First of all, I really appreciate the dev-player communication, which was way worse in this forum months ago. But the existance of this poll blows my mind.
We all know that you can’t match premades always against other premades. We simply don’t have enough population to achieve a perfectly balanced MM. So Anet asks players in this forum how they should handle this “issue”. I remember a dev telling us that non-premades vs premades only happened at a really small percentage (This was months ago).
So here are things I noticed after lurking in this forum a while ago:
- Players get very emotional when they think something is not “fair”
- They immediately make a thread about it ( e.g. Guard OP )
- Matchmaking is always bad
- Players want perfect matchmaking while having low Q-times and low player population
- Most of them are “stuck” in ruby
- They agree with each other while having vastly different experiences. ( Anet might get rid of something that could get annoying, so why not? )
I’m not a pro player but it’s really hard for me to take them serious. Letting the coummunity decide over such an important topic will not always result in a healthy game.
This poll is also heavily flawed. We all know no one wants to get matched against premades so the average Joe wants to get rid of them. You can predict the result…( it was 78% for “change” last time I checked ).
This is just WRONG. GW2 is an MMO. Players want to play together and improve their skills as a team or just have fun together while climbing to Divisions. You don’t make GW2 great again while building walls between players.
In the latest big Update we got the opportunity to group up after a match. Most of the time I just Solo/DuoQ, but I still made a lot new friends because of that. Now this is getting obsolate.
The outcome of the poll is not meaningful. You really are going to abandon the current system because of that? I know it’s only for testing, but this is just a bad idea. It worries me that the poll after s5 will have a similar result since you don’t have a good reference how the season would be with grouped players.
Sorry for bad English