Guild Wars 2

I’ve had extremely good 5v5 fights in WvW. If given an arena with sufficient room, a 5v5 deathmatch could last a while. The problem with the point capture maps is the pvp is all concentrated mostly on the points and people get gibbed fast. Give people room to roam like in WvW and you’ll see fights lasting much longer.

And one trick pony thief / warrior quickness builds will get slaughtered by good team dynamics, like guardians, rangers to root/ push away, or mesmers to use portal to give teammates a huge kiting possibility.

Plus, if you don’t wanna play 5v5 deathmatch, don’t. No one is forcing you too. Bottom line is though that point capture pvp is zzzzz.

A lot of players don’t like the “Arathi Basin” style point control games. My 50 man guild would muuuuch prefer a simple 5v5, or 5v5v5v5, style matchups where last team standing wins. This was in the original guild wars and was the most fun we had in pvp in that game.

Going even further than the above, putting 10 5 man teams in a large enough arena and having them duke it out would be amazing. Defending arbitrary capture points and killing npcs is NOT what I call fun in pvp, sorry.