Guild Wars 2

Why? Cuz it’s so much fun to speculate.

Anet’s member JonathanSharp, announced that they are working on PvP…

GO! speculation thread.

I did not expect paid tournaments to be delayed so much, maybe they are having a change of heart, if so they might opt for an elo system similar to LoL.
While a soloQ will backfire on the premadeQ, it would be an ’’endgame’’ kind of thing for the QQers, and it would be great to promote the game as an eSport with streamings.

I think that they want to divide Hardcores from Casuals, PvE for casuals and ranked PvP for the hardcorers, that’s why i think they’ll add a soloQ.

There will also be two different unranked queue, one for pugs and one for premades.

I speculate they are looking into the fact that hardcore players are tired of stomping noobs, and noobs are tired of getting stomped. I’m more on the noob side, not through lack of skill but through lack of hardware capable of playing the game at more than 10-15 fps. I’m a skilled player when it works, but even with a good PC I couldn’t hang with the serious, hardcore players. They would probably need a middle-ground for those people as well. I think they should introduce a system vaguely similar to Starcraft’s league system, where players are placed within a league, can be promoted or demoted from it through lack of consistency. At first, there’s problems with any ELO or related system, which in the case of LOL is great players making new accounts just to troll. As long as the rating system is tied to your account, however, I think things will eventually even out. However, I do not think they should entirely be rid of the drop in / drop out 8v8’s, those are awesome to have when you don’t have time to dedicate to a game at a time. I just think they should ease the barriers to entry for tournament PvP, as well as introduce non tournament 5v5 that requires participation in a match from beginning to end. I believe that in those 5v5s, the matches should be longer, requiring more points.