Guild Wars 2

Currently a wide majority of people who play tournaments don’t know that they can avoid the ridiculous 5 minute wait if they just click ready. I understand that there is an unobtrusive ready button pop up in the pre-matches which is meant to make people click it. But, you have to understand that people are stupid and probably a majority of us ride the short bus.

So, here is my solution. It is a simple one, I assure you. Just give us a scoreboard popup in the pre-match, you know the one with the green check marks next to the people who have already readied; and make the scoreboard uncloseable and obtrusive. This will force even those of us with the lowest attention spans to pause and give notice.

If this doesn’t work (who knows, humanity never ceases to amaze), you can remove the pre-match entirely and put in a separate lobby where people can ready.

Oops, meant to put this in the suggestions section. Could a moderator please move this thread?

I think better would to have the pop-up for readying be smack in the middle of the screen, sort of like how the pop-up is for when it prompts you to join the game or wait.

I think a lot of people simply forgot to click the ready button in the lower left. I know I have many times. On average I don’t think the wait times are due to people actually needing those 5 minutes.

Yeah that idea works too. I myself have also forgotten to ready on a few occasions.

I think that the scoreboard popup just gives a nicer interface, remotely similar to the interface you would see while waiting for everyone to ready in a a Dota or Arena style game like LoL or Bloodline Champions.

Also, I’ve been wondering, why do we have to be ready so many times? When you are in the hall of memories and you click “go now” when a tournament is ready doesn’t that imply that you’re ready (i.e not afk or otherwise pre-occupied)?