Arena system, Ranks, ladder and Cross realm implementation

its not just a computer game they put alot of time into this game if you think its just a computer game then your life is meaningless too because cmon your life is just one life African kids starve all day what gives you the right to live and eat while they cant?

and dont forget E sports came out video games who knows SWTOR might become the next one

I feel useless IRL so want to inflate my ePeen by having titles and scores to make me feel better about myself

Also, make the game xserver so people on other servers can also not care that I spend 12 hours a day PvPing

so what you really mean is that you want the game to die

I really hope they don't do x-server pvp! I think the pvp in the game is enjoyable and creates a community on the realm that would be lost with the cross server model. As of now I run pvp almost solely with a group of guildmates on vent, there is only a few 50s on either side of our server and we know all the republic 50's by name.

We make jokes about Emobigge cause he is a beast and just owns us all the time and his guild <Science> has started running 50 premades that we have run into from time to time. I makes is fun and when we see Emo we all talk in vent like "oh **** its emo" everyone go to the other side keep track of the good players on the other faction and using group tactics based on that information would be lost.

Even huttball is fun when two premades both imp side meet and go at it. It gives you a good idea what your team is up against if they end up doing a ranked version. I think they should implement a 50only pvp bracket that would give better rewards but other then that I think the state of WZ is fine, amazing even. Seeing random guildys not in the premade on your team is fun. Getting to know the opposing team through battling them if fun. Please BW don't ruing the community feel that we have going on right now.

If there were a ranking system I would rather see it implemented based solely on Open world PVP. It would give people a reason to pvp in the world and be simple to implement. I would love to see something done with open world pvp, because right now there is win trading, or pubstomping with guildies that usually involves corpse camping and neither of those are fun for someone who really wants to pvp.

you can still have everything your saying with cross realm you can que with your guild you can do 2v2 with your friends also 3v3 and 5v5 none of that would change it would just make everything more fun and also add competitive play for those who want it and also quicker que times for jedi and sith which is a huge a problem for sith right now and a huge problem for low population servers

OP I agree with you 100%, but you are wasting your time.

SWTOR was never designed to attract competitive pvp players which is why this thread is full of pvp carebears who think there is a server community in a game with 3 lame warzones.

Ranking systems build a far stronger community because the top teams and players get a lot of recognition. Nobody cares if you are the best team on server xyz since chances are you are not up against top tier competition.

They just want to anonymously grind tokens with nothing on the line and never be put in a position where a loss will actually mean something.

I think it's you who do not understand the ramification of balancing a game via small team arenas. MMO"s are not designed to be played in that manner and focusing on it as a means of game/class balances throws other aspects of the game out of balance.

As to the x-server point, no we do not need anything that brings players together from other servers. The best competition is fostered by rivalries that you can constantly do battle against and with players you have a connection with...and the best place to find that competition is own your server.

I am with the OP. Lets do this!

Sounds like you want to be playing WoW, Im not saying that to be a dink, but what you want is over there. Arena and a Ladder system could not work with TORs PvP style. You cant just say that 8v8 is a no skill cluster duck then think just because you go down to 3v3 all the cluster duck goes magically away. CCs in this game are far and away the least skillful portion of PvP, they dont get more skillful because theres 5 less players on each team.