Guild Wars 2

So I get that the game matches me against a pip range, but then it also matches me with similar MMR for teammates.

Which is pretty cool.

But c’mon… I keep getting teamed with the same 2-3 players in a row. On a losing streak.

Can’t they add more variety to my teammates. I don’t care if I have to wait an extra 2 minutes in queue.

I’d rather wait 2-5 extra minutes in queue to get a different team than waste 8-12 minutes in a match that I know I’ll lose with the same losing streak team composition.

What’s the point in keeping a proven losing team together? To force us to communicate and change up our builds/strategies? If I wanted to organize in a team queue, then I’d have done it with my guild.

When I get stuck in a losing streak queued with the same group of players over and over. I just turn off the game and try again later or tomorrow.

This matchmaking system is literally forcing players to not play and hoping they’ll come back later and not get the same players. How ridiculous is that?

This isn’t a post about queuing with terrible players, but queuing with players that just don’t gel together. It’s stupid that I have to be force to play with another player, that I just don’t play well with or don’t like over and over.

Give me longer queues, so long as it means I don’t queue with the same losing team. Give me a chance to find a group of players that I might actually party with and play more matches with.

Players on a winning streak are just lucky that they got matched with like minded players that gel well. And the system should keep winning streak teams together to provide an atmosphere for developing higher level of skill and play. I imagine when two winning streak teams face off against each other, its a match to be watched.

But keeping losing teams together just promotes feeding. Put players in a losing streak in a longer queue in order to break that losing streak, and stop feeding players lucky enough to find other players they gel with.

It’s called “Be careful what you wish for”.

People wanted to get rid of bunker meta. ANET gave us Roll or be rolled meta that decides matches in less than 30s flat.

People complained about MMR. ANET said, screw MMR (for one side).

Now, whatever we are wishing for may and will come back to chew our butt in season 3.

If you were matched with the same players for 2, 3, 4+ queues you could’ve just been patient for 5 mins and done something else so their queue can pop and you can not get paired with them again, I know, genius rite?

XGhoul.7426:

If you were matched with the same players for 2, 3, 4+ queues you could’ve just been patient for 5 mins and done something else so their queue can pop and you can not get paired with them again, I know, genius rite?

Ya, that’s pretty much what I’ve been reduced to. Waiting around, hoping the same people I get queued up with on a long losing streak get in matches and then queuing up. And praying they aren’t thinking the same thing. Sometimes I wait a day in between terrible streaks to log back into the game to make sure I don’t queue with the same group. Maybe I should be uber patient and wait a week before I log back in and play.