Guild Wars 2

witcher.3197:

superseven.1058:

witcher.3197:

-1, horrible way to spend resources. Developing a gamemode for what, 100 people per region? You can’t be serious. Besides the combat system was simply not designed for that.

The scene isn’t as busy now, but at its height I’d peg it at a few thousand per region. That’s with an unofficial game mode.

If there were some mechanic to allow guilds to fight outside of their tier (that isn’t color-based like EotM), the competition would be better. I think it would also open it up to more casual guilds that don’t GvG but see it as another activity to do on a large scale, a la Guild Missions.

You need too many players for a team. Qs would be dead for 20-22 hours a day, with no matchmaking. Because of the size of the rosters, 99% of the gw2 community would never get to experience it. It’s a bad investment for Anet.

I wouldn’t go with a Q mechanic. Something closer to LFG tool might make sense. I agree it will probably be empty outside of NA prime, though.

witcher.3197:

-1, horrible way to spend resources. Developing a gamemode for what, 100 people per region? You can’t be serious. Besides the combat system was simply not designed for that.

The scene isn’t as busy now, but at its height I’d peg it at a few thousand per region. That’s with an unofficial game mode.

If there were some mechanic to allow guilds to fight outside of their tier (that isn’t color-based like EotM), the competition would be better. I think it would also open it up to more casual guilds that don’t GvG but see it as another activity to do on a large scale, a la Guild Missions.

SobeSoul.6910:

GvG being unwatchable is not an opinion. It is a fact. There’s no camera that can cover the entire thing or single out intricate play. If you showed it to someone outside of the GW2 player base, they wouldn’t be able to distinguish much from it.

Why sink resources into a mode that you couldn’t promote on Twitch or where ever? It would be silly.

If you don’t understand whats going on while watching, that’s fine. However, there are plenty of people that do. Admittedly it’s harder to see whats going on from a players PoV (which is how most fights are recorded and shared), a spectate-style camera would do just fine capturing the best moments of a fight.

And it can certainly be promoted on Twitch. Guilds fighting guilds in Guild Wars 2? Easy enough. And the fact that an -unpromoted- GvG that Fallen screenshotted (http://postimg.org/image/z4husdh3j/full/) had nearly the same number of viewers as the ESL tournament is a good sign. The demand is there.

Melanion.4892:

I actually disagree. The new stronghold map that is going to be integrated into regular 5v5 sPvP is completely satisfactory, has no bugs or innate flaws in its game mode, and it will definitely draw a host of new players into the game to pvp.

Lol. Sarcasm is fun.

Anet’s not going to do anything about this. For them, PvP is zergs or 5v5. Nothing else matters. The best way to show them how wrong they are is not to buy the expansion and stop playing their game. You buy an expansion for new content that you will actually want to play. This will not come from HotS, so don’t bother with it. Simple as that.

You must be fun at parties.

On a more positive note, this is probably the most solid effort from ‘us’ since launch. If the outpouring of support is any indication, we may at least have an opportunity to open some sort of dialogue with Anet on the topic.

Keep spreading the word!

+1, well written Fallen.

I’ve made countless friends over the years and spent an exorbitant amount of money on transfers, gear, etc. specifically for GvG-related play. I probably spend more time raiding/scrimming than I do any other game mode as I’m sure a lot of you do. I’d love to see Anet devote at least -some- resources to exploring the idea of a raid-scale competitive mode, whichever form it might take.

Let’s get the ball rolling.