Guild Wars 2

I am not complaining. It took literally 7 or 8 attempts to finally get a full 10 to hit “Accept” in my last ranked match. It usually stopped at 9 X’s.

Still…I took each abort and failure as avoiding a 4×5, so I actually saw it as a good thing. And the transparency of this new system showed me WHY I was waiting. Good.

There are still a lot of non-serious players joining ranked and just not paying attention.

I imagine that will stop in a day or so as people get used to the new way of doing things.

My first match (and the only one I’ve been able to do this far without getting the “queue aborted” nonsense) started as a 4v5 for my team and then turned into a 5v4.

Justin ODell.9517:

Demus.4571:

My first match (and the only one I’ve been able to do this far without getting the “queue aborted” nonsense) started as a 4v5 for my team and then turned into a 5v4.

Sorry, my fault. I had a crashing bug with a trivial fix. Got it out as fast as possible. :\

Thanks for the response, I’ll give it another go.

Justin ODell, what Demus talked about was a bug, but what OP said is just a bad design.

I was so hype that the new system. The first match went well, but after that it was hell. Same thing as OP, I have between 3 to 8 try each time. There is always 1 people afk, or looking at its inventory, TP, reading of something like that. There is always 1 or 2 ppl that don’t click accept forcing the matchmaking to reset.

To fix a small problem (afk ppl during at the start of a fight), you made the matchmaking so much reliant on human interaction that it rarely work fast AND you can’t do kitten while waiting, stuck at Heart of the Mist looking at the green grass.

I had to stop playing sPvP, it was just frustrating.

If you spam the main chat you often force ppl to click ready. Its just a few seconds after you validated that you arent afk, so yeah.
But since the switch of chars isnt allowed some players are forced to re-modify their classes to another build instead.

Thaddeus.4891:

Justin ODell, what Demus talked about was a bug, but what OP said is just a bad design.

I was so hype that the new system. The first match went well, but after that it was hell. Same thing as OP, I have between 3 to 8 try each time. There is always 1 people afk, or looking at its inventory, TP, reading of something like that. There is always 1 or 2 ppl that don’t click accept forcing the matchmaking to reset.

To fix a small problem (afk ppl during at the start of a fight), you made the matchmaking so much reliant on human interaction that it rarely work fast AND you can’t do kitten while waiting, stuck at Heart of the Mist looking at the green grass.

I had to stop playing sPvP, it was just frustrating.

A small problem?

I’d rather wait a minute longer than have the entire match screwed up even before it started. I played 10-15 matches, all pops in 1-2 minutes (requeues included).

butch.8136:

A small problem?

I’d rather wait a minute longer than have the entire match screwed up even before it started. I played 10-15 matches, all pops in 1-2 minutes (requeues included).

In the last 2 years I get maybe 1 5vs4 with an AFK each month. Your lucky, now the average waiting time is 4-5min. That doesn’t count the usual 2min before the match start.

Thaddeus.4891:

butch.8136:

A small problem?

I’d rather wait a minute longer than have the entire match screwed up even before it started. I played 10-15 matches, all pops in 1-2 minutes (requeues included).

In the last 2 years I get maybe 1 5vs4 with an AFK each month. Your lucky, now the average waiting time is 4-5min. That doesn’t count the usual 2min before the match start.

I do not mind waiting if it avoid 4×5s or distracted, unserious players. If people are serious about playing they should be ready to click ACCEPT the moment they hear BOO YA!!.

We have many ppl in map chat spamming ranked match for 5-20 minutes and no one is getting in…. always 1-3 don’t check ‘accept’ and it resets every 20 seconds.

Bugged or what?

Been in the queue for 15+ minutes, got a prompt for a match 4 times, all three times it stopped after 8 out of 10 check marks.

This would be marginally less annoying if I could still DO STUFF while waiting, but now I’m forced to stand around in the PvP lobby… which, in turn, wouldn’t be so bad if I could believe the “average queue time” of 4 minutes 16 seconds… :/

Edit: I got into a match after 20 minutes. I’ll have to go back to hotjoin for dailies, for now. :/

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

This would be marginally less annoying if I could still DO STUFF while waiting, but now I’m forced to stand around in the PvP lobby… which, in turn, wouldn’t be so bad if I could believe the “average queue time” of 4 minutes 16 seconds… :/

This.

I’m staring at 22min queue time right now with the “average” being 2min2s. I’ve had 3 prompts and all ended with 9/10 checkmarks.

It might help the time to click “accept” could be extended to the 2 minutes or whatever it was that you could delay joining a match before the update? I’m not sure how much that would help, but just a thought.

Edit: I got a match at ~27min queue time.
Edit2: I just queued again and got a match almost instantly. Maybe the previous time was just bad luck?

I just sat in queue for a good 22 minutes and I got maybe 10 queue pops, but it always capped out at 8 or 9 players until just now. This was in unranked, and neither team was premade. They had a pair queueing and I think my team was all solo.

I really wish I had something to do during this 22 minute wait.

As I mentioned in my other thread the problem is that people who dont react to the match-pop STAY in queue so you will have them in your roster again and again (tested it by myself, you keep queueing if you just dont react)..