Guild Wars 2

Gw2 combat is very rough and unpolished (bad animation,effects ,balance etc). Combined with completely borked ladder/tournament ( hotjoin which is its own game totally different from tourneys) there is very little population actually interested in spvp.

Can it be salvaged? Maybe, but not with the current level of efforts arena.net puts into it

So I returned to play this game and first issue I notice is this lol. Anyways I experience this as well and my fps drops to single digits if zoomed in and using grenades on my engineer – any greanade causes it . 60-70 fps without smoke, drops to 20 when not zoomed in and under 10 when close up

PowerBottom.5796:

I can probably agree on most of your Post, but there is a thing I want to explore a bit more:

You name all those features, yet some of them are incredibly more pressing than others IMHO. Many of your features simply accomodate casuals and solo-q’ers and atm I think that GW2 offers more than enough to them. What’s truly hurting right now is the support for high-level competetive Teams.

So even though those Players/Teams are the ones that would drive GW2 forward as an e-Sport, would help to establish a competetive scene, show the world how complex and fun the Game is by streaming high-level play etc. they got almost nothing for months and tons of Teams left and opportunities passed by

I think this is one of the reason this game is dying . e-sport doesnt occur in a vaccuum. Nor it is actually the product of few “pro-teams”. Its is quite the opposite – esport happens when the game is popular first place, where is large casual population who is genuinely interested in the game.

They play game and understand it well enough to follow the actual competitive events , they are the fan base ,the spectator base – they are the ones who make it possible . No one would follow any esport if they dont know whats going on. and thats the case with spvp in gw2. No one cares, no one plays .

That is biggest problem with tournaments and hotjoin firstplace. The tournaments are nothing like hotjoins (which are more of a deathmatch arenas) and no casual ever stepped into tournaments for logistic reasons ( you need to find and/or organize a team)

All successful esport games (SC, LoL) have soloq with ladders. All pro players in those games came from soloq ladder ( not jumped straight into competing for $$$ prize events out of nowhere). Even if we talk about not very successfull esport but very popular pvp game (number wise) which is WoW arena – most players who started played are casuals who dueled/world pvp/ran BG before, not some self proclaimed pros

Spectator mode is nice to have but not necessary (LoL only recently got it) .What is necessary is soloq (5v5 not 8v8) and ladder

Tournaments in GW2 were an island of its own and no one but few hardcores cared about it . Now with paid tournament gone the hardcores stopped caring but casuals never started ( they still have hotjoin , why even bother with tourneys?) .

There was this hardcore game called bloodline champions, which focused on precisely hardcore arena. It is pretty much dead and was always obscure. – the consequence of focusing on pre-made teams at the expense of everything else