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I think you read it wrong. The queens gauntlet and the gladiatorial arena are two separate things.
Whoops. I think I did get the ideas mixed, but at least the main point of what I was trying to get across got across.
Fight in the Queen’s Gauntlet – Begins August 6
“In the special Queen’s Gauntlet, you will face increasingly difficult challenges of single-combat against unique bosses. Cheer on your friends or show off your skills to the world. Take a risk with special gambit conditions to earn even more prestigious rewards!”
This gladiatorial arena got me extremely excited for a few moments, until I realized that I would be essentially watching random people killing NPC bosses. I’m so sorry ArenaNet, but this awesome feature is not being used to its full potential. I think this should be an means to introduce a new form of PvP interaction. I would love to watch other players duel/kill each other! I do not care to watch strangers kill bosses, because I can watch that most anywhere on the map already. The game needs more PvP interaction, because right now I’m limited to a very stale blend of “Capture-the-Point” and WvW.
I remember watching NPCs fight in The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion’s arena for hours upon hours. Taking bets, cheering for a certain combatant because they are using your favorite weapon type, interacting with other players in the community. I want this so bad, and I want to love you so bad, GW2. I’ve been playing since launch, but have stopped in the past few months. The add-ons of Queen’s Jubilee are just slightly enhancing the game for people who already love it, but I need something new and exciting to pull me back in; and a public, PvP dueling arena would do it.
no. CoH did it it was making people running instance only and the game died. And it was farming content created by farming players. so ty, not again.
Thanks for that input, but I lack understanding for this situation.
I agree with you. The game has grown a bit stale. I just posted something here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Creating-Player-Generated-Content-An-Arena/first#post1639588
Does this sound interesting to you?
Hello Folks!
I come from the Tarnished Coast server and have gathered many opinions about the future of this great game the team has crafted. I hope you enjoy some of my suggestions and I hope to generate some interesting conversation. (I have trimmed my post down by about 60%, so to save all readers a bit of time)
While the team is producing lengthy patches every month, they are not satisfying the needs of an aging and growing player base. I was inspired by the book “Destiny’s Edge” and the chapters where the heroes of the story fight in an Arena at Lion’s Arch. Crowd members take bets, chant and boo, and get to watch combatants duke it out for their entertainment. Being a healthy part of the lore, I wondered why this was not mentioned as an addition to the game later down the road? Not only does the community clamor for a dueling feature, alongside more conventional PvP interaction, but if the rest of the community could watch a staged duel in an instanced area out of Lion’s Arch, it would give them something fun to do.
Looking to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, I spent far too much time both watching and participating in the arena it provided for me.
Historically, people enjoy arenas for amusement (Gladiators and the Colosseum, right?)
The goal of an arena for players to fight in (Be it in teams or solo), is to generate content created by the community. Community generated content often out-lasts most developer-created content as the lasting value is virtually endless at times; things are always new! A dungeon can grow stale, but seeing your friends kill one-another never gets old!
So far, while Guild Wars 2 facilitates a beautiful landscape, gameplay, lore, and many other things, the content is beginning to run dry for many players, including myself. I’ve got much more to say on this, but I’d enjoy hearing the community’s opinion. Again, I did cut my original statement down considerably.
Thanks for reading.
I’m glad to see that this conversation got some more attention!
I am seeing a trend for some commenters that they think I am unaware of disabling map chat. Just to clarify, I know you can customize your chat to what you do/don’t want to see, however there is a certain amount of interaction that takes place in “say” chat that would be awfully distracting for roleplayers. Even if this “distracting” talk wasn’t intentional, it can still happen and dampen the certain experience that I am trying to create. An RP server would help diminish the amount of distracting talk, in my opinion.
Another issue in this thread is that the word “isolation” is being morphed into “antisocial”. I’ve got plenty of buddies who RP with me, and I’m an all-around respectful, talkative person with other players. While other RPers are definitely in existence, they are quite often either shy or keep their RPs private and between close friends. So far, in order to RP in Guild Wars 2 you need to be apart of a specialized guild, get lucky, or go to a tavern.
I have read everything said on this thread so I could understand the opposing arguments, but after listening, I still believe that an official addition of an RP server would greatly benefit the community as a whole.
What’s the big deal? What would it hurt? What’s the worse that could happen if you did? How much work could it possibly be?
That’s pretty much the tl;dr version of everything I would want to say about this.
Very well put.
I think this has been a relatively eye-opening conversation.
I’m surprised by the amount of people who are strong in the idea of an unofficial server. I am just disheartened by the lack of roleplayers that I see in public places.
If anything, I remember in the development of the game that there was talk of having stages for the community to host their own plays, shows, etc. Perhaps just having more “things” to bring the community together would be what we need… Something besides the tavern-talks.
Anyway guys, thanks for the responses. While I really dislike having to wade through the inappropriate comments, It’d be worth it to hear a good idea.
Seriously, most peoples ideas of roleplaying is cyber sex.
i do know what roleplaying is i played pen and paper games for the better part of 22 years.
I love Roleplaying, but her is the skinny Jr.
between
Everquest
Fina Fantasy Online
World of Warcraft
Star Wars
Rift
Vanguard
Eve Online
DDO
CoV & CoH
GW 1
you, if you are a true Role Player like my self, will never find any good roleplaying on a MMO.
There are many great roleplaying groups in an MMO. All you need to do, Jr., is open your eyes to where you wouldn’t expect them to be. Friendliness doesn’t hurt either.
While pen and paper games are surely an incredible way to grow your imagination and play by your own rules with a close group of friends, the way humans interact with roleplaying is indeed changing. All I’m posing for is an emblem by the Tarnished Coast server name to show people where it is they are welcome.
Your comment about sex is already false as I do not roleplay for that reason, so begone with that, yo.
By the way, anyone who feels the need to call themselves a “true” anything is not that thing.
That’s a very valid point.
I can take off map chat, and try to ignore the pink Norns, but in the end, I don’t know which is worse: A few griefers, or quite a few non-roleplayers, (Not too sure what else to call them).
I personally find griefing to be a very rare instance, while non-roleplayers are a constant annoyance, but I see where you are coming from.
If there were to be stricter policies about conduct on the RP server, like was shown with the infamous karma weapon exploit, I think it could work out well.
Again, I think this is heavily dependent on how serious ArenaNet would take it, but you make a really good argument. Still, however, I’d like a designated RP server, and I’d like to take my chances with rare griefers that can be openly reported rather than open forum of anything and everything, where griefers cannot be reported for being rude.
Apologies if I misread your post as overly hostile when you didn’t mean them to be. It’s always difficult to understand a person’s individual inflection through text alone.
Goodness gracious, so hostile from even the kindest of statements.
I’m going to imagine that you aren’t a roleplayer, and thus do not understand the frustration that this issue ensues. That’s alright, but if you don’t have a proper understanding of the target audience, I don’t think you are the most qualified person to answer, or comment, to this inquiry.
I disagree with the notion that “the only thing it has ever accomplished is painted a target for grievers”. Community vigilance could pretty easily smash that down. World of Warcraft actually had a pretty well-controlled RP server.
If anything, I understand that this wasn’t a necessary feature to begin the game with, as moderating an RP server is something that isn’t as important as early game bugs. However Its been a few months now and I thought that these concerns should be brought to the table for the necessary part of the community to address.
Hello there,
I know that this subject comes up all the time, and I hope this doesn’t come off as rudeness at all:
Without the addition of an -official- roleplaying server, Tarnished Coast simply feels like any other server, except with roleplaying dialogue happening every now and again. The way I like to play is with those who love the lore and want to feel like their characters in the awesome world you created.
My immersion is broken when I see other players who do not play for the same reasons as me, (be it “LFG” spamming, legendary weapon flaunting, or generally whining about the game’s features).
Roleplayers are a reclusive bunch sometimes, and while the community is trying very hard to band together and create something great, I cannot help but feel that so many of my grievances, (along with many other’s) could be solved by simply adding an “RP SERVER” badge next to the server’s name.
If it is somehow impossible to do this, I would truly appreciate wondering why it was.
ArenaNet has created something incredible, and the roleplaying community wants to make the best of it, yet I feel ya’ll can’t help a brotha out.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this.