05-26-2012, 03:33 AM
(05-26-2012, 03:10 AM)Roland Wrote: From what I understand, they don't care about "professional" PvP. It's going to be for fun only, not some competitive event. As for Guild Chat, yes that would be nice. I'm sure we'll see something like that in a patch eventually. For now, I'm more concerned with the AH.
I think this is a commonly misrepresented possition. From what I've seen weighing all of the available comments by Blizzard representatives is that they are very interested in creating an environment that lends itself to "professional" PvP. What they are not interested in is actively investing or promoting it like they did in WoW. In WoW they essentially took their weight and shoved it around into the professional competitive gaming scene forcing it to be included into the tournament scenes by doing most, if not all, of the promotion by themselves. And after investing all of that into WoW arena it still faded out. They aren't going to repeat that.
They do, however, still want the PvP to be fun and engaging and hope that if there is a strong infrastructure that lends itself to professional competetive play the players themselves will create the competitive scene.