Guild Wars 2

SPVP Game browser

I am talking about interface we get to join a PVP match ( not tournament). I understand devs may be focusing their time to get tournaments right, but free sPVP could use some love.

“play now” feature is terrible: When you are a new joiner and just want to play a game you clink this and ends up in a a game whith limited number of players – while there are some games going that miss players. if you want to play a 8v8 game, it seems reasonnable to assume you would rather join a 15vs16 match than a 3vs2…

List of servers display is a bad idea. Do you want to advertise that you have 300 “servers” empty? I understand that some players may want to join a specific server( to be with a friend for example). But I would assume that for most players juqt want to be able to join a 8v8 or a 5v5 .
And by joining , i mean without gettign 3 times in row this error telling that server you are trying to join is full(even when it is not). Guess what ? I did not want to join this server. I just wanted to join a server.
=> get 2 buttons to hoitjoin, one for 5v5 one for 8v8
=> display only list of servers where there are players
=> Provide option to join start on an empty server

This way you may be able to start to do some “balance” for hotjoins.Obviously you can not do that if you let people pick their server.
=> try to match people ranks ( does not replace a ladder but it would be start).
=> try to balance classes. What is the point to have 4 thiefs on one side and 1 on the other? ( i say thief but i could have say mesmer, or necro or…thief:P)

Remove auto-balance in Game. Why does it exist in first place? If you need to rebalance teams, do it between maps. If you lose a match it is not the end of the world. But begin send on the losing side is infuriating, when you ahve done your best to be on the winning side.

Stop map rotation. Provide separate queues to each map . Some people do not like some maps. Some people want to learn to a play a given map . And it is just fun to play again the same map, against the same team, and see if you can adapt your tactics.

Get a ladder for hotjoins too. It is not because we are casual that we do not want to see if we progress. if i am 400 000eme i would be happy to progress to reach 350 000 eme . Even if i can never dream of getting #1.Is it difficult to understand?

Do you need money for that? OK. Sell access right to ladder against gems. Sell access to additional PVP statistics. Provide a service. Do Something.