Guild Wars 2

anet has been flying low for pvp promotion. in number of interviews they said they want to renew the push after the feature build. there is some rationale in this, as under current infrastructure previous esports effort failed.

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Previously we had for example Mistleague, Curse Tournament and much more community driven tournaments and above all PAX Tournament.
Compared to how many tournaments we had before only one – ESL is still going on and I actually enjoy watching it since I cant participate. Id welcome more tournaments but Im glad that we atleast have one.
Why did all other tournaments and ladders outside of ingame ladder just gave up though ?

Because a lot of the people involved know arenanet are too lazy/don’t give a kitten. That plus balance plus why the kitten would I play several hours a day in a game I kittening hate for minimal rewards in community driven tournaments when arenanet can’t be bothered to host their own. They’re too lazy/lack manpower and when they do create their own tournament they pass it off to kittenty mistleague (whos owner kittened team paradigm over for going to pax, but that’s a story for another time, or a story for not at all since there’s people who were involved who probably wouldn’t like the intricacies being released) who are kittening terrible regardless of their irl commitment excuses, because they’re too lazy to do this themselves. Once players see this that are actually trying to compete with the awful balancing ongoing they might aswell just give up because there’s no point putting any more time into it.

tldr: anet lazy, kittenty balancing, no point making time commitments, inc infraction.