Guild Wars 2

for tournament proc please anet thanx

Evan Lesh.3295:

Yep. The only puzzle piece left for this is making it so the sound will play through the ‘Mute game while minimized’ option. Then it will be caaaaaaaaaake.

I was going to say this…. no point making a sound if it doesn’t play through minimize.

My solution: have it in windowed fullscreen and mouse-over the icon, it shows a small screen and you can see if Q popped or not. But I agree a sound would be ideal

Evan Lesh.3295:

Yep. The only puzzle piece left for this is making it so the sound will play through the ‘Mute game while minimized’ option. Then it will be caaaaaaaaaake.

Could there be another option that allows you to check a box that says “Play notification sounds even while minimized”? I’m not sure the difficulties around such a change, but then such a thing could be added to all queues (overflow/wvw/spvp/etc) and still leave growth for whatever else comes up during the games growth that could be classified as a notification.

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Evan Lesh.3295:

Yep. The only puzzle piece left for this is making it so the sound will play through the ‘Mute game while minimized’ option. Then it will be caaaaaaaaaake.

• use IOS/Android push notification
• make a phone call to them
• crash the game, so a submit report popup can be shown that match found

How did Smite make this work??

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JoopFOX.9510:

How did Smite make this work??

It is just developer time not technical challenge.

I would like to have a alert for the time running out in tournaments as well.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Helly.2597:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Yep. The only puzzle piece left for this is making it so the sound will play through the ‘Mute game while minimized’ option. Then it will be caaaaaaaaaake.

Could there be another option that allows you to check a box that says “Play notification sounds even while minimized”? I’m not sure the difficulties around such a change, but then such a thing could be added to all queues (overflow/wvw/spvp/etc) and still leave growth for whatever else comes up during the games growth that could be classified as a notification.

Yes, you are describing the functionality that we need

This is something I don’t understand: how do you guys prioritize things? Notifications are a nice-to-have, but in the customer’s eyes, extremely low priority when compared to fixing 4v5’s, providing better match-making, new maps, bug fixes for trebuchets, profession balances, profession bug fixes, etc.

For example, take a look at the new heals added. There’s multiple, glaring profession imbalances, many profession traits that are broken or useless, many profession bugs (some horrible ones!), and what does the Balance Team do – spend, presumably, man-months of effort making new heal spells.

Where are your priorities and why are they not aligned with what the community wants?

Thedenofsin.7340:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Helly.2597:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Yep. The only puzzle piece left for this is making it so the sound will play through the ‘Mute game while minimized’ option. Then it will be caaaaaaaaaake.

Could there be another option that allows you to check a box that says “Play notification sounds even while minimized”? I’m not sure the difficulties around such a change, but then such a thing could be added to all queues (overflow/wvw/spvp/etc) and still leave growth for whatever else comes up during the games growth that could be classified as a notification.

Yes, you are describing the functionality that we need

This is something I don’t understand: how do you guys prioritize things? Notifications are a nice-to-have, but in the customer’s eyes, extremely low priority when compared to fixing 4v5’s, providing better match-making, new maps, bug fixes for trebuchets, profession balances, profession bug fixes, etc.

For example, take a look at the new heals added. There’s multiple, glaring profession imbalances, many profession traits that are broken or useless, many profession bugs (some horrible ones!), and what does the Balance Team do – spend, presumably, man-months of effort making new heal spells.

Where are your priorities and why are they not aligned with what the community wants?

Sound notifications on tournament queue pop is a key part of fixing 4v5 games.

A sound alert along moving the tournament message to the bottom right corner, replacing the “leave instance” button" would be wonderful.

I don’t need some pop-up covering half the screen when I’m about to click on a target. I’m not going to drop what I have in my hands to do something else right away.

A sound is more than enough. I’ll click in 10 seconds, after I’m done with the guy I’m beating to a bloody pulp right now.

How about a count down much like the one in Mortal Combat

1

2

3

FIGHT!

Dota can do it.

May seem a little cluttered, but maybe put a sub-setting below the “Mute when minimized” option to let the match notification play through. Have the new option be hidden or grayed out when the mute minimized option isn’t checked. Then when mute minimized is checked, new option will be checkable to determine if a match notification plays when the game is minimized or not. Just a thought.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Yep. The only puzzle piece left for this is making it so the sound will play through the ‘Mute game while minimized’ option. Then it will be caaaaaaaaaake.

Please make the task bar icon flash too.

In fact, play some DotA 2 and copy everything from them (not that DotA 2 is the only game doing that but they seem to have a pretty complete package for that topic)

I have seen LoL and Smite do this.
I really appreciate this feature and look forward to it being a part of GW2.

Glad to hear it’s in the works for us!

Evan, I think if possible you should also make the Guild Wars 2 icon on the start menu flash when the tournament queue pops and we get the sound notification. That would be clutch.

So we won’t geting because 8% of mac and linux users cant get it? Great…..

Lucyfer.9517:

So we won’t geting because 8% of mac and linux users cant get it? Great…..

It’s people like you that make the forums such a hostile, unwelcome place for our community. Why can’t you be supportive of us? It’s bad enough that ANet barely supports our client and restricts all of our posts to the Mac beta “support” thread. We don’t need any more added negativity. It’s frustrating to me that comments such as these are allowed by the forum moderators.

Evan, hopefully you get to see this, but thank you for your support. It means a lot to have someone at ANet say something in support of our client. I sincerely appreciate it. If only there were more people like you at ANet, we may not have been doomed to this endless “beta” we are in.

Aigisthos.3059:

Lucyfer.9517:

So we won’t geting because 8% of mac and linux users cant get it? Great…..

It’s people like you that make the forums such a hostile, unwelcome place for our community. Why can’t you be supportive of us? It’s bad enough that ANet barely supports our client and restricts all of our posts to the Mac beta “support” thread. We don’t need any more added negativity. It’s frustrating to me that comments such as these are allowed by the forum moderators.

Evan, hopefully you get to see this, but thank you for your support. It means a lot to have someone at ANet say something in support of our client. I sincerely appreciate it. If only there were more people like you at ANet, we may not have been doomed to this endless “beta” we are in.

Be rational. There was no negativity or hostility in his post.

Jamais vu.5284:

Aigisthos.3059:

Lucyfer.9517:

So we won’t geting because 8% of mac and linux users cant get it? Great…..

It’s people like you that make the forums such a hostile, unwelcome place for our community. Why can’t you be supportive of us? It’s bad enough that ANet barely supports our client and restricts all of our posts to the Mac beta “support” thread. We don’t need any more added negativity. It’s frustrating to me that comments such as these are allowed by the forum moderators.

Evan, hopefully you get to see this, but thank you for your support. It means a lot to have someone at ANet say something in support of our client. I sincerely appreciate it. If only there were more people like you at ANet, we may not have been doomed to this endless “beta” we are in.

Be rational. There was no negativity or hostility in his post.

Didn’t mean to be hostile or negative, was just pure calculation based on statistics. Seemed odd to me to hold back over 90% of windows users for 8% who could simply get it implemented when its ready. Sorry if you took it the wrong way.

Wait – what? Why is this being worked on now? Did you guys fix all the 4v5 and queuing problems already? Have all the big issues already been fixed?