Guild Wars 2

Currently there are no paid tournament games active during Oceanic peak times. For many Oceanic players who have played since day one farming hotjoins and free tournaments, the only natural progression is to play the paid tournaments. Without the paid tournaments there is little reason to play more hotjoins or free tournaments, as there is no form of competitive play or any ranking system as we can not gain qualifying points when there are no paid tournaments playing.

What is Anets stance on this problem for oceanic players? I thought with the new patch they would lower the entry fee to entice more players to be active in the paid tournament scene. 5 tickets per player seems a little high in the current situation. Ideally, paid tournament should be active all throughout the day instead of a small window during US peak times.

Without competitive play, many of us Oceanic players will return to other games with a solid competitive system.

We normally play Sydney time starting around 10pm til 2am and try to que for paid tournaments but they never pop. Its a shame because we enjoy playing GW2 but are not able to recieve the full service that it offers, namely paid tournaments.

You can contact me in game to set up paid tournament ques. There are atleast 6-7 organised groups playing at our times i see queing in the free tournaments.

Edit: 10pm Sydney time is 3am PST, which is when our full team is on.

The one thing that will ruin GW2 Spvp in the same way Diablo3 was ruinned is releasing content too late. Diablo3 made the mistake of releasing pvp too late and now most players have left the game because of boredom. GW2 is heading in the same direction with Spvp because at this moment there is no incentive to play Spvp without some sort of ranking or ladder system.

In my experience as being a gamerfor over 20 years is, Anet need to release something very very soon. It doesn’t matter what it is, whether its paid tournaments or custom arenas or ranking/ladder system. As soon as it is ready just release it, the balancing can come later. But right now I see many of my pvp friends list slowly vanishing because there is nothing to do but to play against pugs and there is absolutely no incentive to play as there is no real reward. I fear the Spvp community is shrinking and it will fall apart if Anet does not release something to boost competition in the next 2-3 weeks. I and my friends are all growing bored of playing without incentives.

And like others have stated, once our interest is locked into another game we don’t look back. Why would ppl go back to a game they left because they got bored.