Guild Wars 2

How is it possible that a group of level 2-24 “randoms”(everybody queued solo) plays against a premade group with everybody being level 51-58? Randoms vs premade groups should NEVER be possible. This is just frustrating and in my opinion one of the main reasons the tpvp is almost dead in this game. And dont say i should play spvp. If i want a big zergfest i can go wvsw. Please make seperate queues for premades/no premades or reduce the players in spvp to 5 per team

Two reasons: The ratings were resetted on 26th of february and there are not enough players queing up. So the chance is high you will get good players or even premades. During prime-time there’s a lower chance, but during the day there’s a high chance that you will face the same group several times.

The amount of people playing sPvP is critically low, im already seeing always the same people playing tourneys its even sad.

Yep, I keep getting matched against premade teams that are rank 30-50 while my teamates are around 0-20 sounds pretty fair to me (not like rank matters though). My random team got destroyed by a premade team who started talking big then he said dont talk unless youre at least rank 30 lol.

Like the other guy said barely anyone plays spvp so during off hours it’s not even worth playing unless you want the other team to farm you for easy points which drives some players away

There just simply aren’t enough players atm. No joke: Mon-today(Thu) I’ve faced the same groups pretty much 90% of the time during the day. During primetime I usually see a different makeup, but still occasionally get the same group back to back to back etc.

That said, don’t count out “randoms”: I’ve actually had more lucky lately with lower lvls than I have with 30-50 premades.

Personally haven’t had too many lopsided matches in 2v2 tournies, but I do notice that it’s always the same players playing. Low population seems to be the culprit. I was on last night at 1:30am and out of the 325 sPvP servers, only 8 were occupied. None of the games were full and I counted about ~50 players playing on those 8 servers. All of this while I waited over 30 minutes for a tourney to pop. There were probably another 30 or so players sitting in the mist. Ended up giving up and logging off for the night. It’s sad that the game has ended up this way. I hope things get better, but it seems like there isn’t enough people working on pvp content. I’m sure the devs are watching the pvp population drop while the pve side remains steady if not improving. Don’t feel like reiterating the list of needed additions to pvp as it’s been splattered all over the forums since launch.

Hell with the tournaments. I see same people in hotjoins all the time.

If this “matchmaking” were put into the game 2 or 3 months ago, maybe it would have better results but right now, it’s a bit late.

This is what happens when you over-hype the game saying things like “e-sport”, “balanced game” or “skill-based pvp” and, at the end, they are not true: the game is still not an e-sport (its logical, because it needs time), the game isn’t balanced at all (GW1 had better balance and there you didn’t have fixed weapons and fixed slots, but you had secondary professions and more than 100 skills available per profession) and right now, they are trying to make the game skill-based introducing the matchmaking which does not work very well.