Guild Wars 2

Just an idea. For a game that’s starting to stagnate, it would bring in loads of new players and go a long ways to making GW2’s dream of being an e-sport come to pass. It’s no secret that the devs pee themselves a little whenever e-sport is whispered in their ears. Heck, with a giant influx of players, they might even start putting a little more effort into timely updates to fix classes enough to bring more variety to teams.

Anywho, wasn’t my idea. I just heard it in from a guildy and thought it sounded cool. Feel free to crucify me for speaking such heathen things as “free to play” and “timely updates”.

well, them “free to play” sPvP players can only wear special armor which identifies them as “free to play” players.

unless they upgrade their account to a full account.
or they could spend 2000 gems to make their account into a sPvP only account.

then they can start to wear other armor sets.

I think free to play is Optimistic , but free trials could work

I think it’s a great idea, would definitely help revitalize SPVP.

But then there needs to be some kind of addition for people that paid full price for the game. I think making it so F2P players could only wear F2P gear is silly, they should be able to rank up and open chests like anybody else. That being said, people who paid full price for the game and care very little for PVE if at all have been neglected as far as shiny items (and content in general) are concerned. There should be skins that can only be earned though SPVP and are designed with SPVP in mind, especially considering legendary weapons will most likely remain exclusive to PVE. These skins could be based on the rank animal, for example, “Dolyak Shield”, “Tiger Greatsword” etc. that can only be earned by being the corresponding rank. They should also be able to be applied to a PVE weapon should you desire.

Lylandrissabelle.5463:

they should be able to rank up and open chests like anybody else.

they can rank up, earn glory, open chests. deposit them, salvage them. but they wear the basic armor showing that they are “free to play sPvP” players until they paid for an upgrade.

Just make it so F2P players can’t equip anything but stock skins.

I like this idea, it will help the small pvp population.

Gewd.8125:

Just make it so F2P players can’t equip anything but stock skins.

I like this idea, it will help the small pvp population.

make them wear special “stock F2P” skins so they can be identified as such.

Making a game that’s F2P into F2P? Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

OGDeadHead.8326:

Making a game that’s F2P into F2P? Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

gw2 is b2p not f2p

b2p = buy to play
f2p = free to play

If you want to get more people interested in the game I don’t think forcing them to wear stock skins is going to do it.

New PVPers are already forced to wear stock skins, paid or free, until they earn new ones. That’s appealing to some people, they want to show off their PVP prowess.

Reward people that have paid with unique skins, don’t punish people that haven’t paid at all, they’ll just dismiss the game and move on to something else if you force them to wear what is basically a dunce hat. Entering PVP this late is already punishing enough for people that are new.

Lylandrissabelle.5463:

If you want to get more people interested in the game I don’t think forcing them to wear stock skins is going to do it.

New PVPers are already forced to wear stock skins, paid or free, until they earn new ones. That’s appealing to some people, they want to show off their PVP prowess.

Reward people that have paid with unique skins, don’t punish people that haven’t paid at all, they’ll just dismiss the game and move on to something else if you force them to wear what is basically a dunce hat. Entering PVP this late is already punishing enough for people that are new.

but say in league of legends, all heroes wear stock skin.

all other special skins need to be purchased with real monies!

nc soft needs to make profit right?

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

but say in league of legends, all heroes wear stock skin.

all other special skins need to be purchased with real monies!

nc soft needs to make profit right?

League of Legends in general is very different from GW2, nor is it managed by NCSoft or ArenaNet, personally I think more comparisons could be drawn to Team Fortress 2 in the PVP gameplay and microtransaction departments but that’s besides the point.

What I mean is that you don’t want to turn people off to the game before they even begin, they may not bother downloading it, and if they do download it, then find out they cannot do much besides the absolute bare bones, they may just uninstall it and move on. Make new players feel that they want to pay because they liked what the game had to offer, and would like the bonuses for people that have already paid as I mentioned in previous posts.

^ hmmmm good point. fair enough.

“Reward people that have paid with unique skins”
^ this means more work for anet people.

if it means more potential profit for nc soft then yeah.

so …

sPvP only F2P:
- sPvP only
- earn glory
- earn rank
- spend glory
- craft PvP armor weapons

sPvP only paid
- unique skins

full GW2:
- even more unique skins

ANet can barely handle banning exploiters who paid full price for the game. I don’t want to see how terrible they are at controlling free accounts.

I think they should go back to their GW1 model. Where you have a PVP only client, and charge 15-20 dollars for it.

Caffynated.5713:

ANet can barely handle banning exploiters who paid full price for the game. I don’t want to see how terrible they are at controlling free accounts.

This… Besides that, all the freebies will be like cancer spawning everywhere, ruining the fun with their fails and acidic behavior. There won’t be any consequences for them exploiting and griefing, “what ya gonna do? Ban a free account?”

I think there should be two options

1. Discounted sPvP only account (but then honestly sPvP needs a massive update, it’s a bit ripping off selling such account to play 6 maps one mode).
2. Invite based trial, where every game owner gets, lets say, to invite 1 guy to participate in a free trial every month for let’s say 7 days.

Shawnbuell.8407:

I think they should go back to their GW1 model. Where you have a PVP only client, and charge 15-20 dollars for it.

This is the right way to go.
Still they should fix the main issues first, before inviting new players, as it will atm only scare them away .