Guild Wars 2

Played around 8 – 10 games last night. UI said average queue time was 45 seconds the times I remembered to look. Had a couple of basically instant joins and a couple of queue times that went over 3 minutes (but none that went over 5 minutes that I recall)

Matches varied quite a bit from 500 vs 150 (both wins and losses) to ones that were closer. Definitely can get a lot of the same profession. I was a mesmer in a 3-mesmer match as well as getting paired with 3-thieves in one match.

Overall, seems like a good tradeoff for a (I think) mid-level player like me.

Won a 4-5 it was quite sad to see such a disbalanced match (won 500-450)

Please ANET bring the solo Q back!

I know what you want to achieve… To force more pvp players to make teams and get a shot at sPvP tournament…

But trust me loads of us do not want this… We just want to queue up and have fun… But against premades?

Forcing a simple pvp player to get a team or rekt is like locking the tier6 colletion tab of every PvE players because “they wanna build a legendary don’t they!” ?

Okay the QUE time has gone to low fast matches – but the quality has degenerated into something horrid.

1 in 3 matches are close or ‘fun’…. rest are complete blow outs.

Maybe its just unranked – I dont know.

Just my experience

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/There-are-no-close-games

Everyone within the community knows that a rated q break for this long literally destroys the quality and popularity of pvp atm.

At this very moment GW2 has 73 twitch viewers. And no, off hours are no excuse when other MMOs have 1000’s of viewers at that same moment. When games that arent even out in the west (Black Desert) have 10 times the viewers during non beta weekends. GW2 is even less popular in terms of twitch viewers than low quality f2p options like APB reloaded.

A game that could be top of the heap brought down by mismanagement. Its sad really.

Locuz.2651:

Everyone within the community knows that a rated q break for this long literally destroys the quality and popularity of pvp atm.

At this very moment GW2 has 73 twitch viewers. And no, off hours are no excuse when other MMOs have 1000’s of viewers at that same moment. When games that arent even out in the west (Black Desert) have 10 times the viewers during non beta weekends. GW2 is even less popular in terms of twitch viewers than low quality f2p options like APB reloaded.

A game that could be top of the heap brought down by mismanagement. Its sad really.

You can’t really cherrypick views off twitch to mean anything, there was a semi “popular” streamer pulling in 8k views on his own today for super mario 64, twitch views don’t correlate to anything.

This amount of downtime, is pointless, I’m not playing until the next “season” and I know alot other people doing the same, unranked is just boring, it was pretty fun to mess around for a week or so, then it turned into snowballed matches or getting destroyed, and nobody is tryharding unranked, that’s what scrims are for.

XGhoul.7426:

You can’t really cherrypick views off twitch to mean anything, there was a semi “popular” streamer pulling in 8k views on his own today for super mario 64, twitch views don’t correlate to anything.

If the twitch viewers peaks and lows are incidental, sure. But they arent. GW2s lack of popularity on twitch is an ongoing thing. Its pretty much the least popular “big” MMO on twitch.

In a game that aims to be an esports title this is catastrophic.

Locuz.2651:

XGhoul.7426:

You can’t really cherrypick views off twitch to mean anything, there was a semi “popular” streamer pulling in 8k views on his own today for super mario 64, twitch views don’t correlate to anything.

If the twitch viewers peaks and lows are incidental, sure. But they arent. GW2s lack of popularity on twitch is an ongoing thing. Its pretty much the least popular “big” MMO on twitch.

In a game that aims to be an esports title this is catastrophic.

Except the devs themselves (or their new team) haven’t stated they wanted to go esports. I’m all for going in that bandwagon, but gw2 has already proven itself to be a niche for some people. I’m still baffled by this “esports” statement because they are being sponsored , meaning, no money came from their dev team or their actual budget is being spent on esports, be a reasonable person and think about it more. Re-read my last sentence before a response. I’m not trying to defend them by any means, but being reasonable is one thing, and raging over a company trying to esports is another thing, ive been very critical of ANet over certain issues regarding balance, but I don’t know how “eespurts” got out of hand.