Guild Wars 2

I really enjoy playing this game.It has a great combat flow and some very nice ideas..
Still for about 4 months now spvp is dying.
Many top players left, many teams left, the GW2pvptv doesnt stream as much as it did and many discourage players are still leaving.
I dont have the exact numbers but this is what i believe from my personal experience..
So can this situation be reversed in one patch?Or to be more accurate, will the balance patch make the situation better?Assuming that its a perfect patch, assuming that we achieve a very fun balance..Can things become better?

Yes, but the odds of such a patch happening are extremely low.

Yes. It’s one year into the launch of the most successful MMO released in the last X years (I’ll let someone who knows game history fill in the blank…)

The game launched a bit too early for PvP, and some important things just weren’t ready at launch. They’ve now been mostly developed.

Will GW2 PvP become as big as LoL next year? Of course not. That doesn’t mean the population won’t grow. I’m pretty confident it has already been growing, despite anecdotal evidence to the contrary—but of course I have no way to prove that.

It’s less about the game and more about their mindsets. No amount of patching or work will fix this, because no matter what is done, someone won’t be satisfied and they’ll keep infecting others with negativity.

It’s like a virus.

I think the dev team is doing the best thing to try and combat the negativity by communicating more. If people feel like someone is working on it they might be less prone to that negativity.

Notice none of that has anything to do with the actual state of the game. Like I said it’s a mindset.

^ there is a bit of a snowball effect.
I dont play often anymore for multiple reasons 1 that has nothing to do with Anet. All a balance does is potentially let you have more fun with your profession in the constraints of the format. If that is all you need then itll bring you bavk but truthfully class balance is only part of why play time decreases or stops. A balance patch definitely helps retain some players but it can also cause players to leave so I don’t think its really a solid retention tool.

A Balance Patch shoudln’t be given to PvP by grace of ANet.
Balance Patches are just a way of keeping things…yeah…into balance.
It will probably stop players from quitting due to frustration about OP classes / builds.

But it wont stop players from quitting due to missing PvP content.

EverythingEnds.4261:

A Balance Patch shoudln’t be given to PvP by grace of ANet.
Balance Patches are just a way of keeping things…yeah…into balance.
It will probably stop players from quitting due to frustration about OP classes / builds.

But it wont stop players from quitting due to missing PvP content.

Pretty much this. I don’t know what the OP expected from a Balance Patch, really. It slicks up the combat a >bit< and make things a >bit< more equal.

We need some kitten content.

Edit: Wow, they censure “dmn”?