Guild Wars 2

Stop trying to make spvp happen. It’s not gonna happen in the current state.

Open the heart of the mists up F2P and charge for access to cosmetic gear/gem store etc. This will give a boost to GW2 sales overall and spvp as well.

I had a solo pvp match that took 9 minutes to que and thankfully it actually was a full 5v5. But our team had a lvl 1 and a 9 mixed in with lvl 40-60.

Wait, what part of spvp are we paying for again?

Wait, so you’re suggesting that people should be able to play the game’s tpvp mode without purchasing the game itself?

MightyMicah.7451:

Wait, so you’re suggesting that people should be able to play the game’s tpvp mode without purchasing the game itself?

Yes. Just access to the mists and pvp matches. Rewards and achievements for a fee perhaps. To promote and influx of new players eager for pvp but not so much pve.

Yes.

all F2P MMOs make their money by selling you useful or cosmetic ingame items,
and pvp has practically neither, ergo they wouldn’t have a reason to offer pvp for free :P

Hi,

I’m a PvE player. Make PvE F2P and charge just for the cosmetic gear/skins.

Ty.

Liewec.2896:

all F2P MMOs make their money by selling you useful or cosmetic ingame items,
and pvp has practically neither, ergo they wouldn’t have a reason to offer pvp for free :P

If spvp was f2p I would probably end up either buying the game or purchase skins. It’s a great draw to bring in more customers to GW2 as a whole and give a jolt to spvp which sees a rise in players with every spvp focused update then seems to quickly fade. So it seems like a reasonable solution or option to boost spvp participation.

Making spvp free to play just to get more players in will only make things worse.

Meta will still be bad, cheese tanky builds will still be prevalent, matchmaking and leaderboard will still be a joke, game mode will still be crap, it would brand gw2 as “another fail f2p mmo” (right now people that don’t play gw2 will still read the press reviews that rate gw2 super high) and anet doesn’t want that, free to create accounts = more people careless about their accounts = more trolls = more 5v4s etc because of afkers and said trolls = even less enjoyable game.

The only way to get people to play this is if anet actually makes the game good (will never happen btw).

You’re not the first person to suggest it, and what you say definitely has some credibility to it. sPvP does need help player population, especially against the popularity of Moba games.

This would just be one step towards boosting the image of GW2 to go beyond “just an MMO”.

Of course, plenty of other issues to fix, just which one needs priority first? Going by what we have witnessed in terms of the coding and software engineering of this game? I don’t know how well Anet’s team can actually create such a function.

I do agree with some of what ahuba and xoom pointed out, but I still believe that the gameplay is strong and there is a market out there that hasn’t had access to it and wont if they have to buy the mmo as a whole.

I believe more people may bring trolls but it will also bring more competition. More diversity.

Not worth effort it would cost, and it is not even guaranteed to give wanted results. Better to focus on new abilities, maps and game modes.

Sounds like a horrible idea. Even more kids around feeling like pro

More kids? Where are the kids now? PvP isn’t pulling in alot of numbers.

Tron, it sounds like a fun idea but it won’t happen.

Better idea would be to release a new game mode and promote it. With say Team Ladder, give reason for new teams to join up and draw some players whom like DM from WvW. Cause I know for one there is a crap load WvW who love DM.

Yeah but there needs to be some kind of quality control if this happens. At least rank 20 to solo queue, or something like that.

perhaps not f2p but , they could release a PvP only mode for $5, which can be upgraded to full version via gemstore.

i don’t know, f2p only lead to goldsellers spamming the lobby, with a b2p at least there are some cost they have to incur, and they will have to buy the game again one they got banned.

Just frustrating that the gameplay is awesome but the implementation is crap and the community is dwindling.

“community is dwindling.” sorry to say it but it already dwindled there is almost no one left. I can almost say there are no more Team’s really trying to Team Que anymore we all given up.

No one wants to play a game keeps refusing to listen to the players. Don’t worry guys it only takes them 6 months to balance a broken build.