I’ve got a question for all you die hard achievement hunters. What happens if your power cuts out, Internet goes down, you end up in the hospital, vacation, etc. Do you call one of your friends to play your account to finish dailies?
The playerbase is too small for an esport. PvP must become free to play for esports to even be a possibility.
You do realize dota and league aren’t the only esport games?
An esport needs to be large enough so somebody who doesn’t even play the genre knows the game.
1) LoL – free to play
2) Dota – free to play
3) World of tanks – free to play
4) SC2 – $35
The only one not free to play is sc2, which already had enough of a following from brood war to support a buy to play game. Note that dota and lol came after starcraft, but have more viewers and players.
My friends can say “play lol with me, just a 30 min download.”
I must say “pay $40 for a game you might not like to play pvp with me.”
Thank you for confirming there are only 4 esport games ever out. Very good sample bias. So much for counter strike, street fighter, Warcraft 3, etc. I’m trying to show you it isn’t a requirement to become an esport.
Making the pvp portion of the game f2p won’t suddenly make this game esports. There is a reason the pvp portion of this game is small and it’s not because of the reasons you listed
The answer to this is simple stop doing dailies nobody cares about achievement leaderboard. Stop making petty threats that you are quitting you are obviously masochists which is the reason you spend your free time on things you don’t enjoy.
I haven’t gotten any ascended weapons nor will I bother with the armor. I mostly do fractals for pve and I don’t see why they can’t have them available through laurels/fractal relics/wvw badges instead of only crafting
Never. For starters esports games all have something in common they are easy to follow as a spectator or fellow player. What we have here is tonnes of ai cluttering the screen, leprechauns whose skill animations which are difficult to read and lastly particle effects. The Conquest mode isn’t entertaining there are no clutch plays maybe legacy but that’s it the game is the same from start to finish. The skill ceiling is pretty low. You can roll a hammbow/spirit ranger/etc and go out and faceroll
Also when Devs release maps such as spirit watch which as a total flop then follow it up with sky hammer then it really shows that they have no idea what they are doing
I rarely play sylvari only reason I have one is for a cheesy skyhammer engi build. Everytime I do a regular jump be it standing still or moving he makes an annoying grunting sound like he is doing #2. I play Norn and Charr mainly and they never make these sounds unless it’s from a high fall
They should implement a feature where you can standardize all enemies to be a certain race such as Norn. Asurans do have an advantage this game is about reacting to enemy skills it’s kind of hard to do that when a leprechauns telegraphs are barely visible. This game doesn’t have cast bars so you have to rely on reading opponents animations
It happens because players join pvp tournament matches and then log out.
The match start when there’s all the players and don’t allow the change of group members.
If players log-out is not the fault of ANet, it is the fault of players. ANet can’t force the players to stay and fight if they log-out.
But if you leave more than X matches you receive a debuff that make you unable to join PvP matches for 48+ hours. ANet can’t do more than that.
Yes they can. Have you ever played counter strike global offensive? When you search for a match and it finds 10 players they all have to click ready within 10 seconds if not then it goes back to searching mode.
Also the afk/leaver debuff pretty much does nothing. They need more immediate punishment not 3 games left or whatever. It should be first game left or afk you get a 2 hour ban then the second 24hrs etc. If the debuff actually effected anyone you would hear people creating threads here complaining about it
To the person who keeps saying top stats should get better rewards never played a bunker I assume? Points mean nothing there are a lot of different factors that aren’t tracked by points.
I’m not at the office so I can’t look it up, but if I remember correctly, you get more gold for LOSING Team Arena than you’d get for WINNING a CA/hotjoin match.
Why on earth would you reward someone AT ALL for losing? I can’t really see how that can work..won’t this encourage afk players or people bsing around for free money…
Also I don’t see how gold in hotjoins can make any sense. Maybe the steam on friday will clear things up.
I agree I stated this before. Pve players will flock to pvp because they can now get into games go semi Afk and still be rewarded for losing. There should be no gold reward for losing. You will see people give up early because they will still be getting rewarded even though it will be less than the winning side
No. There aren’t enough players for this. How do you know when the system should replace a player after 1-2mins of d/c? After that it has to pick another player from a small pool with similar mmr. In that time frame the game will already be lost. The player who just joined has no idea what is going on when thrown into a game midway
Leaderboard mean nothing. I use to be like you doing every single daily everyday. Until one day I was like this is so pointless there is no real competition for pve achievement points it just comes down to who was here first and time. If you weren’t here from release you will never have a shot at getting anywhere near the top 1k
They suspended me for “Gasmic” too.
Makes me want to quit.
I mean honestly… what even IS a Gasmic?
Probably similar to orgasmic anet bans innocent players that think they are trying to work around their inappropriate name policy but they aren’t. My war was banned for Rapid Penetration
i hate the PUGs sometimes, like every time I do dredge with a PUG they want to use that lame trick with the plank and then the one at cliffside always hugging that boss, and it’s not even patched.
I hate lame lame lame bugs like that. the PUGs in this game are way too hardcore and always use these lame tricks to circumvent the intended gameplay.
Blame anet for taking over a year to fix simple things
The most frequent issue is the r10 crowd playing like total idiots.
Arenanet really should just group people of similar rank together 0-19 20-39 40-59 and so on.
There aren’t enough people playing pvp for that. Anet can’t do a lot of things because of how small the population is. They need to solve that issue before working on anything else
There wont be much difference climbing the leaderboards you will still be paired with zergers along with 4v5. Your best bet is to find a team and do team queues
Yep solo queue you rarely get players that cap and defend. Was trying to bunk mid we capped it I stayed to defend it. 4 of my team mates rush home to kill 1 player. They just kept zzerging around it’s worse than hot join. You also get players that chase other players off point halfway across the map while the enemy 3 caps us. When your team finally does end up capping they just all abandon the point to rush to far and eventually get wiped because the enemy can easily reinforce far. When I asked my team why they didn’t want to stay near and defend the points one dude stated I’m not a Guardian bunker…
I’ve been doing dredge since the start of fractals. I’m guessing you guys just got into it. Learning the tricks is always necessary for challenging content such as this one. proper team synergy and utility skills are required. You can’t just barge into it and keyboard-mash your way through, you need to be smart about it. Anet doesn’t need to nerf something that a knowledgeable team can skate through with little trouble. The playerbase needs to become more knowledgeable.
There is nothing challenging about dredge. The issue is the time to beat it is long and you can’t do much especially when move trickle out of the car slowly for 8-12mins
Here’s a suggestion: kill the boss WITH his adds in front of the car. Too hard? Try a level 20.
What is with your condescending attitude? This thread is about pugs your average pug won’t be killing the boss and mobs at the same time. Speed running this means little because you can do for same with other fractals and cut the time down immensely. Anet did state previously they were reworking fractals and wanted to look into reducing the time to complete dredge.
I’ve been doing dredge since the start of fractals. I’m guessing you guys just got into it. Learning the tricks is always necessary for challenging content such as this one. proper team synergy and utility skills are required. You can’t just barge into it and keyboard-mash your way through, you need to be smart about it. Anet doesn’t need to nerf something that a knowledgeable team can skate through with little trouble. The playerbase needs to become more knowledgeable.
There is nothing challenging about dredge. The issue is the time to beat it is long and you can’t do much especially when move trickle out of the car slowly for 8-12mins
Same reason sorrows embrace path 2 gives 1 gold and I’m still getting greens and blues from fractal chests. Anet struggles with balancing rewards zerging around champs while half Afk gives better rewards
Spoiler: there was always a rare chance to get them in the 10-20ish. The only change we made was to make them skins so you can apply them without spending a transmutation stone.
I’ve never heard of anyone getting a fractal weapon lower than 20
The real question is: why hasn’t it been removed yet? I’ve read countless complains about this since soloQ has been introduced (and more when it was in the teamQ rotation)
Simple the Devs invested time into it and can’t let go that it’s a failure so they are trying to salvage it. It’s like a sunk cost. They just can’t let go
Not sure why the op thinks he/she needs voip to do fractals. I’ve had quick 40min runs of fractal 48 without usin voip. If you don’t have friends you can easily add players that you played with. Like another poster said anet can’t please everyone.
Arena always punishes hardcore players and makes them leave the game, like in GW1 when everything was made easy.
hahahahahaha.. hahaha.. (cough) sorry. Everything easy in GW1? I just started playing it last month. Everything is not easy (oh yeah.. hardmodes, underworld.. such a faceroll right?) What a silly statement. Thanks for the laugh. :P
He was talking about the past you do know gw1 has been out for like 7 years? You’ve admitted you’ve played for 1 month yet you talk as if you were there since the release
GW2 Players last year:Put clothes or armor in the geme GW2 Players several months ago: No more towns clothes, more armor GW2 Players today: No more armor in gem store.
No pleasing the masses.
What masses? The forum community makes up a small portion of the game then you read a few anecdotes and start thinking they speak for everyone
Let the prices be expensive because I sure as hell do not want everyone to start running around with those weapons.
People who do spend real money should have the “prestige” of owning a nice skin. Besides, you do not have to spend real money on it and you can farm your gold and convert them to gems. They are luxury items, just as in real world, you can get free cheap giveaway pens, or you can spend over 100$ on a Parker plume just because you have the money to blow on things like that.
So prestige these days involves opening your wallet to pay for skins.
Anet purposefully made the camera zoomed in because of combat awareness. Now I don’t agree with this myself all it does is make it so I have to constantly keep rotating the camera
I have to keep rotating the camera because every monster seems to be designed to try to run through me to get behind me. Not just ranged ones (or the allover the place Tamini) so they can hit me in the back. Even melee monsters will run up to me and always go about two steps behind. After the thousandth time when I know. “Ok those monsters will run up to me and go slightly behind so I stop attacking and have to do a 180 and re-attack” gets annoying (for me at least).
Also with regards to earlier mentioned FoV, I really wish there was some way to increase it. I have to play more zoomed out on my characters than I’d like or else it feels too claustrophobic. I wish I could play on the second closest zoom where I can see all my toons in glorious detail but the left and right are so confined that it makes it an uncomfortable experience. It’s not my zoom distance that’s the problem here but the FoV. So many other games I’ve played with my characters at that distance from the camera without the same feeling (even if it required ini editing it was doable like in 3rd person mode in Skyrim for example).
I would not try changing the FoV through editing a file or using a software anet stated it gives the player doing it an advantage so you can get banned.
Anet purposefully made the camera zoomed in because of combat awareness. Now I don’t agree with this myself all it does is make it so I have to constantly keep rotating the camera
