Guild Wars 2

What is Anet’s plans if any, on how to keep WvW going?

In Season 4 and 5, errr, I mean Tournament 2 and 3…

Probably… gone… because you know… skillag

Probably exactly the same way it is now.

Except that we will be able to summon a skyhammer lazer to our aid that we get after standing AFK in the ruins for ages.

That will show those zergs.

Zylonite.5913:

What is Anet’s plans if any, on how to keep WvW going?

Picture an empty, unkept yard with nothing but a tumbleweed blowing past.

In the recycle bin.

Probably small-scale groups on the order of 5-10 with the occasional blob for karma training.

Burnout is already so high in WvW right now that in 2 years most everyone will be gone or playing casually. Even hardcore groups right now are scaling back rallies to 3-4 times a week.

Considering how empty and kittened it got during last year – it will be dead.
Anet practically killed one sorta-end-game they had. GG.

Well, they got the seasonal tournament going

Tibstrike.2974:

Burnout is already so high in WvW right now that in 2 years most everyone will be gone or playing casually. Even hardcore groups right now are scaling back rallies to 3-4 times a week.

You were never supposed to play GW2 hardcore. It was always supposed to be a casual game.

All games die off eventually, regardless of popularity. My guess would be in 2-3 years now you might encounter a few ‘hardcore guilds/players’ roaming around on a smaller selection of servers because world vs world servers were merged due to huge population imbalances. Or the game might become like eotm where three colors play one another with auto balance.

Not sure if GW2 itself will be around in 3 years. And unless Anet wakes up to the fact that WvW is dying, WvW definitely won’t be around in 2 years. But judging from past actions, Anet will not do anything.

Just like any MMO. Servers get merged into “Clusters” until there are only 3 “Clusters” left and then KabOOM!! EA buys NCsoft for a a large sum only to devour it like it does with all other top notch games.

It will be chugging along only with fewer players and several small changes to the existing system.

It’ll chug along until they come out with Thief Mastery where rank 5 allows you to jump onto walls and attack from stealth for 15sec.
The only counter will be Warrior Mastery teamed up with Hammer Mastery for map wide 20sec stun.

Seriously though, ANet had difficulty managing power creep in GW1 and it will only get worse from here.

It’s a children game, it will have new 12 years old in 3 years that run their circles in WvW.

Reverence.6915:

Well, they got the seasonal tournament going

Tibstrike.2974:

Burnout is already so high in WvW right now that in 2 years most everyone will be gone or playing casually. Even hardcore groups right now are scaling back rallies to 3-4 times a week.

You were never supposed to play GW2 hardcore. It was always supposed to be a casual game.

That’s your opinion. I bought the game to play WvW exclusively and pretty hardcore. I still enjoy it, but have cut back on how much I play.

Well hopefully A-net will add a new wvw map which is smaller that will alternate with the normally wvw map on a monthly basis. Or make the current wvw maps similiar to Eotm with all dred server being red, when a new wvw map comes out. Either way I only expect the game to be played for 4-7years.

This will be a strictly RP reliant game where people say "They used to play wvw here REALLY?.

More then likely it will be like EoTM a very open format where you fight say 3 to 6hr matches vs 2 other sides less about worlds but more about groups of worlds. There just simply no other way to get over coverages to wining out in the end and it tends to take away a lot from the fun of fighting larges scale battles.

Dead.

I’ll be surprised if I am still playing this game in a years time to be honest. If anet continue to ignore us WvW will just die as players will move on to other games.

For example thief has just released, I might find myself playing that instead of playing WvW.

It will be a ghost town. I can see the population drop week by week already, especially noticeable in off peak hours.

WvW will be 1 person per server below the top 3 in 2-3 years…

in 2-3 years, WvW will be locked in a battle of epic proportions between the only two remaining players: devon and lordkrall

meep.2601:

in 2-3 years, WvW will be locked in a battle of epic proportions between the only two remaining players: devon and lordkrall

haha that is hilarious….

If you had asked this question one year ago, I would not have thought wvw could survive another year. The three main ways to play wvw still have major, major issues though:

1. Large groups. Still dominated by GWEN murderballs. Boring blob of particle effects and low FPS, frequent skill lag, the game barely functions, stay on the tag, spam some skills, don’t die. I don’t understand how people commit to this every night looking for fights, and then spend 2 hours forum warring over which guild blob won.

2. Small group havoc. The only interesting way to play imo, but all too often it can also turn into either boring uncontested PvD or getting zerged down.

3. Solo. Dominated by 5-2-5-2-5-2-5-2-5-2-5-2-refuge-run away thieves and OP condi builds using the +40% food. Not interesting all at anymore.

When you really think about, the only positive things anet has done for the format since launch is various bug fixes, server performance improvement (still problems though), and the big one was culling, which can still be a problem on an individual player level. Everything else has been a complete waste of time and resources, particularly the huge let down with the map design of EotM.

In 2-3 years account bound WvW xp will be right around the corner!

2 or 3 years? WvW? In the current state and with the current arenanet plans, i dont give more than 1 year to the entire game. They need to do something about WvW and this game. Farmfest and living world is not a “forever fun”, you know.

They have a lot of empty servers. I think, right now, they need to cut an a half the servers and unbound from servers the inactive (for months) accounts. They have more inactive accounts than active ones i guess.

in 2 or 3 years, here is what will happen. People will come on the forums and say:

1. They love/hate zergs
2. Server xxxx buys guilds
3. Nightcapping blah blah
4. Melee train makes me cry
5. People will still be asking for a new WvW map (not the karma train eotm)

This thread could be 1 year old, it would look the same. WvW will be as populated as it is today minus the normal decline of players the whole game (like every game) suffers from.

No Game has a long term strategy.
At first i thought Anet had but Living story isn’t a long term strategy.
Its the same kitten with just a new Graphixs texture across it.

WvW is the same.
Eventually they will Try something Living story kind of crap inside the WvW maps. like a Huge army has taken over SM. (1000 Champoins Running around inside SM).
Kill the Dragon who Owns it now and clean and claim sm to get a Special Chest with 0.01% chance to get a Legendary.

To unlock the Dragon out of his Layer u have to Kill his children who sleep inside the 3 keeps.

And u will see all these brain dead pve players who run around following commanders from Champoin to Champoin for LOOT. because thats what its all about the priceless LOOT.

Thats what i think will happen with WvW in 2-3 years.

Ps. i was bored and find this topic really useless, Its just a way to state your frustrations but u can’t ever know what happens to a game in 2-3 years. Because u don’t even know where u will be in 2-3 years.