Guild Wars 2

I’ve seen it happen multiple times. People get a high place in sanctum sprint, and then they just leave. I don’t get why they’re doing it, if they try to join a new game, they just get placed as a late start into a different game don’t they? It also makes the current game take longer to finish since someone else is put in as a late start here, so I don’t see any benefit to doing this?

If you join a game late enough, it will put you about 5 seconds from the end of the course, and it gives you a race completion update. You don’t get a chest, but then they didn’t have to run for 4 minutes.

It’s a farm strategy. If you’re a quick sprinter, you finish the course in less than 4 minutes, which means you’d have to wait LONGER than you actually did the course. So instead those speedsters (incl myself) just leave and browse instances till we either bounce into 1 that’s less than 90 seconds from the end, or a race that has more than 5 minutes left to go (no late start then, so run it, see how many you catch up and accept a loser’s reward which is practically the same).

I see, that makes sense now. Still kind of annoying though since it just drags out other games.

it doesn’t drag out races…. a game ends when all the runners reach the finish line that were in the area at 8:00 to go. Those who left and those who entered late do not block/glitch early endings. I’ve experienced it from both sides.

Once i entered a race at 5:30, when i neared the finish line, the game got ended with 2:30 left to go because the last starter finally reached the finish line.
I’ve seen games end early with still dots around on the track (late starters).
I’ve also seen games run to 00:00 because some jerk sat around checkpoint 2, stalling the game for kicks.