In previous games, one my biggest reason to keep on playing and improving myself was the guild vs guild battle feature, fighting with your guild against other guilds. I really enjoyed WvW, but it’s getting stale to be honest, and not challenging anymore. It’s available for everyone 24/7 which makes it perfect for anyone to play whenever you want. But seriously, you’re so dependant on others from so many other guilds, and so dependant on your coverage, timezone, numbers, etc. It’s more a battle about who can show more people over all time zones now. WvW is still fun, don’t get me wrong, but even though it’s available 24/7, doesn’t mean it’s fun to play 24/7.
I’m getting homesick to the old games where weekly preperation was needed to get ready for your weekly fight to attack or defend anything against other guilds. You needed to plan and organize and try to synergize people/classes/builds with eachother with each a different role to play. GW2 has no classic healer or tank etc, but the classes are so incredibly creative here that it would make me really exciting to try to synergize different groups together for a big battle plan.
It would be so thrilling and exciting if you can actually fight over certain objectives in a 1 vs 1 guild situation, where challenging any guild from any server is possible. Be it capture the flag, death match or whatever where you can fight in a 70 vs 70 situation would be epic.
In my previous game, I was responsible for rostering 80 players over 13 squads each with a specific role. A lot of organization was needed for it, but it was VERY rewarding if you actually won in a 2h+ battle, or lost but know you improved things. It wasn’t too hard to mobilize 80 players in a max 200 member guild, because it was only once or twice a week event.
I’m not saying that World vs World isn’t fun, it’s very fun. But honestly what GW2 really needs, is something that gives most guilds reason to invest and play with eachother. Gw2 should definitely not copy other games when it comes to guild competition, but we really need something that isn’t as broken as WvW right now.
Retsu ~ Inner Monkey [IM] ~ Piken Square