Guild Wars 2

Ok im gonna spectate this game… holy crap i cannot join cause its full, holy crap if i cannot join i cannot spectate.

Seriously gw1 observer ( introduced in 2006 ) is far better then this.

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Dsquaredcri.9421:

Ok im gonna spectate this game… holy crap i cannot join cause its full, holy crap if i cannot join i cannot spectate.

Seriously gw1 observer ( introduced in 2006 ) is far better then this.

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Spectator mode itself is fantastic… how they set up joining as a spectator, like you said, is completely horrible. They should not count towards the 20 max players. Its a giant block for people who actually want to play since you cant regulate how many can spectate, only max team sizes. Arenas are near unplayable right now unless you want to go 3v3 or less.

i guess they think 10 ppl is enough spectators, esports here we go.

guza.6170:

i guess they think 10 ppl is enough spectators, esports here we go.

Without password protecting their arenas it will be zero players, just spectators. With passwords they will have zero spectators.

Terrible design. Im sure they will come in here and say either something like shoutcasting or that their engine just cant handle that many spectators. My prememtive responses:

You shouldnt have to go to a third party to watch something that all current AAA pvp games.

You designed your engine, why was there no foresight for this type of issue.

When I was in college I would have loved nothing more than to work at ArenaNet, but now that I see that they care nothing about quality assurance, and they refuse to let themselves be accountable to their customers by releasing details about features before that feature is completed Im glad I write my software else where.