Guild Wars 2

With Anet working on implementing custom arenas, what can we expect to do with them? I know how custom maps work with Starcraft and all, but I’m not sure what kind of customizations we can do to our current maps. Wouldn’t it be simpler to just create new game modes? That way, we have a more consistent game experience rather than having to figure out the rules created by the person who creates the custom arena. I’m just asking because I have no idea how custom arenas would work in GW2. I’ve searched the forums and there doesn’t seem to be any info as to how custom arenas would work.

Leagues?
Tournaments?
Scrims?
Training?
Duels?
Deathmatch?
Love?

It getting delayed to May.

How are you going to have leagues when there are a handful of dedicated groups in North America. I do nothing but Tpvp the ammount of premades (that are more then a bunch of newbs or pugs banded together for one session or series of games) is not large. People have all these grandiose ideas personally I like the idea of customized areans but until the pvp population gets much larger and A-net rewards competitve play more they are going to be nothing but a fad in the end imo.

Kwll.1468:

How are you going to have leagues when there are a handful of dedicated groups in North America. I do nothing but Tpvp the ammount of premades (that are more then a bunch of newbs or pugs banded together for one session or series of games) is not large. People have all these grandiose ideas personally I like the idea of customized areans but until the pvp population gets much larger and A-net rewards competitve play more they are going to be nothing but a fad in the end imo.

That’s why I’m having such a hard time understanding the importance of custom arenas. It’s still catering to the hardcore crowd that is a really small portion of the pvp population. I only tPvP as well, but there are times that I just want to mess around and play something different like GvG, CTF, KotH, etc., without having to worry about ratings, leaderboards, etc. I feel Anet should be working on finding ways to bring in the casual pvpers so that there is a likelihood that those casual player will find their way to competitive play.

My thread here has some more info:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/What-will-be-custom-about-custom-arenas/page/2#post1704941