Guild Wars 2

If this whole MMr based on win/loss isn’t enough (which is quite possibly the worst matchmaking idea anyone could think of), this game’s filled with 4v5’s and griefers that are completely ruining the game.

Give us an option to report players and an option to replenish leavers with new players. Give us an option to make the game not count towards our stats if more than 90% of the game is 4v5.

Address the mechanics before you even touch on the classes.

Dev posted this just a few hours ago in response to 4v5’s….no info on how soon the fix will come though

Justin ODell.9517:

Incurafy.6329:

How hard would it be for you to prioritise something such as a requirement that each player press the “I’m ready” button within the match start time limit, else everybody is booted back to the lobby and rejoins the queue with the players they had already been matched with while the game searches for more?

It is already a priority and is likely to be done as part of the back-end server restructure.

Incurafy.6329:

If it wouldn’t take you that long to implement, why can’t you just include it in one of the bi-weekly PvE patches? It would improve SoloQ considerably with that change alone.

It would not be a simple change for the existing systems unfortunately. We also can’t just slip things in to random updates like that for many good reasons which I agree with but can’t get into on the forums.

I’m in the middle of writing an outline for the matchmaking blog, hopefully that will go out soon so you guys can at least see what proposals we have planned. We’ll also start a discussion around the proposal. I’m sure that together we can come up with something awesome and practical.

i appreciate the post, wintel. i understand that it would ‘not be a simple change’ but it shocks me how it’s been more than a year and they still cannot accept that matchmaking cannot be based on win/loss rate.

the fact that they came to that conclusion initially is what scares me..

just wanted to mention that i’ve had an afker 4 games in a row, now too.

sure, this may just be an unlucky evening but why leave it to chance in the first place?

since yesterday it has been ATROCIOUS, nearly half of my games somebody on one of the sides leaves

Yep, 3 out of my last 4 were 4v5s. It’s awful.