Guild Wars 2

Could we get any actual information regarding the new features and when they are planned to be rolled out? Yes, yes, I know, they will be out “when it’s ready” but can we get some idea of how long we can expect to wait?

Obviously giving concrete dates to expect things is not the best business decision but can we get some vague time windows for the various upcoming features?

To be honest I would have never expected the game to be lacking so many important PvP features at this point. I know my guild and I expected the game to launch with private servers and figured that spectator mode would be arriving about now. What we have come to see is that SPvP is obviously very low on the totem poll when it comes to importance.

There are many teams out there that want to see a competitive community develop, even jumping through the hoops of the current system to sync queue, but this is extremely time inefficient and a general PITA. Spending 5 hours attempting to sync queue would probably get you as many competitive matches as spending 1 hour on a private server with the team you were trying to face. If private servers are only a week or two away then its worthwhile to keep practicing and staying on top of your game. However, if private servers are something like 2months+ away then it might be better for many teams to stop playing and wait for private servers.

Jon Peter’s alluded in the blog post that this is just the tip of the iceberg for SPvP, but I feel it is more akin to them giving PvPers the “tip” by releasing no real information, just a giant tease.