I’m also a software developper and I’m pretty much agreed with you.
But think about one thing: the QP ladder was supposed to be integrated in game (“This method of displaying the QP’s is temporary until the full system comes online.”). Be honest with me, how long does it take to code it given the fact that they already gather the variable values in order to paste them on the forums? You and me know that it takes less than one day…
The same goes for the new matchmaking rating system. They haven’t implemented the new leaderboard yet.
The same goes for the observer mode and the private match systems, which can be developped in less than 2 months.
Share your thoughts here.
So… to sum up, sPvP is dead and it’ll be impossible to recover even with good patches just because it has lost 95% of its original population. It was obvious this was gonna happen… lots of people had already left before the new patches.
woho, posi gave me diz link and so true,
first it was temple of silent storm paid, and now it is forest (i think)
but before all of this happend i lost interest in this game… there is just no fun in doing the same, and having 3 maps, and qps that give nothing….
btw add me on LoL im called kireiqt xD
Dat Careih!!!
Dude, you quitted the game at the same time as me. You should go online and take a look about how many people are playing the game, lol… it’s freaking ridiculous…
I’ve been off since Jan 28th for obvious reasons (no new features, people quitting, etc).
I thought the game population had improved a lot because of new tournaments, matchmaking, etc… and all I see is:
-90% of my friend list offline (only the Curse guys are on)
-Good teams disbanded and those players quit (Fearless Team, Devils Inside…)
-Other good players quit (Lekira, Kirei, Tokyo, Tedsie, etc…)
-Best teams are not playing that much (Onibawan, CN…)
-People stopped streaming
Never try to kill a guardian with conditions, because most bunker guardians have HUGE condition removal (F2 removes 3 condition + every shout removes a condition or meditations remove your conditions)
I’m going to have to disagree with you, unless you are talking about every other class besides Necromancers.
Necromancers eat Guardian’s condition removal for breakfast.
Honestly, I can assure you that no necro in the game was able to kill me 1v1 even:
1. Me trying to eat the wells
2. He carrying full boon removal build.
The only necro who can kill (and close 1v1) a bunker guardian is a 1v1 no condition build with the Golem Elite (which no one uses).
I tried it with my guildmate Posi (which is well-known as being one of the best necromancers in the world) and it was impossible for him. Also I have had a bunch of duels in tournaments and I have never ever had a problem vs a necro.
If you play guardian smart enough (don’t eat wells, remove specific condition stacks), necro has not damage to kill you (even not using your elite).
As a bunker guardian myself, I can assure that necros are not able to kill a bunker guardian (assuming skill equity). You can kill a bunker guardian with:
1. A shatter Mesmer (the most common 20/20/0/30/30 used by everyone)
2. A 1v1 Ranger
3. A DPS Guardian (with the Meditations Oppa build)
4. A 1v1 Engineer Holder (like the one used by Magz from Onibawan) in a close space. The more-teamfight or not so holder engineers die to a bunker Guardian in 1v1 (like the build used by Avalca from Chieftain Ninjas)
Anyways, it all depends in the build of the bunker guardian, because there are teamfight-focused bunker guardians or block-focused bunker guardians.
Never try to kill a guardian with conditions, because most bunker guardians have HUGE condition removal (F2 removes 3 condition + every shout removes a condition or meditations remove your conditions)
Naito has said what I’ve been saying for ages. F2P sPvP!
That’s the only way for this PvP to attract people.
+ More people playing -> Famous game
+ More viewers
+ People will end buying either the skins or the full game -> More money to ANet -> Greater rewards for tourneys -> More players -> eSport
- Greater charge for the servers
- Recognising that nobody is playing sPvP
We want the PvP to triumph, be pro gamers and earn money thanks to streamings and tournaments. Now the question is on your side, ANet, do you want to have a successful PvP? Is doing our idea profitable for your business? Or just focus on the PvE which gives also a lot of money? Let us know.
You can see the effects of the patch. Nobody’s playing paids in EU, lol. It takes 30min to join a queue, when normally there’re 3 tournaments at the same time at 22:00.
What some people don’t understand is that we don’t complain because we think this will nerf us, it obviously wont. All the dominant teams will remain dominant for the simple reason that they’re playing better. We are complaining because we feel that this reduces the amount of plays you can do in the game. It reduces the complexity. People say ‘’you have to think about your build’’
No, I don’t. I’ll swap the nullfield to illusion of life and I’ll swap my pistol to focus. There is nothing deep about it.
In fact, this buffs us. When we are winning a team not as good as us, they won’t be able to change the match and lose inevitably.
This also buffs the imbalacing of the game: when there’s something overpowered (like a new unknown build), you won’t be able to counter it.
This makes the game MUCH MORE static and boring:
-Less global mobility
-Less variety of builds and situations. For example, now it’ll be weird to see a guardian with a hammer trying to decap a point in 1v1 (or even hammer dueling at kylho)
-Less usage of underpowered weapons. Who is gonna use Warrior’s Warhorn skills or Guardian’s Staff skills? NO ONE.
Forbidding people to change their amulets/runes/sigils/characters is fine, but skills and weapons? The old system was great, now it’s gonna be a pathetic static match.
I hope you guys reconsider this, because imho it’s not the way to go. I’m trying to give positive feedback but it’s hard because I can’t understand this change at all.
As you can expect, we DO want the game to be very successful. This is similar to a symbiosis:
-You guys earn money because the game gets more a more famous and played
-We earn money by playing tournaments
I also want the casuals to be as happy as “pros” because every game needs a huge amount casuals to be successful but this change doesn’t benefit anyone, only makes things worse.
Can we just have the loading screen bug back, please?
Because you just took a huge portion of skill out of the game.
This.
This game is getting more and more stupid. Instead of putting the things everybody wants (Observer, Ladder, Private matches, etc) they just kill their own game with this non-sense updates.
Nobody was complaining about this, and it gave more diversity and mobility to the game.
I seriously don’t get it, but this is getting hilarous; they don’t have the time to create important things, but they do have it to ruin the few things that work on the game.
I don’t know what else to say, I’m wordless right now, I feel this guys are teasing me.
You cant have a SUPER CASUAL game and e-sport at same time.
You cant see enemy names, there is NO reward like rp’s to keep you playing, so why do it?
oh wait, because its fun…..yea
SUPER CASUAL people are the key for a game to triumph. LoL is so famous because of casuals. <10% play rankeds, <1% play 1500+ ELO rankeds.
I have around 300 tournament tickets so I don’t have that problem, but I do understand 5 tickets are too much for almost everybody, and that’s why not too many teams are playing.
A ladder should be implemented SOON, because playing against same skilled people is a MUST. If you lose and lose and lose all over again because only the best guilds are playing, no one will keep playing in 2 weeks.
Wow. That’s sad news…
Actually, it’s normal, ArenaNet has taken too much time releasing sPvP stuff that nobody is interested in. I do want it becoming an eSport, but unfortunately it doesn’t look like one.
Hi,
my guildmates and I were excited about the paid tournament launch but we are not able to join even a single game. The queue always remains at 1/8 groups registered.
What’s the problem? Is there some kind of bug or it is just nobody is playing? lol
