Guild Wars 2

Good evening. I am the best player. I cannot wait to dominate the ESL stage. I’m currently having no challenge in solo q. Ranked needs to return please

Due to your godlike skills, anet has unfortunately cancelled all future gw2 tournaments and are soon going to delete the game itself since they can barely balance a profession, let alone a player…

Probably never. I think they probably have finally realised that not all publicity is good publicity. All their tournaments do is show the game in a bad light. I would guess a ton of people have not bought the game as a result of these tournaments.

In addition, spending $200k (or whatever it is) on tournaments that get 3000 viewers (mostly hardcore players already into the game) is a terrible investment. People also get annoyed at this investment whilst there is a lack of PvE content and so they quit the game. They have smarter people at anet than allowing that to continue.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Probably never. I think they probably have finally realised that not all publicity is good publicity. All their tournaments do is show the game in a bad light. I would guess a ton of people have not bought the game as a result of these tournaments.

In addition, spending $200k (or whatever it is) on tournaments that get 3000 viewers (mostly hardcore players already into the game) is a terrible investment. People also get annoyed at this investment whilst there is a lack of PvE content and so they quit the game. They have smarter people at anet than allowing that to continue.

Its surprising to me how well games like Dota and LOL do so well.

Core GW2 has some great moments. The WTS with ORNG winning vs the Abjured, then Abjured winning vs ORNG in the next one were 2 great Tournaments to watch. ( Though that D/D ele meta was terrible)

Ive been playing LOL and i still dont understand why its so huge especially when GW2 mechanics are of the charts.

Then you talk about Anet Leader Boards, match making, build diversity, changing metas, ranked ques, que times, rewards.

I wouldnt be surprised if they took a break but im shocked by both. How Anet made HOT specs so badly and how core GW2 didnt get any momentum going.

kdaddy.5431:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Probably never. I think they probably have finally realised that not all publicity is good publicity. All their tournaments do is show the game in a bad light. I would guess a ton of people have not bought the game as a result of these tournaments.

In addition, spending $200k (or whatever it is) on tournaments that get 3000 viewers (mostly hardcore players already into the game) is a terrible investment. People also get annoyed at this investment whilst there is a lack of PvE content and so they quit the game. They have smarter people at anet than allowing that to continue.

Its surprising to me how well games like Dota and LOL do so well.

Core GW2 has some great moments. The WTS with ORNG winning vs the Abjured, then Abjured winning vs ORNG in the next one were 2 great Tournaments to watch. ( Though that D/D ele meta was terrible)

Ive been playing LOL and i still dont understand why its so huge especially when GW2 mechanics are of the charts.

Then you talk about Anet Leader Boards, match making, build diversity, changing metas, ranked ques, que times, rewards.

I wouldnt be surprised if they took a break but im shocked by both. How Anet made HOT specs so badly and how core GW2 didnt get any momentum going.

They started with a definite ideology and the professions were designed around it then…the game took another direction.

Main reason why GW1 was so successful is because it was meant to be different from the rest, it was small in scope and for this reason alone; the game had a steady and hardcore fun base that contributed to the the huge success of the game, from PvP to PvE, GW1 designers were brilliant….none of them is left at Anet

By contrast GW2 is trying to be too much the next WoW…and that will be ultimately their undoing.

Most games that try to copy others are doomed. Might only be good for some quick money. Being diffrent and diversity is what makes games great.

kdaddy.5431:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Probably never. I think they probably have finally realised that not all publicity is good publicity. All their tournaments do is show the game in a bad light. I would guess a ton of people have not bought the game as a result of these tournaments.

In addition, spending $200k (or whatever it is) on tournaments that get 3000 viewers (mostly hardcore players already into the game) is a terrible investment. People also get annoyed at this investment whilst there is a lack of PvE content and so they quit the game. They have smarter people at anet than allowing that to continue.

Its surprising to me how well games like Dota and LOL do so well.

Core GW2 has some great moments. The WTS with ORNG winning vs the Abjured, then Abjured winning vs ORNG in the next one were 2 great Tournaments to watch. ( Though that D/D ele meta was terrible)

Ive been playing LOL and i still dont understand why its so huge especially when GW2 mechanics are of the charts.

Then you talk about Anet Leader Boards, match making, build diversity, changing metas, ranked ques, que times, rewards.

I wouldnt be surprised if they took a break but im shocked by both. How Anet made HOT specs so badly and how core GW2 didnt get any momentum going.

The reasons are up for debate but gw2 pvp itself has become worse. Their “growth” in pvp numbers was due to increased rewards. That is how the MMORPG playbase works. If you have 5 dungeons and 4 of them are AMAZING FUN and 1 totally SUCKS. Well if the rewards are better in the 1 that sucks then that will still be done 100 times as often as the fun ones. Check when citadel of flame was easy to do with the best rewards, it was the most done dungeon by far. Probably multiple times all other dungeons combined.

The game has got less fun for pvp since the whole HOT power creep (and the trait patch). Their feature base is constantly changing and not in a positive direction. They have clearly got a leadership issue. There are too many changes of direction with respect to the game. Every 6 months they decide to throw out all their previous work and make something new. See the fact they have removed so many features including in game tournaments, leaderboards, jewels, many amulets, solo queue and much much more. This leads to a base game which will only go down from now on. Look at how they used to have solo queue and team queue. They got rid of solo queue and now they are getting rid of team queue to bring solo queue back. It is ludicrous.

There is also a lack of actual investment into pvp in this game. All their time and effort is wasted on reworking mechanics. They remove stuff and rework it for something that is not even an upgrade. Meanwhile the last time a competitive map was added to the game was in September 2012. 4 years and no new maps for competitive. Actions beat words.

As for other games. GW2 is a joke to watch because of the effects and spam. The whole game is spam. In a MOBA you have 3-4 skills which are used to try and have an effect. In gw2 it is totally different. Except a few skills like the moa there are no big moments. If you miss your poison attack it is irrelevant because it will be available again in 5 seconds. Auto attacks have massive pressure, so do passive defences. So the exciting moments in a MOBA when a player hits his elite or his stun combo and gets a gank, well that doesn’t exist in gw2. It is just a spam based game. Look at boons for example. Nobody is putting up regen or protection to deal with incoming burst. It is all just permanently on. Same with stability and basically every boon.

GW2 is a really great game made by really great designers. But its a PvE game, all their income comes from PvE and that is where all their design decisions (like HOT specs) should come from.

I’m sorry to say this, sexual legend, but the world’s are/should probably not happen again.

It looks like you’ll have to take your legend status to another game as you’ve already dominated the real world.

Such a shame. I was just getting started in completely changing the PVP landscape. I suspected I’d cause another major patch. They already removed celetial amm and nerfed druids because of me. And as you can see in Episode 1 of Best Player (listed below), they still have some nerfing to do.

don’t think any further tournaments are worth the investment. watched some of the recent world’s and wow did kaelaris look bored compared to other games he hosts… this should tell you what kind of an exciting “esport” gw2 is.