Guild Wars 2

I really enjoy Snowball Mayhem, but I’m really surprised that there doesn’t seem to be any way to play with friends. Given that it’s a cooperative team-based game, it seems like the perfect candidate for playing with people you know. Is there any reason there isn’t a way to join/invite your friends, or keep parties together?

same here, I’ve been spamming the game trying to get in the same one as my friends, but no luck. I don’t get why there wouldn’t be an option to join your friends

Id like too as well makes me sad

What’s not to get? Pre Made teams would ruin it for those who just want to jump in and play withont facing already established teams. That’s why it’s random.

Currently the snow ball fight is the most balanced PvP in the game, and I like it.

Cooperate with people on your team, it’s not that hard.

I understand the balance issue, but I would really like the option to start a Snowball Mayhem map and invite friends and guildmates into it, with teams randomising after every match. My guild was hoping to play this instead of our regular PvP night during the Wintersday period, but from experimentation we’ve found that even a large group of people entering at the same time have only a slim chance to end up on the same map as someone else from their group.

Anet, please consider making this an option in future holiday PvP. It’s the best PvP content in the game and interests even those in my guild who usually hate PvP, but we do want to have the option to play with and against each other in a convivial atmosphere. The current situation makes it impossible to play some of the best holiday content with our guildmates – surely that can’t be what you want?

Pretty sure the reason they didn’t do this was as the other poster said it isn’t fun to be on the team with randoms starcraft 2 also has this problem the only option would be to make premades only face premades

I don’t understand how you could even have a premade team. From what I can see, players are assigned to a map and not a team. The two teams are constituted from a random selection of these players, and the teams are again randomised each time the match resets.

If this is how it works, then what would be the problem with allowing me to create a 10 or 20 person map, inviting friends and guildmates and having a game? You could even make it a closed map to prevent unwitting randoms coming in, I guess.

Hiiiiint. If you join at the same time as someone, you have a chance at being in the same lobby. Once there you can switch teams to be on the same team.

Raincrow.1840:

Cooperate with people on your team, it’s not that hard.

Quote for truth. It’s how I get my 2 PvP achievements under 2 hrs, & I hang around for another 1 hr to help others to get their achievements.

gpbg.6852:

Hiiiiint. If you join at the same time as someone, you have a chance at being in the same lobby.

At peak time this is a minute chance. I have tested this several times with 15 people and usually only 4 ended up on a map with someone else from the initial group. It’s not remotely a workaround solution.

This isn’t about winning matches or getting achievements – I think most folk have all of them by now, and we’re all perfectly capable of playing with a random crowd. Hell, disable achievements and rewards for premade maps if necessary – I’ll happily keep score myself and dole out minis to the winners of each round. My guildmates just want to play with and against each other, to have fun together. These are looking like unnecessary barriers to playing GW2 with my friends and guildmates, which to my mind go against the whole spirit of the rest of the game.