Guild Wars 2

I know this may just be my personal opinion and I will not enforce people to agree with it but lately Ive noticed a growing, bad trend with A-net that worries me.

Guys, let me be clear, you will “never” make GW2 into an E-sport, it isn’t anywhere on “par” with League or DOTA, so it makes no sense to waste money on grandiose pvp competitions when nobody is honestly paying that great a deal of attention to it.

That money should be spent towards productivity of the game, not publication of it. Frankly it feels like my gem-store donations were thrown away on someone’s trophy pot.

Its not good business practice even if it may seem like a socially noble intention.

When I think of spending on the Gemstore, I think of the money being put towards new content for the game, being used to fund the developers that design it. I think of that money along many others that do pay, to continue fueling this games productivity because I want GW2 to do well.

But the idea of going down the route of “PvP tournaments” is not the right way to make the game thrive. Its blatantly clear that the WvW promotions this season did very little to add to the game to be frank, its lost a good chunk of its western market.

Maybe this works well in Asia, I’m not sure, but its not something you do in Europe and America.

I have NO doubt there is a chunk of the community that likes pvp and pvp tournaments but frankly its “too” soon to be thinking of that kind of thing when the games popularity is in decline.

It doesn’t publish the game well to try making money on something that only those playing the game are going to even notice or care about.

My advise is this:

Focus instead on putting that money “into” making an expansion. Its been put off long enough and after 2 years and 2 seasons between them its clear that living story was a dead idea that while having merit, takes too long to effectively deliver content that incentives your player base to keep playing your game.

I am not saying that PvP is bad, I am not saying Advertising PvP Tournaments is bad, I am saying it feels wrong and out of place.

The kinda sponsorship your looking for belongs in a MOBA more than an MMO.

I don’t think a $3500 tournament is the reason why an expansion hasn’t came out yet.

They are trying to push GW2 into a role where it cant survive. GW2 and E-sport pfff. PVP in GW2 hasnt developed at all in more than 2 years and now they are praising it as a new light at the sky of the E-sport.

GW had PvP tournaments. So nothing new really.

http://www.guildwars.com/competitive/gwwc/

GW2 is not trying to compete with games like LoL and DOTA, but with other MMOs with competitive PvP.
If GW2 succeed to be among the “known” e-sports games it is good enough, even if only in the bottom of the list.

The people that say it can’t be done and don’t put in any effort to make something happen tend to be right.

Shockwave.1230:

The people that say it can’t be done and don’t put in any effort to make something happen tend to be right.

LOL

I support anet with this as the prize pool is very modest and it may actually lead more players into pvp which in turn helps making pvp matchups better. To me good pvp / www is the endgame and I honestly dont care any expansions. Ive seen them in other mmos over several years and one exp pack is “consumed” in couple of months even it either costs alot or is repetition of old maps, mobs making turning them big disappointment.

agreed with OP, screw the tournaments,
fix hotjoin, remove skyhammer, make new maps/modes.

there are far better things to do with money to improve pvp than give it to your favourite pet players…

Shockwave.1230:

The people that say it can’t be done and don’t put in any effort to make something happen tend to be right.

:)

The question is why do you think this somehow stops them from doing other things?

All the fixes new maps new game modes etc are not being delayed because of any tournaments paid or unpaid

Narkodx.1472:

The question is why do you think this somehow stops them from doing other things?

All the fixes new maps new game modes etc are not being delayed because of any tournaments paid or unpaid

lol All the fixes new maps new game modes…
what i don’t get is how pvp devs keep quitting, how do you quit from doing nothing?