Guild Wars 2

honestly if there aren’t changes to spvp team select and spectator team select i will be extremely disappointed Anet,
this has been an issue since last year when you decided it’d be fun to add it (or one of your pets jumped on the keyboard? i can’t think of a reason why you would actually add this besides trolling/ accident…)

this better change in the very next patch, if not i will lose all faith in you…

suggestions:
automatically arrange the teams based on rank,
if someone enters spectator they can only join the team they were on, and only for a 20 second window before a replacement is bought in.
NO MORE TEAM SELECT!
NO MORE SPECTATOR CAMPING!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

It’s hotjoin! Nothing is ever an issue in hotjoin! Why! Because it’s hotjoin!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

ArrDee.2573:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

It’s hotjoin! Nothing is ever an issue in hotjoin! Why! Because it’s hotjoin!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

ATM hotjoin rewards bad behavior with loot. That’s an issue that should be addressed.

If they removed the reward track loot progression from hotjoin that would solve this problem with minimal effort from a-net.

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

You can assist on a kill and then AFK for the rest of the game and still receive rewards! There will always be people who exploit! PvP gives such tiny rewards anyway! Are we all really going to get our panties in a bunch over some guy who’s awful at PvP wasting his time spectating hotjoins for minuscule rewards! It’s hotjoin! Anet should focus on actual issues like Skyhammer in solo q and server desyncs and not waste time with hotjoins!

Also you can’t remove rewards from hotjoins! There are people who aren’t esports enough, aren’t good enough, or maybe not interested in playing solo or team arena! These people deserve rewards too!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

this is not about rewards, this is about the ability to join the winning team.
creating pointless landslide games every single match.

this is a serious issue and any respectable company would solve this by next patch,
(which we speculate is in a month or 2, giving them plenty of time.)
if it is not resolved, then i will consider Anet utterly incompetent and look for a better MMO.
though honestly i hope this is not the case,
because i really want to enjoy spvp like it was before they ruined it…
(back when it was 8v8 and auto balanced with no spectator)

ArrDee.2573:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

You can assist on a kill and then AFK for the rest of the game and still receive rewards! There will always be people who exploit! PvP gives such tiny rewards anyway! Are we all really going to get our panties in a bunch over some guy who’s awful at PvP wasting his time spectating hotjoins for minuscule rewards! It’s hotjoin! Anet should focus on actual issues like Skyhammer in solo q and server desyncs and not waste time with hotjoins!

Also you can’t remove rewards from hotjoins! There are people who aren’t esports enough, aren’t good enough, or maybe not interested in playing solo or team arena! These people deserve rewards too!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Doesn’t matter how much you personally feel it rewards people (loot/achievements) it’s being exploited, so obviously others find it to be enough. That then also causes the people who want to go there for fun to deal with 4v5 etc. constantly. It’s bad for everything. Hotjoin is a place to experiment with builds etc. Not farm loot/ap. It doesn’t even help teach you how to play pvp (which is the argument why spvp even exists). Thus… it should not be rewarded (problems solved).