Guild Wars 2

I have absolutely no interest in playing the game until spectator mode is added. I read it was going to be released before the end of the year. Well there’s a week left in the year, and I decided to come back and see if there really was a game company out there that keeps its word. So, is spectator mode in? I don’t even want to bother patching unless it is. And if it isn’t, does anyone have even a clue when it will be out? Thanks!

welshmen.8534:

I have absolutely no interest in playing the game until spectator mode is added. I read it was going to be released before the end of the year. Well there’s a week left in the year, and I decided to come back and see if there really was a game company out there that keeps its word. So, is spectator mode in? I don’t even want to bother patching unless it is. And if it isn’t, does anyone have even a clue when it will be out? Thanks!

ETA January 2014.

Spectator mode very strong without players right?

Are you serious? It got pushed back an entire year? Wow, goodbye lol.

welshmen.8534:

Are you serious? It got pushed back an entire year? Wow, goodbye lol.

yea, maybe even 2 years. Cya mate

welshmen.8534:

I have absolutely no interest in playing the game until spectator mode is added. I read it was going to be released before the end of the year. Well there’s a week left in the year, and I decided to come back and see if there really was a game company out there that keeps its word. So, is spectator mode in? I don’t even want to bother patching unless it is. And if it isn’t, does anyone have even a clue when it will be out? Thanks!

where did you read that?

And who are you to make these demands? Sure you paid for the game but it was one flat “fee”

I have some criticisms with Anet as well and they aren’t angels but they made no such promise as implementing some of the pvp stuff before the year was out. They have been saying Jan/Feb

And why are you so adamant about spectator mode being in the game before you play again? You’d rather watch other people have fun before playing the game?

I read it in an interview of one of the dev’s. They said it would be out before the end of the year.

And no one is making demands lol. I’m saying I don’t want to play the game without spectator mode. And considering I’m a game developer myself, and know how insanely easy it would be to implement just an option to camera follow another player, it’s hilarious that this game hasn’t at least implemented that yet.

And spectator mode is important to me because I play competitively. I played in the tournaments in WoW arena and enjoyed being able to watch my guild mates fight in real time while playing on LAN or via streaming. It was a great way to enjoy the games, learn from the matches, or it’s great to just eat my dinner while watching a fight. Spectator mode would become my new screen saver. Without it, this is just another battleground game, which don’t get me wrong is fun, but without that competitive aspect of it doesn’t interest me at all.

Fair enough but we aren’t certain how Anet constructed this game. Perhaps it may not be as easy to implement spectator mode.

And right now most of the Anet team is on holiday vacation. If they implemented this feature then what happens if it has issues?

But at the same token, I do hope that Anet gives a finished product when they do release all the new pvp features

I’ve made dozens of 3D games, some were just personal projects that only a few close friends ever got to play, and some that were released to the public. They weren’t made with the same engine either. It’s almost impossible to imagine, as a programmer, a scenario where it’s difficult to add an option to camera follow another player. It’s just a duplication process, it’s already all there! I can understand not implementing a system that calculates what part of the fight the camera should look at for that specific moment, but to just follow other players is easy. There’s no excuse for not having this in the game. Almost every single FPS has the option to follow other players while you’re dead.

I don’t want this rushed, I just want it. If it comes two years from now, then in two years I’ll play again. Until then, I’m going to do something else, that’s all.

1v1 arenas with spectators would be huge fun guild events. Sadly…

Spectator isnt as much needed as rating/custom arenas,etc.

eta Q1 2013 = 31st march at least

They need a ladder first, so people can easily know how high ranked the teams are in a particular match they are spectating, and so that high ranked teams are matched together much more often. Custom servers are also a much higher priority that spectator mode IMO.

If I were you OP I would check back in Feb. They said they are going to be adding a bunch of PvP-related things by Feb so we’ll see what those things are.