Guild Wars 2

I know this has been mentioned tons of times, but I still dont know why the devs havent implemented a simple player count before a match starts.

There are a lot of matches that are 4v5 which takes the fun out of the matches and ruins the glory/ranks that players gain or loose, and is generally just a waste of players time.

On top of that, the solo que also have some players that just loves to afk during tournament matches. They either genuinely go afk or just stands in spawn zone. There should be some kind of penalty for going afk – ie for not stepping out of spawning zone in set amount of time. Maybe a few hour penalty where players cant enter que again.

there is penalty however team is still kittened :/
just had an amazing 3v5

i don’t get it, why do people even queue up when they are not gonna play

Cynz.9437:

i don’t get it, why do people even queue up when they are not gonna play

People might have to go unexpectedly AFK, disconnect, alt-tab out to read the web when the que is taking forever. But why they don’t show up to the game in time isn’t really the point, the current system makes it a massive dump for everyone concerned. Your team is down 1 player, that player gets dishonoured and even the other team will probably enjoy the game a little less knowing that there was no real challenge beating a team with 20% fewer players.

A simple ready check system would make it a joy for everyone. I just have no idea why it isn’t happening.

I like the ready check idea. But as it is now they should make some kind of penalty. It really takes out the fun of solo arena PvP.

Today I just had one match where everyone but me was afk in the first minute. I thought it was a joke, but one started moving after a while, 2 others disconnected from the game and the other spent afk ’till the end.
1vs5. Awesome

Well, i spent the rest of the match dancing… better to dance than to cry.

Zeloheim.1374:

but I still dont know why the devs havent implemented a simple player count before a match starts.

Because they do not care about the game. It’s that simple really. Why are we still even asking these questions? 4v5 is here to stay.

All they need to do is make it so when the timer runs out it finds a new player, and not pulls the player in regardless as it does now. IE if you don’t click join, you don’t enter, simple, right?