Guild Wars 2

What we can see is a totally useless feature.
Spectators takes active players spots so if the are 10 spectators and the arena allowed 20 players, the active players could be only 10, for a total of 20 people.

There is no point to this feature, because if we host a 5v5 tournament it means that only 10 people can watch it as a spectator.

Yes i got the point to this spectator mode, you let newbies watching hot join games for let them learn the game. Well e-sports means FULL EXPERT PLAYERS plays the game and we dont give a s… to this feature.

Spectator mode is not a medium for the public to watch your tournament. Its is a way to have an outside party shoutcast/stream/record your tournament so the public can view it (including non-GW2 players).

All they really need to do is fix the numbers. Separate the active players from the total players. I’m getting a lot of 12/20 rooms that are full because there are 8 spectators or so. It should read 12/12 if it’s a 6v6 limit with a vacancy of 8 spectators.

Vandal.8029:

Spectator mode is not a medium for the public to watch your tournament. Its is a way to have an outside party shoutcast/stream/record your tournament so the public can view it (including non-GW2 players).

Yes it can helpful to watch shoutcast tournament but spectator mode is still not a useful feature, it’s like having a football field without the ball and the goal’s doors.

Dsquaredcri.9421:

Vandal.8029:

Spectator mode is not a medium for the public to watch your tournament. Its is a way to have an outside party shoutcast/stream/record your tournament so the public can view it (including non-GW2 players).

Yes it can helpful to watch shoutcast tournament but spectator mode is still not a useful feature, it’s like having a football field without the ball and the goal’s doors.

I am not following that comparison at all….

Anyway. Spectator mode is definitely not useless as it allows teams to practice different scenarios while allowing other players on their team to watch strategy and critical thinking. It also is an entertainment factor, though a full observer mode is better suited for this where population limit is not capped by the arenas limit.

In the actual state, spec-mode is not really helpful. Tournaments, which are shoutcasted are watchable via twitch. And beginners are rarely follow twitch-channels. And to observe hotjoin-players is not really helpful for beginners either.

Criticize more this please. I want to see what the community think