Guild Wars 2

So whats your incentive to keep playing spvp.? For me there really isn’t none except competition itself and even that is depressing since all my friends quit.

Heres my little rant with some constructive thought:

No way to show off your skill. (I thought leader boards would fix some of this but sadly they are in favor of pre-mades).

I mean how can people see how awesome I am…when I see a person with citadel of the flame armor(rank 50) I don’t go “OHH this dude is awesome he must be the best”…noo its more like.. " OHH this dude got to much time on his hands and loves to grind".

-Lack of a real tournament system- These two round tournaments aren’t really considered tournaments.

I don’t want paid tournaments and I agree they were a fail, but seriously just deleting the concept and forgetting it ever existed is a step backwards imo. Anet you couldn’t seriously critically think of another solution…like hold tournaments on the weekend or something? I feel everyone WANTED paids to work out but to many casual players were scared of getting their kitten kicked and I don’t blame them.

Oh ya and back on 2 round tournmants…why are solo que and pre mades together? Are you scared this might effect the queue time? If thats the case just hold pre made battles at a designated time. If its lack of resources to fix these simple solutions anet you should come out and just tell us.

TL;DR
Incentive in spvp is lacking. No way to show off your skill….no way to get skins by skill and not grinding…..lack of a REAL tournament system……nothing to spend glory on…..same game modes over and over.

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something like champ in gw1 could be introduced i guess. top 500 players get x gems and 1 point toward a title when they win in a tourney.

pullnointer.1476:

something like champ in gw1 could be introduced i guess. top 500 players get x gems and 1 point toward a title when they win in a tourney.

Top players or top premade’s components? There’s a great difference…because right now there are only very strong teams but you can’t point out best players on their own…gw1’s ladder was not intended for single players, they gave points to team members but they were not on a leaderboard, their guild was…as it should be here, in a team-based game a single player based ladder is just nonsense…

the game is headed down the tubes due to slow/bad patching, weak balance, boring meta, and almost no build variety.

Rump Buffalo.2594:

the game is headed down the tubes due to slow/bad patching, weak balance, boring meta, and almost no build variety.

Yea..its been around 8 months since release. And spvp is almost identical to what it was in terms of content. Literally nothing that significant has come to spvp since release except three new maps of the same mode.

8 months since release, pvp still feels like its in beta stages. Thats how much it has progressed. If you played the pvp on day one and quit the game and just came back now, the only thing you’ll probably notice is theres two new maps. Everything else, despite the tweaks, will more or less feel the same.

Lets face it, guild wars 2 pvp is not going to draw an any more new players. Its pretty much hit its peak, only thing I really see happening is people leaving due to the many issues or jumping aboard a new mmo pvp game once its released. The fact nothing has really changed in such a long time proves this more or less.

I hope this can all be changed and anet steps up its pvp game, because at the moment the future isn’t that bright. Granted the combat is actually fun to play, its not going to hold the interest of people looking for serious pvp for that long. Sure they going to add custom arenas, but that seems about it for the foreseeable future. Oh well I got my moneys worth, I just wish there was more to it at the moment then what we currently have.

This is why in guild wars 1, zaishen keys/chest were ingenious because (PvE/PvP didn’t have split armors and weapons) it allowed you to earn things that were cross content, and certain skins were exclusive to a PvP environment.

Whatever the change in philosophy, it has completely divided the player base and offers no incentive for a PvP player to do any content outside of PvP (other than laurels, and those really aren’t that useful either, especially to non-80 character).

AND Pv kitten tagnant (as everybody else mentioned as well) on top of it.