It wasn’t because of the lack of time or time to play them. I just read the PvP column, Fighting or Kite. In various different games, I played the game and wrote my thoughts. However, there’s something missing. Sometimes its lack of support for the mode is, sometimes its stubbornness and failure to accept a certain strategy just doesn’t exist. In some cases, the issues are even more ephemeral and the game isn’t able to form a successful MMO.
That isn’t to say that there’s a great thing about playing. The unique game I have truly known for this year would have to be MultiVersus. In my recent columns, I often refer to MultiVersus a game that was really outstanding and bursting with influence. The combat, the animations, and overall the quality of the game is honestly brilliant. I didn’t expect anything like that in an arena brawler, which many, many (including me) thought was a simple Super Smash Bros. clone.
But its not entirely an MMO. It could share a lot of the same headspace and gameplay hits as it needs when I sit down to play a MMO in the evening. It’s just not an MMO. I couldn’t vote for it anyway. It does not have any right to win the best performance award for PvP (again, it put on our best not-for-a-mass player of the year).
So that left me thinking about all the other MMOs with PvP that I played and that have made our readers polls. I could talk to them one by one and tell you why I think they failed us explicitly, but instead I will give you some highlights for those that I played and would have considered as contenders for the award, but ultimately couldn’t vote for.
Albion Online
Albion Online was the world’s most elected organization (and even the ones who eventually won) – the MMO that came closest to me. There are so many interesting things that I can feel very grateful. All worlds feel big and players play out everywhere. I like most of what Sandbox Interactive did, but the PvP does not make me want to return.
As you can see in my video, the game’s easy to play, so my combat is about as smooth as my grandpas old disposable razor. It’s sanding and clicking to escape the red circle of pain is a bit like a tinker. Because of the overall speed of combat, skills usually have a heavy time and interrupting enemies is a strong strategy.
Guild Wars 2:3-4.
Guild Wars 2, alone, didn’t put in the effort to earn PvP awards. The actual state of sPvP is catastrophic. I could not take a break from the time I’m just sitting up and fighting my hearts. I still believe its the greatest MMO combat yet (not that it isn’t without flaws). But then I was very optimistic and hopeful. The studio was thought to have made the smart choice to continue to support the game mode and improve the game mode.
That is not what happened, please. This mode is unreliable and the match is rampant with bots. Instead of retracing the original Guild Wars PvP modes, ArenaNet decided to improve its knowledge, and maybe even better. That’s the folly of the people who built our worlds.
Of course I didn’t remember WvW, even if Anet pushed its feet in a dark way, it was even clearer. The lack of updates and support for WvW is an embarrassing problem. The game was so unique it was able to catch and play players from various servers and give them an incentive to compete over territory and some other territory. Of course, the most unique aspect WvW had was his rewards for the winning world claiming a high value and such in the PvE worlds. The move to megaservers was a waste of money. Without incentives, it was only a boring round robin competition which became a little boring as it was with the occasional tournament. If there’s no need for a competition (and I mean rewards, so I mean a real reason or purpose for players to fight over territory), then we won’t do that. The mode still feels too sad, the test begins.
Since Anet hasn’t yet changed anything meaningful for these modes, my opinions haven’t also changed, and so it doesn’t deserve a PvP award.
New World
New World could be a great market for PvP except because it isn’t so strong that it keeps most of PvP crowded with high levels and gear. After more than 60 hours, I’m still so far from maximum level that I have literally not participated in the actual PSV modes that are included in the game, the Wars, the battleground and the arenas.
The war has happened with the whackle lottery which chooses which guild is the primary owner of the unit. This system resembles a popular lottery contest. Even if you belong to an active faction who started the war, the master is given the choice between that sort of guild and the other people which are left out.
There’s the battleground, Outpost Rush. I was first able to play this on the test server and liked the mode. This was a little too big and slow for me to really want to play it frequently, but it had many good ideas. Now it was locked on a single endgame basis, so that you’ll have to go through PvE just to get to it.
Last is the arena. That was actually made this year even if they were added. I thought this was really the moment that New World finds its PvP footing and is cruising! Honestly, if Amazon had installed and enabled this mode, I can guarantee I would have argued for New World as the PvP MMO of the year. It promised to offer little-scale, quick, and also earned players experience! For this reason, the studio didn’t make it. Arenas don’t normalize the levels but instead group you with players in your level range, meaning nobody asked to listen to the max level again. I waited an hour, two nights in a row at 50. The arena had only happened once.
To be honest, the most expensive part of New World is PvP, so you can’t play it for a hundred hours until PvEd is inserted for another month. Can’t you thank me?
An Athenian Finder Online.
ESO is boring, to me. And so, boring. That’s my name: the moly. I sat for a few hours, but couldn’t see an obvious route to PvP. While I worked on Cyrodiil, then I arrived into some kind of portal hub, and I swear it was quite unclear. There were a few portals that mentioned Cyrodiil, but then there was another that said the best place to fight the other war was everything else entirely. And even though there are many swindlings that kept me in the class, I still know that the PvP players have been complaining loudly about the situation for many years; so what awaited me didn’t have much hope. Clearly, PvP is out of the reach of ZeniMax. I want to try again. But I’ve been saying that for the worst of the last six months, that even after that, I haven’t logged in. That isn’t a good sign.
Other MMOs
All of the other games are in the same bucket of nothing special for me.
Black Desert is one I’ve played every two times and need to give more time. I didn’t do anything particularly significant this year, so I continued to tell you.
The Lost Ark idea has the right idea of PvP, but its locked behind a multi-hour tutorial. Maybe if it moved the PvP front and center and allowed players to simply login on the PvP lobby, then we could discuss it. I heard that a public-phone-only lobby of Guild Wars style was working here.
Since it was long ago, SWTOR had a very useful PvP scene in this galaxy. At that time, that was of course circa 2012. It used to have fun combustibles like Huttball, but nowadays, there aren’t many individual queues and of course, it seems too much change in the years gone by cementing it in another memory of gaming like PvP. It was literally a short time since the original overhaul of PvP was done. We are still trying to see how it will work out.
There is certainly no chance a subscription-only MMO will get anything from me. There are so many expensive games out there that allow anyone to pay for the additional monthly fee a few times. Between movies and movies, music, and the fixed monthly wage of living, I can’t dedicate my second monthly fee on top of everything. There are spacemo’s. I personally have problems logging in to a spaceship, so that they’re out of the running.
I had a lot of fun at my MGM this past year. In fact, the shutter of Crowfall was an aggressor of once-promising MMOs. Apparently every MMO who can win the title of best MMOs tends to lose the ball in one area or another. There’s mostly self-owned, making it harder for us to be interested in a player called home every evening.
I hope there’s still some water left in this stone to put in, though. New World has the pieces laid before it to make it a contender for the match again. We heard that the Riot MMO will have PvP. Then there’s the Ashes of Creations out there on the horizon, though its likely to have a sub. Maybe something new will just surprise us. PvPers can only hope this.
Every other week MassivelyOPs Sam Kash delivers Fight or Kite, our trip through the pvP industry across the MMORPG industry. For Sams, whether he is sitting in a queue or rolling with the zebra, it’s all about adrenaline. Since it boils down, the whole reason we PvP (other than we pwn noobs) is to be fun fighting a new, unpredictable enemy!