Ladder / ranking / custom tournaments - waiting for Anet Response

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/pvp/pvp/Ladder-ranking-custom-tournaments-waiting-for-Anet-response/page/2#post188369

ColinJohanson  Game Director

All three of these features are planned, yes. It is our tradition to not discuss in detail any feature until we have it fully implemented enough that we can talk about it with confidence, as we don’t want to promise a feature to work one way and then end up having it work a different way. We’ll save details on all of those until they are ready to be talked about.

Chaplan will be putting out a blog post in the next few days that summarizes where we stand with PvP right now, and where we’re headed. From there we’ll continue to update as other Esports features come online.

Our focus right now is making sure absolutely all of the potential issues/bugs with base tournaments and rewards are 100% cleaned up before we introduce any form of more serious competition. We’re also trying to make sure we’ve given enough time for the base strategies to develop, and for any skills/builds that are out of balance are identified. Once we’re totally convinced things are in a solid state, you’ll start seeing a roll out of major PvP esports features and we’ll get this thing going like crazy. Take this opportunity now to learn your classes, learn your builds, lockdown strategies for your teams and get ready! Once we start rolling out the esports features, it’ll build up rapidly from there.

Good.  The PvP community is growing impatient.  Its no lie that people are beginning to log on less or even leave, from your average joe to players on sponsored teams. 

Everybody is craving these features.

posted a few days ago

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/pvp/pvp/Ladder-ranking-custom-tournaments/page/4#post322008

Blog post is still coming, just has been pushed out about a week, it is written and sitting in locs hands!

We found some major issues with the tournament backbone we’ve spent the last couple of weeks focused on making sure it’s 100% right before we start expanding any other functionality. We’d hate to for example start doing say…tournaments with more meaning, and suddenly have you not get rewarded, not matched up properly, etc.

We’ve almost got all that stuff ironed out, soon as we do we’ll follow up with blog posts about our plan for PvP/E-sports in the coming months.

Thanks for your patience folks and sorry for the misquote on timing. we were under the impression that stuff would get up earlier and wanted to wait until we were 100% sure we knew how it’d work after addressing the issues we found before talking about it.

Thanks everyone! Once new features start turning on, you should see them, and our E-sports support growing on a pretty rapid basis. Our goal is to be faster than the timelines of other major recent esports games like LoL after they launched in the rate at which we roll out competitive features and make sure we’ve got all the major pieces needed for long term success up and running. We know it’s very important to you, and it’s very important to us to grow and build that competitive gaming community.

Best,
Colin

How about turning off free transfers which are ruining WvW?

That should have happened a month ago.

Well...

Anyone that thought that that was all in GW2... is just because they don´t know Arenanet....

...or they just expected the IMPOSSIBLE out of a MMO on its launch day....

Even during Beta Events they showed their cards...with that  "Hunger Game" event.....

Obviously they have many plans for PvP in the future...and they wanted to show us there!

I bet GvG & duels & many other PvP options are on their table...just have to give them some time ;)

GW2 is going to be (even more) A.W.E.S.O.M.E. in the next 4-6 months & next years !!!

This MMO is only 1 month old..... FFS....

I´m pretty sure they have plenty of AMAZING surprises fo us during the next months/years....!!!

I´ll be waiting ArenaNet!!!