Ladder / ranking / custom tournaments - waiting for Anet response

#1 - Sept. 11, 2012, 11:14 p.m.

Hi there,

I would like to know when

- there will be a ladder or different kind of ranking system
- when it will be possible to organize custom tournaments. I have prepared everything to organize tournaments in our community and i was really disapointed that its not in game yet ! So many work to get comentators / streamers / partners for tournaments.
- when there will be spectator mode?

these 3 things are important. People are starting to be bored after 14 days because there is no competition at all. Random tournaments even you fight organized groups doesnt make GW2 competitive game. Offten you get easy wins and only rarely a good fights.

So please tell me. When we can expect to have competition in sPvP?? And please dont tell “when its ready” because that was supposed to be 28.8.2012

ColinJohanson

#52 - Sept. 20, 2012, 7:42 a.m.

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.