Guild Wars 2

Every member of a group needs a tournament ticket to enter a paid tournament. There are two ways to acquire them:
1) Every member of the group spends money/gems on a ticket (expensive), or
2) Your group effortlessly destroys pugs in a free tournament (easy).

Right now, the requirement of a ticket for paid tournaments makes no sense. You guys can’t be selling any in the gem shop when people can just get them for free. If you removed them from free tournament rewards, premades could skip the (boring) step of farming a free tournament while making more money for yourselves. Or, you could remove the ticket requirement entirely. Either way, premades don’t have to “farm” free tournaments, and PuGs don’t have to get stomped by premades.

The current system doesn’t benefit anyone. SPvP is all but impossible to PuG but it’s so to farm with a premade that that isn’t fun either. I don’t understand the point of this system, other than to frustrate players. If it’s to prove that you’ve “earned” your access to paid tournaments, well…ignoring that you can just buy tickets anyway, you don’t have to work hard to “earn” this.

And yes, I’ve been on both sides of this fence. I’ve been roflstomped too many times to count by premades when I’m PuGing. But I’ve also demolished randoms when I’m on a premade. There’s no reason pugs and premades should be fighting each other at all because there’s no contest, but the current system incentivizes it too much, to the detriment of anyone looking for a fair contest.

Paid tournaments are already dead enough without removing one of the sources of tickets. No one is going to spend actual money to buy tournament tickets.

I understand the complaint that premades stomp PUGs in free tournaments, and it’s valid. I know my team does frees when practicing new builds, and I feel bad for the PUGs we get matched against. Removing tickets from the rewards would not solve this, it would only further kill paid tournaments. A real solution would be to lower the ticket cost of paid tournaments. If it’s easier to get tickets, and to keep tickets, premades would be more likely to stay in paid tournaments.

People are going to run premades in frees, it doesn’t matter if they give tickets or not. they’re going to run them anyway.

Also if what you propose(Remove free tickets) really did hit, NO one would run paids ergo EVEN MORE Pugstomping.

I don’t play tpvp, but there’s something that always struck me as odd about it.

The game released without any kind of ranking system, and as far as I know, there is no plan to add one.

Paid tournaments were a big attraction. Why? Because they would separate hardcore teams from casual teams so that players of equal skill would be matched more often.

But isn’t that why most games use a ranking system? In other words, did Anet purposefully not include a ranking system so that they could use the paid tournament system as an artificial substitute that had the added benefit of getting pvpers to use the cash shop?

I will continue playing tpvp and leave paid ones to crazy asian people farming for gems…because that’s what it will become in a couple of months

Darnis.4056:

People are going to run premades in frees, it doesn’t matter if they give tickets or not. they’re going to run them anyway.

Also if what you propose(Remove free tickets) really did hit, NO one would run paids ergo EVEN MORE Pugstomping.

Honestly, I think they should remove the ticket requirement altogether; the current system is pretty broken.

They also need to add a system so that groups of 4-5 premade never fight groups with fewer than 4-5 premade.

Also, they added daily pvp achievements that award paid tournament tickets this patch, so there’s an alternate route.

UrieltheFlameofGod.8643:

Also, they added daily pvp achievements that award paid tournament tickets this patch, so there’s an alternate route.

yeah 1 tournament every 5days

gee, thats great, totally makes up for reducing the ticket return from actually playing paids by 50%