Guild Wars 2

Something needs to change ANet. I am sick and tired of having to pay to play this game. Apparently your “in game economist” must be from your accounting department. The idea to adjust gem rewards for paid tournaments which coincided with the removal of tournament tickets has done its job to the keep the books in the green. A good portion the paid tourney community has been spending money on gems to buy tournament tickets, just to play your game!

Only a handful of teams consistently place in paid tournaments to have a sustainable inventory of tournament tickets. The remainder are left with two options, win 5 free tourneys (not including the INCREDIBLE daily reward of 1 ticket) to be able to play ONE paid tournament or PAY REAL CASH MONEY for tournament tickets.

So is this an oversight when you decided to remove tournament tickets from paid tourney chests? Is this a business plan by ANet to generate cash flow from the spvp community? Both? I personally have not seen any sort of response or acknowledgement to this issue. You say you read the forum, say something!

There are also players who are not earning any tournament rewards because of this cross region transfer issue. Is it a bug or intended feature? Say something! You have a thread “stickied” to the top of this forum and players who are suffering and you have been silent for 2 months since you originally posted the issue. These players have either quit! Or are spending money out of pocket to play with their teams and not receiving any tourney chests or refunds via mail if their team has to reform after submitting.

Many have already quit listing this as a reason, but still players remain loyal. Loyal after stagnant balances, huge exploits that were ignored then fixed, but not really and game breaking bugs from patches (where is your QA dept? Were naked clones not obvious?). We remain loyal, but my patience and I am sure many others is wearing thin. It has come to the point where players who have quit or are on the verge of quitting will completely turn their back on the game even after the supposed e-sport features are implemented (whenever that is, I am guessing the 1 yr anniversary patch).

Reinstate tournament tickets as chest rewards, create new avenues to earn tournament tickets, lower the paid tournament entry fee, increase the ticket rewards from free tourneys, make the ticket forge recipe more feasible, SOMETHING!!! The system needs to change, it is flawed and for it to continue would be unacceptable.

tl;dr paying for tournament tickets sucks. ANet FIX IT!

… your post is nonsense… never paid for tourament ticket and i got 150 or so atm.
If you spend time(4-6 hours daily at least) you will have all tickets you need.
Ofcourse you will lose some over time in paids, lets say 20 paid touraments you spent 100 tickets. but won enough gems to buy 80. Your tickets will be less and less and over couple of weeks you will be out of tickets.

But thats normal system. If you would bring out more tickets out of tourament then there are used it would be a loss for both sides. More non-prestige teams in paids, more stomping and no fun for top teams. I realy enjoy current system.

Its only loss is that longer queues.

btw… you can forge tourament tickets in mystifc forge. 80 orbs 40 crystals and 20 slivers will give you 10 tickers when used with consumable tokens. Getting items above takes around 20-30 chests=10tourament wins+10 glory chests earned during touraments. You could basicly say 1 tourament won=2 tickets.

it seems that people forget to mention that u the actual amount of paid pvp as decrease (at least in NA servers) and the teams that win in the region (mostly 4 main teams) are the ones getting the actual sweet rewards from paid tournaments. The rest, they need to struggle to obtain those tickets and to loose xD.
if u get real, u need to spend 4-6 hours a day in a game (as u said) to have the amount of tickets to scrape 1 (max 3) paid tournament , without taking into account how long those queues are.
and the forge? hope u r having a joke, slivers rarely drop, plus, u what about the glory that u need to spend to get all the freaking dust u need for crafting? and that is without taking into consideration how many times u need to convert (1k glory every-time) to get the mats u lack.
and the region bug? lololol, u waste a week stuck in a region without chests (been there, done that, I feel for you). Reported several tickets, posted in bug forums, asked question in the forum, and not single answer to this problem.
apparently, u need to have the same amount of tournaments won from your original region (EU/NA) on the new region in order to get the chest rewards, then again, this is what people have told me, no official response.

Lelouch.8452:

it seems that people forget to mention that u the actual amount of paid pvp as decrease (at least in NA servers) and the teams that win in the region (mostly 4 main teams) are the ones getting the actual sweet rewards from paid tournaments. The rest, they need to struggle to obtain those tickets and to loose xD.
if u get real, u need to spend 4-6 hours a day in a game (as u said) to have the amount of tickets to scrape 1 (max 3) paid tournament , without taking into account how long those queues are.
and the forge? hope u r having a joke, slivers rarely drop, plus, u what about the glory that u need to spend to get all the freaking dust u need for crafting? and that is without taking into consideration how many times u need to convert (1k glory every-time) to get the mats u lack.
and the region bug? lololol, u waste a week stuck in a region without chests (been there, done that, I feel for you). Reported several tickets, posted in bug forums, asked question in the forum, and not single answer to this problem.
apparently, u need to have the same amount of tournaments won from your original region (EU/NA) on the new region in order to get the chest rewards, then again, this is what people have told me, no official response.

ehh from glory of last 2 weeks(basicly 100 hours) i now got enough materials to forge 40 tickets. I also in tottal won around 50-60 tickets in plus while doing paids.

Im am not familiar with region swap. but that is serious issue as you say.

Tourament tickets is the least problem in pvp now. You either sacrifice time to farm frees/buy tickets or an awsome team to end up in + on average.

Needing to buy or farm some “tickets” ( like its a movie or something) to be able to pvp in some game is a laughable concept.Why stop there i say, introduce tickets to enter high lvl dungeons too or to be able to log in every day.Hey, its no problem, you can always grind them if you dont wanna buy.Dont know about you all but i think something like this should have never been part of this game.

Khyras.8021:

Needing to buy […] to be able to pvp in some game is a laughable concept.

Like some kind of… I don’t know… subscription fee?

Aether McLoud.1975:

Khyras.8021:

Needing to buy […] to be able to pvp in some game is a laughable concept.

Like some kind of… I don’t know… subscription fee?

Subscription fee games advertise themselves as such, this is supposed to be Buy2 Play game, not “Buy2Play oh you bought it ok if you wanna pvp you need tickets no big deal you can grind them too even tho we have a no grind policy” game.

Khyras.8021:

Needing to buy or farm some “tickets” ( like its a movie or something) to be able to pvp in some game is a laughable concept.Why stop there i say, introduce tickets to enter high lvl dungeons too or to be able to log in every day.Hey, its no problem, you can always grind them if you dont wanna buy.Dont know about you all but i think something like this should have never been part of this game.

I am sorry but do you expect to enter paid tourneys just as easy as free ones, play with best teams ingame, withouth any effort ? If you always lose 1st-2nd round in paids its time to think maybe change your team, yourself and tactics or go do free’s.

Its only logical highter quality things are less available.

I am sorry but do you expect to enter paid tourneys just as easy as free ones, play with best teams ingame, withouth any effort ? If you always lose 1st-2nd round in paids its time to think maybe change your team, yourself and tactics or go do free’s.

Its only logical highter quality things are less available.

Apparently, things included in the higher quality things being rare is also the times paid queue pops per day

I dont have these problems and im playing on EU servers… paids are available around 8 hours a day ussualy from 16 to 24 gmt time

How about this: To be able to compete on the top lvl you need to attain certain rank.Ranks are only attainable through wins, not through farming glory, if you lose you get nothing or maybe just a small amount of XP.There we go: you cant compete on a top lvl ( call it a tier, league or whatever) if you dont improve yourself as a PvPer and all without ridiculous concept of buying or farming some stupid tickets.Existing concept is insulting and ridiculous.

@stin. yes you are awesome and have an awesome team. good for you. now if you wanna always play against other 7 awesome teams that’s cool and i understand (but with this system even some of the awesomest teams are in – with tickets). and as you say, it is a good system that doesn’t allow crappy players/teams to play paids as it is. but why do they sell tickets for cash then???

PetricaKerempuh.7958:

@stin. yes you are awesome and have an awesome team. good for you. now if you wanna always play against other 7 awesome teams that’s cool and i understand (but with this system even some of the awesomest teams are in – with tickets). and as you say, it is a good system that doesn’t allow crappy players/teams to play paids as it is. but why do they sell tickets for cash then???

Some new teams starting paids might need it. When paids ware introduced i allready had 70~ tickets from free tourneys. Any new player who started playing after paids ware introduced would have no free tickets. He cannot play…. and he shouldnt untill he has a lot of experiance in free’s and teamwork…

Tbh im not sure why buying tickets is implemented, most top teams dont buy them since they make it with what they earn in paids.

I would guess its an extra way to earn a little money sparing the players some time.

Considering the daily pvp gives you 1 ticket a day, and then practicing in free tourneys gives you more, why would anyone buy tickets? Maybe you threw away all your ticket-tries by not practicing… duh.

The system seems to have too many mtg roots. Mtg uses a tournament system mostly out of necessity rather than it being an optimal system for generic play. Given online access and the game mostly upholding its own rules a tournament system isn’t a necessity and something more optimal can be used.

Even the paid entry fee seems to be based off mtg.

Fourth.1567:

The system seems to have too many mtg roots. Mtg uses a tournament system mostly out of necessity rather than it being an optimal system for generic play. Given online access and the game mostly upholding its own rules a tournament system isn’t a necessity and something more optimal can be used.

Even the paid entry fee seems to be based off mtg.

I never thought of that but yeah you’re absolutely right.

What a joke farm based system for PvP Anet has made…. this system might have worked back in the days of DAoC, early WoW but the MMO pvp community has evolved we expect rated games and a ladder system that you only climb with wins and you drop with loses.

Right now you have no lifers that are not even good farming likes its a full time job….

MTG is 1v1 each match the tournament system works for it on multiple levels also placing in a tournament rewards packs you can open and use for trading or building other decks. Not really the same thing but I see your point.

Guild wars is becoming grind wars sadly. But well, WoW currently sucks so until new Blizzard’s mmo this is what we have, or go play tera korean mmo same grind(maybe more) but at least you have a ton of pvp modes and a nearly as good as gw2 dynamic combat.