Guild Wars 2

After a long PvP-Break I went back to watch into PvP.

But the 2nd “Match” I entered was manipulated. Red and Blue stand both left and right of clock-tower circle and stepped in and out to trade the objective.

Is this how PvP is nowadays? Match-Manipulation for reward maximization?

Yes.
You are correct.
Your opinion is carefully constructed and your arguments are unbeatable.

Is this hotjoin/practice or in unranked and ranked? I know people are doing this in hotjoin but personally it’s a non-issue to me. If Anet wants to ban them then go for it, don’t care either way. But if you’re serious about PvP you’re better off doing unranked or ranked where as far as I’m aware this is not an issue.

Hotjoin, yes.

I think it is easy to stop: The ration between kills (low towards zero) and conquests (high) in such a match is a very good indicator.

I dont’ know why people care so much about custom arena.

Those are basically rooms people set up themself with the rules they want.

If you care so much you should play unranked or ranked arena.

laokoko.7403:

I dont’ know why people care so much about custom arena.

Those are basically rooms people set up themself with the rules they want.

If you care so much you should play unranked or ranked arena.

No was not a custom arena.

I still dont’ think it’s a big deal.

People trading objective for dailys etc.

Just treat it like vista daily.

You don’t get much for the reward track anyway, even if you win every match in practice arena. So only thing good for is the daily.

instead of caring so much about practice arena, you can just do unranked arena.