Guild Wars 2

Overall, I really like the Queen’s Gauntlet. It’s a fun concept that ArenaNet clearly put a lot of thought into. I’m sure ArenaNet will make some improvements in the future. But the one thing I find intolerably frustrating is the long queue. And it’s not just that you can sit there waiting for more than 5 minutes to fight, it’s the you have no idea how long you have to wait until right before your turn. So you can’t afk, alt-tab, or anything else. I’m guessing ArenaNet probably intended for us to watch others fight while we wait, but we’re too far away to really see anything interesting. From the distance you stand from the dome, all you really see is players and mobs running around in circles.

i agree, the challenge itself is pretty interesting, but i guess anet is just losing grip on customers, can’t keep them genuinely interested anymore, so they have to come up with this kind of crap. Some minigames suck so bad that anet has to set achievements to 25 games to keep rooms at least half full. Like dragon ball for example.
Other examples – Survival… you get 10…0 countdown, and then another 10-15seconds of listening to the same annoying voice over and over again. Seriously?
And same thing with gauntlet. They want us to sit and stare in the monitor for 5-10minutes just to enter a 1minute fight? Maybe they don’t want it to be farmable, but with all the farming train running through destroyer room just below, i’m pretty sure that 99.9% of players would agree to no reward at all from that gauntlet just to save their time waiting.

I know, ear-flopping lemmings’ main argument will be “Nobody’s forcing you to play gauntlet”, so don’t bother mentioning it. For now, gauntlet sucks big time. Thank you.

oh yea, not to mention situations when you wait for 10 minutes then it says “it’s your turn” and it bugs out, not porting you anywhere, arena stays empty and you have to relog.