Guild Wars 2

Recently i’ve encountered something odd… The game uses a mechanic to prevent you from constanly joining different groups by simple denying you the access to more groups for a while. This is very simple but effective. This wait time is never long.

Recently however i cannot join any groups or barely any. When i join 1-2 groups in a timespan of 1 hour (estimated) i already get denied the acess.

Last time i got out of my raid squad, wanted to join a group for Tangled Depths but i couldn’t because i ‘’joined too many groups recently’‘.. This also remains for a very. long. Time. Logging out doesn’t help. Switching character doesn’t help.

restarting the game does help. But i think no one wants to restart the whole game, even if it has such a low launch time, just to join one group.

Anyone else encountering this problem?

This is VERY annoying.

I’ve been experiencing this off and on while attempting to join Fractal groups through the LFG tool: I’ll click join, then go immediately into the greyed out “too many attempts” phase. After the time out, attempting to join the same group carries the same result, but joining a different party seems to fix it.

Based on some observations from the other night, it seems like some groups that are already filled are experiencing a big delay on being removed from the listing.

They create a system where you are forced to use LFG to find a decent map. But since half (estimate/opinion) the LFG posts are bogus you are forced to join multiple groups to finally get to where you want to go. But then they decide to create a system to prevent people from using their only means of finding other players to play with. Everything involving grouping in this game is broken.

I did have that problem in between, too. I reported via ticket and they told me they’d look into it, but to please keep sending bug reports ingame when I encounter that sort of thing again, which would give them better data to check. So if it happens again, I’d advise you do that too.

Is it really a bug? Or a poorly designed anti-spam function?

Whenever I try to taxi onto a map via the LFG tool and I am having a hard time finding a map that isn’t full, I run into this brick wall rather quickly, usually after joining 2-3 groups within a period of 5 minutes. I am then forced to restart the game before trying again because this stupid thing never expires. I could even wait 10+ minutes and it won’t go away. Quite literally the only way to get rid of it is to quit the game, which is inconvenient and an unnecessary waste of time.