Guild Wars 2

I have played Gw2 for 2 years now and I don’t think there is another mmo that offers so much right now. PvP however is my thing and the reason I play mmos. I like the pvp in Gw2 due to class mechanics and the fun factor of it all. All that was missing for me was more of a sense of competition given via leaderboards or titles or a K/D count. This season brought that so imagine my excitement.

We all know how this season has gone. Now my question is why PvP in Gw2 is so different? I have spent long amounts of timing playing AoC, Rift, Aion and WoW and I never ever saw many people AFKing, DCing, flaming their team or being downright incompetent.

How can Gw2 have all these problems that other games don’t? Bear in mind these are player created problems and not Anet problems.

I’ve only played WoW recently, so I can give some answers there.

In WoW, you have a large casual PvP audience in normal battlegrounds. Winning or losing doesn’t mean a whole lot and there’s not matchmaking to it. For the ranked portion, you have arena and rated BGs, both of which require you to queue as a full team. If you have a full team, players don’t give up individually and are more likely to try and improve in order to continue winning.

Any time you have a partial team queue, you start to see the behavior you see in GW2 ranked games.

well this is the only mmo i have played that isnt pay to win so that is a major plus. played a Korean mmo for the longest time but it was a money pit if you wanted to do pvp. seeing these threads in gw2 forums talking about class op have no clue what over powered really is in tell they play a Korean mmo . the no pay to win and the endless build options you can make it stand out. having HoT isnt pay to win. i know a f2p guy that is tearing it up in ranked with a signet warrior build from a few years ago