Question about ongoing development

#1 - March 2, 2014, 5:18 p.m.

So yeah bit put out about another month without any pvp maintenance, like many long standing and supportive players.

Rather than write a long boring post about one guy on the internets spvp opinion, I’ll just deliver the facts.

Better integrating spvp into WvW and PvE (a goal which is completely justifiable for many more general reasons) will not engage your dedicated spvp players.

We don’t want to play an RPG game
We don’t want to play a siege warfare game.

Leaderboard improvements are welcomed, although as with much of the MMR system matchup quality is largely dependant on player base.

So the real question is, what’s being done to attract and maintain interest for high level players over the coming months?

Also: as a bit of constructive feedback, players would like to see healing signet shaved by the maintenance build scheduled on the 18th. This alone would cheer a lot of fans up. Could it be be made possible?

Evan Lesh

#5 - March 2, 2014, 7:37 p.m.

I like this question. As you said, our focus right now is to better integrate sPvP with the rest of the game. This will hopefully do one major thing: Bring more people into sPvP that are already playing Gw2. This will mean more competition, and better matchmaking. The new ladders (which I hope you’re giving feedback for in the CDI thread) should be a good way to gain prestige for being the best.

Apart from competition and prestige, what kind of things are most attractive to the high-level players? Personally I’m not hyper competitive and play all parts of the game, so the rewards overhaul will be amazing for me :P

Evan Lesh

#24 - March 3, 2014, 3:26 p.m.

@Nettle,Silver: You’ve explained well the importance of attracting new players.

Specifically for the high-level players it sounds like balance is by far the most important feature to keep you going, which is no surprise. I can’t speak much to that as I program sPvP features and don’t deal with balance first-hand However, the balance patch is coming, so that will definitely be affecting top-tier players. Apart from that, giving feedback on the Ladder CDI would be most beneficial.