Guild Wars 2

Confirmed Stronghold will be added as a map to the unranked and ranked arena rotations. So you will queue not knowing whether you will play conquest or stronghold mode. So people who don’t currently like conquest will be forced to play conquest in order to try out Stronghold.

Add a map veto option when queueing, and have the map vote BEFORE queueing not after match is found.

Here’s how it works from the player perspective

I go into queue settings.

I veto whatever maps I want to veto. This means I will NOT get a match on that map

Of the maps I don’t veto, I select which one I vote for

The matchmaker will only try to match me with other people who have non-vetoed maps in common. For example if someone vetoes all the maps I have enabled, there will be no way I can get put in a match with that person.

The matchmaker will put together 10 players that all have at least 1 map in common. If they have more than 1 map in common, it will use the votes to determine the map that will be played.

The players will have to make a decision. If they want short queues they can veto 0 maps and get a match quickly. If they absolutely don’t want to play certain maps, they can veto them, but they understand that is going to make their queue longer.

This way there is an incentive (shorter queues) to play all modes, but there is no forcing game modes on players that don’t want to play it.

Or maybe we just need a separate queue for each of the 3 game modes, and a separate LB for each.

Sometimes I just don’t get Arenanet. IT is like they enjoy sabotaging their own game.