Guild Wars 2

Currently, sPvP population is pretty low, and this needs to be fixed in order to make sPvP bigger.

How to fix it? Make sPvP make productive! In order to mix the sPvP community with the other GW2 community, that’s how you’re gonna make the sPvP part of game bigger!

For example:

1. Make winning a a tournament give a certain amount of silver! Or any reward that benefits players outside the sPvP world !
2. Make sPvP dailies give things that benefit you outside sPvP world too, like Mystic Coin maybe or something like that !
3. Make tournament chests or chests you buy from NPCs have a chance on giving things that benefit you outside sPvP, like crafting mats or something, so players don’t feel they’re wasting their time in sPvP.

Imo. splitting the sPvP world from the gw2 world that much (as in you dont get ANY rewards for participating in sPvP) is affecting the potential of sPvP.

I asked lots of people why they don’t play sPvP, the answer was the same, no rewards!
What do you guys think?

laurels are implenented for spvp now and i already see an increase, so i totally agree with you

I would love if we get in game money from winning tourneys.

Yeah i think a lot of people agree that getting silver from tournies or something would be awesome and add population

Something like this definitely needs to happen. It was the main thing that got me into gw1 pvp so long ago. I NEEDED that Kurzick armorzz!!

Even if players could earn karma from sPvp, it would be a great and fun alternative to farm karma!

Receiving 1.x silver per 2-team tourney match won seems good to me. Currently, that’s about what you get for each pve event, and it’s pretty easy to participate in events. The time you “spend” looking for events or losing matches shouldn’t be that much of a big difference. Of course, in pve, you still get karma, experience and loot, but the current award chests are enough for that, I guess.

That being said, it takes a long time for a normal player to get, say, 200 tourney wins, and that would only be worth 2 gold. Which seems to be rather poor, in comparison to what can be gotten in pve. Maybe 2 silver per tourney instead?

I don’t think it would affect the economy at all. If anything, it would give pvp players the gold to buy gems.

I think the bigger issue lies in the fact that it is so unpopular. It would be nice to get sone rewards other than dies that can be used outside pvp but spvp just needs to be more appealing.

More variety in map rotations, non-point control maps,maybe goofy things like the unreal announcer on some servers. Servers specificallyfor goofin off with weird rules.

Tournaments need fixing too because they are just random matches rather than tournaments

DiogoSilva.7089:

Receiving 1.x silver per 2-team tourney match won seems good to me. Currently, that’s about what you get for each pve event, and it’s pretty easy to participate in events. The time you “spend” looking for events or losing matches shouldn’t be that much of a big difference. Of course, in pve, you still get karma, experience and loot, but the current award chests are enough for that, I guess.

That being said, it takes a long time for a normal player to get, say, 200 tourney wins, and that would only be worth 2 gold. Which seems to be rather poor, in comparison to what can be gotten in pve. Maybe 2 silver per tourney instead?

I don’t think it would affect the economy at all. If anything, it would give pvp players the gold to buy gems.

this should not ever happen.
once you start directly giving money, then we’ll start hearing complaints about how little it is compared to pve. and anyway what are pvpers gonna do with the money anyway? they should revamp glory reward system so it doesn’t suck and has the possibility to give rewards that pvpers & pvers something nice. custom arenas & tokens will come, and i have a feeling we’ll be able to buy these things with glory. then they need to give us more stuff too.

The PvE/WvW only guild I’m in is doing spvp to get the 10 laurels for monthly. Now that they’ve actually had some more incentive to play spvp, we are all having fun doing ranked matches.

Rating actually works pretty well, we are getting matched with other teams around our skill level. Matches have been pretty close most of the time!

Klinch.2964:

The PvE/WvW only guild I’m in is doing spvp to get the 10 laurels for monthly. Now that they’ve actually had some more incentive to play spvp, we are all having fun doing ranked matches.

Rating actually works pretty well, we are getting matched with other teams around our skill level. Matches have been pretty close most of the time!

That’s pretty cool that it seems to be working well for you. I’m not sure what’s up with my MMR, but I haven’t had a single close match in over a week. I’m curious , what is your win/loss record? Since doing soloQ mine is above 50% wins, but I’ve noticed really abyssmal matchmaking lately. I’m not sure what to think so I’m genuinely curious.

If the devs add more and better rewards in sPvP. I know it will grow huge. sPvP takes time to understand and grasp. Its not like WvWvW where you just spam AoE’s. So why go through all the trouble to learn sPvP for some weapon skins? I myself am just a pvp junkie so id do it anyway. But what about the common gamer……