Guild Wars 2

In my experience in Solo queue, someone leaving and forcing a 5v4 happens considerably often, probably in a good quarter of the matches I play in. Firstly, this ruins the match for the team that faces an afk or a drop out, and secondly the team fighting against the undermanned team often loses a challenge and facerolls the enemy.

Honestly anet, if you truly are commited to making this game the MMO of e-sports, things like this cannot happen anymore. Its embarassing that you haven’t fixed this issue adequatedly by now. You should allow the ability for people to leave the match punishment free, and disable the match’s standing on rank/rewards when a 4v5 in a RANKED match occurs. Right now, when a 4v5 happens, I’m forced to stay in and try to ask the other side to have someone afk, or god forbid try to report someone whos name I can’t remember.

I know this issue has been berated to death, but it needs to be fixed, because it makes casual ranked matches a total joke.

Easy fix: put in a forfeit option.

If your entire team forfeits, enemy team wins and you can leave punishment free.
Points are reduced to be equal to the time spent playing so it can’t be abused to farm.

Clip.6845:

Easy fix: put in a forfeit option.

If your entire team forfeits, enemy team wins and you can leave punishment free.
Points are reduced to be equal to the time spent playing so it can’t be abused to farm.

yeah that works too as long as it doesn’t count towards win rate or rankings. 4v5s are a waste of time.

5 5v4’s tonight. I was doing well (27 wins, 23 losses) until tonight. Now I’m just mad…

The q system is lousy.
The ready now button needs to mean something rather than a piece of coding they forgot to remove so that all matches start 5v5.
If someone leaves a match, then a replacement needs to be found from those in q ( I know might suck for them if walking into unbalanced match but rewards could be adjusted for said player) .
2 yrs in and the q system still feels unfinished

For SOLO queue the following needs to happen:

First and foremost the queue system is horrible that it can suck an alt tabbed player into a game. It may surprise MMO players to learn that people have lives outside of a game and maybe the baby needs changing or the pizza is at the door or whatever. Then that player comes back to seat to find queue popped and he is 1/3 of the way to a multi day auto ban to compound things. That player may quit pvp all together in disgust which is not something you want to promote in a pvp game.

EVERY SINGLE OTHER PVP GAME confirms a join before just forcing a player into a match. If unconfirmed it just goes to the next in line. That is the main terrible component of programming design causing the majority of 4v5 because every match that starts 4v5 you can be sure was due to that.

Next up: disconnects mid match. For TEAM queue it’s a little murkier however even in the NBA and NFL if a player has an injury and is carried off the field the team is allowed to substitute in a new player. If ‘e-sports’ is ever to be taken seriously an ‘e-injury’ (crappy internet) should not result in a free 4v5 win for the other team.

Agreed, there is no excuse. There are more 4v5 free wins here than any game I’ve ever seen, and the forced queueing system is the main culprit.

I also agree there should be a forfeit vote option to allow players to get to more matches and out of unwinnable ones and allow the winners to not waste time in their lives. I suppose there is a farming concern with this though since it’s now tied to loot.

hey good thing about ’I’m ready button’ is its let me know how many noobs in that match. :p

yes, I always press that button when I was new.