Guild Wars 2

“TLDR: PvP is dying because of lacking content for aspiring new players and those in between the casual/hardcore area. A ladder/matchmaking needs to come as soon as possible to create a playfield that is enjoyable no matter how good you are at the game and helps you grow as a player.”

Good will, but, it is impossible.

First, by the nature of any competitive sport, there is no painless way to let player grow. As normal person, someone must be beaten to grow to a good player.

when talking about aspiring new players, all we need is nice balanced and beautiful fight. We already have nice play field designed.

Ideally, the free tournament is the place for new team to build up and train there skills, hot join is the causal players play for fun. Paid tournament is where the hardcore time will play for price. Then, later on we will have custom game of course. Plus, the WvW is also a part of PVP, although it is not sPVP it still help players join the PVP.

By the nature of GW, sPVP it is team base game, remember before really think joining tPVP. You have to have a team, the game won’t give you team, but you have to build it up. That’s something beyond the game itself. Read a little about the most successful team e-sport game (CS so far, dota also coming up), we will learn from there. How many teams in the world you can name it? How many “new players” or new team come up each year? Did they death?

If someone is causal player, we have hot join and WvW for you. Also, don’t forget, we enjoy the game not only by playing it, but also by watching top player performing. I believes, later on more and more player will form teams, because we rise team from WvW, we know new friends. Also, when it start really tournament that paying out real good amount of cash, it will rise the number of sPVP players.

Well, sometimes you down very fast when facing thief, true. But remember, fight start after your down. If you are talking about 1v1 only, you can choose some counter class against them.

It just not coming yet.

GW1 done a such nice job, so we believes 2 will archive ti sooner or later. But, of course, balance take time, it only been 2 months.

Good post.

but, you should add a point there :

You don’t have to do all these by yourself. You HAVE TO give you back to you allies same how.

The bunker is built to hold a point as long as possible to get points. I don’t know how to counter them in this term. Yes, I might kill them, but, not faster enough.

But, do I have to “counter” a bunker? Do you ? That’s the real question.

Know your place and stand where you should be. It is not a 1v1 game, play smart. Video is just for watching for fun. Yes, I sometimes get kill by second just because I am not in the right place.

I play only support build, not DPS. It just follow by what I play from GW1 and later on WOW. I am quite happy that those DPS use all skills on me and try to kill me.

Bunker is the really issue, it is not unbalanced, but it is boring the games out. However, it can be balance by maps, just change the map. The point holding is not a good model in my view. Remember all ways remember a important point: Beside the skills, maps also balance the game.

Let see for Tournaments. Also, take more time, thief might be easy at the beginning, but later on others might find out how to deal with it.

Braxxus.2904:

NeoO.2960:

We have enough nice balanced 1v1 game we can play, why need another one?

We do? Where?

Tor? Wait, no.

WoW? No, hmm…

AoC… no

WAR… kitten nope. I’ll keep looking

TSW, CO, etc etc? Nope… well crap…
kitten all these 1v1 games must be stealthed.

(Unless you mean FPS games in which case true, but wrong genre/style)

If taking 1v1 only, I won’t consider this game much different from KOF, street fighter etc. A lot of video games doing nice on 1v1 even I did not play much.

Depend on what you need, I play GW1 and I come for group playing, not solo. It is almost impossible to balance 1v1 and 5v5 at the same time.

Balanced on 1v1? Yes, it is already balanced, just play same class and you get it.

Approach to 1v1 balanced is wrong patch to take. We have enough nice balanced 1v1 game we can play, why need another one?I don’t know why I will come to this game for a 1v1 match up, pointless.

Causal players don’t worry much about balanced, they are looking for fun. Once you give them enough way to have fun, they don’t care about balance as much as the GVG hardcore player.