Originally Posted by
jaakkeli
This is completely pointless. You do not get the point and you aren't even trying. GW2 separates game modes to the point where people are discouraged from trying out the others. This is just harmful to the game with no benefit as MMOs really, really do not tend to keep people that only play one mode of the game. "One mode only" works for a game like LoL because they put all their focus and effort into perfecting that one mode but in an MMO with divided focus and divided resources it's a bad idea.
You can say "oh but there's plenty of people who ONLY want to do competitive PvP, I know this arena pro who HATES every other part of WoW but he plays arena all the time"... well, that's what people say. As it is even that arena pro that plays arena only has once leveled his character. He must have enjoyed the other types of play for a good while before he got so hooked on arenas that he wanted to focus on them entirely. Every MMO PvPer was a PvEr or casual battleground grinder first. When that arena pro gets bored of arena, WoW can still keep him occupied while he takes a break (with, say, a battleground) while the sPvPer might be level 2 with no gear. Why not just make the mode give a bit of experience and gold so that an sPvPer can jump into WvWvW and do OK there?
There's so much content that you love that you aren't even playing the game? You are so convincing.
Look, it's obvious that you fell in love with the idea of a game that doesn't REQUIRE you to grind PvE for experience or raid for trinkets just to be competive in PvP. Now you're stuck defending every poor design choice in the game just because you liked that idea. This obvious from, you know, just the simple fact that you spend time on forums talking about how much you liked the game but then you don't actually play the game.
I do not play single player games. Guild Wars 2 sPvP is basically a single player game so I do not play it.
If I want to introduce a friend to WoW PvP, I can just take them with me to a battleground or make a not serious arena team with me or just duel with them. If I want to take a friend to GW2 PvP, well I CANT. I just can't. There's no way to do it. AT ALL. It doesn't matter how much "effort" I put into it, the game doesn't offer me any way to PvP with friends or to make friends while casually PvPing. There is just solo queuing for the sPvP and the only thing there is for group play are tournaments that you actually have to grind tickets for!
Sorry, if the game expects me to fucking grind, grind, grind just so that I could group up with people (and I still can't just take a few random mates and go do some casual PvP!), then fuck that game. No, I will not make the effort when other games offer me basic multiplayer features and I don't have to make any special effort to get around the lack of PvP features in other MMOs. Really, I've never, ever played an MMO that had such a basic lack of features for just doing some PvP with other people and this was hyped up as the PvP focused MMO? Uh.