Funny fans. Thus a game that has no open world PvP now redefines open world PvP?
Okay ...
I have to agree. GW2 is a very polished and professional game but from a PvP stand point they aren't breaking any ground and calling it Open World PvP is misleading
The roots of open world PvP go back to the mid 90's when MMOs were born with Neverwinter Nights, Dark Sun, Meridan, UO. Open World PvP was the ability to compete against players for everything that the game world offered, not some subset of zones pushed off to the side.
Open world traditonally a complete copy of the gamign server, that is why many people are complaing about the lack GW2 PvP servers.
GW2 has come up with a cooler version of Battlegrounds. If they want Open PvP they need to add a PvP server with NO RULES where I can attack people that are trying to level on their story quests, fight off enemy Guilds in EVERY city of the world, vie with other Guilds to control zones or Dungoen access,etc... A place where the player conflict controls and rules the server.
notice how in the article he cites a definition for open world pvp and then points out how according to the definition he is using GW2 has open world pvp.
Well, yeah. GW2 has a form of Open World PvP. Actually people even dispute that, but that's besides the point.
What isn't going to happen is people are not going to start looking at GW2's system and defining open world PvP based on their design principles. Open World PvP will likely carry the same meaning it always has before GW2 and will continue to after GW2.
At most, GW2 puts a twist on Open World PvP.
If a PvP and a PvE server is identical then open world PvP don't exist, therefore there are none PvP servers.
WvW is nice but it's just a buffed up minigame, just like TSW's Warzone .
I never said that GW2 had PvP servers. They don't.
Besides that, I agree with both sides in a way. GW2 is not an open world PvP game. But GW2 has 4 zones that have open world PvP. In those zones there are towns, a dungeon, skill points, PvE mobs and... open world PvP. I don't think it's black and white.
GW2 is not an open world PvP game. It does have a few open world PvP zones.
I agree mostly. They're still not true open PvP zones though since you enter them from a regular PvE server to do PvP (like a minigame). It isn't like a player stumbled upon the zone and is shocked that he get ganked on a PvE server, just like it would be for TSW's Warzone. GW2 makes the most of it though and that is pretty cool.
notice how in the article he cites a definition for open world pvp and then points out how according to the definition he is using GW2 has open world pvp.
Well, yeah. GW2 has a form of Open World PvP. Actually people even dispute that, but that's besides the point.
What isn't going to happen is people are not going to start looking at GW2's system and defining open world PvP based on their design principles. Open World PvP will likely carry the same meaning it always has before GW2 and will continue to after GW2.
At most, GW2 puts a twist on Open World PvP.
If a PvP and a PvE server is identical then open world PvP don't exist, therefore there are none PvP servers.
WvW is nice but it's just a buffed up minigame, just like TSW's Warzone .
By your definition, there is open world PvP since Guild Wars 2 utilizes different servers for PvE content and different servers for PvP. *facepalm*
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I have to agree. GW2 is a very polished and professional game but from a PvP stand point they aren't breaking any ground and calling it Open World PvP is misleading
The roots of open world PvP go back to the mid 90's when MMOs were born with Neverwinter Nights, Dark Sun, Meridan, UO. Open World PvP was the ability to compete against players for everything that the game world offered, not some subset of zones pushed off to the side.
Open world traditonally a complete copy of the gamign server, that is why many people are complaing about the lack GW2 PvP servers.
GW2 has come up with a cooler version of Battlegrounds. If they want Open PvP they need to add a PvP server with NO RULES where I can attack people that are trying to level on their story quests, fight off enemy Guilds in EVERY city of the world, vie with other Guilds to control zones or Dungoen access,etc... A place where the player conflict controls and rules the server.
I agree mostly. They're still not true open PvP zones though since you enter them from a regular PvE server to do PvP (like a minigame). It isn't like a player stumbled upon the zone and is shocked that he get ganked on a PvE server, just like it would be for TSW's Warzone. GW2 makes the most of it though and that is pretty cool.
Now you're just being factitious and you know it.