Guild Wars 2

Why is this still the only mode? Is there a real reason to this?

The reason is because arena net didnt listen to people during alpha about this one game mode being boring. So they didn’t listen in alpha. Then in beta people said just give us 2v2 and 3v3 arenas with respawn tickets. They didn’t listen then either. Then at release. People said give us arenas. Anet didn’t listen. Then after a year people said give us arenas. Anet didnt listen. Then about 3 months ago, after everyone quit, anet decided that maybe they needed new game modes.

My prediction is they wont put the new modes into the tournament rotation though. They will just put it into custom arenas. Which defeats the object completely.

All this is why nobody with any skill really plays this game anymore. Because its pointlessly bad and based around playing a bunker build and standing on a point.

Rickster.8752:

The reason is because arena net didnt listen to people during alpha about this one game mode being boring. So they didn’t listen in alpha. Then in beta people said just give us 2v2 and 3v3 arenas with respawn tickets. They didn’t listen then either. Then at release. People said give us arenas. Anet didn’t listen. Then after a year people said give us arenas. Anet didnt listen. Then about 3 months ago, after everyone quit, anet decided that maybe they needed new game modes.

My prediction is they wont put the new modes into the tournament rotation though. They will just put it into custom arenas. Which defeats the object completely.

All this is why nobody with any skill really plays this game anymore. Because its pointlessly bad and based around playing a bunker build and standing on a point.

yup

If we stopped calling it stand in the circle pvp, maybe new players would stop standing in circles and dying horribly instead of actually fighting and then asking what they did wrong.

Because the Pvp devs are moba fans and forgot this was an mmo and ignored proven successful mmo pvp game modes and went with a unproven objective based 5v5, 3 lane (point) game mode which encourages bunkers and aoe spam instead of doing what everyone has been asking for since the beginning, simple 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch.

It looks like wildstar has been listening to pvpers because they are going with, 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5 dm arenas with a set number of respawns.

If i was Aanet i would try to release gw2 arenas before wildstar launches, but what would i know.

It looks like wildstar has been listening to pvpers because they are going with, 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5 dm arenas with a set number of respawns.
If i was Aanet i would try to release gw2 arenas before wildstar launches, but what would i know.

I agree here, while there’s bound to be a few noble souls to rush into this thread and tell us how bad they think Wildstar will be, every new MMO release with that much buzz behind it means there will be a mass wave of players rushing to it if nothing else to at least try it out. If it comes out with less buggy, more fun PvP while Arenanet still struggles to fix bugs from beta and still has no new modes or improvement, why would anyone come back? I liked what I saw in the PvP roadmap but honestly I think their window of opportunity is closing.

dimyzuka.7051:

Because the Pvp devs are moba fans and forgot this was an mmo and ignored proven successful mmo pvp game modes and went with a unproven objective based 5v5, 3 lane (point) game mode which encourages bunkers and aoe spam instead of doing what everyone has been asking for since the beginning, simple 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch.

It looks like wildstar has been listening to pvpers because they are going with, 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5 dm arenas with a set number of respawns.

If i was Aanet i would try to release gw2 arenas before wildstar launches, but what would i know.

This. This so much. The reason they went with conquest was because balancing for arena would have taken a lot work and not all classes would be good at 2v2/3v3 and some too good. Kind of like what we have with conquest…imo they should have just bit the bullet sooner and made a new game mode. Balance could come naturally….but instead they thought they could fool us all with bunker pvp.

The can of worms is starting to unfold…and above all else, it’s going to take a miracle to prove to anet that arena dm can be fun, because they are obsessed with boring mobas. Pray for grouch he is our last hope..

dimyzuka.7051:

It looks like wildstar has been listening to pvpers because they are going with, 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5 dm arenas with a set number of respawns.

Have fun grinding your rank gear!