Guild Wars 2

Cynz.9437:

look at wvw, it is unfair in all possible way and yet there are masses playing it…. why? archives, shines, loot, can lv up a character etc.

Not really, shines, loot etc as you call it has been EXTREMELY POOR in WvW. Seriously make that post in the WvW section and watch yourself get shot down. WvW has always played out 3rd to PvE and PvP.

One of the alpha testers leaked a bunch of information a month or so ago (I won’t link again due to reprisals) which highlighted that ANet has been deliberately making WvW imbalanced to try and force WvW players into PvP so that ANet gets their e-sport.

What WvW has, over PvP is that the mechanics are FUN and flexible. Zerg, solo roam, havoc etc. Not to mention emergent gameplay like GvG.

In PvP you are stuck in this boring as kitten conquest mode doing the same thing again and again and again. Speaking to WvW players that what they dont like about PvP, it’s boring.

Divinity.8041:

I know you guys love this game, and I did too! I am just so bored though. To be honest, it isn’t the class balancing I care about, it is just basic pvp features.

Your shaving techniques are good, but sometimes larger change is needed.

I don’t even care that most of the high rated players abused the mechanics of the system to be where they are!

I never got to hold a legendary! I am almost rank 40, and have put in way more time than it would have taken to get in PvE. I’ve wanted to see that twilight GS glimmer as I rain purple death on my foes <3

I feel like PvE got 100% of a game, and we got a mini game But only now when I really tried to sit back and objectively view SPVP right now, I realized that I’ve been drinking the kool aid.

To be honest, I think you guys need to rock the boat, and literally jolt life back into this game. When a patient is near the brink of death, you don’t stick a battery on his tongue (shaving mentality), you jolt massive electricity into his chest (a game changing balance patch).

Dec 15th is not too far away, but I really think you guys need to put a serious BOLT of energy back into spvp. It will help more people play the game as well! I am dedicated, and was a good boy since launch, but I feel duped, and it makes it feel even worse because there was no blind face behind any of these things. We actually heard the developers speak their mind, and philosophies (Hi jon ;P) towards the game.

I know this sounds weird, but I am taking this one personal, because our community is so tight, that it hurts brah

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This is exactly one of the factors that led me to quit for several months. Love the basic concept of the game, but got sick of it because of repetitive one game mode, no real rewards, the time and effort I spent in spvp was not meshed into the rest of the game in any meaningful way, and seeing the great development effort and rewards put into the other aspects of the game.

Even pve got an interesting pvp game mode last Halloween (I just found out, and it looked cool!). The new WvW edge of the mists looks awesome, but spvp gets…a new map that few people like?

Apart from new and interesting game modes, there has to be more thought put into meshing spvp into the rest of the game- I would say especially important is to let spvpers leverage the glory/whatever from spvp into getting levels/equipment for WvW.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Thanks for playing and see you all in game!

I just wanted to inform you that my optimism for the future of sPvP has risen dramatically in response to your increased communication efforts with the community and the apparent strides you’re taking in-company.
Even if future results might not turn out exactly as we (or when we) wanted, there’s a certain understanding now between players and devs that I hadn’t felt before.
Of course, only the actual updates we’ll see throughout the coming months will be final arbiter if that optimism was warranted, but if Edge of the Mists, Obsidian Sanctum, WvW seasons (if mishandled) are a precedence in response to the mostly controversial feedback WvW received in the earlier half of the year, then I can only imagine similarly productive efforts for the sPvP side of things. I think ANet definitely has grown over the past half year.