GvG was a game feature that could only be played by PC players. The GvG player base was tiny. There was no viable revenue stream as you didn't need tos spend diamonds to play it. It required people to be online during recalculation where there was a frenzy of activity for about 5 min then minor tweeks by leaders planning for the next day. The time limitation and platform limitation certainly didn't help grow the player base. The only rewards for playing GvG was pride and guild status. Yes no shiny overpowered buildings just the ability to shit-talk in global chat. But although less than 5% of all FoE players bothered to play GvG it was a loved feature by that tiny player base. That tiny player base was very vocal about the demise of GvG and developers knew there were players ready to be exploited eager to play a new version of GvG.
One huge mistake FoE made was introducing Quantum Incursions as they closed GvG. QI was not a replacement for GvG it was just the new game system that was introduced when the old system went away. By trying to sell QI as the replacement for GvG it did a disservice to QI. When QI was being developed it did have a guild vs. guild element to it and it was called "Guild Raids". QI as it stands now has no resemblance to the old GvG system but it does give the best rewards for the least amount of work. It's better than GE, GbG and even events in terms of what you get and what you have to do to get it.
So with a very vocal minority of players longing for a new GvG what will Inno games do?
Well how would you feel about a settlement based game where you build a "Guild City"? And instead of calling it GvG version 2 we can call it "Guild Conquest"?
Are you excited yet? No? Ok what if I told you you get to do more than the settlement stuff? What if you got a separate tech tree? What if you had to buy expansions (or unlock more from tech tree)? What if you collect FP's in the Guild City that can only be used there and not your main city?
Look it's still early days and yes this is a very neagaitve post but it's negative for a reason. The GvG player base was tiny but they loved GvG and I can't help but feel this is another gut punch for those players. We'll see how this changes during the development process but as of right now this isn't anything like the old GvG and pretending it is would just be a lie.