Guild Wars 2

Why PvE has way more updates than PvP (WvW is mostly PvE too)? Anet used to say that they care about PvP and PvE the same, but it turns out PvP was just left to die. PvE receives updates every two weeks and for PvP we get some “game changing” patches every few months at best.

PvP has only 4 decent maps (that run in tournaments), only one game mode and no real progression / rewards. Still it receives least updates. It has what like two people working for PvP updates?

From logical point it should receive way more updates, because thats where you can replay content. In PvE no matter how hard Anet tries to deliver fresh content, players will burn through it in a few days and weeks, months of work will look like nothing.
But if Anet would care about PvP like they care for PvE, then we would have plenty of things to do which still look fresh and could not be burnt out in few days.

Imagine new map every few weeks, new game modes every few months or at least those modes variations that can give you different experience.. Well I guess you can only dream

1. WvW is a lot more PvP than PvE imo :P

2. I believe they’re working on some major PvP improvements but don’t really release a lot right now because it’s not fully done; they have promised us new gamemodes though

3. I think that PvE has a bigger fanbase than PvP.

4. Still, you’re right, they do seem to Anet seem to care more about PvE

well u know.. if some cows have 3 legs somewhere in pve-lang expect a hotfix the next hours. but dont think minor-shaves are worth to be patched until the next “big” “balance” patch in xxx months. jonathan sharp said, they dont want interrupt our gaming experience… trolol.. well i still need to restart for pve-patches.. so far to priorities.

The Kurt.2518:

1. WvW is a lot more PvP than PvE imo :P

2. I believe they’re working on some major PvP improvements but don’t really release a lot right now because it’s not fully done; they have promised us new gamemodes though

3. I think that PvE has a bigger fanbase than PvP.

4. Still, you’re right, they do seem to Anet seem to care more about PvE

Well I call WvW broken PvP, because you can grind gear and have an advantage against players that has crappier gear and you need to fight mobs too.

As for your point 3. I would say the main reason PvE fanbase is bigger because Anet caters to it way more than to PvP. If it would the other way around I think many people would not stay in PvE and go to PvP (if they like that) or just leave game.

@tatsuo

Thats the nature of persistent combat environments, you cant say its bad because thats the way its intended to work.

@point number 3, thats not an ok reason to slow down updates to PvP. Its not like gw2 was released as a pve game and then had pvp added in a little later.

They actively kept saying they wanted gw2 pvp to an E-sport and they would work hard to do that.

They need to stop “letting the meta settle” and actually make changes, any changes, just start changing things that are the problem. Not like “remove this and add this” but start doing numbers and nerfing stuff 10% at a time or something.

Dont put PvE and WvW together, totally different. PvP has had more updates since launch then WvW had.

And the reason PvE gets so many updates? I’m sure you can guess. Its where the money comes from.

PvP community is dwarved by the PvE community and i’d bet even by the WvW community. Making it the least popular gamemode if you ask me.