Guild Wars 2

1) If there is one thing that makes long queues worse it’s spending them doing nothing, please, and I mean PLEASE let us join custom servers, hot-joins, wander aimlessly, and not JUST stand there.

2) Seriously address suggestion 1

3) Put a check-mark OR SOMETHING next to the names of people in your party as they accept the queue so you can kitten at them if they don’t.

4)honestly, you MUST fix number 1 suggestion

5) As for queue times, our team, Radioactive, has decided that 5m is the max we feel is acceptable; however, queue times would feel smaller if we could hot-join, duel in customer servers etc. in the meantime.

Also, as a side note, considering we have had only 1 good match-up since the patch has gone through, we would LOVE to scrim any team that asks, so, please ask.

I agree completely, with ALL of these suggestions. Yes bringing the community together seems like a great idea, but I am honestly getting burnt out, waiting for these ques to actually pop and cant practice, test stuff in a server.

Annoying problem created by everyone being in hotm, whenever we come out of a queue, WE ARE ALL IN DIFFERENT INSTANCES, and it drops queue if we try and join each other.

I AGREE……………

kitten yeah !

Yes!
Please for the love of god do not make me afk doing nothing for 10 min at a time, this is ridiculous.

Let me duel or hotjoin or SOMETHING.

Some times i literally WAIT LONGER THAN I PLAY

LET ME DO SOMETHING PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GAWD LISTEN TO THE OP
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side note: i commented on this post during a 15 min que so far, and stil going, where i can do absolutely nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This saturday and sunday evening the average queue time was 30s.
But if they change the matchmaking wich makes the queue longer i agree there should be stuff to do while queueing

yes, i can confirm this.

the more experienced and skilled players have much longer queue times that end up in blow out matches, in frustration for waiting so long, they brutally steam rolled the other team which is not up to their standard.

the very casual players like myself have a very short queue time, fastest is within a minute, longest around 1 – 2 minutes.

+1

I don’t want to have to stand 5+ min doing nothing while i wait for q pop. All that wasted time i could be dueling.

protip: one you kill the ranked timer (10-30mins) go into unranked and kill their timer too, if the system continues this way

Yes open hot join while waiting.

I’m starting to think that, at least for ranked queue, they should set the matchmaking system similar to what it was pre-patch, I have had 1 match that was actually close out of however many days the patch has been out multiplied by 12 matches a day.

In the past I would get around half of my games solid match-ups with good fights, but now it is worthless, came to the Go4 Cup completely unprepared, can’t test comps, people or ideas when you fight solo queues and newbies ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.

^ I think top teams are split up too atm. I’ve seen some queue unranked, some ranked.

Maybe the ladder activation will help pull those from unranked to ranked.

Firebird.8324:

I’m starting to think that, at least for ranked queue, they should set the matchmaking system similar to what it was pre-patch, I have had 1 match that was actually close out of however many days the patch has been out multiplied by 12 matches a day.

In the past I would get around half of my games solid match-ups with good fights, but now it is worthless, came to the Go4 Cup completely unprepared, can’t test comps, people or ideas when you fight solo queues and newbies ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.

What you want to say is, bring soloq back so teams (2+3, 1+4, 2+2+1, 1+1+3, 1+1+2+1, 1+2+2 and the other permutations) don’t have to face mishandled matches. I’ve said this on ts before with a direct quote: “At least people that went duo/trio/quad queue expected to face premades” the only logical answer the devs have given to remove soloq entirely has been “leaderboards didn’t mean anything”. You literally made a better system to help the hardest soloq problem (4v5) then you implement a profession system which is hit or miss, but works when it needs too, which would’ve helped soloq even more!

If upper management had to force feed the pvp team to merge soloq/teamq you guys have a muzzle over your mouth to reply to this.

The one and only thing I have appreciated so far with this patch has been the ability to have some control over the map that is chosen, other than that, please put some of it back to what it was previously.

I very much agree. I kinda understand how we have to be in the mist because of world loading screens can be very long for some, but since when are pvp map loading screens long enough to break the required time limit for a game? I don’t believe it personally. I miss duels inbetween games.

Further, I have had a total of 2 good games since the patch. You can only beat what’s in front of you, and all of us can agree we won’t improve/evolve without competition.

Firebird.8324:

The one and only thing I have appreciated so far with this patch has been the ability to have some control over the map that is chosen, other than that, please put some of it back to what it was previously.

I agree completely. Along with the check marks next to party members I think it would be cool to see #’s on Map choices before choosing a map if some players have already voted.

Also I am waiting on a couple of guys to finish putting a team together. I am not sure if this would take a week…or 2? We would be happy to scrim your team at that point. I can let you know in game when we get settled in (if still interested at that point). We would mostly be “fresh” as a team and the synergy wouldn’t quit be up to par yet; but would probably still be a hell of a lot better than what you are facing now haha.

Anytime, just pm me in game.

Agree with OP. In NA prime time this doesn’t seem to be an issue. Acandis posting a 40+ minute queue timer should be all the evidence necessary to fix this.

What I don’t understand is that I actually had better matchups before patch and never waited in a 40 min wait queue, granted I do believe that was a problem with the min potentials in the algorithm being set too low.

If anyone wants to converse about suggestions that DEVS SHOULD READ, I hardly ever leave my computer, so I’d be happy to respond.