Guild Wars 2

Are we gonna get a raid/party leader option to support future raids?

Current vote-kick system will be a disaster for 10man raids.
Imagine 10man raid with 6 people vote-kick… Everyone kicked everyone out.

For the love of god please tell me this is not gonna happen

they should get rid of kick system and put in an afk kicker instead.

if the 10 people cannot overcome their differences and odds, they don’t deserve to succeed

Chaos=cash? right?

Zackie.8923:

they should get rid of kick system and put in an afk kicker instead.

if the 10 people cannot overcome their differences and odds, they don’t deserve to succeed

I agree. If 2 or 3 people don’t like the way it’s going, then they can leave and the rest of the group can LFG tool replacements.

There are situation in which one or more so-called dead weights are undesirable. The kick makes that problem go away.

Vote kick can’t be used in the event of battle in the first place, or within a time post any boss fight.

Vote-kick system is a very bad decision even for dungeons. It’s not too rare that I hear stories of guilds kicking the person they pugged with near the end of a dungeon to add a guildie to the party to get rewards… Raids are only going to amplify the frustration. What made Elite Missions in GW1 work was there was no system like this in place. People had to make do with their team, and it didn’t turn into a crappy version of Survivor, to try to convince your team why you should remain on the island.

Votekicking was a stupid mechanism in the first place. Party leader should have always had control. It’s far easier for word of one jerk leader to get around than a nebulous and anonymous group of people that may or may not be troll kicking people with the vote system.

I too have some concerns about vote-kicks with raids. There have already been plenty of issues noted on the forums arising from kicking party members at last bosses. These kicks were incentivized because of either money to be made by offering the possibility for obtaining exclusive skins or by offering those removed slots to friends.

With raids, that incentive to kick may even be greater because raids may be the only means to obtaining the things necessary to creating legendary armor. With a whole new “tier” of armor at stake, that temptation to kick may be even greater.

We obviously don’t have enough information as yet, but hopefully Arena Net is examining the current vote-kick system to minimize potential abuses.