Guild Wars 2

1, The ready button – having to sit in queue by my pc constantly is a total joke. I used to be able to go and chat to people around, get a drink, go to the bathroom, but now I have to sit at my PC and wait for some stupid queue pop. It is like enforced boredom.

2, The matchmaking – there is none. There is no competition left in team queue or solo queue. A solo player now has no fun way to compete fairly. And a team now getting on ts to try hard as a 5 man roster is laughable because they will just end up vs a bunch of no-names which they farm with no effort.

3, The heart of the mists – thanks anet for this “feature” patch which enforced us to stay in the worst map in history. We used to duel during queues, we used to go to lions arch, we used to hotjoin, to wvw…now what? Sit at my pc in a boring environment. Thanks! Really what a total joke, all this to stop 4vs5???? You do realise all the QQ about 4vs5’s on the forum were simply for raging children. It was an issue that was so minor that any fix should ONLY of been brought in if it didn’t screw up the whole game. Your ready button and enforced heart of the mists is the way to stop 4vs5s. The cure is simply 100000x worse than the disease.

4, The leaderboards – they SHOULD be a grind to reward playing. But the current system is just broken. They should reward activity and skill. This is the smallest problem as I have faith this will be resolved.

Honestly, I think its time for anet to have a meeting and discuss whether their feature patch made the game better. And if not please just roll it all back and cancel everything you did.

I just can’t believe you went ahead and made these changes with no for-warning to the community. It was like literally “here you go, we ruined this game you have put 3k hours into”.

I think the devs of this game are great. They seem super talented, hard working and committed. Everyone makes mistakes and if anyone can fix the problems the anet devs can. But seriously guys, I dont think these issue can be fixed. I think pvp will forever be terrible. The golden peroid of pvp in gw2 has gone and the reason is because of these new “features” which made the whole experience frustrating.

Even if you make queues longer so people can have fun games in 5 man teams it wont matter because then you have to sit at your PC in heart of the mists for longer. As in solving problem 2 is linked to making problems 1 and 3 worse. So the whole system is flawed.

Please please please, just scrap everything in this patch and move it back to the old system. Find me anyone team queueing or solo queueing for some competition now. It just doesnt exist.

Lopez.7369:

I don’t agree that PvP is ruined, but I agree with the overall tone of your post. The fact the developers would throw these bug- and problem-ridden features live then take a vacation for two weeks shows just how out of touch they are with the community. I wouldn’t be surprised if PvP activity was actually reduced over the holidays. I know I played less.

More importantly, it’s become painfully obvious that there is no clear plan to revive PvP in Guild Wars 2. It’s been, by all measures, an unmitigated disaster. And, honestly, if they have no real plan, they should probably just scrap the game mode altogether and focus on parts of the game that have healthy populations but still need help.

I’m also playing way less than usual, less than half i would say.

Game is simply not playable anymore as a solo player, and even tho i’ve a “kinda” team, i’m just not inclined to play.

Things can’t stay this way for sure.

Lordrosicky.5813:

1, The ready button – having to sit in queue by my pc constantly is a total joke. I used to be able to go and chat to people around, get a drink, go to the bathroom, but now I have to sit at my PC and wait for some stupid queue pop. It is like enforced boredom.

The remaining 9 people should not stay and wait for you to come back to the game you queued in the first place. If you wanna chat, have a drink or go to the bathroom, you can always queue later. You do not play a single player game. You can’t pause it every single time you feel like doing so…

Every day the same kitten gets repeated. You’ll have to wait until the 13th of January anyway, maybe we’ll get a forum update before. And by now, we all know what ‘sucks’ but constructive solutions are lacking in all these threads.

“But we’ve told ’em over and over how to fix it”
Well you’ve told ’em the issues over and over too.

There are simple solutions to all points you’re asking for:

1) The sound that comes when queue pops is currently set on the effect sound setting you have in options. Most players (like me) purposely set these low because we didn’t want to be deafened by them + we don’t want peeps to hear it through TS. However this one single sound is an exception. If it’s possible (and should, cause sound options bug out like this when changing sound settings on your pc) should the horn for a queue pop come out of the speakers at a decent intensity so it’s hearable when you’re not sitting at your pc.

2) The algorhythm they’re using is fine, the problem is the variance grows rapidly because anet is afraid high enders have to wait too long for a game and this ruins the experience of the players at the top of the big pack because they’re most likely to become first victims of the longer waiting teams. They could slow the variance again, but then premades will complain about waiting over half an hour again. They should save up the top 50 players in pvp (queue+play) so they’re most likely to be placed against eachother in turns, that way the pack of soloist isn’t used as scapegoats to feed the premades.

3) Expand the heart of the mist with an arena at the outer skirts kinda like th gurubashi arena in WoW. A place where everyone is an enemy of everyone (except party members). There might be bad seeds who’d ruin fights of others, but it would allow players to do 1v1 fights in these arena like fields.

4) I’ve mentioned my leaderboard suggestions several times before on these forums. Make it a points/games played LB where the denominator is at least 100 to enforce people to play at least 100 games to make full use of the scoring.

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Lordrosicky.5813:

1, The ready button – having to sit in queue by my pc constantly is a total joke. I used to be able to go and chat to people around, get a drink, go to the bathroom, but now I have to sit at my PC and wait for some stupid queue pop. It is like enforced boredom.

The remaining 9 people should not stay and wait for you to come back to the game you queued in the first place. If you wanna chat, have a drink or go to the bathroom, you can always queue later. You do not play a single player game. You can’t pause it every single time you feel like doing so…

^^Correct. Basically from what you are telling me, you are one of those kittens that was afk for the first minute or longer of the match; because you decided it was a good time to take a kitt. We didn’t like your kind before ruining matches for the rest of us, nothing is changed. If you want to go do things…don’t Q up. Simple as that. If the 3 minute Q is too long, then go do a dungeon. Casual.

PVP…………………

5.) People saying Necro is UP but Necro is actually a broken easy mode class.