Guild Wars 2

Pressing “Play Now” often puts you in games where you can only observe because player slots are taken.

I am really glad we have an observer mode now. A-Net has taken many steps to introduce new players to the game. Somehow they are concerned that pvp will confuse players due to the change in gear.

It strikes me as odd that the way the observer mode functions now makes it hard for new players to get into a game. Even if there is an open slot in the game, it isn’t immediately obvious how to join a team or why this screen pops up. I had to coach a new player yesterday on how to get into a game and he ended up in games with only observer slots being open.

I told him to use the filters and when I took a look it turned out that all servers with more then 5 players on them had observer slots only because all player slots had been taken already.
I guess the only way to get out of this situation is to observe a game and wait until the next round in hopes of getting a player slots before they are all taken. For new players this isn’t intuitive at all.

Yup I’m having the same problem which is why I just do tournaments.