Guild Wars 2

Forcing us to sit in heart of the mists will actually encourage people to afk/do something else while they wait for queue pops. I’m pretty sure this is having exactly the opposite of the intended effect. Plus, with these unreasonable queue times (5-11 min), I spend almost more time afk in HoTM than actually in game.

As normal. +10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Would love to be doing other things in game while waiting for queues versus alt-tabbing out of the game while waiting for the queue sound.

While I’d love to see this, I feel like it may extend queue times. Due to people getting distracted, forgetting their queued, etc. more easily. Then cancelling.

For example player queues for PvP, starts participating in guild event, world boss, or dungeon.
Then the PvP “ready” status shows up. They can:

A. Drop out of guild event, lose loot, maybe upset people.
Drop out of world event, lose loot.
Drop out of dungeon, lose loot, definitely upset people.

B. Drop out of PvP, definitely upset people.

WvW, gathering, map completion, crafting, mystic toilet, would all be “in the clear” in most cases.

I think beat case would be prevent entering dungeon/fractals while queued.