Guild Wars 2

Curious is there any chance we could get some love for WvW? Its pretty sad that the first major content update has absolutely nothing for WvW.

For a matter of fact the only thing you have done since release is a dirty fix for orbs. Is that really all that we can expect? Population is already in a steep decline. Totally ignoring the whole player base which purchased this game for WvW is a low blow.

WvW might need some tweaks and bugfixes but its pretty much there. PvE endgame is, in my opinion, very shoddy and probably is more urgently in need of lovin’ to keep the PvE-focused players interested. I only go endgame PvE when guildies need a 5th wheel and I can’t wriggle out.

My understanding is there are separate teams working on different parts of the game so hopefully that includes WvW.

So far we have seen the removal of reward for escorting Yaks and removal of Orbs because of hackers and the rewards of possession exacerbating one sided match ups.

So the question is what if anything are ANet working on in respect of WvW? Do we also only see the tip of the iceberg or, as fear we see everything we are going to see until 2013 at the earliest?

Vortex.3604:

Curious is there any chance we could get some love for WvW? Its pretty sad that the first major content update has absolutely nothing for WvW.

For a matter of fact the only thing you have done since release is a dirty fix for orbs. Is that really all that we can expect? Population is already in a steep decline. Totally ignoring the whole player base which purchased this game for WvW is a low blow.

Bottom Line: ArenaNET made wuvwuv for Casual Play and for Casual Players. It was something you hop into, get into some battles, get some kills, log off. That’s it.

It was never meant to what we have turned it into: Endgame

All you need to do is look at SPVP and
-all the updates done there
-all the tuning
-all the added maps (yes, plural)
-paid tournaments
-GEMS for tournament play
-all the projects in the spvp pipeline including spectator mode, customized maps, sandbox arenas, etc etc

and it is painfully obvious where AN’s focus and plans are

wuvwuv? they don’t care. they made it the way they wanted to. CASUAL PLAY for Casual Players

not what we all want it to be, arenanet simply does not care about wuvwuv because they already achieved what they wanted to make it

CharliePrince.2071:

Vortex.3604:

Curious is there any chance we could get some love for WvW? Its pretty sad that the first major content update has absolutely nothing for WvW.

For a matter of fact the only thing you have done since release is a dirty fix for orbs. Is that really all that we can expect? Population is already in a steep decline. Totally ignoring the whole player base which purchased this game for WvW is a low blow.

Bottom Line: ArenaNET made wuvwuv for Casual Play and for Casual Players. It was something you hop into, get into some battles, get some kills, log off. That’s it.

It was never meant to we have turned it into: Endgame

All you need to do is look at SPVP and
-all the updates done there
-all the tuning
-all the added maps (yes, plural)
-paid tournaments
-GEMS for tournament play
-all the projects in the spvp pipeline including spectator mode, customized maps, sandbox arenas, etc etc

and it is painfully obvious where AN’s focus and plans are

wuvwuv? they don’t care. they made it the way they wanted to. CASUAL PLAY for Casual Players

not we all want it to be, arenanet simply does not care about wuvwuv because they already achieved they wanted to make it

Agreed. However from my own experience far more people play, talk about and enjoy WvW than sPvP.

As someone that is totally into eSports I was very much looking forward to exciting sPvP but its boring, predictable and lacks the x factor.

WvW needs more love as I have stated however I have also had some terrific fun playing it.

So perhaps we need to ask ANet to consider re prioritising to what the vast majority want rather than a very niche group. Great if they can do both but seems not at the moment.

can you say anet did a miscalculation in what people would find interesting in this game ? i can understand that anet wanted the structured pvp payed tournaments to be the endgame (grin) and are maybe unpleasantly surprised that w3 proves this popular (considering w3 probably also asks massivly more server resources than insta 10 man matches). but what will they do with this ‘fact’ ?

They definitely have plans. Didn’t you see Habib’s post yesterday? They’re currently working on ways to reward players better in wvw that might also include some form of progression (I hope to god that would only be cosmetic though).

They’re definitely working on it, they’re just doing it silently, behind the scenes.

Whether we’ll see any of the changes they’re mentioning any time soon…who knows.

Brunners.7251:

They definitely have plans. Didn’t you see Habib’s post yesterday? They’re currently working on ways to reward players better in wvw that might also include some form of progression (I hope to god that would only be cosmetic though).

They’re definitely working on it, they’re just doing it silently, behind the scenes.

Whether we’ll see any of the changes they’re mentioning any time soon…who knows.

Yes I saw it. He said he could not tell us much but the reality is he told us nothing. All other aspects of the game have had content updates and ANet have published details on more to come very soon. WvW is looking a sad, lonely and neglected member of the family.

Vortex.3604:

Curious is there any chance we could get some love for WvW? Its pretty sad that the first major content update has absolutely nothing for WvW.

For a matter of fact the only thing you have done since release is a dirty fix for orbs. Is that really all that we can expect? Population is already in a steep decline. Totally ignoring the whole player base which purchased this game for WvW is a low blow.

Yea all the loyal players who played GW1 bought this game only for WvWvW too right? Calm down it’s been two months, they have more planned than just fixing everything people cry about just to cry about. This isn’t like Panda Express where continual tears gets everything kittened to the point of laughable status. Stop making assumptions you know the entire player base because you really don’t. Make a suggestion to as what you want fixed instead of making sad generalizations based upon no solid facts.

Ireniicus.2167:

Brunners.7251:

They definitely have plans. Didn’t you see Habib’s post yesterday? They’re currently working on ways to reward players better in wvw that might also include some form of progression (I hope to god that would only be cosmetic though).

They’re definitely working on it, they’re just doing it silently, behind the scenes.

Whether we’ll see any of the changes they’re mentioning any time soon…who knows.

Yes I saw it. He said he could not tell us much but the reality he told us nothing. All other aspects of the game have had content updates and ANet have published details on more to come very soon. WvW is looking a sad, lonely and neglected member of the family.

Arena net are notoriously tight lipped about things they are working on. He quite clearly stated a number of things that they are looking at to improve wuvwuv, without making any “we’ll be doing this” promises.

Ireniicus.2167:

CharliePrince.2071:

Vortex.3604:

Curious is there any chance we could get some love for WvW? Its pretty sad that the first major content update has absolutely nothing for WvW.

For a matter of fact the only thing you have done since release is a dirty fix for orbs. Is that really all that we can expect? Population is already in a steep decline. Totally ignoring the whole player base which purchased this game for WvW is a low blow.

Bottom Line: ArenaNET made wuvwuv for Casual Play and for Casual Players. It was something you hop into, get into some battles, get some kills, log off. That’s it.

It was never meant to we have turned it into: Endgame

All you need to do is look at SPVP and
-all the updates done there
-all the tuning
-all the added maps (yes, plural)
-paid tournaments
-GEMS for tournament play
-all the projects in the spvp pipeline including spectator mode, customized maps, sandbox arenas, etc etc

and it is painfully obvious where AN’s focus and plans are

wuvwuv? they don’t care. they made it the way they wanted to. CASUAL PLAY for Casual Players

not we all want it to be, arenanet simply does not care about wuvwuv because they already achieved they wanted to make it

Agreed. However from my own experience far more people play, talk about and enjoy WvW than sPvP.

As someone that is totally into eSports I was very much looking forward to exciting sPvP but its boring, predictable and lacks the x factor.

WvW needs more love as I have stated however I have also had some terrific fun playing it.

So perhaps we need to ask ANet to consider re prioritising to what the vast majority want rather than a very niche group. Great if they can do both but seems not at the moment.

I agree wholeheartedly

that is for me, the bitterest and most painful irony of them all

:( I’m at the last stage of grief to be brutally honest: Acceptance

what we want, will never be because of a fundamental difference in perspectives between us the playerbase and arenanet themselves