This is why I hate forums, a bunch of idiots like the guy who posted this. Conquest is the best game type for sPvP because of the following reasons:
1. Rotations. Knowing how to rotate is what wins you games.
2. Player vs player interactions for a node. Unlike Stronghold where you can bum rush the Lord.
3. Far more entertaining. Better than watching pve such as Stronghold.
4. They already tried other game modes such as team death match (Courtyard) and nobody liked it.
5. High tier pvpers don’t enjoy Stronghold. AG tried to get a Stronghold tourney but no one wanted to play Stronghold.
6. Conquest is the only game mode where player skill is required.
Going in response from the top down, this is gonna be good.
1- While knowing how to rotate in gw2 is important, it is not the only thing required that would determine player skill “if there is such a thing in gw2 SPvP at this point in time based off the current balance”. So therefore your point on this one is lacking.
2- You can literally have player interactions regardless of what game type you create for any purpose, death match you have players interacting with each other, capture the flag you have players interacting with not only each other but the flag as well, etc. Your point here is suggesting that unless it’s conquest there is no interaction, or less thereof. Which is clearly wrong, new game modes that implement new mechanics well should be encouraged.
3- Far more entertaining is a matter of opinion. However I’d be willing to bet that more people would be willing to watch a smaller game type than a larger one involving 5 man teams. If you don’t believe me then I could simply use blade and soul 3v3 tag team as an example. It gets more viewers and is easy to understand from a new spectators point of view, or a veterans, and has less players overall when it comes to players on each team. It seems to me that you’re just emotionally invested towards conquest regardless of how bad the game mode is to watch or to play. When most people think of conquest, they think of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SS0Ksz7RIs
The concept of that video still hasn’t changed today. A mess, a cluster kitten of players fighting in a circle, and when it comes to a spectators point of view people hardly understand what’s happening, not to mention the shout casters for the most part doing a poor job “which most of the time isn’t their fault” because it’s very difficult to call things other than “downstate” or some generic call because there is simply too many things happening at once.
So when you sit here and dribble nonsense from your mouth like “it’s more entertaining”, you’re the minority. Because only a small viewership on twitch agrees with you.
4- Courtyard wasn’t even a new game mode, it was an tacky poor implemented add on. Did it get it’s own que like stronghold? No. It was a slideshow of a feature with little effort involved and nothing more. Deathmatch could still be implemented in the game, however courtyard had to be the worst implemented version of deathmatch I’ve seen in a Mmo. And the solution to this problem is simple, and which there is more than 1.
- Make deathmatch round based, no respawn. Meaning for example if it’s 5v5, if one team kills the other team once, the round is over. And make it best of three rounds. This would simply fix why Courtyard was such an utter failure. The way courtyard was, if someone died they would simply run back in creating a snowball effect, because by the time they were to re-enter the fight, chances are their team is probably already dead. Therefore you tweak the game mechanics to where this doesn’t happen.
Not only would this work but it would encourage the people your playing with to stick together, rather than going in guns blazing like a bunch of mindless chickens with their heads cut off knowing they would simply respawn to try again.
- Make it some type of 3v3 team deathmatch tag match like blade and soul. It’s fun, engaging, and simple to watch. And with any of these suggestions I would say make the team consist of 4 people or less.
5- You’re right on the fact that only the minority of people enjoy stronghold, however saying that conquest will be the only viable game mode because of a failed design of stronghold makes no sense whatsoever. As a matter of fact I lost brain cells reading number 5 on your list. Because I was expecting legitimate reasons that conquest offered from your point of view that makes it good and the only logical choice of a game mode, but instead you blame another game mode of something that has nothing to do with conquest. Nice job, you’ve proved nothing.
6- Oh man, where do I even begin. In fact this is just outright laughable. I’d hate to see you play another game around a game type that didn’t consist of you fighting over a node/circle/thing on the ground. There are countless “no pun intended” other games, and game modes within those games to where player skill is required. Again you’re reinforcing your statement based off the fact that stronghold is a failure, and a-net hasn’t come out with a game mode yet that is a success. So of course Conquest is going to be the go to game mode by default.
But in short, this is what I don’t enjoy posts that come from people like you. Completely illogical, you brought nothing to the table in terms of an argument, and delusional in terms of opinion based off what I’ve read. Well have a good one, back off to play a game I enjoy but wont name because of risk of being infracted.
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