Guild Wars 2

Please make a cue system and remove the server choice for 5v5, because judging by the way it works now, it should be called 2v1 or 3v2 instead. When I can sit for a whole game playing 2v1, without ever seeing a new player come in, it’s just pointless to play. But with a cue system, you could funnel new players into existing games, so a 5v4 game could become 5v5 in a matter of seconds. Sure it would mean that we would have to wait a few seconds (or maybe a minute) before joining a game, but as it is right now, I’m already wasting time playing 3v2 games..

And no, I’m not going to join the zerg fest that is 8v8, or get my kitten downed in three seconds in tournaments. I just want to test my builds in a casual 5v5 environment. That shouldn’t be too much to ask for.

I highly agree. Make it so games wont start until they have full players, and add a penalty for leaving before the match end(worked pretty well in GW 1 with random arenas).

With this system you would have to change the way people join a match a little bit though.

Play now:
-Play now would put you in the lobby of the next available match with the most people in the “lobby”(just sitting at match waiting to begin)
-Add a sorting feature for joining (or not joining) certain maps and game types(currently only 5v5 and 8v8). So if you wanted to join a particular map, you just check the box for that map and you’ll be dropped in the lobby for the next match to start that map

Manual Hotjoin:
-allow players to queue to join a server with a match in progress, say if a friend is currently in a match you can queue his match and you’ll join on the start of the next match.
-allow for multiple server queuing allows for similar operation to the play now sorting options

This system may make it harder to get into a match, but I feel the matches will be more consistent and less lopsided. It’s really a bigger issue for 5v5 than 8v8 though, as you said, so 8v8 could just be left the way it is.

The other option is that they just make a gw1 random arenas style joining for 5v5. Where you join a random group and play with that group until you lose, until a certain point where you are spat out and are given a reward chest.(with unique rewards?)

I don’t want to see any snooker or pool minigames in GW2.