Guild Wars 2

Hey peoples. Although i mainly play on the Chinese server these days, i wanted to post this here since… there’s absolutely no point in posting feedback on the Chinese forums x.x

Situation is this… as a soloq player i’ve long come to terms with the fact that my evenings playing in pvp will be punctuated with frustrating matches with a few good ones in between.

My main concerns are;
1. Pre-made vs. soloq – This is… this is silly, really. Voice chat advantages aside, the very fact that you can choose your team members and class mix already gives an unfair advantage. Add on top of that the coordination the team will develop after playing a couple of days together, a level of coordination lower than voice chat teams probably, but still a level of coordination rarely seen or achieved by solo players. What is the point of putting players into, what amounts to, a rigged game?

2. Class dailies – This must have made sense to someone at some point… otherwise it wouldn’t be in the game… right…? but… matches filled with 5~6 of the same professions… played by players that do not really know how to play that profession… it’s painful to watch and frustrating to play with.

3. Soloq vs Soloq matchmaking (highish MMR) – I cannot and have never been able to carry 3~4 noobie team mates. But every once in a while, the match making system seems to say to me… “I think you can…! You can do it!” no, no i cannot. Regardless of which side i am to the ‘handicapped team’, it’s not fun. Winning because our team’s turret engi keeps eating the same 3 suicidal enemy players while the other 2 players that actually know how to play gets 4v2 ed… no one is happy or having fun, everyone loses.

These issues (and various other smaller things) in isolation I can accept. I’ll work past it and try to have my bit of fun after work. All at the same time is… which brings me to the straw the broke the camel’s back.

Match 1 ranked: 2+1+1+1 vs 4+1 – 2 thieves on my team and the other thief is partied with a ranger. that’s fine, i’ll switch to my ele. Thief proceeds to suicide against a med guard all game… while we get out rotated by the 4q (210/500)

Match 2 ranked: soloq vs 5 – 2 thieves on my team again… without going into detail… (120/500)

Match 3 ranked: soloq vs 5 – 3 thieves on my team vs. the exact same premade from match 2… Our guard thinks that he should treb all game because “I die alot when i stand on a point” (10/500)

Match 4 unranked: 2+111 vs 5 – 4 players from my team start the game by going to home. 2 of them stay there all game. My personal score was 200+… (110/500)

Match 5 ranked: soloq vs 5 – 2 mesmers and 1 thief on my team… we’re going to win! i can feel it! (250/500)

At this point i’m asking myself… “when was the last time I had fun in pvp?” I honestly can’t remember. Sometime last week i think? Well that decides the issue no? I’m saying goodbye until the game becomes fun again.

Maybe stronghold will be better? we didn’t get to beta it here in China :<

Emi.4152:

…there’s absolutely no point in posting feedback on the Chinese forums x.×...

it’s the same here, we have been complaining about exactly the same for months.

The solo queue experience is the same here on NA servers. Don’t expect too much OP.

PS stronghold is PvE not PvP

It’s the same situation…. Reported over and over again numerous times each week.

thats crazy… if it’s being reported week after week over and over… and there’s nothing being done about it then… there’s either some sort of logic behind it that seemingly none of the players can even guess at or… mere incompetence?

maybe I can bring something up here. I too play on chinese sever. the point is not how mad the matching making are, I know with central tendency been the same everywhere, anet probably see the same distribution everywhere.
what I am really concerned is how much attention is chinese sever getting from you guys.
here in us, developer constantly keep an eye on the forum, and adjustment were made whenever needed or reported.
if there was an adjustment , say it might affect match making, do Chinese server get the same tweak? if not then, do people on chinese server have to wait until next patch?
I know chinese server are kind of outsourced… anet are not liable as long as there are no major material defect.
but an official announcement from time to time or quarterly report that shows you guys have at least gathered data, feedback from chinese server will make all the difference.

The frustrating part to me is they don’t give solid, “these are the issues…” as to the reasoning behind it. That leads to me speculating things like, “More people solo queue than team queue. If we put it back in, we won’t have the population to sustain both queues.”