated stream for the finals to be watched on, makes Anet still look very amateurish in the esports arena.

You have people competing for 5 figures and you can’t host the game on a LAN network? Its either they arn’t very smart or don’t care that people’s money could be lose on something as important as a full second delay.

All this feels sorta like a desperate attempt from the devs to keep the esports chances alive. Throw money at it, not quality.

Couple things:

Entirely not ArenaNet’s fault. Kong Zhong’s ISP and technicians.

Lag was significant in matches vs. China, that had us all in a bad mood. However, in the finals, I personally had insignificant amounts of lag. I however cannot speak for teleport users like Thief/Mes/Ele. There were no disconnects or debilitating lag spikes in the EU vs. NA matchups to my knowledge. For me it just felt a little wobbly when throwing nades occasionally. The same way it looks on VODs.

The lag was not frustrating the Abjured at least, in the finals. Can’t say the same for the semi-finals. Toker was doing work on his SD Thief, we were all getting hyped, and it genuinely did not dampen our spirits.