Guild Wars 2

People quit matches all too often. In other games, there is a penalty debuff for doing that. It generally prevents you from re-joining a game for X number of minutes (15 minutes seems like enough to keep people from quitting).

What kind of matches are you talking about, tPvP or sPvP, if it is the latter then no, but for the former it should be there.

I believe it’s not a thing only because they stated that you cant get points from just AFK’ing in the base to get glory from the end of a match. Meaning if a player wanted to jump in, get a capture point and leave for the 10 glory that was okay. Or something.
(I remember reading somewhere that a dev said spvp (at least for not tournaments) was supposed to be something where you could join and leave at anytime and get glory for what you actually do, but I cannot pinpoint the forum thread/news post.)

One of the best things about the casual spvp of this game, imo, is that I can leave anytime I want, if I need to, or if I get bored of it and don’t want to wait 5 minutes for the match to end, and get substituted by somebody else right after.

However, tpvp really needs whatever means possible to make sure people don’t rage quit.

in hot join, you dont deserve a debuff, because its supposed to be only training/for fun mode…

in tournaments, you cant join another tournament until the one you are in is finished, you cant leave in fact, its the same like being in and afk

MaXi.3642:

in tournaments, you cant join another tournament until the one you are in is finished, you cant leave in fact, its the same like being in and afk

Exactly this!

When ever you try to leave tpvp, you get instantly the loadingscreen transfering you back to the match. (BTW: Thats also the reason, why you can chance your character in tpvp. Because after logging in, you are transfered back to the tournament game)

I played 5 games in a row with just 4 ppl on my team (won 1 tho) x.x (free tournament)

How to leave tourney, Alt-F4 and go do something else, the amount of people that do that is ridiculous. Every time I do pug tPvP its 5 v 4 or 4 v 5 on the first map, then instant lose to premade in round 2. Sometimes you get a good match up of 5v5

I gave up on Tournaments as always seemed to be a player afk or leave. Waste of time cueing for a game you have no chance winning 4vs5.

kwolf.4306:

People quit matches all too often. In other games, there is a penalty debuff for doing that. It generally prevents you from re-joining a game for X number of minutes (15 minutes seems like enough to keep people from quitting).

This is not “other” game.

The purpose of hot join is that it is easy to get in and easy to get out.

TGSlasher.1458:

How to leave tourney, Alt-F4 and go do something else, the amount of people that do that is ridiculous. Every time I do pug tPvP its 5 v 4 or 4 v 5 on the first map, then instant lose to premade in round 2. Sometimes you get a good match up of 5v5

How is that even relevant? If you join tPvP with pug instead of group it’s your problem.

A debuff like this is needed also to prevent people from switching characters during a match in case other classes or other builds are needed to win.

That’s just lame.

For hot join? No I have to close GW2 every time someone walks in my office.

Killyox.3950:

TGSlasher.1458:

How to leave tourney, Alt-F4 and go do something else, the amount of people that do that is ridiculous. Every time I do pug tPvP its 5 v 4 or 4 v 5 on the first map, then instant lose to premade in round 2. Sometimes you get a good match up of 5v5

How is that even relevant? If you join tPvP with pug instead of group it’s your problem.

No, it’s everyones problem. If arena net does not develope a system that promotes casual/pugs then the pvp scene will stay small and dwindle. At the moment a large portion of the playerbase is being alienated from tournaments because leavers and premades. I’m sure this wasn’t anets intention

kagemitsu.3657:

A debuff like this is needed also to prevent people from switching characters during a match in case other classes or other builds are needed to win.

That’s just lame.

Oh this makes much sense :P. I was always wondering what is that guardian doing tho didnt noticed we had one before (example). Or why ppl left and come back again.

Than now agree even more for deserter buff + other team must not see who is on enemy team before it starts – or just 1 would join and tell others so they could switch before entering.

Killyox.3950:

TGSlasher.1458:

How to leave tourney, Alt-F4 and go do something else, the amount of people that do that is ridiculous. Every time I do pug tPvP its 5 v 4 or 4 v 5 on the first map, then instant lose to premade in round 2. Sometimes you get a good match up of 5v5

How is that even relevant? If you join tPvP with pug instead of group it’s your problem.

Half my team quit the game, so hot join it is. Enjoy your free wins with your team. Free tourney’s are just as much for pugs as it is for groups, groups should be going for paid tourneys anyway (doubt they do though, they just grind pugs in free tpvp). The people leaving should be punished and changing character during a match is bs.

The point of Hotjoin PvP is to be the casual, non-seriousness mode where you can practice and have fun without actually caring what’s happening. Adding in a penalty for leaving completely goes against this whole ideal.

Nobody has fun sitting AFK for 15 minutes because of a 5 second disconnect. People leaving games is a literal non-issue in this game because of autobalancing.

HappinessFactory.4910:

Killyox.3950:

TGSlasher.1458:

How to leave tourney, Alt-F4 and go do something else, the amount of people that do that is ridiculous. Every time I do pug tPvP its 5 v 4 or 4 v 5 on the first map, then instant lose to premade in round 2. Sometimes you get a good match up of 5v5

How is that even relevant? If you join tPvP with pug instead of group it’s your problem.

No, it’s everyones problem. If arena net does not develope a system that promotes casual/pugs then the pvp scene will stay small and dwindle. At the moment a large portion of the playerbase is being alienated from tournaments because leavers and premades. I’m sure this wasn’t anets intention

I’m not talking about tournaments. HJ should be free to join/leave whenever.

tPvP should not allow char change. You should only be able to log back with char you entered.

You can’t ever force a player to play when he doesn’t want to. They should concentrate their efforts on making the PvP experience as fair and enjoyable as possible so people don’t give up because the same predictable outcome happens over and over, such as premades vs pugs and too many bunkers, thieves, or mesmers which skew the fairness of matches too much.

TGSlasher.1458:

Killyox.3950:

TGSlasher.1458:

How to leave tourney, Alt-F4 and go do something else, the amount of people that do that is ridiculous. Every time I do pug tPvP its 5 v 4 or 4 v 5 on the first map, then instant lose to premade in round 2. Sometimes you get a good match up of 5v5

How is that even relevant? If you join tPvP with pug instead of group it’s your problem.

Half my team quit the game, so hot join it is. Enjoy your free wins with your team. Free tourney’s are just as much for pugs as it is for groups, groups should be going for paid tourneys anyway (doubt they do though, they just grind pugs in free tpvp). The people leaving should be punished and changing character during a match is bs.

I don’t have a set in stone team either and got pretty much close to 90% win ratio because i make friends and people who know how to play and just play with them.

It’s not hard. A little bit of asking around or getting to know ppl through friends. Often they themselves ask me to play with them as well when i log.

AS for paids out of 12 games i got 5 wins and 4*2nd place. Other 3 are 3-4th. Queue is long so i just cba to focus on paids when there are many good teams playing free at the same time with instant game.