Guild Wars 2

Just a curious question as to why it’s called this and not Team vs. Team? Doesn’t this give the wrong impression to some people?

So it’s players vs. players, I always thought it was player vs. player, I think most do?

Stace.1357:

So it’s players vs. players, I always thought it was player vs. player, I think most do?

Think if it like the animal “sheep”. One of them is “sheep”. 10 of them is “sheep”. The word implies both singular and plural.

PvP is the same. Player vs Player or Players vs Players.

I’m not often sober when I post, but I’m certain a majority of people understand that the meaning PvP goes both ways.

I think what the OP is saying (if I’m reading between the lines where there are lines to read) is:

sPvP is a team game type that takes rotations and team work, not just players killing players off nodes.

OR

Why call it PvP when it is just a 5v5 conquest-based team PvP? That’s too much of an encompassing term for such a niche game mode!

OR

Why don’t you players who just go off and kill other players (a.k.a. way back when “look at my score it’s higher than yours so shaddup I win” children dominate) scamper off to WvW while we get to do our team game in peace?

Passive vs passive.

It’s probably called PvP for simplicity & familiarity; the name is easier to market, and let everyone know of what that game-mode is supposed to be.

Remember, any sort of player against another players (or group) constitutes as PvP. A more specific term to single player vs. single player would be Dueling, and more appropriate for fights that aren’t team fighting.

And, as for why we don’t have dueling, the game deve probably didn’t want to create a new game mode of which they have to balance for. Imagine if every class must be balanced for sPvP AND dueling?

Edit: Gramar corrections.

Passive Vs Passive <3 !

Robert Williams.4872:

It’s probably called PvP for simplicity & familiarity; the name is easier to market, and let everyone know of what that game-mode is supposed to be.

Remember, any sort of player against another players (or group) constitutes as PvP. A more specific term to single player vs. single player would be Dueling, and more appropriate for fights that aren’t team fighting.

And, as for why we don’t have dueling, the game deve probably didn’t want to create a new game mode of which they have to balance for. Imagine if every class must be balanced for sPvP AND dueling?

Edit: Gramar corrections.

Got an problen with my Gramar, Trigr?
But yeah, when I said “Gramar corrections”, think of it as “Made readable”.