Guild Wars 2

62. Sakulos.7963 – 391

I think full QP ladder deserves acces to beta of custom arenas.

All that players were pretty much around in tpvp, and spend lots of time playing and had fun.
All of us on QP ladder are worth trust, to test custom arenas.

Carebear Sss of Royal Legion

It’s their decision although I think it should make no harm..

This decision with Top 50 QP Leaderboards is plain wrong. Why not base it on current leaderboards I have no idea.

In EU there are currently 51 players in top 50 ( 2 ocuppy the same spot ) . Out of the 51 players, 30 players have stopped playing. That means 21 players will have access in EU to custom arenas.

More then that, a clear example of how this decision was wrong. Team Paradigm who has been always a top team are not in top 50 because they didn’t farm QPs intensively. Teldo is only rank 56, their highest. They have been in the betas, represented in many SoTGs, have a strong knowledge of the game and have promoted GW2 with their streams, yet they will not have access to custom arenas directly.

1. Purie.9046 – 1730 – playing
2. Naito.5693 – 1725 – not playing
3. RADOM.9634 – 1405 – playing
4. Danto.6748 – 1199 – playing
5. jim.5380 – 1142 – playing
6. Lowellollipop.5817 – 1129 – playing
7. Lorienda.1349 – 1127 – playing
8. guza.6170 – 1118 – playing
9. Hyxorcisten.5786 – 1109 – playing
10. Oni.5429 – 1105 – playing
11. Posi.4251 – 1104 - not playing
12. Fredzw.1053 – 1097 -playing
13. produde.8092 – 1067 -not playing
14. Eristina.5967 – 1015 -not playing
15. Pharexys.4280 – 1004 -not playing
16. Kylex.5962 – 999 - playing
17. Kirei.1792 – 949 - not playing
18. cocaftw.4279 – 937 -not playing
19. Guts.4967 – 914 - playing
20. Yagamy.1569 – 892 - not playing
21. Konina.7051 – 854 -not playing
22. Nahtsu.1037 – 822 - not playing
23. Psyco Flipside.1936 – 810 -not playing
24. Magz.4976 – 808 -not playing
25. Dave.7268 – 802 -playing
26. Leki.8623 – 779 -not playing
27. soul.5368 – 778 -not playing
28. Ultima.8673 – 760 -playing
29. Rol.6938 – 756 -playing
30. Ace of Spades.6325 – 744 -not playing
31. Lady Sara Goldheart.2764 – 742 -playing
32. Zym.3570 – 728 -not playing
33. Vayyy.5420 – 720 -not playing
34. Kinglor.6358 – 680 -not playing
35. Neptune.6481 – 672 -not playing
36. Jony.9041 – 632 -playing
37. Lastzlast.7461 – 630 -not playing
38. Rapiso.1486 – 600 -not playing
39. Ralsek.2765 – 596 -not playing
40. xbetax.3610 – 593 -not playing
41. Maze.5283 – 575 -not playing
42. Ciru.8905 – 567 -not playing
43. akenathon.4769 – 565 -not playing
44. Forsaker.9213 – 540 -playing
45. Snip.6138 – 500 -not playing
46. Vonethil.7160 – 498 -playing
47. Battosai.5620 – 461 -playing
48. Tsunkyr.2945 – 456 -not playing
49. Kanou.1054 – 452 -not playing
50. Uni.5318 – 451 -not playing
50. XerreX.7196 – 451 -playing

Shay.7534:

This decision with Top 50 QP Leaderboards is plain wrong. Why not base it on current leaderboards I have no idea.

In EU there are currently 51 players in top 50 ( 2 ocuppy the same spot ) . Out of the 51 players, 30 players have stopped playing. That means 21 players will have access in EU to custom arenas.

I agree with you… I don’t see the sense in selecting players to test something that don’t even play the game anymore. The top leaderboard rankings would at least ensure you have players who are active.

the top 50 get access, that´s why it is called a top 100 list.
stop wondering guys, it is arenanet logic again

How can ppl not understand the logic behind this decision?

Yes, there might be a Problem with inactive Players, but:

When introducing such a big new feature, there are lots of possibilities of Issues to arise and you can basically categorize them in two groups:

1) Issues that arise because of the number of Players and Data.
2) Issues with the System itself, that can be spotted even by a small number of Players.

ANet just needs to cut out the first part of possible Problems so they can identify the Problems better and solve them faster.

It’s simply a way of making it possible to tackle Problems in smaller Portions and dealing with them more efficiently. Top-50 is simply an arbitrary barrier they’ve set and they probably have good reasons for it.

I think we’ll be able to play CA’s faster if ANet approaches it intelligently rather than throwing it out there and having to work on a huge load of Problems like bugs, server-crashes, latency-problems and other logistic stuff at once, where it’s really hard to identify and fix the Problems.

hi Karl, n1ce to see you again
<3

PowerBottom.5796:

How can ppl not understand the logic behind this decision?

Yes, there might be a Problem with inactive Players, but:

When introducing such a big new feature, there are lots of possibilities of Issues to arise and you can basically categorize them in two groups:

1) Issues that arise because of the number of Players and Data.
2) Issues with the System itself, that can be spotted even by a small number of Players.

21 active players out of 51. I’m guessing in NA the situation is not much different. That’s what? 40-50 players in the world. Well, don’t know about you, but I call this an alpha test for friends & family, not public beta testing. 40 players is huge for PVP in GW2 though considering the population numbers..

I see having 50% of your testing population not even playing the game as a bit of a problem.
The smart and realistic thing to do would have been testing on the current 50 leaderboard, not something outdated from 2 months ago. Most likely, this is some sort of let’s shoot 2 rabbits with one bullet :
1) Give the rewards for the top QP leaderboard they promised when they removed QPs
2) Beta test the Custom Arenas/Spectator mode
The only problem is that both are cheap ways out.

Uhm, Onibawan probably comes back with CAs.
And I fully agree on expanding CA-access to the top 100. But I think as some of the players in the top 50 will have more than 1 CA with their team, CAs can be lent. Still, expand it to the top 100.
If this is also the reward for the QPs, why not give the highest ones the longest access without having to pay for a time ticket.
If not, also fine I guess.

Lady Sara Goldheart.2764:

Uhm, Onibawan probably comes back with CAs.
And I fully agree on expanding CA-access to the top 100. But I think as some of the players in the top 50 will have more than 1 CA with their team, CAs can be lent. Still, expand it to the top 100.
If this is also the reward for the QPs, why not give the highest ones the longest access without having to pay for a time ticket.
If not, also fine I guess.

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Well only speaking for my Team, we are comming back with CA`s and i am sure that a lot of the players on the List will do the same. Few werent even gone like u marked us on the List, we are not gone we were just waiting for CA`s and i know for a fact that few others did the same. If only 1 Player of the Team actualy need acces to the CA`s and can invite others with no acces we can give away 3 CA`s accesses and i think other Teams will do the same, so a lot more Teams can test the CAs than mentiond on the List.

cocaftw.4279:

Well only speaking for my Team, we are comming back with CA`s and i am sure that a lot of the players on the List will do the same. Few werent even gone like u marked us on the List, we are not gone we were just waiting for CA`s and i know for a fact that few others did the same. If only 1 Player of the Team actualy need acces to the CA`s and can invite others with no acces we can give away 3 CA`s accesses and i think other Teams will do the same, so a lot more Teams can test the CAs than mentiond on the List.

nice

cocaftw.4279:

Well only speaking for my Team, we are comming back with CA`s and i am sure that a lot of the players on the List will do the same. Few werent even gone like u marked us on the List, we are not gone we were just waiting for CA`s and i know for a fact that few others did the same. If only 1 Player of the Team actualy need acces to the CA`s and can invite others with no acces we can give away 3 CA`s accesses and i think other Teams will do the same, so a lot more Teams can test the CAs than mentiond on the List.

I didn’t specifically talk to the members, just checked the leaderboards at http://mos.millenium.org/ who has been active. On a sidenote, welcome back and hope to see you in game.

Sooo I am not playing anymore very interesting, and I shouldnt get access to CA because I soloqued a lot. Srsly if you dont even know everyone on the list how can you now who plays who doesnt. I am pretty sure if people ask nice everyone will be able to participate in CA.

produde.8092:

Sooo I am not playing anymore very interesting, and I shouldnt get access to CA because I soloqued a lot. Srsly if you dont even know everyone on the list how can you now who plays who doesnt. I am pretty sure if people ask nice everyone will be able to participate in CA.

I am not on Desolation and I don’t stalk people. If more people on that list are playing that’s great! If more then 50% on that list are playing that’s even better! I just said things the way I saw them from a statistical POV – if less then 50% of the people are playing, the system is flawed. As you can see Guts is listed as playing, while you are not and both of you were in NN recently.

@Varee/cocaftw.4279
That’s very nice of you.
Would Onibawan mind sharing one custom arena with Royal Legion?
It wont be a waste, I promise!

If we find out how it would work we will defenetly give 3 away if we dont need them and if they are actualy tradeable tokens or w/e but we dont know how we gonna do this since we dont want that teams get more than one for other players aswell. I think we will make a forum threat about a giveaway where everyone can list teams that need access and players who can give away some. But this is only speculation since I have no clue how the whole system will work.

cocaftw.4279:

Well only speaking for my Team, we are comming back with CA`s and i am sure that a lot of the players on the List will do the same. Few werent even gone like u marked us on the List, we are not gone we were just waiting for CA`s and i know for a fact that few others did the same. If only 1 Player of the Team actualy need acces to the CA`s and can invite others with no acces we can give away 3 CA`s accesses and i think other Teams will do the same, so a lot more Teams can test the CAs than mentiond on the List.

But I wouldn’t say to get your hopes up for GW2 yet.
Nothing Anet has done from release has been timely and, I’d hate to say but, of quality…
Because of that… even if custom arenas are functioning well soon and made wonderfully, they still leave the massive problems of ‘only conquest’, bad tourny matchmaking and so far pretty subpar and slow balancing.

It’s going to be a longer waiting game for GW2 to have a chance at coming back to life, at least in all likelihood.