Guild Wars 2

Instead give us unranked soloq. Nomore unbalanced matched, nomore spectater abuse, maybe a little more seriousness. Something to warm-up without worrying about rank (ya it means nothing but it could become meaningful…) And leavers would get punished
Keep customs for scirmishes and 1v1/buildtesting but remove rewards. You also get rid of rank-farmers for those who care….

/discuss

I’ve wanted this since the dawn of time. But ArenaNet wants a quick way for players to join and leave matches freely, but why join a match if your only going to play 2-3 minutes of it and bail? It just doesn’t really jive well, and it gives everyone playing hotjoin a horrible experience. And an unranked mode would be fantastic for testing builds etc, and it could still use MRR to match you, but just not impact it one way or another.

Custom Arena’s are exactly what hotjoins should be, custom rulesets etc.

i support this.

i dun support this.

I’m not against the idea of Unranked SoloQ, but I think that removing Hotjoin altogether would be a grave mistake. Like it or not, it IS by far the most popular PvP mode, and I believe that if you removed it (along with rewards from Custom Arenas), the players who used to enjoy it will simply quit PvP altogether instead of moving to SoloQ. That’s exactly the opposite of what ANet wants, which is more people playing PvP as another mode of content to keep us occupied.

As a fun bit of trivia, Hotjoin is kind of analogous to GW1’s Random Arenas. ANet revealed near the end of GW1’s life that every day more Random Arena matches were played than all other PvP modes COMBINED. That just goes to show how much demand there is for a “lite-PvP, no consequences, anything goes” style mode.