Guild Wars 2

during the last revenant and stronghold test, our pvp interface was replaced with a newer version in which the practice button was replaced, and there are only two big buttons to press.

play (unranked arena) and compete (ranked arena)

of course, the official anet practice (hotjoin) servers are still available via the pvp game browser but it does takes a few seconds for the list to show up every time. might be a minor inconvenience there for certain people.

anyway, i think, under play (unranked arena), we get a two check boxes, strong hold and conquest. so that would allow players to queue for strong hold only, conquest only, or both.

well, why not introduce a new check box option?
say, lets call it “makingmakingless mode” or instant arena or random arena, which is basically a quick mode instead of the more than two minutes average queue time to wait for the non functional match making system to gather up ten people and then wait another two minutes in the map before a game actually begins.

the current system forces ten players to wait at least 4 – 5 minutes before a match can begin. at least 2 – 3 minutes in the heart of the mist (pvp lobby) and another 2 minutes after loaded into the map.

all that time lost, just to play a conquest mode with an average play time of around 10 minutes if the game is rather balanced. blow out matches may end much faster.

this is not productive and time wasting.
plus, the match making is terrible, i heard.

why not introduce a instant or random arena (quick mode) check box and have it checked by default.

it does the following:
- immediately gathers 10 people who queued with the instant / random arena (quick mode) check box checked, ignores match making searches, this will ensure almost instant queue pops provided at least 10 people queued with quick mode
- shuffles these 10 people into 2 teams based on their experience (total games played) so each time will have similar experience
- 10 seconds count down once all 10 players have loaded into the map

this way, matches can possibly start within 1 minute instead of 4 -5 minutes.

what do you think?

discuss!

changed topic title as there was no public feedback.

tl; dr
it takes too long for a queued game to start.

in the original guild wars 1 random arenas, a 30 seconds timer counts down all the time, and players queue for it. once groups of 8 players have queued and the 30 seconds timer ends, those groups of 8 are made into 4 man groups and faced off each other.

after 10 seconds into the map the match begins.
fights are started within a minute.

here, we need to wait at least 4 – 5 minutes before a match can begin.