Guild Wars 2

Solion.9658:

In short.. my seething desire to just flip a fuggin table is at its highest right now. Exactly who on your team thought it would be a good idea to put vistas and poi’s INSIDE enemy fortresses, he must go home and kick kittens at night..

Yeah, shame on developers for making you play the game!

Danikat.8537:

SandBearSurprise.5934:

it’s like an option to block trade and/or duel requests wouldn’t ever be considered if any of these things were implemented.

I’m not convinced blocking requests would work. It’d be like GW1 where every guild had that one guy endlessly spamming chat with “Any1 1v1?”

Substance E.4852:

SandBearSurprise.5934:

it’s like an option to block trade and/or duel requests wouldn’t ever be considered if any of these things were implemented.

But then people wouldn’t have any “legitimate reason” to say no and would instead have to acknowledge that they don’t want it because it would offend their delicate carebear sensibilities.

accountability and responsibility are both triggers for me can you please be more sensitive? don’t put things into games that i have to consciously opt out of please.

gobax.6185:

Yea. Why implement a change if its barely noticeable. It doesnt make sense. Im sure people will notice it.

RIP tool belt rocket you will be missed

it’s like an option to block trade and/or duel requests wouldn’t ever be considered if any of these things were implemented.

ArchonWing.9480:

I’d rather be downed, then outright defeated. Downed is more forgiving to new players…

This game should just add a tutorial and be done with it.

that’s how you get to level 2 :-)

I feel like you have to be kind of trying to go into downstate before 5. Just hit the monsters or use your heal skill.

~Welcome to PvE~

Guild Wars 2 PvE is as competitive as high level, high stakes Minesweeper, and the PvP is roughly on the same level as Tic Tac Toe. To say otherwise would be ignorant of the important factors of both games.

In Minesweeper, the player is pitted against the ruthless, capricious intelligence of a computer. The same intelligence that is able to do calculations faster than a human mind can. Yet, through careful play and mastery over the intricacies of the metagame, one is able to overcome the Minesweeper in no time at all. Now, one may ask, “it is 2014, why do people still play Minesweeper?” There are two answers. The first is by mistake – nobody willingly clicks on Minesweeper unless they are old and downloaded so many bars for Internet Explorer that their computer would be able to run TERA on maximum settings more efficiently, or they placed it next to Guild Wars 2 (great games belong together :~)). The other reason being that they have found a way to make a normally mindless, storyless game one of the best things since single celled organisms found out that oxygen is rad and should be inhaled more.

As for PvP and Tic Tac Toe, both of them are used to settle disputes or are used to pass the time quickly. In Hotjoin PvP, there is much debate between the players as to which side is a better fit for them. Should I be aggressive and passionate like the Red team? Or should I be pensive and flowing like Blue? Additionally, there are often instances that players will tell each other to engage in the act of “1v1 me scrub”. This is when the system (PvP in Guild Wars 2, Tic Tac Toe) is used to settle a dispute – in most cases, this is which competitor possesses more skill than the other. This automatically gives both Tic Tac Toe and PvP a more competitive air.

Now there are some people who have taken this game to the next level – competitive Tic Tac Toe, and Solo queue/Esports PvP. In this game modes, there is no debate over which side one plays – it is not an issue. One is simply assigned Red or Blue, “X” or “O”. These matches are not played to idly pass the time like the more casual versions – they are high stakes matches with potential rewards on the line.

It is very rare to see this level of dedication in the Minesweeper community. There is very little variance in the patterns that a computer can generate, whereas the ever evolving metagame in both PvP and Tic Tac Toe can lead to what are referred to as “Big Plays for Big Players”.

In short, it is folly for one to even consider Minesweeper or PvE more competitive than Tic Tac Toe or PvP – that is not to say that they are both equally fun, or equally lacking fun.