Guild Wars 2

This fancy smancy blog post is interesting, sure, but where is the sentence:

“We’ve reinstated the ability to queue for matches outside of Heart of the Mists”

???

But if they did that how would the gold sellers find you? Honestly, it’s like you don’t even consider their feelings…

Reinstating dishonor feature, but still requiring you to queue inside of HotM. Nanny-state much.

They also didn’t mention that solo queue will make a return.

Being locked in Heart of the Mists is arguably much worse than the end of solo Q =/

At least let me join a duel server while I wait …

This is the best use of resources. Solo que requires advertising and other things to rake in more players otherwise it’s breaks q time.

This would be my most wanted change in the game right now. Please Anet stop being stubborn.

Puck.9612:

But if they did that how would the gold sellers find you? Honestly, it’s like you don’t even consider their feelings…

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

You should be able to queue from any where into PvP. Why was it changed??? Why!!!!

Please Anet tell us why?!?!?!!

Tala.7638:

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

You should be able to queue from any where into PvP. Why was it changed??? Why!!!!

Please Anet tell us why?!?!?!!

YEAH! WHY?!?!?!?!! ?(??? ??)?

Zerothousand.3089:

Tala.7638:

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

You should be able to queue from any where into PvP. Why was it changed??? Why!!!!

Please Anet tell us why?!?!?!!

YEAH! WHY?!?!?!?!! ?(??? ??)?

Seriously though, it’s because Anet is worried that queue pops will be a disruptive experience for people enjoying their personal story cut scenes. Apparently dem cut scenes are mighty important. Also, people have potatoes for PCs, so they can’t load into maps fast enough. In essence, we pay the price for their slowpoke machines. FeelsBadMan

duster.7013:

This is the best use of resources. Solo que requires advertising and other things to rake in more players otherwise it’s breaks q time.

What’re you even trying to say? Lol I have no clue.

Does anyone know?

They said that the reason they changed it was because some people would get distracted by what they were doing in PvE, and ignore the PvP queue pop-up. I believe that, at the time, the pop-up didn’t require you to accept the match and would just request that you go. If you ignored it, the match would be a 4v5.

Of course, with the new pop-up which asks you to accept the match, this feature is not as necessary.

The re-implementation of queuing outside of Heart of the Mists is definitely a needed feature. I think concerns for long map loading times are not really the biggest issues… they already can notify players when they have been removed from the queue, it’s a risk players take when they transition maps.

It would be atleast perfect to go in Customarenas. So you can do duels when you wait for your long q.

I would be so happy about a thing, we had for so long :O. So PLEASE let us q everywhere again!

+1 to the demand of free queuing

If the big issue is that they don’t want you changing maps while in queue, why not make it so that you can queue from wherever, but can’t change maps while in a queue? E.g. go to a map, choose to queue, you have to stay in that map until the queue pops or you’re removed from the queue…

If a mod merged every similar request in a unique topic, it would be like skyhammer topic lol.

Give it some time,
They did state that they aren’t going to tell use everything up front. Who knows? maybe this will be added when HoT drops.

I still am hammering away on this request though in my reports, along with a bunch of other popularly demanded requests.

If ArenaNet doesn’t address this issue with HoT I will personally organize a 1 day – 1 week blackout of no PvP. Maybe when queue times become truly abysmal (40mins+) because no one is playing, it will become more apparent why people shouldn’t have to wait in Hotm to queue -_-

… Because when someone entered the PvP lobby, they hardly saw anyone and ended up thinking PvP was dead. It also gets all the PvPers together to answer all the noobs questions.

There’s your answer.

“People queueing outside of Hotm gave other people the appearance that PvP was dead” is one of the leading theories why ArenaNet have stuck to this change … but does that even matter? No one who actually plays PvP and has to deal with this cares and the irony is all this change does it make PvP less desirable to play and makes it >more< dead.