Guild Wars 2

[Rant time]
How many guilds are waiting on GvG? (I don’t mean zerg vs zerg at South supply camp and posting the video if you won) I mean GvG where it is 8 or more against 8 or more, where guilds can learn/test builds/team compositions. Where guilds can get sponsored, have reasons to practice smaller team compositions, as well as get sponsors interested in Gw2/Anet even.

As of right now, there is NOTHING ESports about Gw2. Nothing at all.

I remember we had spectator mode for GvG’s, we had actual tournaments, we had sponsored tournaments, we had third party sponsored tournaments. We have no potential to have tournaments or anything that would entice sponsors in WvW (in the current untouched state) which actually is much better than spvp/tpvp (AKA metawars). I would love to excuse the lack of WvW attention for breakthrough spvp/tpvp updates; but sadly those players haven’t seen any updates to spvp/tpvp other than half of what was promised at release.

If there was a true potential to E-sport Gw2, it would be with WvW not with spvp/tpvp. It would be with teams of 8 or more versus another team of 8 or more. It would be GREAT if they implemented WvW mechanics/locations and made a 1 Keep/2 Tower/2 Supply camp map (Or similar, it’s the idea more than specifically what I suggest) and let 2 guilds with equal numbered teams go at it.

Guilds would be able to find sponsors and would field more people because there is now a real life reason to WvW/play competitive Gw2. This will grow the community and cause more guild-to-guild interactions, same servers, different servers, doesn’t matter GvG in a regard.

It is also ridiculous to see that in gw1 ON RELEASE, it had multiple “guild halls” in which Guild v Guild’s would happen at. You would fight at the defender’s guild hall (Different halls meant different tactics, some meant rush the guild lord, some meant split in 2 groups, much different than the 3/4 WvW maps that are copypasta and the 1/4 WvW map that is awesome but needs some lovin’/rework). There were at least 6+ guild halls Gw1, yet there are only 5 spvp/tpvp maps in Gw2?

If I remember from beta, I was told GW2 would be an esports breakthrough. 6 months later, here we are.

WvW is your potential money maker Anet, but you are neglecting it like a redheaded stepchild.

Introduce a small WvW map that is invite only for “skirmishes” or guild matches. Make it. It is very easy to do so and I will make it in MSPAINT if you need help.

This will keep WvW players hanging by a thread at least until you can tell us the Feburary update(which was pushed to March), was actually postponed until 2020.

Before I end, this is something that CANNOT and WILL NOT wait for the expansion to come out and for these issues to only get mentioned and not fixed yet again.
[Rant]

This is not as organized as it could be, but I spelled accurately and believe the points were made clear, I’ll edit if not just let me know.

TLDR; No/0% Esports in Gw2 right now. WvW has potential, spvp/tpvp does not. Make GvG with 1 beginner map, name it beta even, doesn’t matter if it has glitches initially just don’t make a Guild ladder until there are more maps and terrain issues are resolved. Voila!

I think the best way to Esport is for servers to fight over random PvE maps, from one waypoint to another. For example Field of Ruins. Put a lord’s room in Fallen Angels and one in Rosko. One server would start in Fallen Angels, the other at Rosko. Whoever takes over the enemy’s waypoint wins.

Maps and waypoints should be randomized for each fight.

I normally hate these rants because I think that WvW is extremely fun as is, and most rants bring nothing helpful to the table (e.g. QQing) . But you brought up a lot of valid points about WvW, e-sports and PvP in general , so I definitely hope Anet will read this. I know that they are working hard, but hopefully they are working hard on the right things that’ll keep their dedicated players dedicated.

CHIPS.6018:

I think the best way to Esport is for servers to fight over random PvE maps, from one waypoint to another. For example Field of Ruins. Put a lord’s room in Fallen Angels and one in Rosko. One server would start in Fallen Angels, the other at Rosko. Whoever takes over the enemy’s waypoint wins.

Maps and waypoints should be randomized for each fight.

That would be very efficient, there would not be as much “work” involved with using current/existing maps and adding npcs/structures.

We are not in any way asking Anet to design 20 maps and launch GvG tomorrow, and I feel your approach shows that clearly.

There is overwhelming potential in WvW/Gw2, it just needs to be harnessed rather than neglected in favor of spvp/tpvp/pve.