Guild Wars 2

Is it possible to make a PvP search filter that lets me get into an actual game?

Scenario: you look at the server list, and see a server with dudes in it, say 17/20. You join that, and find you must be a spectator until someone leaves because the match cap is 8/side.

No worries! So you find a match that has 3/20 in it, and join that. By the time your machine has finished loading into it, another 15 people joined before you, and you’re a spectator again.

I don’t care if people spectate, that sounds cool, but I want the button that lets me play, not watch. How do I create a search filter that puts me into the first game that has an empty player, not spectator, slot?

Play Now is not really it: it can put you into a completely empty match as it’s based on your glory amount.

What am I missing?

EDIT: Reason for post, I’ve spent just shy of 30 minutes trying to get a game up. Every time – every kitten time – the match ends up full by the time I load into it.

Get a solid state drive.

Punkins.2087:

Get a solid state drive.

Ah, the Sultan of Brunei is playing Guild Wars with the handle, “Punkins.” Good to meet you, sir. How’s the oil business?

So I’m guessing the answer is no?

Swell. That seems a bit shortsighted in terms of the new interface: it was the default behaviour of the old system. Add in spectating, and all of a sudden actually playing the game is harder than it was before.

That seems wrong to me.