Do we need a more sporty PVP like the Snowball fight??

I had e-mailed this idea to Arenanet already, and they encourage me to post this as suggestion in one of their fan site. I guess they want to see if this is realy what players want.
This is a quote from the reply I got.
"Thanks so much for again contacting the Guild Wars support team. These ideas are excellent and something that I think would really improve gameplay and in game morale."

I thought maybe we can have somthing like "Mudball Fight" in the future. I been saying this for the past 2 days in game, so some people might had heard it. Personaly I dont see how girl mudfight help game morale, but its an idea .

Come on people, share your idea!!!
Lets have a more sporty pvp!!!

if they introduce 1v1 arena, they could add things like races (for runners) and survival mode (who survives longer vs a never ending swarm of pve enemies).

just some thoughts...

Do you see how many sore losers there are even in the snowball arena??? I don't understand people sometimes........unless their team was retarded x_x

I actually like all of these thoughts (mudball fights too). The regular PvP gets very intense -- it'd be quite interesting to have an option to blow off steam or just do something a bit more lighthearted. As a mostly PvEer, I know that the usual intensity is what keeps me from bothering fighting in the arenas. I don't know that it would be as popular as the regular battles (especially over a prolonged time) and any new format is only as good as the number of opposing players waiting for battle. But it might be more successful hyped as an "arena map of the month" format, and add some more variety to the game. It'd also be an excellent way for Anet to test-play other ideas.

Invincimonks with spell breaker ftw!

I like a pet fight
Put your pets in the cage and see who will last longer . Similar to the chicken fights in Asia.

Or a fist fight

I favor the PvE side of Guild Wars, and I've done a small amount of PvP, but never really liked it.

But I've found that I'll head over to the Snowball Fight Arena to have some fun. Everyone is on even footing, and winning is dependant more on teamwork, rather than the skills/armor/weapon/runes that you have.

If ANET had something like this all the time, I'd definately PvP more.

I would like a 1-on-1, where you can choose you opponent. I would love to fight my brother, my ranger build against his ranger build.

personally i prefer a arranged pvp, there are some guild mates i would love to pvp one on one with. or just to fight among each other to see who has a better build and decide who will become what for HoH and such.

i also like these other ideas. since i'm doing this at work and i can nvr get online back at my relatives place, i could nvr play guild wars. so i nvr had a chance to play the snowball arena. but it seems really fun since its different from our usual pvping, pveing.

right now i cant think of any ideas on what mini games ANET could use, so i thumbs up for the mudfight. maybe give special costumes for the mudfight at least, cuz you dont see on tv chicks mudfighting in armor. =P

Haha pet fights, now that's a good one !

Would be limited to rangers though..

The snowball arena is great, and if it stayed after the wintersday event, it would even better, its a fun and fast little game

Maybe Anet should make an Elite version and a noob version, that way all the elites who whine now can play in a designated elite arena, and all the elites who are just having a ball, can continue to relax with the rest of us in the noob arena.

aranged pvp snowball.....
yeah, but only in droks arena version....
shiverpeaks one near yaks bend area is random so that you have a choice

mudball....that might be ether a good thing in maguma jungle, or a reallly dodgey thing....
*picture the hordes of fanboy elementalist girl characters playing in their underwear and offering to charge peeps to play mud wrestling with them heheh*

maybe set up the choice between Test fight *1 v1*
practace *2 v2
and normal *4 v4

the elites can play in droks, since theres no increase in points between the droks and peaks arenas. and they get to use strategy by selecting team members first...
* you must gather your team mates befor venturing forth to fight snowballs!* heheh

oooh, and add a snowball/mudball/sandball fort one, where you can choose between hitting opponents, collecting and returning item and hitting the fort wall to weaken the other team

This is exactly why i do not do the snowball fighting anymore, even on a holiday people can't seem to forget about winning for 10 minutes to have some fun

actually, i've been thinking of this kind of football game...just a relic run but then more direct...
snare, kd , steal football etc.

i'll work it out

That's almost understandable. People are used to trying to win. The REALLY funny thing was the forum posts 5 minutes after the arena opened (not on this forum) complaining about balance issues.

edit: On topic, yes, more types of slightly less serious pvp, especially if it has different goals, would be sweet. Obviously. Don't know why this even needs to be asked.

But I find the snowball now is extremely monotonous. It was fun when playing it casually the past 2-3 days. Any more than that and I rather play in Ascalon arena.

ANet just needs to fix Ascalone and Yaks Bend Arena so people are not using elites skills and Droks armor. I would hate being a level 8 and being pelted by Poison Arrow.

They also need more arenas with interesting terrains (like in GvG with catapults, locking gates and Sentinels.

Winning or losing in a Snowball fight gets you a present, would there be something similar to this in the post-wintersday minigame? It would be pretty fun to get presents depending on what season it is.

I think the snowball arena would go great with the "Dragon Lair" style arena idea.

This was the best idea yet, minigames that actually give sormthing (faction, exp, giftbox)

Better yet, the snowball fights were actually fun!

shuffleboard.