Guild Wars 2

I’m sure you all know the feeling of being like 50 points short of winning or having just captured a point or scored with the orb then seeing that little Volunteer box pop up. You pray that it doesn’t decide to pick you yet anytime you are really close to winning it always seems to pick you out of the 5 others on your team. Its just obnoxious. I will admit, giving the person who volunteers a win bonus was a good place to start, but honestly, it seems like the wrong end of the spectrum. You should punish people who leave their teams, not punish people who stay with their team then slap a win bonus on it.

There already is a debuff in place known as Dishonorable that is a step in the right direction. People who constantly leave their teams shouldn’t be allowed to disappoint another team with their pettiness.

Just to sum up, I’m saying that you should fix a problem at the source, not put a bandaid on the symptoms. If people can’t RQ their team, there will be no reason to autobalance people to other teams and reward them with win bonuses.

Leave a match early once in a day:Warning+5 minute lock out
Leave a match early twice in one day: Warning+10 minutes
Three times:30 Minutes
Four times: 90 Minutes
Five times: 3 Hours
Everytime thereafter double the time. Should you reach 6 or more infractions, your count will not reset daily until the time is served.

If you are switched you get the points for the win even if your new team loses.

The real problem is that players deliberately stack the teams many games in a row because it lets you pick which side to join; or worse, abuse spectate/autobalance til they GET on the stacked team. This makes it pretty unfun for the poor newbs that keep getting stuck on the losing side (and whoever gets stuck with them) b/c they don’t spam the correctly colored join key

but think about it; the reason you are winning is exactly because the enemy is down on players, so there isnt much worth in that win. Also, dont think the RNG is going for you, most of the time you dont even notice except when it does pick you, in that case you feel like the entire universe is agaisnt you and that it happens all the time, when in reality, there is a constant 20% chance of being THAT guy.

Either way, you receive the honors point, in fact, if you volunteer you get the bonus points AND a volunteer bonus, which is what I do, worth the effort!

I wish it would grant you some sort of immunity if you were swapped. I had a game the other day where I was swapped 3 times in a row.
It is hard to do anything in a match that way.

Out of curiosity, do you still get the win bonus if you are switched even if you don’t volunteer? My problem with it isn’t the point values or the win bonus or anything. Its just simply not fun to be winning and working together with your team then all of a sudden you get swapped over to a team of complete strangers who are likely to leave. Whats worse is the people that are so desperate for a win that they leave their team to force autobalance then immediately join the winning team when the teams even out.

Like Reesha said, constantly switching teams and respawning in base is a huge waste of time and you don’t really know what to do. You just feel like you’re stuck with a lose no matter what because some people are playing just to win.