Guild Wars 2

Season 1 was fun for a lot of people – yes it rewarded players just for taking part but behind the facade so does Season 2 by not exposing people to the consequences of their losing streaks and letting people go DOWN a division.

Anyway… One of the reasons sooo many people, casual, average players are up in arms about this Season 2 is because there isn’t an alternative.
Hotjoin and Unranked are an aweful place for people like the average PVP’er who:

1). Does not want to just muck around
2). Does not want to take it SUPER seriously

Season 1 gave these people a great environment – generally good quality matches and consistent progression. It was fun.

Give it back.

Then – ADDITIONALLY, lets get SUPER SERIOUS… in a League much like Season 2 where we KNOW we’re going to hit a wall at some point, and that’s OK because that’s our place in the Major League.

So we could have ‘Ranked’ (Season 1), and ‘Pro League’ (Season 2)

It shouldn’t be an ‘either/or’ scenario and I personally can’t see how they are going to please everybody in one League.

Any takers?

(…just putting this here because people don’t read whole threads….)

‘Unranked’ would be as it is – random as all hell… somewhere to try things out but still be pretty much guaranteed 5v5 consistently – which you don’t get in Hotjoin.

‘Ranked’ would be much like Season 1 – the back-pack item would be obtainable here as well. The algorithm would find you games based on a 50/50 chance of winning so everyone can get a decent challenging game anytime they like.
They’d be progression, and fun. The Ranks would be more of an indication of your experience and dedication.
It would also be the de-facto place to play once you’d reached your ‘Brick Wall’ in ‘Pro League’.

‘Pro League’ would be where you could go to find out just where you actually sit in the ‘food chain’. Everyone would do it to see where they measured up and it wouldn’t feel like an un-rewarding grind because everyone would EXPECT to only get so far.
Solo Queue’rs would not do as well, but that’s the nature of the ‘Pro League’. Bring a 5 man team if you want to take it seriously.
It could be everything an Esport League needs to be because it could do it uncompromisingly. No propping players up in divisions they cannot drop out of. It could be brutal and that would be fine, as hardcore as you like.

Interesting, do you mean you would like 3 choice’s? Unranked, Ranked league and a pro ranked league?

No. They just need to seed better players into higher divisions from the start of the season.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Interesting, do you mean you would like 3 choice’s? Unranked, Ranked league and a pro ranked league?

^^^ Absolutely this.

‘Unranked’ would be as it is – random as all hell… somewhere to try things out but still be pretty much guaranteed 5v5 consistently – which you don’t get in Hotjoin.

‘Ranked’ would be much like Season 1 – the back-pack item would be obtainable here as well. The algorithm would find you games based on a 50/50 chance of winning so everyone can get a decent challenging game anytime they like.
They’d be progression, and fun. The Ranks would be more of an indication of your experience and dedication.
It would also be the de-facto place to play once you’d reached your ‘Brick Wall’ in ‘Pro League’.

‘Pro League’ would be where you could go to find out just where you actually sit in the ‘food chain’. Everyone would do it to see where they measured up and it wouldn’t feel like an un-rewarding grind because everyone would EXPECT to only get so far.
Solo Queue’rs would not do as well, but that’s the nature of the ‘Pro League’. Bring a 5 man team if you want to take it seriously. It could be everything an Esport League needs to be because it could do it uncompromisingly. No propping players up in divisions they cannot drop out of. It could be brutal and that would be fine, as hardcore as you like.

Ok fine you sold me. I want to see this for Season 3

Dirtyrascal.1023:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Interesting, do you mean you would like 3 choice’s? Unranked, Ranked league and a pro ranked league?

^^^ Absolutely this.

‘Unranked’ would be as it is – random as all hell… somewhere to try things out but still be pretty much guaranteed 5v5 consistently – which you don’t get in Hotjoin.

‘Ranked’ would be much like Season 1 – the back-pack item would be obtainable here as well. The algorithm would find you games based on a 50/50 chance of winning so everyone can get a decent challenging game anytime they like.
They’d be progression, and fun. The Ranks would be more of an indication of your experience and dedication.
It would also be the de-facto place to play once you’d reached your ‘Brick Wall’ in ‘Pro League’.

‘Pro League’ would be where you could go to find out just where you actually sit in the ‘food chain’. Everyone would do it to see where they measured up and it wouldn’t feel like an un-rewarding grind because everyone would EXPECT to only get so far.
Solo Queue’rs would not do as well, but that’s the nature of the ‘Pro League’. Bring a 5 man team if you want to take it seriously. It could be everything an Esport League needs to be because it could do it uncompromisingly. No propping players up in divisions they cannot drop out of. It could be brutal and that would be fine, as hardcore as you like.

Ok so that’s season 3 sorted.