Guild Wars 2

Celeras.4980:

This game hasn’t even been out a month. The blog post was mentioned last week at the earliest. And yet, here you are. Complaining about how long you’ve been ignored and how obviously, A.net doesn’t care.

That doesn’t seem a bit ridiculous to you?

Games materialize from thin air upon release, and there isn’t years of dev time before it. So you’re totally spot on and we’re all wrong, and we thank you for clearing it up.

hauskamies.9683:

You don’t need a crystal ball, you could’ve just watched the hundreds of youtube videos that had in-depth information about every aspect of the game. Yes, they did show the dungeons, the de’s, and the PvP. You can really only blame yourself for not taking the time to make an educated purchase choice.

If he had watched sPvP from beta videos, he’d of seen paid tournaments being functional.

Not the case now.

ColinJohanson.2394:

All three of these features are planned, yes. It is our tradition to not discuss in detail any feature until we have it fully implemented enough that we can talk about it with confidence, as we don’t want to promise a feature to work one way and then end up having it work a different way. We’ll save details on all of those until they are ready to be talked about.

Chaplan will be putting out a blog post in the next few days that summarizes where we stand with PvP right now, and where we’re headed. From there we’ll continue to update as other Esports features come online.

Our focus right now is making sure absolutely all of the potential issues/bugs with base tournaments and rewards are 100% cleaned up before we introduce any form of more serious competition. We’re also trying to make sure we’ve given enough time for the base strategies to develop, and for any skills/builds that are out of balance are identified. Once we’re totally convinced things are in a solid state, you’ll start seeing a roll out of major PvP esports features and we’ll get this thing going like crazy. Take this opportunity now to learn your classes, learn your builds, lockdown strategies for your teams and get ready! Once we start rolling out the esports features, it’ll build up rapidly from there.

How much longer do you expect us to wait? A blog post isn’t going to do much for us a month after release, when nearly every problem sPvP related remains unfixed. Hell, even tournament chests are broken again.

Point is, we’re well past your “early time to develop strategies” since this game is pretty low-skill and shallow. No more excuses.

allart.3746:

Actually there has been improvement. Do you remember in what tragic state was PvP at launch? nearly nothing worked, the structured servers were crashing every 2 or 3 hours. Now at least they work. But I agree it’s not enough and all the promised features need to be be online very soon.

There’s a big difference between launch day problems caused by server load, and in-game bugs. mechanics, lack of required features, and balance issues. We are concerned with the latter, which has not been touched, and has not been mentioned.

Zyd.4352:

Melony Songbringer.3864:

I don’t understand how you people can take these issues so calmly. I mean come on. WTF is Arenanet doing. At least address the issues at hand and make up some push over response to keep the masses happy.

It would be different if the entire section of the game known as S-PvP was fully working to begin with, without these additions that should of came stock but it is just adding insult to injury when S-PvP in it’s current form does not even work as intended.

We can’t do more than this, if we take an aggressive stance our threads are going to get deleted/locked and it’s not the purpose of this thread, we need answers and we need this features implemented, asap.

This. Devs are like timid little bunnies. If we get loud or aggressive, they’ll run away and never come back.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

You’ll just have to wait and see!

I’d love to hear what everyone is interested in seeing in the game, though. Keep it coming.

I’d like to see Anet respond to problems concerning structured and tournament PvP.

It would be like a holiday.

Zyd.4352:

Spaghetti.3862:

Intangible.1467:

bump – would love an Anet response.

We all would.

I like how they are ignoring us and replying to useless stuff

They’re making it pretty clear that the pvp is their side project.

Zyd.4352:

Dallas.2536:

these things are coming but i dont think they’ll come before people get bored and leave. its kind of like SWTOR taking 8 months to put out a rated system for PvP. who is going to play sPvP as it is for 8 months?

No one, if they want this game to be an eSport some day, they need to implement Custom Matchs/Tournaments and a ELO/MMR system, most of the people that is trying to play competitive is getting tired of the sPvP, there’s no way to make tournaments or to play against people of the same level and that’s really not good for any game that wants to be an eSport.

I’d say farther than “if they want it to be an Esport.” If they still want people to care about sPvP at all, they need to add these features, or at least say something, and they need to do it soon.

Thom.1862:

I play 2 toons a Thief and a Elementalist and personally I think a thief is far harder to play. It took me 4 days to get my Ele to 40 it took me far longer to get my thief to 40. Your by far the squishiest toon in the game, to do enough damage to make your toon effective you need to sacrifice health and toughness. When you go invisible and your targeted by a range toon you still get hit. If a Mesmer has one of its split personalities on you (for lack of a better term) your going to keep getting hit. Now if your seen coming you are going to be spammed by every AoE other players can throw at you. and HS really is not that powerful its only good against other Squishy toons. Any toon with high armor I hit for max 1500 with weapon damage at 3250 and about 3000 at 1/3 health, when it hits, about 1 out of 5 times it misses. I read someone here on this forum state that they saw someone hit for 24k in 4 hits please tell me how they did it because I have never do that much damage. I think I might of hit for 6k once since I’ve played PvP. I play alot of the random PvP with the PvP browser at level 80 with the free PvP gear. I do FAR better damage as an Elementalist than I do as a thief. All this whining is pathetic I bet if you took a look at the average times per PvP match the different classes die you’ll see that the thief is number one class that is killed on average per match. I bet if they did statistics on deaths/kill ratio you would see a this is one of the lowest on the food chain. If you nerf Heartseeker you’ll ruin the class, but that said I would gladly see HS be removed if I could get a boost in condition damage and another bleed skill.

How is leveling slower in PvE relevant to this Spvp discussion?

Also, you could try calling them clones, illusions, or phantasms. You can’t lack a better term when they have an official (in fact, multiple) term.

Random 8v8 pvp is not a good indicator of the balance in this game, and should never ever ever be looked at as such.

Stop calling them toons.

We genuinely accept that we will not get our missing chests.

All we ask is that you speak up about this bug. Across 10 pages, there is one thread.

The thread lists your “state of the game updates” and which posts are related to these chests.

Thread closed because it’s not about a bug. The bug being that we still aren’t getting chests.

So how about say something, or at least just let us know it’s bottom of the barrel low priority so your pvp community can move on.