Guild Wars 2

Hey arena net
Why is it that everyday I am blasted with mail for pve content while I never once hear anything about any pvp tournaments or tol in general in game.
There should be a page in the pvp tab that has TOL info:
-upcoming tourney date
-direct link for sign up for TOL
-tournament bracket
-general team list
-twitch link to whoever is streaming
I would think you would want to advertise TOL a lot more to pull more players back to the game and from other game modes to pvp. It’s astonishing how little info is actually in game regarding TOL. Info should be blasted all over the game considering it’s an Anet event.

The tournament bracket and team list are not out yet. Here is a blog post with the other information you are looking for: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/sign-up-for-tournament-of-legends-2-today/

Yes I know that I am saying it should be posted in game in the pvp tab for people who do not come here and read the forums which arena net has established is a majority of their playerbase. It is a more direct form of communication to have it posted in game rather than their website.

That’s actually pretty complicated to do. I’m honestly satisfied with the blog posts and forum posts about it. Ideally I would like Blu’s post stickied, but that’s neither here nor there.

I agree with OP. Should be advertised more in-game. At least a mail blast about the tournament. A lot of people don’t look at the forums or GW2’s social media, or even the blog posts, so they don’t know. Whether it be a PvP tab or a mail-blast about it, more advertising on it should be done.

Olrun, a lot of people don’t look at the GW2 website/forums.

Something like an in-game mail would be fine by me. I was just saying that it would take a lot of work for them to implement something like that in the PvP tab. They should do whatever they can with existing systems. Stuff like that, while nice, isn’t worth the effort compared to other priorities.

OlrunTheBlade.1486:

Something like an in-game mail would be fine by me. I was just saying that it would take a lot of work for them to implement something like that in the PvP tab. They should do whatever they can with existing systems. Stuff like that, while nice, isn’t worth the effort compared to other priorities.

“Other priorities” – PvE?

I didn’t say they were prioritizing correctly. However, do you really think there isn’t anything more important than altering the PvP interface to add an announcements section? I definitely think there are more important things for them to worry about.

No, there are plenty of more important things for them to worry about. I’m simply stating the alternatives to such a process is much easier and gives us similar results. Basically, something needs to happen with advertising it, but it doesn’t need to be as complex as creating a new menu for it.

Here are some alternatives:
- Emails are sent out about combat, PvE updates etc: send an email about the tournament a week before and the day of
- Send in-game mail out the week before and the day of
- Social media is where most of the advertising is done: give more of a heads up rather than just the day of
- An in-game system message that mentions it (sort of a like a "Message of the Day)
- Mention it on the PvE streams that happen every so often (at the end of it just make it a small announcemet)
- Put an item in the Gem Store that somehow portrays hype for the tournament (ie. a pet with a shirt that say “ToL 2”; or a finisher that says “ToL 2”, etc)

I’m sure people can be more creative than I can as well.

All other issues with this game aside you can’t say that advertising tol through out the game is a bad idea. The more it’s advertised the likeliness you will have more people participate or even prepare for it. They didn’t announce the first tol soon enough imo and a lot of people who would have watched/participated didn’t know it was going on. The entire game should know Exactly when TOL is.

I never said advertising the ToL in-game using EXISTING systems was a bad idea. I agree with the ideas like that.

I know, just clarifying things can be done :P