Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

Just thought I’d make a topic asking people their views on the current state of WvW and the game in general and whether you can see yourself sticking around in GW2.

So for me I hate the PvE side of GW2. Its lifeless, dull and the AI and build of enemies is incredibly boring. High health pool, high damage with 30 players spamming their attacks is super boring and the Living Story for me is poorly written (although tons better than the personal Story) and not ‘Living’ as the title seems to suggest. There is just too much repetitive boring and poorly designed PvE content for me to get interested sadly. But to each’s own. Some people like it!

Now after I originally bought the game on release and left it I came back a few months later to discover WvW. Wow I found an addiction to a game which I haven’t had in years. WvW was incredibly fun and I loved building up your characters with equipment and fighting intelligent players rather than high health pool boring AI. Coming from a low tier server I loved the small roaming groups battling it out or 1vXs you could encounter.

Then matchups changed. Since then its been week in week out unfairly numbered fights with probably 2 or 3 weeks with matched up numbers. Fighting a tier that is 7 tiers higher than you is ridiculously boring especially when you have constant face rolls of 30+ vs 10 with no players wanting to break off into smaller groups or running straight for their huge zergs if things look bad. I don’t mind that these servers run in huge groups but its just not fun to place them in lower tiers with much smaller populations.

I’ve invested a ton of time into the game so I really want to play it but really this has been disastrous to my enjoyment of what I think is a fantastic game. I can’t see myself playing the game much longer, as there is just too much content that seems like useless throw away rubbish (Living story) over really investing some developing into the content which is there week in week out (WvW).

Do you guys feel the same or is there still a huge draw to the game for you?

TLDR: Do you guys feel like the enjoyment of WvW is lowering due to unfair matchup systems and focuses on (in my opinion) incredibly boring PvE content making you want to leave the game. (Not good for the future of GW2)

The game is no sub casual friendly and has the ability to turn hard core players into casuals. PVE players can get their shinies without paying any sub.. There is player versus player content available from blobbing to asuraball. Until there is a nailed on realistic alternative to GW2 it will be fine and even when an alternative game is released it will have problems and cause a drift back factor.

Totally agree. There’s a ton of potential, but they allocate resources to what brings in the $. This will be the first, last and only FTP model I’ll ever play, that’s for sure. If daoc’s population was better, I’d be there in a heartbeat. Even with their skeleton crew of devs, RvR gets more attention each patch than this has gotten since release. Unfortuately, this is the place to be at the given moment.

Glennage.6273:

TLDR: Do you guys feel like the enjoyment of WvW is lowering due to unfair matchup systems

When matchups are balanced, players complained that they’re stale; when they vary, the players complain that they are unbalanced.

it’s pretty much always going to be one or the other.

those complaints always mention “this is making players quit, wvw is gonna die, etc..” type predictions.. well it’s been a year and it’s still going strong regardless

This week: FoW Vs Vabbi Vs WR
Last week: FoW Vs Vabbi Vs WR
Week Before: FoW Vs Vabbi Vs WR

By the 2nd week running of the SAME matchup it got VERY boring, this week its even worse and i wouldnt be shocked if the same matchup happens again.

This system SUCKS!

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

This week: FoW Vs Vabbi Vs WR
Last week: FoW Vs Vabbi Vs WR
Week Before: FoW Vs Vabbi Vs WR

By the 2nd week running of the SAME matchup it got VERY boring, this week its even worse and i wouldnt be shocked if the same matchup happens again.

This system SUCKS!

Before the random matchups T1 and T2 were the same for over two months.

Turamarth.3248:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

This week: FoW Vs Vabbi Vs WR
Last week: FoW Vs Vabbi Vs WR
Week Before: FoW Vs Vabbi Vs WR

By the 2nd week running of the SAME matchup it got VERY boring, this week its even worse and i wouldnt be shocked if the same matchup happens again.

This system SUCKS!

Before the random matchups T1 and T2 were the same for over two months.

It wouldnt be so bad if FoW didnt ALWAYS have more numbers then Vabbi and WR combined across ALL the maps. Maybe its time for Anet to combine the smaller severs into high/full servers

Why don’t they realize that WvW is bringing in tons of money with the constant stream of guilds server transferring… I’m sure some people are buying gems straight up as opposed to trading in their gold.