Guild Wars 2

Vena.8436:

The man who created GW1 PvP hasn’t been with ANet for years. .

Such a shame though

Jinks.2057:

ps. Remember the best parts of this game are WvW and PvE. Arena PvP is not

But most of the guys here would like sPvP to be equally good! How is it unfair or whatever to expect that when Anet spoke of sPvP being a place for esports, they would do something about it?
Currently sPvP is the forgotten kitten child that devs don’t seem to care about and players are increasingly leaving.
Why have sPvP at all if it is pretty much unusable anyway? Just scrap it and devote those few resources to WvW/PvE and noone will even whine about sPvP because it will be very obvious that it is not an sPvP game.
People expected GW2 to be the new GW1 in terms of sPvP but sadly…

mbh.8301:

Starflame.5301:

Well it was never fully alive in competitive terms. Unless I missed all those GW2 competitions and tournaments (and i don’t mean tPvP)

What are you talking about? The wall of champions has all the teams written down, but it’s just the same 5 guys winning over and over again so people don’t realize.

The “competitive” pvp in GW2 would be similar to having a group of local schoolkids (who may or may not be ridiculously good at the game, skill doesn’t really matter in this case) assembling some teams and having a “homemade” basketball tournament (tPvP), afterwards sticking a piece of paper with the winners (wall of champions).
No spectators/viewership, no big organized tournaments. no leagues, very very little fandom. And that was at the peak of times. Currently there are very few decent teams left and most of the better guys are long gone.
It is just that there were never any facilities to have a serious competitive scene in GW2 (transparent rating, leaderboards, custom arenas, spectator mode, etc, etc).

Gravity can be a beach to beat, right?

Well it was never fully alive in competitive terms. Unless I missed all those GW2 competitions and tournaments (and i don’t mean tPvP)

These should be done by Anet on a monthly basis at least.
But then again, they don’t really care

Forget about it. GW2 sPvP devs seem undermanned, underfinanced and less-than competent. Plus no one cares about having a PBE for testing balance, thus balance isn’t nowhere near “soon”. Anet seems to have forgotten about sPvP altogether. Just forget it and move on. Personally, GW2 is giving me the most misery for leaving. I expected so much from this game and it has so much potential…

But Anet just doesn’t care about sPvP.

Never left a game being so dissatisfied, just because I expected they would keep true to their word.

To be quite honest, I do not see any problem with having competitive PvP restricted to strictly solo and strictly premade teams. at least you would have a competitive scene. As it is, there is no possibility for competitive sPvP.

While it’s a whole different game, look at League of Legends.
Competitive = solo/duo queue or full premade.
And you have millions of happy players.
Maybe because those who want to play competitively are allowed to?

While I understand that some people may be pro out-of-your kitten archers, I actually welcome this change as there is no running forward while having you opponent smell your fiery balls of fart.
GW1 might have lacked this feature (yes, a feature) because the combat was more stationary in terms that you had to stand while casting. In GW2, due to being able to cast on the move this sort of must be in place, otherwise a lot of high-speed classes would become ridiculous