Guild Wars 2

Give some kind of extra bonus for playing soloq/teamq during certain parts of the day?

This can be used to encourage players during off hours to join and reduce queue times. It can also be used to consolidate prime time players down to a more narrow window of play time so matchmaking is more even.

If enough people play, maybe introduce back the 8-team 3 round tPVP matches during certain happy hours.

Good point you bring up here

very good idea. +1

Won’t work people play at certain times of day because there life dictates it. You can put all the incentives in the world in and during the week you will never be able to get me to log in before about 10 p.m. est. I am sure there are many people in the same boat. Unless these periods will be fluctuate then I am all for it meaning no time slot will be discriminated against.

I liked the idea at first, but then I realized that this would just make other areas of the game (WvW, dungeon groups, general PvE) that much emptier at those times when few people are online.

Love your title kiri ! Happy Hour !!!! yeah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and yeah !!!! totally agree your point there! it will be so much more fun and would bring some new players to pvp.. LOL

brannigan.9810:

Won’t work people play at certain times of day because there life dictates it. You can put all the incentives in the world in and during the week you will never be able to get me to log in before about 10 p.m. est. I am sure there are many people in the same boat. Unless these periods will be fluctuate then I am all for it meaning no time slot will be discriminated against.

Doesn’t have to be one happy hour time slot. Could be multiple ones spread out through out the day.

Bump because devs have to read this.

kirito.4138:

Give some kind of extra bonus for playing soloq/teamq during certain parts of the day?

This can be used to encourage players during off hours to join and reduce queue times. It can also be used to consolidate prime time players down to a more narrow window of play time so matchmaking is more even.

If enough people play, maybe introduce back the 8-team 3 round tPVP matches during certain happy hours.

You didn’t take into account timezones. You should do so many happy hours the whole purpose of them would be destroyed.

I was hoping this topic involved discount draft beer, but this is a nice idea if the time fluctuated, as was mentioned previously.

It certainly wouldn’t hurt anything, but neither does cheaper beer. (Livers don’t count)

redslion.9675:

kirito.4138:

Give some kind of extra bonus for playing soloq/teamq during certain parts of the day?

This can be used to encourage players during off hours to join and reduce queue times. It can also be used to consolidate prime time players down to a more narrow window of play time so matchmaking is more even.

If enough people play, maybe introduce back the 8-team 3 round tPVP matches during certain happy hours.

You didn’t take into account timezones. You should do so many happy hours the whole purpose of them would be destroyed.

Yea, if you do too many happy hour time slots the concept loses its intended purpose. So it will be up to Anet to look at their user statistic to see when certain people are online from different regions etc. (3-4 happy hour time slot wouldn’t be too bad.)

But, for people who have limited time to play, this happy hour would give them a target time to plan for. They would get better quality matches and more matches in because the queues are shorter. Sucks if you only have 1hr to play, but have to wait 10+minute only to get a 4v5 or something.