Guild Wars 2

The most irritating part of tournament play is being forced to wait two minute or more before the match starts. Considering that an avarage match lasts 10 minutes, that’s 20% more time you spend just waiting for the game to start.

This problem is mostly caused because in 97.5% of tournament matches, there is at least one person not pressing the ‘I am ready!’ button. It’s extremely rare for all ten people to press ready, which causes a big waste of time between matches.

I think the solution to this is very easy – place the ‘I am ready!’ button ON TOP of the player in the UI, blocking the player’s view of their character until they press ready. I guarantee you that this small change that only irritates the eye until people press ready will cause people to click the button much more frequently.

i agree. much easier and it would work.

Maybe. But remember, some people are using that time to try to strategize; so it’s not all just people being lazy. In fact – personally, I’d rather have longer than 2 minutes.

Kitcat.1739:

Maybe. But remember, some people are using that time to try to strategize; so it’s not all just people being lazy. In fact – personally, I’d rather have longer than 2 minutes.

If people are taking that time to strategize this change won’t stop them from doing it and they’re more than welcome to. Unfortunately from my experience in uncommunicating pugs I see people not pressing ready very very often, even though they don’t bother to strategize. It only takes one player that doesn’t bother with the button to waste 2 minutes for ten people, and that happens almost every match.

I see you weren’t here back when it was five minutes.