Guild Wars 2

I love new minigames. They’re fun and great, and the designs behind them are incredibly innovative for the MMO genre. However, none of the minigames released have provided me with more than a temporary distraction (and a thirst to obtain their achievements).

I completely understand that in order to stop people from abusing rewards/achievements it is necessary to group players together at random. What I don’t understand is why these minigames do not have a sort of “unranked” variation, where friends can join and play them together with the achievement/reward aspect removed.

Until then Anet, I’ll be playing your minigames for the shiny achievements, but I’ll be crying at the potential fun these games could have if I could only play them with friends. T-T

Wholeheartedly agree here. Abusers/exploiters should not be able to ruin queing up with a friend for honest people who just want to have fun.

It’s the delinquent effect. One bad seed ruins something great for the entire community. It sucks, but life is so.

Indeed, because the mini games are so wonderful that they dont require achievement points to entice people to play them. Its not as if these mini games would become “ghost towns” without said enticements.

I am looking for a guild that farms achieves via mini games.

+1 to this. No offense but im also bored of playing with total strangers…