Guild Wars 2

“WvW tournaments are currently on hold, but they’ll return once we’ve released this new format for WvW.”

WvW as we’ve known it will be ending.
new format means a new game, right?

Edit: I don’t understand most of what anet does with their game, but there is one thing I do understand about anet and Guild Wars 2… they don’t like deadlines, and they certainly won’t make a public declaration of one concerning WvW.

It’s cause they don’t know how to cater to it. WvW was always an after thought. GW2 main cash cow is what? PvE…

The next cash cow is? Well they want it to be PvP, but its a toss up there.

WvW never really been on a high note with GW2, at least not since 2014. I can’t speak of if it was around at launch or anything.

They can’t, WvW as it is right now is a buggy mess with bugged wall that glitch even if a cata successfully breaks them (check new BLs on towers and keeps, you’ll find one at least). They are other bugs too that they’ve yet to even acknowledge let alone work out. So, if they add anything to WvW right now it would be new features on top of new feature bugs, combined with old bugs.

Here’s some math… (10 comes from the probability that there is likely 10 bugs per feature released, just look at game patch notes for all the bugs in other game modes)

Old Bugs + (New Feature * (10 + New Bugs)) = Buggier than before.

Considering that the development time is going to approach the 2-year mark before we see anything, I’d have to assume they’re pretty near starting from scratch.

Which would be good, but at this point they should have said a little more about plans for the game mode. Right now we know there’s an overhaul to address the problems with PPT, but they’ve said absolutely nothing about how they’re doing that – which, considering the backlash against so many past updates to WvW, seems like a really bad move.

Learning that it’ll be the end of the year before we finally see what’s going on has unsurprisingly led to scores of people saying “bugger this, I’m out”.

Remember, the WvW team typically makes the wrong decisions about everything. They’ve been wrong with just about everything in the last 2 years.

So, based on that, figure out the worst possible format. For me, it is something that is either EotM focused or something that is alliance focused. Since those ideas are horrible, my bet is for something like that to happen.