Guild Wars 2

its un-kittening-believably annoying to have to hop in and out of 3-4 servers on average to find a server that isn’t just people dueling.

Its un-kittening-believably aggravating to hear people kitten and moan because “They were 1v1ing dude!” I Don’t scan my chat log if it the scores on both sides appear to be a real game (IE, the score isn’t 10 to 5 with 2 minutes left). I don’t “owe it to you” to make sure you’re actually playing the game, and not just dueling.

I want to play the game. I don’t want to spend 10 minutes between server hopping and waiting a full minute (Every kittening time) for my client to tell me that 8/10 I tried to join was full.

And a note to the duelers – do try to be polite. I understand its frustrating to have a duel ruined, but mistakes happen. It’s just as frustrating for me to spend a few minutes getting into a server and then to the action to find out you all suddenly decided you wanted to try some 1v1’s as it is for you to have your duel ruined. If you act like a kitten, I will play the game the way it was designed and try to kill the opposing team. If you’re polite however, I won’t waste my time and yours.

dont worry, private servers are coming soon, and people will be very willing to spend their money on a standard feature that should have been here in the first place

in the mean time, if you join a server with 4 or less people, just leave as you most likely joined into a dueling group

Dueling should not be an SPVP thing, it should be open world :/

Aaron, I don’t think we should have to pay just to duel though is the point.

When it’s ready™

aaron.7850:

dont worry, private servers are coming soon, and people will be very willing to spend their money on a standard feature that should have been here in the first place

in the mean time, if you join a server with 4 or less people, just leave as you most likely joined into a dueling group

I’ve never opted for a game with less than 5 players, and even the 5-6 range is only chosen out of desperation. In the last 3 days, I’ve been joining 7-8 player servers that are exclusively dueling (always 10 man servers, 16 man is just dumb), 3 or 4 jumps before I can find a game where people are actually playing.

If I’m looking to play for an hour, and I spend 10-15 minutes looking for a game, that’s an issue – its blatantly obvious people want dueling Anet, just add it already and stop diluting the already lackluster PvP experience for those players still holding out hope you’ll one day soon get your kitten together.

It’s absolutely ridiculous dueling wasn’t in at release, esp for a pvp game. Spvp is the only way to do it.

evilapprentice.6379:

I want to play the game. I don’t want to spend 10 minutes between server hopping and waiting a full minute (Every kittening time) for my client to tell me that 8/10 I tried to join was full.

Dude. Seriously with this. I bug reported this a thousand times in every BWE assuming it was just a typical beta bug but it hasn’t gotten remotely better. You click a server that’s even 12/16 and if you don’t automatically get the loading screen, you now have to wait a full minute before the error telling you that the server is full comes up before you can try joining a different room. Which you actually don’t have to do because once the error comes up you look and see the “full room” still has 12/16 players. Click it again and it will work. I’ve found it’s usually the first time you try to join a server after loading into the mists, you can expect that stupid error. The error needs to pop up IMMEDIATELY.

aaron.7850:

dont worry, private servers are coming soon, and people will be very willing to spend their money on a standard feature that should have been here in the first place

in the mean time, if you join a server with 4 or less people, just leave as you most likely joined into a dueling group

I’d agree with you wholeheartedly if the game wasn’t F2P. In the spirit of being fair, I won’t fault Anet for asking me to pay money for a private server when they don’t ask me for 15 bucks a month just to log in.

Regardless of that fact though, I agree dueling should have been included at launch, and not available just via private servers.

evilapprentice.6379:

aaron.7850:

dont worry, private servers are coming soon, and people will be very willing to spend their money on a standard feature that should have been here in the first place

in the mean time, if you join a server with 4 or less people, just leave as you most likely joined into a dueling group

I’d agree with you wholeheartedly if the game wasn’t F2P. In the spirit of being fair, I won’t fault Anet for asking me to pay money for a private server when they don’t ask me for 15 bucks a month just to log in.

Regardless of that fact though, I agree dueling should have been included at launch, and not available just via private servers.

Really? GW2 is F2P? So why did I spend $60 on this box?

Larynx.2453:

When it’s ready™

+1

yap this is annoying , here is something you can do to mitigate this experience.

DONT USE THE JOIN NOW BUTTON.

manually select a server with 12+ players and join that. If you want 8vs8.
Or scroll down and look for a 6+ 5vs5 server.

daydream.2938:

yap this is annoying , here is something you can do to mitigate this experience.

DONT USE THE JOIN NOW BUTTON.

manually select a server with 12+ players and join that. If you want 8vs8.
Or scroll down and look for a 6+ 5vs5 server.

I Haven’t used the “Join now” button since a week after launch. If you’d have bothered to read anything I said, I pointed out numerous times how I’ve been picking 6-8 player 10 man servers and finding out everyone is dueling in them. Does anyone use Join now?

Larynx.2453:

evilapprentice.6379:

aaron.7850:

dont worry, private servers are coming soon, and people will be very willing to spend their money on a standard feature that should have been here in the first place

in the mean time, if you join a server with 4 or less people, just leave as you most likely joined into a dueling group

I’d agree with you wholeheartedly if the game wasn’t F2P. In the spirit of being fair, I won’t fault Anet for asking me to pay money for a private server when they don’t ask me for 15 bucks a month just to log in.

Regardless of that fact though, I agree dueling should have been included at launch, and not available just via private servers.

Really? GW2 is F2P? So why did I spend $60 on this box?

Sorry, I was referencing the 0 dollars a month I play to access the servers they pay to maintain, and the fact that the gem store contains nothing that will give another player a bought advantage in PvP, and not to mention the fact that the only gameplay difference between a brand new player and a rank 80 PvPer is experience (and how pretty they look).

Daecollo.9578:

Dueling should not be an SPVP thing, it should be open world :/

This guys got it right. I shouldn’t have to pay to duel and I shouldn’t have to use my SPvP char for it either. I have a nicely geared and well made PvE char ready and waiting on use.

Locked servers is a must, our guild runs full 1vs1 and 2vs2 tournaments and fill the room but when someone leaves so someone can switch sides or someone afks out we always get some random join in. Its something thats gone on far too long and looks lazy on ANet’s side to handle.

My suggestion, que free tournies for a serious match. Get the duels in sPvP. If we as a community stick to that, then paids will get the pre-set vs pre-set, and free tournies will get the team vs team combat you want. More people grinding out there glory in free tournies means less time to get a queue in.

SteepledHat.1345:

Daecollo.9578:

Dueling should not be an SPVP thing, it should be open world :/

This guys got it right. I shouldn’t have to pay to duel and I shouldn’t have to use my SPvP char for it either. I have a nicely geared and well made PvE char ready and waiting on use.

I totally agree , Duelings should be in open world.. For example im doing PvE with a friend ,then we want to have a duel , why would we have to go to sPVP to duel ?

Vasilis.1963:

SteepledHat.1345:

Daecollo.9578:

Dueling should not be an SPVP thing, it should be open world :/

This guys got it right. I shouldn’t have to pay to duel and I shouldn’t have to use my SPvP char for it either. I have a nicely geared and well made PvE char ready and waiting on use.

I totally agree , Duelings should be in open world.. For example im doing PvE with a friend ,then we want to have a duel , why would we have to go to sPVP to duel ?

“Ain’t nobody got time for dat…to build dueling that is”, J-Phlat