Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone, I alterate between playing a lot of PvP, and playing PvP just for my daily, and I really love the way PvP feels in GW2, but I can’t help but notice that lately when a team is behind, people tend to go afk really fast. Maybe an idea would be to just not show the score in a game? Then people would just try their hardest until the very end. I’m not sure what else you could do to stop the people from giving up.

The culture of quitting games was created by multiple seasons of deliberately unbalanced matches. People got into the habit of assuming a game is lost if it doesn’t go well at first.

In fairness, that was largely true for each of the past PvP seasons,. The only long term effective way to fix that would be to have a run of even matches. Consistent 50/50 matches would clear the problem up very quickly.

In all honesty, I’m not sure ANET is in a position to do that.

Some elitism can be usefull ONLY in this case :

Top stats scorrers have the ability to upvote/downvote players and give them extra PiPs .
If 2 top scorrers have put the same ’’restults’’ (upvote for example) in the same player , he gets extra bonus PiP .
(Ofc they can Upvotes each other for extra PiP (cheating) … but it can be easily be countered by ….well …. playing more to get yourself the Top stats) .

A person that have been downvoated , needs to say SPECIFIC WORDS during thematch , to actually loose PiPs :
a) sux
b)noob
c) go hotjoin or PvE
d) or stay long afk till the ‘’afk warning message’’ shows up , twice
e) CAPS LOCKS

If 2 ppl are in the same team , then the Leader has this option

Piieuw.5834:

Maybe an idea would be to just not show the score in a game? Then people would just try their hardest until the very end. I’m not sure what else you could do to stop the people from giving up.

thats a terrible idea.

You need to know the score because there is tactics involved for example you may calculate that all you need to do is hold your home cap and you will win because you know how far ahead you are. If you dont see the score you may leave your home cap and go to contest mid, meanwhile enemy thief decaps your home, you dont get mid and you lose the game.

Here are some steps in stopping players from afking.

Step 1 – Stop Match Manipulation.

Step 2 – Make matches actually worth players time. For the most players don’t mind losing. What hurts is when you lose to unfair mechanics and or players, for like 8 out of every 10 matches. At this point when you start to see the warning signs, then you lose all motivation.

Step 3 – Match Players either of equal value as a team MMR. Or have if the system can not do this at the time. Then allow players who are unfairly match gain 4 or 5 times the max ratings for the win of that match and nearly zero ratings loss for the loss. Of course this would scale to how unfair the match is and reverse for the team who had the huge advantage.

Step 4 – Team MMR vs Team MMR rating only. You either win as a team or you lose as a team. Another thing that is disheartening. Is to out play the other team to only find your team mates dying in rapid succession. Then afterwards dispite the fact that you was the best player out of both teams for that match. You get hit with a -27 and would’ve only gained +4 for the win.

All and all you are going to have to get the game mode to the point. Nearly every match is fun and engaging win or lose. Or no punishment is going to stop players from AFKing. If anything they’ll only serve to make players stop playing Ranked PvP. Meaning more population problems and then another cycle of loss without gains.

Sorry OP, but this idea makes absolutely 0 sense. If something like this was brought in I would seriously consider becoming a pve-only player. Seeing the score of a game is 100% necessary to decide what to do. So many of my rotations and decisions about positioning and how safe to play are based on the score of the game. If we are 200 points in the lead, I am not gonna take a big risk or try to hold a point in a 1v2- just play safe and we would win. If the score is 450-430 to my team and the enemy team has a 2-cap, I am absolutely going to try to hold a point outnumbered as long as possible or push into a fairly high-risk 1v1 because if I don’t, we lose.

Basically, the scoreboard gives so much important information that playing pvp without it in the proper way is practically impossible. I only get afkers maybe one in 10 games at an absolute maximum, but I honestly would prefer to have an afk in my team every 2 games than have something like this introduced. At least I would get 50% decent games.