Guild Wars 2

Player AFK on the Rise in PvP

These past few weeks I have been getting more and more frustrated with the new trend of people joining PvP matches run to the closest capture points gain at least 10 points and then just go AFK.

They might move around a little bit or some of them just find a cozy corner they can just chill and wait for the fight to be over.

The sad thing there is no way to report these players; they really ruin the fun and competitiveness of the PvP matches when you encounter one of these players in your team. Because at the end of the match they still get rewarded the 500 points for doing almost nothing. This is very unfair to all the players that are actively playing and trying to win the match.

Lastly I want to finish this post constructively, hope you all support and comment on this post so that ANET gets a chance to read this and fix this annoying trend before it becomes more of a problem. An easy way to fix this problem is to allow other players to report that player for AFK’ing. If the players continually shoes a pattern that he/she goes AFK every time they play or often when they play. They should at first at least be penalized with double the que times then the average person. And after getting warnings if the behavior still continues just ban this players account.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Structured_PvP#Dishonor is coming in HoT

Sombra.3246:

They really ruin the fun and competitiveness of the PvP matches when you encounter one of these players in your team.

Currently, there is no competitiveness in the PvP – losing or wining, it doesn’t matter.

I was told to just report them for botting. I play ranked like 99% of the time, and the one time I ran into a blatant AFK guy was in unranked. He did exactly what you said, claimed home, ran there, and AFK there. Then when he was killed by a thief, he AFK at spawn. Then when we yelled at him, he ran out and AFK by the treb. According to a teammate, he’d been doing that for the past few games he was stuck with. I don’t know, trying to farm points for daily pvp reward earner or something.

I just posted in mapchat and asked everyone to report him. If people have a heart that means 9 players will report this one guy.

Heck I even checked his AP hoping he was maybe some noob who was just started, but nope this guy had 16k AP.

But man, you know it sucks when the enemy thief messages you after the game and apologizes to you for having a kittenty teammate.