Guild Wars 2

Hey,
I found this enlightening.

Context: I was in PvP and debating whether I should risk another Ranked match and the random luck I’d get (I think I was at rank 118 at that point and didn’t want to risk starting a loss streak). So decided to have a convo.

Found a guy in map chat whom explained that most folks he knew were simply waiting till the end of the season to start playing. He’d played 9 of his placement games and was simply going to log in a few days before end of season and play for earnest.

He explained this is why there weren’t many good players in ranked at the moment and honestly I should not be consistently in the low 100’s so I sort of agree.

His argument was that you do well by minimizing your exposure to the bad match making. And if you finish your placement early you are forced to risk games because of decay. So simply run your alt accounts till you get 9 straight wins, with that one log in shortly before finish and play as few games as possible starting from high gold or plat.

I argued that now you had to play 15 games a week to be considered for leaderboard, and he pointed out we were in the second week, so clearly the 15 minimum was for the WHOLE SEASON. Sigh, I expect the last 3 days will be rather chaotic when a whole bunch of new folks start suddenly popping up.

Now if they had insisted that for leaderboard placement it was say 10 games per week in the season we might have been able to mitigate this.

In any case he and I teamed up and had some wonerful unranked matches where I got squished against premades whom apparently were all also not dumb enough, like I was, to have completed their placement matches.

Sigh.

ehem match requirement would be more than 100 matches by the end of seasons so I don’t see it

Mr Godlike.6098:

ehem match requirement would be more than 100 matches by the end of seasons so I don’t see it

Alright maybe 1 a day net… so 7 a week? not unreasonable if you want to be on leaderboard. And yo ucan make up a weeks worth in 3hrs on a weekend? I’m willing to wiggle on the numerical factor, but 15 for the season is not sufficient to be on a leaderboard.

shion.2084:

Alright maybe 1 a day net… so 7 a week? not unreasonable if you want to be on leaderboard. And yo ucan make up a weeks worth in 3hrs on a weekend? I’m willing to wiggle on the numerical factor, but 15 for the season is not sufficient to be on a leaderboard.

The requirement goes up by 15 per week.

shion.2084:

Alright maybe 1 a day net… so 7 a week? not unreasonable if you want to be on leaderboard. And yo ucan make up a weeks worth in 3hrs on a weekend? I’m willing to wiggle on the numerical factor, but 15 for the season is not sufficient to be on a leaderboard.

The requirement goes up by 15 per week.

If people are waiting for end of season they are going to be in for a rude surprise

Wierd cause I didn’t have 30 but was still on leaderboard, I thought a week had passed. This would be good then and how it should be. It will stop people from specifically trying to avoid the match making, they’ll be forced into it which will actually help the match making algorithm. Of course they may still try to marathon 200 games in the last 3 days….

There are fewer players because the balance patch was basically irrelevant, no new builds peek out to the meta, no match-ups have changed, so this is basically season 5.
Combined with no e-sport, good players are not hyped to come back right away and compete.

The greckotadians from P452-049 came and abducted people which is why it seems like there are less. When they return it’ll totally get more active.

At least that’s as plausible as most of the rubbish being spouted. BeLZedaR is right btw.

That may be part of it but, nonetheless, in past seasons there were enough players who didnt care about such things to make it feel active.

Also, without the rewards you are right not much reason to play all season unless you want to be on the leaderboard.

So I think you will find some people just playing unranked for fun right now, a majority of players just hoping for a better next season, and then the vets that want to be on the leaderboard, or people that are trying to get in the top 250, or maybe don’t have the backpack done, struggling through.

lol at 15 matches for whole season. its 15 per week of the season. So if you wait till last week, get your Red Bull ready for a marathon session of matches if you intend to fight for the Top 250 rewards.

Spartacus.3192:

lol at 15 matches for whole season. its 15 per week of the season. So if you wait till last week, get your Red Bull ready for a marathon session of matches if you intend to fight for the Top 250 rewards.

I predict a whole bunch of form complaining when folks figure this out. (3 days before)

shion.2084:

Spartacus.3192:

lol at 15 matches for whole season. its 15 per week of the season. So if you wait till last week, get your Red Bull ready for a marathon session of matches if you intend to fight for the Top 250 rewards.

I predict a whole bunch of form complaining when folks figure this out. (3 days before)

If they seriously could not understand the pretty clear explanation that the devs gave on the forums, then I have no sympathy for them.