Guild Wars 2

So, disclaimer, I wouldn’t call myself more than a Casual PvPer—though I do have a win ratio of more than 50%, but I work hard for my wins and rewards. For me, it’s a meaningful and rewarding way to get Dailies, Skins, Books, and Gold.

However, I can’t help but get slightly miffed at the concept of “Cheese PvP,” where 2 or more players open a custom arena and let each other win in order to farm Dailies and Reward Tracks. This, in the humble opinion of a casual PvPer devalues the game type. You should get rewards for actually playing the game-type, not exploiting Custom Arenas to get the rewards without the effort.

How would we fix this? Easy—don’t have custom arenas count towards dailies or reward tracks. This would allow people to play custom games, but in order to get the rewards of playing PvP they would have to compete in either Ranked or Unranked play.

Thoughts?

My thoughts:

Cound’t care less to be honest, custom/hotjoin is capped at 10k rank points per day, so it would take them like 4 days to finish 1 track?

Its actually alot faster by spamming unranked games, getting 10 or 5 points and then afk, farming quick losses.

Do you want these people in your unranked games?

What would you achieve by doing that? The ones that use custom arenas to do fast dailies would probably just move away from spvp and complete their dailies in pve if you remove achievements from custom arenas.

Using custom arenas to complete achievements is basicaly the same concept as take a portal to the end of a jumping puzzle. You didn’t put much effort on it, but you get the achievements. Would you also like to remove portal from JP areas?

IMO if someone is paying for that custom room, then they can do whatever they want there. It is not like AP are a high valuable currency anyway. They are helping the economy by sinking 200g (buying room) + 1g a day.

MattyP.6954:

How would we fix this? Easy—don’t have custom arenas count towards dailies or reward tracks. This would allow people to play custom games, but in order to get the rewards of playing PvP they would have to compete in either Ranked or Unranked play.

You really want all those farmers to spoil your unranked/ranked games? Because losing a unranked/ranked game gives as much reward as winning a custom arenas/hotjoin game. If you remove the rewards from custom arenas/hotjoin they come to unranked/ranked to afk, voluntarily loose and so on. I’m quite happy that they stay away from my matches.