Guild Wars 2

I PvP every day, just to get skins and achievement points, but it is also fun. It grew on me in a way. I pretty much became a frequent PvP player. Yes, reward tracks brought me in, I admit, but then it became fun.

Then this update came along… Usually, I don’t post anything; this happens to be my first post, but I’m just so annoyed that I can’t keep it to myself. As if the angsty teens yelling ‘YOLO’ or ‘get rekt m8,’ the autobalancing, getting slaughtered 3, 4, 5 versus 1 wasn’t bad enough…

Here’s what happened when I tried to PvP earlier today. First, I notice the Play Now button is gone, I spend about 10 minutes trying to find a match I can join, it was one full game after another. Then I find a match, pick a side, and see that everyone in the camp has red names. I think that maybe now players’ names were in the colours of their team. Oh, no, my “team-mates” start attacking me. I was so confused that I just stood there, but in the end I got credit for being on that team. I was on the read team, marked as blue team, or something. Someone might know the technical terms. I guess that’s the bug and glitch portion of my rant.

I don’t even dare try to queue up now. First, I have to sit in the Mists for who knows how long, while I could’ve taken the time to do something else. I don’t mean to be rude or critical, but.. Ah, to hell with it, I’m going to be rude and critical.. Whomever thought of that needs to try it themselves, and subsequently get their head examined.. It’s kittening stupid and unfair to players. It’s something like… being grounded as a teenager because your friend stole some booze, when you just wanted to stay in and watch a film.

After this fiasco, I have to state that ArenaNet and NCSoft, and everyone involved, needs to run polls, ask the playerbase what they think, include the players in what gets put in the game. I’m pretty sure they want a successful game that stays alive for somewhere near a decade. Real life can be such a pain, and I play GW2 to not get frustrated, annoyed or stressed and have some fun. I don’t need to feel compelled to post angry rants over a game. I’d prefer much more to write angry rants about my real life issues somewhere else. Also, happy players are generous players. I guess my train of thought derailed.

I’d very much like to see the Play Now button get implemented back in its place, I’d like to not have stand around the Mists waiting for a match… I’m sure people who had the bravery to try out queueing found more issues that need to be addressed.

shuuuuu shuuuuuuuuuuu go away PVE player . . . we need more committed players no skin motivated.

kidding just play, we need more blood.

Lavender.9807:

I don’t even dare try to queue up now. First, I have to sit in the Mists for who knows how long, while I could’ve taken the time to do something else.

LOL, queues are 1 min long or less, even in nonprime time hours.

Lavender.9807:

After this fiasco, I have to state that ArenaNet and NCSoft, and everyone involved, needs to run polls, ask the playerbase what they think, include the players in what gets put in the game. I’m pretty sure they want a successful game that stays alive for somewhere near a decade. Real life can be such a pain, and I play GW2 to not get frustrated, annoyed or stressed and have some fun. I don’t need to feel compelled to post angry rants over a game. I’d prefer much more to write angry rants about my real life issues somewhere else. Also, happy players are generous players. I guess my train of thought derailed.

I Second this brother. After i calmed down and put what i just raged about back into context, it’s even more frustrating that such a good game can wind me and so many others up because of silly, small trivial things. Especially when real life is stressful enough :P

I cant really understand your point…. i mean, i think you didnt even try to click anything, u just couldnt find your “play now” button and screwed up ?
lol, the button is still there, it just have another name “Practice”.
It refers to hotjoin garbage, yeh, you first mistake is going into hotjoin, if you want to pvp thats the worst place you can do it, caus ehotjoin is pure garbage, where low skill ppl just farm their rank and team up to stomp ppl 4v1.
Thats not pvp mate, go for unranked Queue if u want some decent pvp (as far as it is possible in this game) without worrying of leaderboards rank.

Lavender.9807:

Here’s what happened when I tried to PvP earlier today. First, I notice the Play Now button is gone, I spend about 10 minutes trying to find a match I can join, it was one full game after another. Then I find a match, pick a side, and see that everyone in the camp has red names. I think that maybe now players’ names were in the colours of their team. Oh, no, my “team-mates” start attacking me. I was so confused that I just stood there, but in the end I got credit for being on that team. I was on the read team, marked as blue team, or something. Someone might know the technical terms. I guess that’s the bug and glitch portion of my rant.

What!?