Guild Wars 2

Would you be willing to wait extra 5 min to get a great juicy steak or would you rather instantly get a rotten burger with bread tasting like dusty paper which will cause a food poisoning on top of it?

This rotten burger is what MM is atm. For the sake of quick queues the quality of the matches was thrown out of the window so we sit in 5 min queue for matches that will be stupidly one sided (guaranteed loss or win).

Vote please or leave comment.
https://strawpoll.com/frag51b

1 million charrs! People should understand that matchmaking isnt something that can be done well in 1 second. Try to play chess against computer, where computer has only 1 sec per move time to think versus you thinking 1 minute. (If you lose that, then dont play chess.)

I’m so tired of people wanting soloQ and doesnt care about class stacking. So they dont care about decent PvP. I really dont know what they care about. But PvP (conquest as it is now) should be about teamplaying.

Cynz.9437:

I don’t think you understand my point. I do have issue with silver vs plats WHICH is the thing already and is caused by attempt of getting quick queues atm.

No, it’s not. The rating differential is relatively small and only increases with time. So unless you think 5+ minutes is “quick”, you’re being silly.

Exedore.6320:

Cynz.9437:

I don’t think you understand my point. I do have issue with silver vs plats WHICH is the thing already and is caused by attempt of getting quick queues atm.

No, it’s not. The rating differential is relatively small and only increases with time. So unless you think 5+ minutes is “quick”, you’re being silly.

Well gold vs legends does happen more frequent than it should. You wait longer than 5 min, such match is basically guaranteed.

Cynz.9437:

Well gold vs legends does happen more frequent than it should. You wait longer than 5 min, such match is basically guaranteed.

So players in legend should sit in queue for hours, maybe indefinitely?

For the top end of the population, it’s not a question of finding a quick match – it becomes a question of finding any match at all.

Cynz.9437:

Well gold vs legends does happen more frequent than it should. You wait longer than 5 min, such match is basically guaranteed.

We actually have legend players now? Last I check nobody had reached 1950 yet.

For sure longer queues if it meant better matches. I would be comfortable waiting five minutes on average for better matches.

Exedore.6320:

Cynz.9437:

Well gold vs legends does happen more frequent than it should. You wait longer than 5 min, such match is basically guaranteed.

So players in legend should sit in queue for hours, maybe indefinitely?

For the top end of the population, it’s not a question of finding a quick match – it becomes a question of finding any match at all.

That is always how it is and how it always will be for the top end players in any MMO that doesn’t have an insanely massive population. There simply aren’t enough players playing at that skill level in the game at one point; of course your queues are going to be either extremely long (which is frustrating) or you’ll be playing easy games against players far below your skill level (which is boring as kitten)

Exedore.6320:

Cynz.9437:

Well gold vs legends does happen more frequent than it should. You wait longer than 5 min, such match is basically guaranteed.

So players in legend should sit in queue for hours, maybe indefinitely?

For the top end of the population, it’s not a question of finding a quick match – it becomes a question of finding any match at all.

So you think it is ok for legends to farm golds for easy points? What the point of MM at all? Might as well just remove it all together. I have been in situations where i sat for 1.5 hour in queues and i was ok with it. Farming low ranks is beyond boring, sitting for 5 min in queue just to be only higher rated player on team of low ranks while facing full team of top 10s isn’t fun either. Faster queues are not worth AFK simulator (literary what it is atm for anyone a bit higher than gold).

@Cynz

If matchmaking did its job your point analogy shouldn’t even be a question asked . A fair match should be a fair match, across the board.

If you have 1 player of every tier on 1 team, I expect the exact same ratio on the other team as well. And if that’s the case, as a Plat or Legend player, why should I receive full -20+ point loss for a game who’s player’s divisions were diverse?

But here is why queue times means nothing on Anet’s matchmaking system. I have seen Anet implement 2 second queue times for extremely fast games, for everyone. I’ve also seen them deliberately implement a 5 minute wait time, in an attempt to make the overall match quality “healthy”. The quality of matches were either terrible (worse than what we have now) or the match quality received wasn’t worth the wait time for it.

A 5 minute, 10 minute, or 15 minute queue times isn’t going to do anything but make the pvp population frustrated. You may be fine with it but i’ll guarantee you that you’ll be the only one queueing in the long run. (i’m not ok with queue times longer than 3m, 5m is pushing it).

It’ looks like if I got some really good matches (not one sided) I can’t vote in this one…

As a guy who studied making polls this is one is total garbage on many levels…simply because it’s made to prove op perspective.

Problem with mmr or matchmaking is much more complicated on many levels: population, hour when you play, subjective people perspective on their/other skill.

Right now we have bigger problems then quality of matches that is victim of many many problems that accumulated and exploded in this season.

I agree. I’d be completely willing to wait for better matches. ANET has the wrong idea prioritizing speed.

Ithilwen.1529:

I agree. I’d be completely willing to wait for better matches. ANET has the wrong idea prioritizing speed.

To a degree, but nobody wants 15+ min queues, and high level players could easily get stuck with much longer queues than that.

Crinn.7864:

Ithilwen.1529:

I agree. I’d be completely willing to wait for better matches. ANET has the wrong idea prioritizing speed.

To a degree, but nobody wants 15+ min queues, and high level players could easily get stuck with much longer queues than that.

15 + minutes i think it was more fault of the mixed q concept(and the side limitations added after(prefer team vs team, wait for one or two pugs if are qing in trio quad, etc etc) than the fact of being top .
in a solo q escenario no one will q more than the duration of a match to wait potential in rank rivals that are now in a match