Guild Wars 2

Exciton.8942:

You can always play with a team in unranked.

The sacrifice you make here is that you can’t COMPETE as a team. Unfortunately the game currently doesn’t have enough teams to have a competitive team queue. So to help the better future of the game, you have to make sacrifice here. If we can have a successful solo/duo competitive game mode, I am sure there will be more chance to create a team queue in the future.

Do you remember when we used to have tournaments that rewarded gems?

It was 8 teams compete, leaving 4 teams to compete, leaving the best 2 to duke it out. I really hope they bring that back.

Lobstertail.1075:

Tamasan.6457:

You’ll still be able to queue full 5 man premades in unranked.

So what you’re saying is that I can play pvp without getting any pvp rewards, no leaderboards, no leagues, no nothing and this is my great consolation prize? No thanks. I play pvp for the competition of getting better every season and so forth, off-season I don’t play as much because I find the seasons give me something to strive for. And I don’t want to queue against solo and duo players in unranked where they have no chance against my team and where most people play horribly. The solo/duo queue will kill five man teams in unranked too, since there is no point for many of the teams to practice.

So basically I will be stuck with no rewards and a long queue time to play against people that will lose based on an unfair disadvantage

I’d rather switch games to be honest than to be treated like garbage.

I know it’s quite an old post in the thread but that is sounding pretty hostile. I play unranked a lot off season and now. There are still rewards, the reward track, dailies and level up reward. You miss out on the league rewards but there are rewards in unranked. I’m in a similar position to you having something I really liked removed from ranked, you want to play as a 5 man team, I am only interested in Stronghold, not interested in Conquest. I’m playing unranked for now, I’d rather play Stronghold unranked than play Conquest.
Does bring another point, should be playing for fun. I have fun playing Stronghold, may be less rewards playing unranked but I get to have fun playing the game mode that I want to play. Similar idea for you, you may get less rewards unranked but you get to play with your four guild mates. Are you playing for fun or rewards?