Guild Wars 2

After 2 years I finally managed to cure myself of GW2, which wasn’t too hard in the end, all things considered. Whenever I have free time I play other PvP games because they are more challenging and fun. Mechanically GW2 is one of the best MMOs I ever played and paired with the eye-gasmic graphics this game could have been so much more than it turned out to be.
There is probably nothing that can get me to play hardcore again, but here’s a few things that would make me reinstall:

• More updates – I’ll start with the more obvious ones. Any company that wants their game to strive will have to make it appealing to their audience… over and over again. The only way to do this is by providing weekly or bi-weekly updates, even if it meant changing a number from 6 to 6.1 this would make the game more alive and players would have to put more effort into crafting builds and practicing.
• A new profession – I think 2 years is enough to come up with a new profession. I played a completely free MMO once that had a new class come out every year, even though their game had no purchase fee or cash store. Even bringing some of the GW1 professions into GW2 would be a massive step.
• New game mode(s) – I know this one is already overused but there is a good reason for that. I’ll write down some of my game-mode ideas below:

1. PvP Conquest – this is similar to what we have already, only in PvP conquest there would be 1 capture point. The only way to capture this is by either standing on it while out of combat or scoring kills on the point itself. Kills scored inside the circle grant the team that scored the kill 1/4th of the cap. Kills scored outside of the circle however are worth 20 points. This game mode is optimal for 3v3 and has place for secondary objectives.
2. Team Death Match – there’s already a map for it, so why not make it a game mode? A more optimal TDM map could be one that looks like the jungle area in MOBAs. Scoring kills would ultimately grant victory in this game mode and players could be rewarded for figures, like stomps, damage done, healing done and so on.
3. Battle Arena – this would be much like current MOBAs (well established eSports) with similar maps and progression mechanic, along with an item store, locked utilities and NPCs around the map. Winning this game mode would take destroying objectives, such as turrets and enemy base. In game modes like this roles are more distinct and players actually feel a sense of accomplishment when they outcompete other players of the same role.
4. Gladiator Arena – in this game mode the playfield is a circular dome of some sorts and the objective is to defeat waves of NPCs and enemy players. Essentially this is a 1v1 but NPC waves can test the player’s mechanical abilities and build before entering actual PvP. The amount of time taken to defeat the NPCs can determine players who face each other.

• Transparency – this is a massive issue at ArenaNet. It’s been 2 weeks since I saw a dev on forums. If they don’t even care about their game why should we?
• More events, sponsors, cash – if I were one of the people trying to sell this game as an eSport I would have started by organising massive cash tournaments. This way people that play for money would consider the game. These people are the hardcore players that attract media attention, sponsors, money and eSports.

These are my ideas and I know none of the devs will actually read this, but am wondering if anyone else thinks the same or how else do people see this game could reach its potential?

This would make this game so much better! I really miss the old Anet (gw1). They spoke to their players and gave us their thoughts on the upcoming patch. They also explained in detail why they did the changes they did… This Anet is just some guys no one know who is that just completely ignore their players…

gw2 is dead cause anet dont give a kitten. I mean dont you recognize? They need more than 2 months to do simpliest pvp updates.

I really like your ideas especially the ones about different game types or modes. That being said it sounds like you need a break and thats ok. Most games of this caliber require a break. Post like this make me laugh because its obvious you don’t pay attention to all the communications between Anet and the player base. Do you watch the “ready ups”? I ask because a few months ago they showed us different maps and modes being created and they hinted that these would be available sometime this year. MY second points is the Dev’s have communicated that there has been a lack of communication because they where preparing for their launch in China. Thats a huge player base and a lot of money for them to use to develop more content.

I believe that by the end of summer we will see some more great content much like the the last one. These guys have big plans and GW2 is not going anywhere. I have been very critical of Anet this last year but this last patch was a huge step in the right direction. I believe there are more of these coming and there was hint last year of an expansion and can see a ton of new content coming from that.

So take a break and we will see you soon!

All is not Vain!

I don’t agree with the idea of new professions.

Extremely good ideas. TDM would be fun, another cool thing! I don’t really like the fact that you’re mostly capping points in PvP, this would make PvP shine. Would really like to see this!

Have a wonderful rest of the day, happy gaming!

Heyhey Dany,

I left too. Just too sad that other good (and not expensive) MMOs are too far away in the future.
I hope Everquest Next will bring some fresh air at the end of the year.
And I also dont think that much will change in GW2 in the next months.

Jurica.1742:

Extremely good ideas. TDM would be fun, another cool thing! I don’t really like the fact that you’re mostly capping points in PvP, this would make PvP shine. Would really like to see this!

Have a wonderful rest of the day, happy gaming!

Yeah, there is a reason I posted this in PvP sub. I play PvP exclusively, so adding some shiney new dragon event won’t make me come back. Sorry if this wasn’t clear from OP.

More updates/new profession:
I don’t think that you are aware how much effort the introduction of a new profession means. Furthermore, weekly – even biweekly – updates are simply not possible unless they are very, VERY small steps. They actually had this and most people didn’t like it, so they decided to change it. There are various official statements about this.

New game mode:
I fully agree with you that new game modes would spice up things considerably, although I can’t vote for any of your suggestions.

Transparency:
They have a rollout in China, so there are resource contraints for obvious reasons. I mean no offense, but I really think that you have no idea about the effort for such an enterprise.

More events, sponsors etc.:
The eSports ship has sailed. Given that we consider there ever was one…

From my point of view, there is one thing that needs to be addressed urgently for pvp, and that is a new game mode. Something to break the mold.
Just my two cents though.

Matisse.9356:

More updates/new profession:
I don’t think that you are aware how much effort the introduction of a new profession means. Furthermore, weekly – even biweekly – updates are simply not possible unless they are very, VERY small steps. They actually had this and most people didn’t like it, so they decided to change it. There are various official statements about this.

New game mode:
I fully agree with you that new game modes would spice up things considerably, although I can’t vote for any of your suggestions.

Transparency:
They have a rollout in China, so there are resource contraints for obvious reasons. I mean no offense, but I really think that you have no idea about the effort for such an enterprise.

More events, sponsors etc.:
The eSports ship has sailed. Given that we consider there ever was one…

From my point of view, there is one thing that needs to be addressed urgently for pvp, and that is a new game mode. Something to break the mold.
Just my two cents though.

We are talking about a company that sold 3.5 million copies of this game. Now please explain to me how the same company that did that has no resources to share 1 page of information about what we can expect every week.
Minor tweaks every 2 weeks would be nice for this game – we actually had that before but people didn’t like it? I don’t remember them ever tweaking anything weekly, but my memory is bad so please correct me if I’m wrong.
Other than that, yeah my game mode ideas are terrible, I did write at the end that if anyone has better suggestions please do share!