Guild Wars 2

Something’s been bothering me for a long time about this game. You promote group play and guild play and playing with your friends all the time and in every area of the game except one…. the activities and mini games. I noticed this the first time back during the Halloween events. For the first time, we had all these activities and mini games to do but when I tried to go with my guildie…we couldn’t get into the same server. I brushed it off then thinking, “You know it’s a new game. They’ll get around to it.” But now, nearly a year later, there’s still no way for groups to join an activity or mini game together. You might get lucky and end up on the same server anyway but there is no guarantee.

Worse, this doesn’t even seem to be a thought on Anet’s mind. Why not? I would think that if there was ever a team-building or fun group activity it would be these mini games. I mean, it’s still fun to play them with randoms but think how much more fun it would be to play with your friends or guildies—people you play with in every other area.

Yeah, it means the achievements would be a lot easier to get but honestly, is that really a bad thing? Most of these activities are only here for a couple weeks. I don’t want to be panicking in the last day or two of the event because I can’t win Sanctum Sprint.

Yes, it also means that your group can team up against other random players but it’s no different in PvP. I don’t really think that’s an issue so long as you’re not trolling them. If they don’t like it, they’ll either change servers or go join their group of friends to play it. If it’s really that big of an issue, just create a separate server if a group joins an activity together and allow them to invite the rest of their friends to it until it’s full.

If the game is really meant to be played with our friends, then we need to be able to play with them in all areas. We can play with them in dungeons, in the world, in pvp, in wvw, in FotM, even in personal stories and the living story. The only area we cannot purposely choose to play with our friends is activities and mini games. Please fix it.

Meanwhile in keg brawl, its basically impossible to find legit matches at all. The only available matches are usually people just boosting for achievements or plagued by lob exploiters.
It was nice that they fixed the unlimited keg works bug that occurred recently, but it would be ever better if the game overall got the smallest bit of attention.