Originally posted by Ramonski7

I don't know where they are mining their data from but sPvP is the portion of the game I have the least desire to participate in anymore. I tried to enjoy the arena but with the terrible auto-balancing (I heard they applied a fix to it) and the huge grind (I think I only hit tier 7 of 10 with the achievement bar), I simply decided to move on. Crazy how I'm sitting on half a dozen or so tournament tickets and have no desire to use them as I know I'll just be steamrolled without a proper team.

 

Just goes to show you that not every feature is for every player.

GW2 does not and even with this update have "arenas" 

Originally posted by bcbully

Originally posted by Ramonski7

I don't know where they are mining their data from but sPvP is the portion of the game I have the least desire to participate in anymore. I tried to enjoy the arena but with the terrible auto-balancing (I heard they applied a fix to it) and the huge grind (I think I only hit tier 7 of 10 with the achievement bar), I simply decided to move on. Crazy how I'm sitting on half a dozen or so tournament tickets and have no desire to use them as I know I'll just be steamrolled without a proper team.

 

Just goes to show you that not every feature is for every player.

GW2 does not and even with this update have "arenas" 

Semantics. For all intents and purposes structured PvP maps are arenas.

Originally posted by bcbully

Originally posted by Ramonski7

I don't know where they are mining their data from but sPvP is the portion of the game I have the least desire to participate in anymore. I tried to enjoy the arena but with the terrible auto-balancing (I heard they applied a fix to it) and the huge grind (I think I only hit tier 7 of 10 with the achievement bar), I simply decided to move on. Crazy how I'm sitting on half a dozen or so tournament tickets and have no desire to use them as I know I'll just be steamrolled without a proper team.

 

Just goes to show you that not every feature is for every player.

GW2 does not and even with this update have "arenas" 

Sorry it's just my way of seperating tournaments from hot join

Judging only for what it is the spvp dept.

I like how frank the blog was talking like a true pvper. If these issues are beign attended to-it must be becouse they are tracking down spvp.

right now there is so much i have been covering outside spvp-that this dosent really appeal to me atm.

Dungeons and wvw are my interest atm,spvp will come later...

Originally posted by Creslin321

Yeah I liked this post, though I think spectator mode should have been a priority 1 feature as well.

sPvP as it stands now is fun, but IMO, is missing too many features to get an eSport following yet.  The core is there, I truly believe that the basic PvP gameplay in GW2 is good enough for eSport level competition...but it really needs features that make it easier to setup matches, and spectate/replay for commentators to make videos about.

SC2 had an AWESOME replay/spectate feature, and I think that is by and large what caused so many YouTube videos to be made about it.

All those features are planned to be added to the game at some point. I can't wait to have them!!

ESports, ugh.

It'll be interesting to see if the PvPers will put their money where their mouth is and support this.

I'm glad that premade groups become a possibility. Current sPVP is too much like RA in GW1. Which is not really interesting except for toying around with your build.

As for spectator mode. Personally I only find that interesting for watching the top teams. So current sPVP's random teams is just not interesting for me. Makes sense to introduce premade team based sPVP first and spectator after that.

As for the tickets, I wish this was just a gold entry fee or something. I really hope they are cheap enough to buy with ingame gold. Comparable with chest keys or something. It is nice to see that they also give gems as prizes.

The custom arenas sound really cool, but I wonder how you 'rent' them.

Originally posted by Rockniss
^^ put some more tape on your glasses man, he just said what he would like.

Maybe you should, reread what I wrote.  I stated that in an earlier blog post that gw2 stated they have devoted dev teams for different parts of the game.  So saying you want them to concentrate on something else that this team doesnt work on seems kind of silly to me.  But then I guess I do expect some common sense and practicality when it comes to the world.

Well, there it goes.. Off to the E-Sport "professional" gaming side of things where fun goes completely out the window for the sake of some sort of "perfect" balance and tournament competition..

Every MMO I have played with any sort of  arena has had people complain about how it's not E-Sport enough (Rift and SWTOR forums were awful about this) and when the changes start to roll in while the QQ's compound on the forums with the 'nerf wars', the games' vision is lost in the process and it no longer even feels like an MMO anymore especially at max level.

But we'll see what happens..

Originally posted by azmundai

sPVP is the worst part of the game imo .. this doesn't look to change it all that much.

I was bored with this game after level 40 .. killing all the exact same mobs in different zones and zerging down dynamic events that dont really change the world in any meaningful way .. all while pretending the yellow bars aren't a quest grind got boring way too fast. even Orr is just boring. run to the orange thing, cast aoe, run to the next orange thing on the map, cast more aoe .. so boring.

crafting looked awesome at first glance .. except that the discovery system is really just discovering the exact same patterns over and over again with Fangs instead of Tiny Fangs .. who cares? Cooking was fun and probably the only reason I actually made it all the way to 80 .. but even WvW is just boring. 90% of the time I was either banging on doors in an empty keep, or begging for more than 5 people to show up to the fully upgraded keep holding the orb, only to watch it get destroyed .. depending on which week it was.

i already cancelled my sub, so .. w/e .. /srsnod

Cancelled your sub?  I'm intrigued.  How did you manage that in a subscription-free game?

Originally posted by jayarte

Originally posted by azmundai

sPVP is the worst part of the game imo .. this doesn't look to change it all that much.

I was bored with this game after level 40 .. killing all the exact same mobs in different zones and zerging down dynamic events that dont really change the world in any meaningful way .. all while pretending the yellow bars aren't a quest grind got boring way too fast. even Orr is just boring. run to the orange thing, cast aoe, run to the next orange thing on the map, cast more aoe .. so boring.

crafting looked awesome at first glance .. except that the discovery system is really just discovering the exact same patterns over and over again with Fangs instead of Tiny Fangs .. who cares? Cooking was fun and probably the only reason I actually made it all the way to 80 .. but even WvW is just boring. 90% of the time I was either banging on doors in an empty keep, or begging for more than 5 people to show up to the fully upgraded keep holding the orb, only to watch it get destroyed .. depending on which week it was.

i already cancelled my sub, so .. w/e .. /srsnod

Cancelled your sub?  I'm intrigued.  How did you manage that in a subscription-free game?

I LOL'd all over myself..

Maybe he had that already typed out in a notepad txt and just copy pasta?

Because you know, most MMO's are the same anyway, so why not?

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Originally posted by azmundai
sPVP is the worst part of the game imo .. this doesn't look to change it all that much.

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Arena is part of what ruined pvp in WoW and Blizzard actually admitted it was a bad idea, sPVP and tPVP better remain as is.

PS- oh yeah you cancelled your sub... I'm sure Anet will notice that. :P

Originally posted by TeknoBug

 

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Originally posted by azmundai
sPVP is the worst part of the game imo .. this doesn't look to change it all that much.

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Whoa, I think sPVP is the BEST part of the game!

 

Arena is part of what ruined pvp in WoW and Blizzard actually admitted it was a bad idea, sPVP and tPVP better remain as is.

PS- oh yeah you cancelled your sub... I'm sure Anet will notice that. :P

They'd have a difficult time noticing the cancellation of a subscription to a game which does not require one.