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You Can Join the Guild Wars 2 Masters of the Arena PvP Tournament
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You Can Join the Guild Wars 2 Masters of the Arena PvP Tournament
You can now join the Masters of the Arena PvP tournament in Guild Wars 2. Here's how.
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Now it feels like a generic MMO, where you are wondering if you should Shout "For the Horde" or "FusRoDah" when you charge something.
Anet is promoting this event most likely because Mighty Teapot asked if they could. Or maybe some Devs reached out. (Hes a Arena-Net partner)A few devs do make appearances in his chat all the time, if not every day. (Ben, Cal aka CMC)
Mighty Teapot also created and hosted a PVE raiding tournament last year with simiular prizes and gold, but this PVP tournament is looking to be a lot more rewarding.
Elitst raiding party (PVE tournament): https://www.mmorpg.com/guild-wars-2/columns/guild-wars-2-a-mighty-erp-approaches-2000108600
I do recall a lot of people that used to and still do defend raids in GW2, saying they quit playing or raiding.
I have got to say, they do have some really great artist and creative people on staff, I won't take that from them. But.. come on.
This is the same studio that made dungeons, then abandoned dungeons, then killed the rewards of dungeons to get players to stop playing them, and put the rewards back because players got upset, and then put dungeons back in the daily rotations.
This is the same studio that put out a whole expansion and ended up losing money.
This is the same Studio that put in Guild Missions and then Abandoned them.
This is the same Studio that made a HoT Guild Hall, and then when PoF came out, they forced everyone to go to the PoF guild hall and abandoned the HoT guild Hall.
All the while they are flopping around all over the place like toddlers with ADHD on a sugar high, they cried they don't have the staff and resources to complete their Expansion while they had half their staff working on some other project that never got revealed, and for all we know is now vaporware.
So.. You are not dealing with the sharpest tools in the shed here.
I also firmly believe they expected to launch a GW3 within 5 years of GW2, following the same methodology as GW1. They take the money they would have made from GW2, and invest it into a GW3, and work from there.
That would explain why they were so willing to flop around all over the place, they already had the mindset the game was not going to see past 5 years, this allowed them a level fearlessness to put things in and then abandoning them without a care, it also allowed them to piss off huge chunks of their player base and not care, and more and more as time goes on, more firmly believe they had no intentions to keep GW2 running this long. The more I look at it, I get the feeling that when they made GW2, they had the mindset that it was going to see a best a 5 year run before being put into maintenance mode, with a GW3 announced.
Which explains why, when they hot the 7 years mark, and realized that was not going to happen, they laid off half their staff, canceled their "Other Projects" and why MO, and others higher up, also quit shortly thereafter.
All that points to their real plan got shit canned and they don't know what to do about it, or what they are doing with GW2 at this point, as they kept treating it like a test subject to this point.. so NcSoft had to come in and take over and try to save the ship.
I think they will fail, as I believe that GW2 has maybe 1 to 2 years left before they close the doors. I think too much was done wrong, with a devil may care attitude towards the player base, to save it now.
Just my feels tho, I could be very wrong.