Guild Wars 2

Hate to start yet another queue thread but this is a suggestion, not a complaint, and I think it’s a pretty simple idea.

Players know their queue is 4 hours long and they don’t like it. Their server population is “High”. They go look at the other servers and they’re ALL high so they must all have long queues, right? Or maybe there’s a medium, but it has a 2 hour queue because lots of WvW people already moved there, thinking there would be no queue.

What they don’t realize is that this other “High” population server has no queue at all right now. It’s high population PvE, low population WvW.

They might leap at the chance to move there if they knew that this opportunity existed.

Arenanet, tear down that wall! Show us the WvW queues! Show it on the server selection screen!

I like this idea A LOT. Maybe that will deter the amount of people transferring to HoD when it says “Que Time : 4~ hours”

Yes and I think it’s important to realize that probably 90% of players don’t visit forums.

I would bet money that if you went to my server and asked about queue times on HoD, they would have no idea. 9 out of 10 of them wouldn’t even know what server you’re referring to. Our server is fairly low ranking so I bet some of them even have discussions like, “We’re tired of losing. Let’s pick a random new server to move to. How about HoD?” And they go there and go “omgwtfqueuetimes” because they had no idea. They literally just picked it because they liked the name and didn’t realize it was a massive WvW queue festival.

The only way to find out about queue times is to search forums for second hand information.

People want to move but they don’t know where to move to. Server population is no indication of WvW population.