Guild Wars 2

I would like to recommend that matches in eotm be reduced to 3 hours instead of 4. I have noticed for a long time that the last hour stretch really starts to putter out in most cases, so I think reducing the time to 3 hours would be a good number.

I would like to also recommend changing the on screen countdown timer to display the hour and minutes and seconds remaining in the match.

Thank you for reading this suggestion!

If you change it to 3 hours then hours 2-3 will be pointless instead of hours 3-4.

I fail to see the point. If you want full engagement, matchups need to be within a single reasonable sitting for all players, or around 1 hour at most.

Dawdler.8521:

If you change it to 3 hours then hours 2-3 will be pointless instead of hours 3-4.

I fail to see the point. If you want full engagement, matchups need to be within a single reasonable sitting for all players, or around 1 hour at most.

Why would hours between 2-3 be pointless in the match?

1 hour would be too short. 4 seems a bit excessive judging by observations of the last hour. 2 hours, eh, I don’t think that’s long enough. 3 hours I’m feeling would be the sweet spot.

Swagger.1459:

Dawdler.8521:

If you change it to 3 hours then hours 2-3 will be pointless instead of hours 3-4.

I fail to see the point. If you want full engagement, matchups need to be within a single reasonable sitting for all players, or around 1 hour at most.

Why would hours between 2-3 be pointless in the match?

1 hour would be too short. 4 seems a bit excessive judging by observations of the last hour. 2 hours, eh, I don’t think that’s long enough. 3 hours I’m feeling would be the sweet spot.

Thats what you feel because of 4 hour matches.

You do realize WvW is exactly the same right? Come thursday and top server is ahead 100K points, no one gonna play seriously anymore.

Not to mention sPvP. Good luck getting your team to fight if the score is 400-20.

The hours is irrelevant. The moment people realize its futile a majority will stop fighting. You can neither cut or add hours to make the last 30% of a match exiting when its unbalanced and possibly lost already.

And yes, 3 hours is still way too long for a normal gaming sitting if we assume same people from start to finish. People will start to drop off after an hour. Keep in mind that we also have to count partial matches. So if you join at say the 2 hour mark of a 3 hour match thats lost, sure you may go “well I lazily play until the next exiting match!”. After 2h of gaming, you’d still have 2h left in the 3h match. GG having the interest to keep fighting. Yeah I know some can play 6h straight easy, but lets count mostly normal people. There is a reason why medium scale round games (think BF) set ~30m matches.