Ladder / ranking / custom tournaments

#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

#50 - 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.

ColinJohanson

#155 - Oct. 2, 2012, 5:54 a.m.

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