Guild Wars 2

+10000
pleaseeeeeee this need a solution right now.

ArenaNet is encouraging us to not play their game and do something else instead while in queue. What a great message to send out to players.

Would like to see an activities NPC and a costume brawl fountain.

please let us do things or i drink alcohol

Agreed.
Also, Tarcis for president.

Dude, what are you talking about? We have plenty to do. Why do you think they hide loot boxes in the loot boxes that were in loot boxes?

15 minute q = 15 minutes to left click

worst part of the game right now if you ask me. please change Anet

Can we go roam about in PVE while queued like before?

Tab out and do anything you want?

As for streamers… good luck!

15 mins that’s insanity,

You should just do what i do, once the q time hits 6-10 mins start losing, takes awhile but it’s worth it in the end..

The leader boards haven’t meant anything since launch, same with win/loss rates, Unless your a competitive person who must win every game, I can’t really see the point of waiting that long for a match..

we used to be able to be anywhere in the world while in the queue. Why do we have to be in hotm?

Sylanna.1947:

we used to be able to be anywhere in the world while in the queue. Why do we have to be in hotm?

Because of load screens and match countdown timers. Some people load slow.

zone.1073:

ArenaNet is encouraging us to not play their game and do something else instead while in queue. What a great message to send out to players.

I read books (Game of Thrones atm).

That’s right. Anet’s GW2 is driving PC gamers to read books…

I tab out and frequently miss ques. GG

I’ve suggested this numerous times already in my reports….

What is your guys high scores on waiting? personally, i hit up to 20 mins.

ronpierce.2760:

I tab out and frequently miss ques. GG

There was a patch a while ago that has your icon on your bar flash orange whenever a match is ready. Sometimes the trumpets play, some times they don’t.

Anastasis.7258:

I thought my character was bugged at the moment when I see 15 min.
The queue actually poped at 17 min, which I think it breaks my previous record 13 min.

Can you guys at least let us join some hotjoins or personal arena to duel with friends while waiting for these life wasting queues? The average queue time for me now is around 8~9 mins, which is just ridiculous .

Waiting these queues also sucks for streamers to stream Guild Wars 2 PvP. Viewers lost their interest by watching streamers just standing in HoTM and do nothing but killing golems. I believe most of the streamer in Guild Wars 2 PvP has whined about that they can’t do anything while waiting for the queue pop. Even veteran players couldn’t really handle these boring queue times, how about those new comers who just join Guild Wars 2 PvP?

Polymock!!!

Wolfey.3407:

I’ve suggested this numerous times already in my reports….

What is your guys high scores on waiting? personally, i hit up to 20 mins.

ronpierce.2760:

I tab out and frequently miss ques. GG

There was a patch a while ago that has your icon on your bar flash orange whenever a match is ready. Sometimes the trumpets play, some times they don’t.

At night I have to turn sound off. And yeah, sometimes I notice the flash. Often times I don’t though. Was much better on windows 7, on windows 8 I miss it much more often.

Personally, I play mortal combat while I wait… But I have to nag the poor soul I’m queuing with to tell me when it pops.

A lot of people seem to enjoy trolling map chat while they wait (though I’m pretty sure a lot of those aren’t queued at all :/), so I guess that’s a thing.

*note:PvP means Player vs Player and not Person vs Person ;p

You can’t even do Belcher’s Bluff in mists!
It’s ridiculous just sitting there – thus… you get players of all ages trolling people in map chat creating a fairly bad environment.

You can play some instruments. Be sure to play sad songs or ballads mostly. Maybe some epic tunes to get into a combat mood.

Honestly when this first new queue system was released, it was actually bugged to where players could actually queue outside of the mists. Rarely any 4v5’s. The 4v5’s that exist feel like people leave half way through a game or right before one, not because they just decided not to show up.

If I recall correctly, their sole reasoning was that they didn’t want people with slow computers to ruin the queue system for everyone, but as I suggested 3 months ago, they should honestly leave that up to the discretion of the player himself, and just raise the queue pop notification to 30 seconds max to accept (it wont always take 30s, because if everyone accepts, its a good day, right?). The people that have potato computers will be forced to not leave the mists or go to any place that requires more than a 30s loading screen, and people that actually do have a decent PC (the majority) will be able to do as they please and cease the complaints.
Don’t punish the majority for the minority. Implement dishonor, and let people queue outside of the mists. Please and thanks

i usually read the bible or do something more interesting. counting each second is pretty fun too.

I usually watch porn-movies, but everytime i get ready to…well q pop. So i have to choose…u know…
Meh its really wasted time =/

Wolfey.3407:

I’ve suggested this numerous times already in my reports….

What is your guys high scores on waiting? personally, i hit up to 20 mins.

ronpierce.2760:

I tab out and frequently miss ques. GG

There was a patch a while ago that has your icon on your bar flash orange whenever a match is ready. Sometimes the trumpets play, some times they don’t.

I doubt they read your reports honestly. Not to demotivate you or anything.

This issue is a reason why me and my friends stopped playing gw2. Also the accept system is terrible because you have to stay at your pc to click it. If you queue with a group often you are waiting 45 minutes because someone misses the queue pop getting a drink or something.

All this to stop very few 4v5? The cure is way worse than the disease.

This is the main reason I don’t play as much anymore. Balance issues and joke leaderboard aside, it is just annoying to queue now…especially with friends (as Lordrosicky says it often takes much much longer).

I watch Phanta, 5G, and a few others. It really does bore the viewer to have half of stream be waiting around in hotm. Personally, I just browse the internet while waiting, but if I were a high mmr streamer, I would probably play a turn-based game (or something that can be easily paused) in windowed mode while queued up. That would give something more interesting for the viewer to look at.

That said, Anet really needs to make it so people can continue playing GW2 while queued.

^ Mental note: Avoid that twitch at all costs.

Totally agree with you Tarcis,

I think we need to be able to 1v1, so we are more practised and it’s a lot of fun and we get some rewards for winning a 1v1 so other player doesn’t go afk.

I dont even know why anet did this it was way better before when u couldve wvw or dueled while waiting plzzz give us that back cant keep doing nothing for 8 min per game

Sometimes I like to sit at the beasts or the profession AIs and watch people die to them. It happens with surprising frequency.

Agreed, I don’t see what the problem was with the previous queue system, obviously confirming the queue was a good idea but why can’t we pve/wvw/hotjoin during these times? I also wish people clicked the “ready up” button from time to time, I’m not very fond of having to wait 2 more minutes after having a 5+ minute queue.

Bump. Yeah if Anet can fix this issue, obviously its not a bug or glitch in the system. It is a interruption of gameplay. You tell us to update our drivers so we wont lag in wvwvw ok will do that, but can u guys just make it so we can be in eotm or wvwv or in tyria while in que or just join hotjoin.

I miss more q’s now kitten or clipping my toenails or something than I did before.

It’s not only boring, but it’s killing the streaming community. I’m sure PvP population has most likely taken a blow as well.

For instance, right now I’m about to work on world completion (pve, yuck) and would LOVE to have monotony interrupted by qpops. :’c

I want to also be able to play the 50 some odd Choir Bells in my bank, please!
So – Belcher’s Bluff and Choir Bells. Add it.

nekretaal.6485:

Would like to see an activities NPC and a costume brawl fountain.

while you can costume brawl in the mists, any wins in the mists do not count towards the king of the costume brawl achievement.

Waiting for ques can be such a turn off to people watching GW2 pvp streams.

Things to do while waiting for 2m – 17m in pvp queue.

• Financially manage your gw2 pvp items and bank.
• Buy a flute
• Develope a macro to play Ocarina of Time on the flute.
• Make a macro that plays 10 songs during your wait.
• Realize some songs play better on Harp.
• Buy a Harp.
• Install a mini fridge so you can make sandwiches in your room (single man problems(solutions))
• Can’t find money to buy fridge (college broke kid problems)
• Make a forum post about queue and Hotm.

Edited and removed “sexually explicit comments”.

The queue times can be really long, I strong support the OP. letting us join hotjoins will permit us to join/warm up in hot joins/king of the hills and actually play the game instead of waiting.

This pretty much sums up why I don’t play much anymore, it was bad enough that the LB changed to be centered around play time and games over being the best, but on top of that I get to do absolutely nothing with a normal queue time being 6 minutes or more (for me).

Make a free for all zone in the mists. When you enter you become hostile to everyone else in the zone. People can enter kill some people or die and respawn and re enter.

They don’t call it a Box ’o Fun for nothing…

YES PLEAAASE.

Able to join hotjoin while queueing will be awesome!

I dont give a flying FVCK if que time are long. what i kittening care about is the fact i cant do kittenign kitten while im waiting. its kittening pathetic and kittening unacceptable. kittening change this you lazy peices of kitten a-net listen to the kittening community

+1 for this post.
I Play some Hearthstone/Diablo3/ Sc2 while waiting for Qs.
(Thx to blizzard for 30s-2min-5min Q)
(I have 10min Average Qs in Guildwars2)

Saiyan.1704:

• Develope a macro to play Ocarina of Time on the flute.

OoT is either a game or an instrument within that game. So it’s not an actual song. Just saying.

Anyway, I don’t see why it’s a problem to tab out while waiting. You can complain on forums while you wait for your match!

some JPs within the heart of mists pls

WAITING FOR THE Q IS BORING
WAITING FOR THE Q IS BORING
WAITING FOR THE Q IS BORING

kitten THIS GAME

Immortal.3647:

some JPs within the heart of mists pls

People dont come to pvp to do jumping puzzles