Guild Wars 2

I’m sure I’m not the only person who hates joining a game that’s completely one-sided. You’d think the game would balance teams so that one person joins red, one person joins blue, etc, but no. I get stuck in games with just me and a bunch of people on the other side. Or, just as bad, I get into a game that’s 1v1. Wheee. And autobalance sucks. It’s not fun getting launched into the losing team by 300 points simply because the game can’t sort people properly.

Here’s my solution. Just like WoW or any other game in the world, put in a 1-2 minute window between when the first person joins and when the game starts. Not this 10 second crap. Some actual time for people to join, get organized, get sorted PROPERLY (so it’s not 1v5), and THEN start. Autobalance the game during those 1-2 minutes, not DURING the game (unless there’s a huge amount of people who leave or join).

I agree. Every other e-sport has a pre game queue up (LoL, Starcraft 2, dota 2). I think the pre-game team finding is almost essential if this game is to survive as an e-sport.

It is kind of annoying. For hot join the prep time is too short. For free tournaments the prep time is too long!

They need to find a nice balance.

Yeah free tournament waiting times are too long.

i prefer to just start playing and wait till things are balanced, the balancing system may not be good but they are skirmishes… while for tournaments 5 minutes is too much 1 minute, maximum 2 is enough.

/signed.
agree with all comments on sPvP and tPvP in the thread.