Guild Wars 2

Instead of having an annual 50k tourny with no losers bracket, have 500$ weekly wvw and spvp tournaments. Just give gems for the wvw players, since there’s no point in splitting 500$ across an entire guild.

No esl = no huge tourny cost, so just give weekly gems to the best wvw guilds.

Plus we actually get to see people like the abjured in something other than a botched match.

There’d be no lan, so you’d swap from na to eu every round to swap advantage.

the money for there 50k tourney comes directly from there marketing budget. Gem value is tied directly to the market. which is how arena net is paying there investors (sadly most games cash shop profit’s go right to the investors instead of being recycled into the game)

The question you should be asking yourself is this:
Would you rather them buy a billboard in some populated area for 50k, Or hold a monetary tournament? i would think the latter would grow the population more.

Retention from weekly tournies would give way more users than all the people with gaming pcs from Madison square.

Most of the profit does not go into NCsofts dividends, if that’s even how that works. I’d assume they hire quite a bit for each expansion, and gems go into wages of the teams that work in between expansions.

Prize monies aside, they really should look into ways of incentivizing pvp/wvw game modes weekly. Doesn’t have to be with gems and hopefully not with some other worthless currency.

You have to find something people want badly that takes some maintenance and has plenty of room for sweet upgrades and then tie in a currency for it. My vote would be legit player owned housing.

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i would think the latter would grow the population more.

And how did it work so far? Is gw esport yet? Oh wait.. nobody cares about gw, its dying, not growing.