Guild Wars 2

It seems incredible to me that for a game that claims to be pvp oriented that such simple things cannot be done right and apparently are not being given any priority. I know spvp is not as important in many peoples eyes as tpvp but still – these are easy things to fix!

Constantly uneven teams – why do we have the option to select what server we go to? You KNOW that there are tons of jerks strategically picking servers with even numbers so they know they will be on the team with the advantage. That combined with rage quitting makes for matches that have uneven times the large majority of the time – the team with more players has a very obvious advantage in these games. This just seems like a simple problem to fix but nothing has been done!

Then of course stemming from that is the horrible “auto-balancing” where you get bumped from the team you worked with to get a good score and put on the losing team. This would not be necessary or nearly as bad if they addressed the first problem and put in place a system that strives to balance teams when placing new players into matches.

Profession balance – I don’t mean op vs. up (although of course there are major issues there as well) but the balancing of professions per team. I can’t count how many times I have been on a team of mixed professions against a team with 4/5 mesmers or 4/5 some other class. How in the world was this deemed acceptable?? Why would they not think to put SOME kind of logic into their system to spread the professions out evenly.

For a PVP game, these seem to me to be very basic functionality that is missing or broken and does not seem to be getting any priority. Very disappointing.

I agree completely. You should enter a matchmaking queue and be placed in a match of even teams. And you should not be allowed to leave. I like what League of Legends does in that if you leave a game (and the only way to leave is to close LoL completely), when you sign back in, the only thing you can do is rejoin the original game that you left. In other words, you can’t do anything else until that game is over. And, there are strict penalties for leaving. Every match is always even and people can’t/don’t rage quit (I mean sometimes they do but its very infrequent in my experience).

I also hate that you can just enter a game right in the middle. That is such a terrible idea. I entered a game and the score was me: 0, other team: ~200. It started out 1v1. Then another player joined the enemy team and now I was outnumbered in addition to already being behind in score. I left the game….how is that situation any fun at all? Anet team, you seriously have to implement a matchmaking queue and force there to be even team, stop rage quitting, etc.

I, too, am very disappointed. I was really looking forward to good, gear-independent PvP. I have yet to see that.