Guild Wars 2

1. Get rid of tournaments, matches will only have 1 game, and will be on a random map
2. Give teams and individuals matchmaking ratings
3. Create a solo queue and a team queue

That’s it. You can still keep monthly tournaments in the current format for the top 32 teams.

ain’t gonna happen – they need to sell tournament tickets. lol

I think that would make it worse lol

Everything is good as is except for the matching of pugs vs premades in free tournaments. This is the most important fix they should do next.

Or you could just bottleneck tournaments and said “paids are only online for this period of time”. That would encourage more people to use them in that period, and would also make multiple tournaments go at the same time (instead of an elongated period with the same teams queuing with small trades outs). I do however know that people want to be able to jump in at any point in time and do paids, but that doesn’t happen at all due to the population (if in the future the community becomes large then a longer time duration or 24 hour possibilities should be revisited). Fixed time would make paids more player heavy for a short time, which is good for a larger variety of people winning them (winning makes people more interested in staying), and also improves the gathering of tickets left for the rest of the day (ie less people running out of tickets).

Taym.8326:

Or you could just bottleneck tournaments and said “paids are only online for this period of time”. That would encourage more people to use them in that period, and would also make multiple tournaments go at the same time (instead of an elongated period with the same teams queuing with small trades outs). I do however know that people want to be able to jump in at any point in time and do paids, but that doesn’t happen at all due to the population (if in the future the community becomes large then a longer time duration or 24 hour possibilities should be revisited). Fixed time would make paids more player heavy for a short time, which is good for a larger variety of people winning them (winning makes people more interested in staying), and also improves the gathering of tickets left for the rest of the day (ie less people running out of tickets).

Fixed times are not that nice idea. REmember GW1 tournaments with fixed times. – most issues comming also from different timezones.

Fixed can be a big tournament from time to time, but not daily.

Aragiel.6132:

Taym.8326:

Or you could just bottleneck tournaments and said “paids are only online for this period of time”. That would encourage more people to use them in that period, and would also make multiple tournaments go at the same time (instead of an elongated period with the same teams queuing with small trades outs). I do however know that people want to be able to jump in at any point in time and do paids, but that doesn’t happen at all due to the population (if in the future the community becomes large then a longer time duration or 24 hour possibilities should be revisited). Fixed time would make paids more player heavy for a short time, which is good for a larger variety of people winning them (winning makes people more interested in staying), and also improves the gathering of tickets left for the rest of the day (ie less people running out of tickets).

Fixed times are not that nice idea. REmember GW1 tournaments with fixed times. – most issues comming also from different timezones.

Fixed can be a big tournament from time to time, but not daily.

Although you may not like the idea, it would work. The base timezone for all the servers maybe has a spread across 4 hours, if the chosen time is placed someone central to that point it would not be too large of an issue. Personally I would rather have some people complain about time zone issues than have them available 24/7 and those same people with time zone issues don’t get to play regardless because there is not a community around at that time to support a tournament.

PvP queues may still be an issue, but what further damages the community and convinces people that the game is dieing is long queues. This would remove said problems as people would log in specifically for times alotted for paids, it would also go further in off hours to not fragment a small PvP community further between paids and free tournaments in the off hours. Perhaps you think petty time zone concerns are more important than this, however people with time zone issues ALREADY don’t get paids to pop. Using this however, they will at least be given a timeframe when they WILL pop.