Guild Wars 2

Paids are good now, good queues, the mmr lets ppl play against equal skill level teams ect. BUT, frees are are in rely bad shape right now, 45 minute queues for solo queue, lots of afkers, ect..
How about we just combine frees and hotjoins? just make frees a single team v single team (like paids) with ninja mmr and no ladder so that new players get matched up to each other and good solo queue players can have fun too. I’m sure this has been pitched before a million times, but I think reiteration is key to getting things done around here.
Normal match making + ranked match making is the direction in which i feel like this game is going (or at least will end up at), we could still just do monthlies with the top rated players in the ranked bracket, which would just be the current paids system + a ladder, monthlies based on MMR over QP would hold higher credibility anywase.
I know everyone has been pushing for ranked solo queue, but lets try to reform our current systems first so that we can make spvp actually playable for every player demographic (not just hardcores and ppl with teams) and then build upon it later.

Sounds good to me. Neither one is a good “standard” PvP experience right now. I think it makes sense for the “standard” experience new PvPers receive to be a single random vs random match. Hotjoin=practice/farm, free tourney=pug vs premade, weird layout. I can’t see any drawback to changing the standard experience to be a single, organized match.

Hotjoin could still exist as the practice/farm mode, though.

If I understand Zodian correctly, it may be like battles in World of Tanks where you wait in queue and than enter the battle only at the beginning with full team (randomly created). I agree that it would be really nice to have such format. Current “hot join” with all those balance issues looks awful for me.

This is a really good idea.

Custom games replacing hot-joins while hot-joins replaced by solo que normal games.