Guild Wars 2

Hi,

This is half-rant, half-suggestion so bear with me. Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of something that really annoys me.

In order to win games in sPvP, some people will simply move themselves to spectator from the losing team in order to force an auto-balance roll, after which they’ll immediately join the winning team (as both teams are equal in number of players but not full) and lock other players out of their hard earned win.

Of course, this is kind of a “minor” thing, as winning games in sPvP doesn’t have much impact, but as someone going for the several “200 wins” titles for fun, I keep getting robbed of pretty legitimate wins since I get rolled over to the losing team. And suddenly it’s not fun anymore.

To be honest, I’m starting to not care about the matches anymore as it’s disheartening to put effort in actually trying to play the game and beat the other team only to be rebalanced to the losing team by a forced roll of the dice.

Something as simple as adding a re-join cooldown of some sort (like 1 minute or more) would discourage this kind of thing. If you’re going to spectate for any legitimate reason, you’re not going to take less than that almost certainly.

Thanks for reading!

This only forces an auto balance if the other team already has an unfair advantage with more players than the team the player left from, to spectate.

I believe autobalance kicks in when one team has at least two players more than the other. So if one person leaves a side that is already one player down and is losing, autobalance then kicks in.

I just play for fun in sPvP, never ever take t seriously in the first place because the place itself…is not serious. You will get it eventually if you are good enough. I get 80% of that 200 in tPvP though, so if I win, I got counted for both Achievement.

Laserbolt.6731:

This only forces an auto balance if the other team already has an unfair advantage with more players than the team the player left from, to spectate.

I believe autobalance kicks in when one team has at least two players more than the other. So if one person leaves a side that is one player down and is losing, autobalance then kicks in.

You are correct, and it still happens frequently since more than 1 player usually decides to do it.

I just came out of a game where from a 8v8 game we suddenly had half the other team “gone” and 6 spectators, so the auto-balance kicked in and people rush-joined the winning team, whereas the others didn’t even bother coming back in since it was late game.

And I agree I just want to have fun in sPvP, but it’s not fun when you’re being cheated out by exploitation, no matter how serious sPvP isn’t.

If you get autobalenced to the losing team you still get the win bonus and it still counts as a win on your board.

If your playing hotjoin to win, your doing it wrong.