Guild Wars 2

First of all excuse me for my English but it is not my mother language.

As indicated by the title i do not mean to make an other crying flaming post. I really love playing this game, but i hope that some thoughts are red by the devs.

Me and many people from my Guild are in sPvP. I perosnally find all posts that say “nerf this, nerf that” pointless.The gameplay is really great, of course it can always be improved, but seriously is this the main problem you have guys?? The reasons most people i know start losing interest in the game are :

1) There is absolutely no content atm. We have 2 options. Either play random matches or play “tournaments”.
Random matches are unplayable since you can not join with your team (the teams are randomlly generated) , and people come and go during the match. So sometimes you might be playing 3vs5 , then you might have to swap team etc etc. Their only purpose is to try and learn a new build.
“Tournaments” are not tournaments!!! I am a tournament organiser in Trading Card Games for many years now, and i find it really silly when we refair to a 2 team fight as a Tournament! It is just a simple match and after having played many of them it becomes boring.

2) Ranking system makes people play less. Many people do not play since they are afraid that their ranking will Drop. I can not blame them for that but it makes creating a group harder. Some people are in the top 1000 for a long time now having played only 30 matches. Ranking system should reward players for playing more IMO.

3) There is no possible way for a Guild to train or play and have fun in PvP. If we enter random matches, random players will join and we will not be able to split the teams the way we want. If we enter a tournament high ranked players will probably drop a lot of ranking to help the new ones improve… the game is called GUILD WARS guys. Give power to the guilds. Make it possible for guildmates to play together.

4) Tournament “fixed” maps makes you change your build (and even your class sometimes) in order to make the best team composision for the specific map. Bringing up Random Maps in tournaments is something that almost anyone would love to see.

In conclusion, the game has lost , and keeps losing many PvP fans. The main reasons are not the “bugs” neither the OP classes etc etc. I believe it is the reasons i mentioned above. PvP needs Fixing, before this great potential game becomes an other warhammer online…

I agree with the ranking system “bug”. I think that’s why we have the problems that you get often to fight against premads after having solo queued: Not enough people playing… not enough others playing solo queue.

Let’s see whats going to happen after they split the queues: I think it will take forever to play solo queue cause the people only will play in premade teams or will just stop playing cause they are afraid of a leaver on solo queue ruining their rating.

(Hopefully then it will still be possible to play against premades as solo queue team? Would be better than not playing at all or having to wait for hours).

Best would be to make some “unranked matches” working the same way as the 1-match-tournament.

Where you can just queue for fun not for ranking. At the moment there is only the hotjoin(soon the Custom Arenas) which is boring since players can join and leave as they want.

Luthan i forgot to mention one of the most serious problem is sPvP … Leavers.
There should be a serious penalty for leavers. It is really annoying and some serious consideration is needed on this.

1) Agree, hopefully will change with custom-arenas and shoutcasts (11. May is allrdy first tournament with 16 teams, shoutcasted by vonethyl.)

2) Agree

3) This thing will come with custom-arenas

4) Allrdy mentioned. Seems like A-Net has problems to programm the automatic-random-rotation of maps. Hopefully they will find a way in the future.

Others: Generally more incentive to become good. (revamp titles and rank-progression / reward-progression overall)

EG: we played last saturday on 19:00 GMT (prime-time) and there were no other competitive teams during the whole evening. This shows the problem with incentive/lack-of-competitiveness. Makes me very sad . . .