Guild Wars 2

Seriously, they dedicated an entire day to discuss “state of the game” for tPvP and invited players to attend this event (next one is scheduled for mid March). When will Anet show the same level of care/attention for the WvW community?

As far as I know, their tPvP failed because it sucks. There are only a few teams that are still playing competitively. The WvW community is here, ready to give advice on how to improve it. Anet should focus to build WvW and push WvW to new greatness.

Hell, they should have a “state of the game” for all parts of the game; tPvP, WvW, and PvE.

sPvP thread on SotG: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/State-of-the-Game-w-J-Sharp-Tyler-Bearce/page/3#post1578205

From what I have read/heard, Anet is working really really hard to improve WvW. Things just take time, apparently they are updating the engine to get rid of the culling. That takes tons of time.

The March update will contain tons of new things for WvW. So I don’t know where you get this idea.

MiLkZz.4789:

From what I have read/heard, Anet is working really really hard to improve WvW. Things just take time, apparently they are updating the engine to get rid of the culling. That takes tons of time.

The March update will contain tons of new things for WvW. So I don’t know where you get this idea.

I don’t think it will be enough. I looked at what is meant to be coming and I don’t think it will be enough to keep people playing. We will have to wait and see about culling being fixed, it is a massive problem in a game like this. As for WvW titles and progression, again not enough to keep people interested. They need to add things like methods to get Ascended gear via WvW, unique WvW skins armours apart from Invaders, etc… etc… Adding a title that most people either don’t turn on (i.e. Mesmer, I won’t / can’t turn on achievements on my Mesmer as it makes it easier for players to spot me) or just don’t care about won’t get aNet very far.

where can I read about what Anet is planning to change/implement (besides the culling issue) in WvW?

Some third party site.

Straegen.2938:

Except we have a major patch focused at WvW with a potentially game changing culling fix coming in a few weeks. Strange to complain about WvW attention when we are getting just that in development/testing right now.

Didn’t they say that last month?
Why yes they did then put it back a month…

dont worry habib is pro

If WvW hasn’t seen major updates the day arma3 comes out, I will leave this game. WvW needs spice desperately. Fixing something that should have been fixed during the betas does not count as “major update”.

Well alot of us have been asking for the progression system in WvW, hoping it to be like DAOC realm rank system, that kept you building and making your character better for years. But from what i hear and fear i dont think they will take the right aproach and it will be a reward system that wont really help to improve your character, just make them better at aspects like siege and supply. and the way you get the fastest reward will probably be the same as karma (zerg being best way). If the patch doesnt bring what alot of epople want i thing alot will quit and just wait for ESO’s 3way faction realm vs realm pvp

More progress bars for the barely sentient to fill, does not either, count as “major update”.

playandchill.3908:

dont worry habib is pro

he doesnt acknowledge problems with glicko. or acknowledge that players could probably be strongly encouraged to balance out wvw populations. its always “culling fix is coming…”. its his job to help make wvw better. culling is only 1 aspect.

obviously t(he)y read(s) the forums. he posts when a gamebreaking exploit surfaces, just before the thread is deleted. they finally fixed the invuln areas in the borderland southern camps, without ever so much as saying “hmm…” in one of the multitude of complaint threads.

but real problems surface as the game ages. all we really want is for one of them to acknowledge that we arent just whiny lil kittenes and the problem is real and something they could think about.

if it takes SotG to do that, ok. if it takes obscure 3rd party out-of-touch interviewers in a café on the other side of the planet, ok. there is an easier way ( cough forums cough ), but seeing patch notes in 6 months about issues brought up and unanswered is simply unacceptable communication when it takes 5 seconds to type “hmm…” and reassure us that the problems are at least being pondered.

MiLkZz.4789:

From what I have read/heard, Anet is working really really hard to improve WvW.

They aren’t really, not compared to PvE and sPVP, culling is probably the only thing but that affects PvE and sPvP as well as WvW. I personally think they just don’t have the resources and PvE and sPvP get given priority.

guys, this is a good game, have faith in Anet, this is the best game I have ever played, and I trust them to continue to improve it. It takes time, you cant just throw together some code and ship it off to the game

The worst thing is they don’t even see how good w3 could be for them.
Imagine map rotations
Variety of combat objectives
Fixed culling
Commander utilities
Character progression
Raid ui
More areas to encourage pvp rather than Pvdoor and ARrow Cart
Making one map 70% of the points to encourage guilds spreading out
Potentially linking a euro and us server and have them combine points (create skill based game rather than coverage based.)

Sooo much potential to nail this game mode and make it one of the best ever but it is neglected.

I think its more about Dev interest rather than anything else,
For example, ive been following J Sharp’s posts on forums,

He really takes his time out and very regularly interacts with the sPVP community and is always giving his view.

WvW on the other hand just has 2 developers who write 1 post every 2 weeks and that too its mostly about clarification about some random question.

Diashame.6328:

Sooo much potential to nail this game mode and make it one of the best ever but it is neglected.

So much potential as a game mode to keep players for years wasted. As it is when TESO comes around WvW will become a wasteland not to mention Camelot Unchained.

They have had plenty of time to work on WvW and make it better, yet they have done very little aside from bug fixes and even those seemed to take forever. Its a shame, and the end result will be no different from any other game out there. They will lose players, and sometime down the road you will read a post from a dev saying something along the lines of “if we could have done something different, it would probably have been to listen and communicate with the community more”.

How many games have gone through this ? I can think of several and they always say the same thing. New MMO’s are coming and as they release GW2 will see its numbers drop, they will have no one to blame but themselves. Sure people always leave for new MMO’s but if this game was amazing, like it could be, those numbers would be minimal.

I really hope someone lights a fire under their kitten for the sake of longevity.

Thing is, because GW2 is b2p, people will still pop in on and off, in somecases stick aorund again for a while, etc
I took a 2month break and now i’m playing again (though not as much as before), and several guildies have said they’ll check out what the march patch brings.

How many games regain a lot of players, even subscribers, again whenever there’s a patch or expansion? Will be the same here.

More than 6 month now without any decent addition to WvW.
Just some bug exploit and minors fixes which tooks eternity to come lives
for example they only fixed few weeks a go the mesmer exploit bug used since day 1 to ninja cap kitten.

I think those fact sum up the whole things. Anet don’t give a kitten about WvW players, even the next “big addition to WvW” (which should have been live a month ago,), look like a big joke.

My guess they have like 5% of they’re dev team working on this and they’ll loose us soon, as they already loose many before.