Guild Wars 2

Was playing the Snowball Fight with my friend earlier. we were in a party together. Seemed every time it reset we were on opposing sides. Most times one of us was able to swap. I’d be fine with it being random at reset but thought it would be better to keep parties together, well unless it is 9v9 and when we join so the only places we could have would be on opposing teams. Or if a lot of the people playing are part of groups so one needs to be split.

It was team based the first year, but when they changed something behind the scenes, this and all other team-based holiday activities suddenly became every-player-for-themselves style events. Since then, they’ve communicated that they do not have the resources to rebuild them in a way that would allow us to reliably play them with our friends.

Personally, I’m not sure why some of them are still in the game at all. Things like this were obviously designed with teamwork in mind – then the shift in how they are implemented took the ability to enter as a team out. They really don’t make a lot of sense now.

This was brought up last year and the dev answer was, “we might look into it for next year.” Instead it has just been added to the pile of neglected – and often requested – content, alongside things like guild missions, the larger guild pvp area they talked about at HOT launch, bar brawl/archery contest minigames (which NPCs have been trying to direct us to in Divinty’s Reach for more than 4 years now), etc.

Anet has the best development team in the industry – by a wide margin in my opinion. Unfortunately, they also have a infuriating tendency to start or implement something into the game only to let it slowly die away from lack of continued support (even some things that almost everyone considered amazing when they first came out).