Guild Wars 2

To be able to queue and join arenas/battlegrounds without leaving your current position to join the heart of the mists (which has a very depressing music and atmosphere, and no real content to do while you wait for an arena)
Or keep the current system ?

Or anything else, like a new map to wait instead of the heart of the mists

You know we could actually play the game for 2 years while queing, right? Then that “feature” was suddenly taken away with the first feature patch that forced everyone into the HOTM.

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

You know we could actually play the game for 2 years while queing, right? Then that “feature” was suddenly taken away with the first feature patch that forced everyone into the HOTM.

Wasn’t that the same patch that they did megaserver? It’s probably something to do with that.

Crinn.7864:

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

You know we could actually play the game for 2 years while queing, right? Then that “feature” was suddenly taken away with the first feature patch that forced everyone into the HOTM.

Wasn’t that the same patch that they did megaserver? It’s probably something to do with that.

Maybe, though the change has nothing to do with megaserver. They actually gone on record to say that they changed that so that people wouldn’t get a queue pop while stuck in a long loading screen – you know because they can’t get their loading right.

Of course that was before the patch too. And people prevent long loading screens with SSD already. AND they actually built a system to kick people out of the queue for AFKing with that patch… yet they prevent people from doing things…

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Crinn.7864:

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

You know we could actually play the game for 2 years while queing, right? Then that “feature” was suddenly taken away with the first feature patch that forced everyone into the HOTM.

Wasn’t that the same patch that they did megaserver? It’s probably something to do with that.

Maybe, though the change has nothing to do with megaserver. They actually gone on record to say that they changed that so that people wouldn’t get a queue pop while stuck in a long loading screen – you know because they can’t get their loading right.

That sounds like something PR cooked up, I doubt it’s the real reason they did it. Still going to go with it being something to do with megaserver.

Crinn.7864:

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Crinn.7864:

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

You know we could actually play the game for 2 years while queing, right? Then that “feature” was suddenly taken away with the first feature patch that forced everyone into the HOTM.

Wasn’t that the same patch that they did megaserver? It’s probably something to do with that.

Maybe, though the change has nothing to do with megaserver. They actually gone on record to say that they changed that so that people wouldn’t get a queue pop while stuck in a long loading screen – you know because they can’t get their loading right.

That sounds like something PR cooked up, I doubt it’s the real reason they did it. Still going to go with it being something to do with megaserver.

It was an actual developer response on the forum, from Evan Lash IIRC, so no PR there. Just a dumb reason for a dumb change. Typical Anet though.

Megaserver is unrelated. Megaserver was added in April 2014. Forced to queue in Heart of the Mists was added in December 2014 (some 8 months later).