Guild Wars 2

So I come to the forum today and what do I see? A big red post that says something along the lines of ‘Have you voted today for Kiel or Gnakittens the last day’. Where was this kind of promotion for your own tournament this past weekend or the weekend before?

Absolutely disgusting that we are treated as such second class citizens of this game. Disgusting. Clearly Anet management has no care is PvP does end up as a flop, and to the developers working on PvP I am sorry that you are given such seemingly little consideration when it comes to man power to make PvP the game type you want it to be.

They promoted it pretty much everywhere. They just need a more central place for ‘gw2 esports’. A specific blog/website that also get’s attention on the normal means of communication. But is this really that important? The game lacks viewers, ’cus of a lack of population that does pvp and lack of interest to watch it.

butch.8136:

They promoted it pretty much everywhere. They just need a more central place for ‘gw2 esports’. A specific blog/website that also get’s attention on the normal means of communication. But is this really that important? The game lacks viewers, ’cus of a lack of population that does pvp and lack of interest to watch it.

The posted Facebook posts and tweets, how is that pretty much everywhere when they are able to added a forum announcement and in game announcements? And half the problem with GW2’s player population is that the average PvE-er comes to Heart of the Mists to either hot join for dailies or purely to go to LA. With more promotion you arent hurting your chances of getting random people in game to play some more pvp, and at the cost of what? An announcement isnt going to make a PvE player to quit and the infrastructure to post such messages already exist.

That’s true. And I’m all for more visibility. But I’d say there’s more important stuff to take care off atm.

Though the moment we get ingame announcement (which I support), there’ll be a bunch of pve’ers whining on the forums.

butch.8136:

That’s true. And I’m all for more visibility. But I’d say there’s more important stuff to take care off atm.

Though the moment we get ingame announcement (which I support), there’ll be a bunch of pve’ers whining on the forums.

I doubt PvE players will flock to the forums in outrage over a 10 second display on their screens which has no effect on their gameplay.

^ I said that because I’ve seen people say that somewhere. Tought it was funny that people actually would get mad over this. :p

Yeah I agree with ya, these people are sad and you know who I blame??? The GW2 pvp developers because maybe the GW2 communications team (the ones that send out ingame messages) didn’t even know there was a tournament going on. The GW2 pvp development team is responsible for making sure that there tournaments and such are being announced though game by telling the other teams to do so or by doing so themselves.

But rest assured I a told everyone in Jade Quarry like 10 times each day throughout the tournament that the PAX tournament is going on, so you know Jade Quarry is fully informed… Well the WvW boarderlands, LA, DR and HotM in Jade Quarry at least.

uberkingkong.8041:

Yeah I agree with ya, these people are sad and you know who I blame??? The GW2 pvp developers because maybe the GW2 communications team (the ones that send out ingame messages) didn’t even know there was a tournament going on. The GW2 pvp development team is responsible for making sure that there tournaments and such are being announced though game by telling the other teams to do so or by doing so themselves.

But rest assured I a told everyone in Jade Quarry like 10 times each day throughout the tournament that the PAX tournament is going on, so you know Jade Quarry is fully informed… Well the WvW boarderlands, LA, DR and HotM in Jade Quarry at least.

The communications teams clearly knew because they did a fine job updating twitter and facebook. Problem is they have this huge population sitting in world that arent going to see those facebook and twitter posts about a tournament happening while they are playing.

It’s really sad Guild Wars 2 has emphasized PVE much more than sPvP (or WvW even). GW1 had much better PVP support imo. Skyhammer was supposed to be a fun new tournament map but then they took it out because of a few complaints. Boring.

Parisalchuk.9230:

uberkingkong.8041:

Yeah I agree with ya, these people are sad and you know who I blame??? The GW2 pvp developers because maybe the GW2 communications team (the ones that send out ingame messages) didn’t even know there was a tournament going on. The GW2 pvp development team is responsible for making sure that there tournaments and such are being announced though game by telling the other teams to do so or by doing so themselves.

But rest assured I a told everyone in Jade Quarry like 10 times each day throughout the tournament that the PAX tournament is going on, so you know Jade Quarry is fully informed… Well the WvW boarderlands, LA, DR and HotM in Jade Quarry at least.

The communications teams clearly knew because they did a fine job updating twitter and facebook. Problem is they have this huge population sitting in world that arent going to see those facebook and twitter posts about a tournament happening while they are playing.

I sure don’t follow there facebook or twitter, I play game mostly or am on the forums. The only way I found out is via being active member on the forums.

As far as skyhammer goes, if people aren’t tpvping I normally see people playing on the skyhammer map, that map isn’t overpowered or anything, it needs to come back in the tournament rotation.

If community continues to disapprove these unique maps anet makes then they’ll stop being unique and make boring maps instead where you just capture points and no side objectives because that’s too gamebreaking. Where everyone is on flat ground and no hills, cliffs or broken glass because its too gamebreaking.

uberkingkong.8041:

Parisalchuk.9230:

uberkingkong.8041:

Yeah I agree with ya, these people are sad and you know who I blame??? The GW2 pvp developers because maybe the GW2 communications team (the ones that send out ingame messages) didn’t even know there was a tournament going on. The GW2 pvp development team is responsible for making sure that there tournaments and such are being announced though game by telling the other teams to do so or by doing so themselves.

But rest assured I a told everyone in Jade Quarry like 10 times each day throughout the tournament that the PAX tournament is going on, so you know Jade Quarry is fully informed… Well the WvW boarderlands, LA, DR and HotM in Jade Quarry at least.

The communications teams clearly knew because they did a fine job updating twitter and facebook. Problem is they have this huge population sitting in world that arent going to see those facebook and twitter posts about a tournament happening while they are playing.

I sure don’t follow there facebook or twitter, I play game mostly or am on the forums. The only way I found out is via being active member on the forums.

As far as skyhammer goes, if people aren’t tpvping I normally see people playing on the skyhammer map, that map isn’t overpowered or anything, it needs to come back in the tournament rotation.

If community continues to disapprove these unique maps anet makes then they’ll stop being unique and make boring maps instead where you just capture points and no side objectives because that’s too gamebreaking. Where everyone is on flat ground and no hills, cliffs or broken glass because its too gamebreaking.

Skyhammer does not work in a team setting due to its mechanics, it however does and will make a great soloq map as it is being included in the rotation.

However, on topic. That is another issue, not everyone follows the forums, reddit or twitter. Exactly why a game hosting its own tournament should promote its tournament through the game using the tools we already know exist.

Don’t worry though, I don’t want to spoil the big pve event “the winner of the captians council!!!!” that was happening during this tournament which probably is why not many people viewed the tournament but heres the link https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-winner-of-the-captains-council-election/?utm_source=client

Obviously this stuff is more important than the winner of the NA team that’s going to PAX to compete for $10000… Nobody cares about that kind of stuff anyways, you goto any zone in GW2 and nobody cares about PvP.

It aint like you could be repping your world in PvP like you can do in WvW……..