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Please – the number one priority is to FIX THE QUE’s and make them work like a standard que. It’s a complete que lottery atm and completely destroys attempts to group with friends and guild members.
We don’t mind waiting in ques as much as long as we get in at roughly the same time.
The problem with that is that on high pop servers what will happen is people that are hardcore will wake up at 3am to que and casual players will never be able to get into wvw because it would be always filled by first come first serve.. I think a random que fixes that in letting more casual players have a chance.. But yeah, I agree, that needs to be fixed because guild pvp is one of the main parts of this game, so it’s gonna be important to come up with a solution.
More areas to fight for is just going to damage low pop servers even more.
Anet needs to offer incentives for guilds to transfer from queued servers to non-queued servers.
That’s a good point.. that fix only works on high pop… then you would have to move the people from low pop to high pop servers and add the extra zones. or.. yeah there needs to be a big incentive to get people to move to low pop servers. Maybe make an awesome looking weapon that only people that transfer can get. That might inspire people to move.
Someone mentioned doing making a overflow for wvw.. that would ruin the concept of servers vs server because what happens when in one instance red is winning and in another one green is.. there wouldn’t be a way to manage server wide bonuses for winning and in the end it wouldn’t work. Maybe if the overflow instance didn’t count to the server vs server and it was just a place for the farmers to farm… maybe ad a farming bonus so people would go there instead of wvw to farm.
Hey everyone, sorry to not post about this sooner, the last few days have been a little hectic and I wanted to verify a couple things first about the issues we’ve been seeing with the queues before posting anything.
As many of you know, it is possible for someone to queue up for a map after you and get in first. We’re trying to get that fixed as soon as possible but unfortunately we still need a bit more time to solve the problem. We will definitely keep you updated when there is any news on our progress.
I have been checking the queue sizes and wait times for each matchup, and there are a couple interesting things I’ve observed so far that may help reduce queue times for some of you.
Worlds at the top of the rankings can have queues that reach multiple hours (particularly for the Eternal Battlegrounds map), but most of the worlds in the bottom half of the ranking quite frequently have open spots in at least a few maps, and the lower ranked the server is, the more likely it is that there are spots available. I’ll be posting the up to date world rankings shortly.
When there are queues for every map, the wait time for borderland maps tends to be shorter. Enemy team borderlands tend to have the smallest queues for just about every team so you may want to try entering those maps first before attempting to queue for the Eternal Battlegrounds. If you are just entering the queue for the battlegrounds and not checking the borderlands maps first to see if they have space open, you could be missing out on playing in the Borderlands while you wait for a spot to open up for you in the Battlegrounds.
That being said, while we still have worlds that consistently have open spots for more players, it would be fantastic if some players out there could help us spread the WvW population out a bit so we don’t have a few heavily stacked populations facing large queues on some worlds while many other worlds still have room to support people.
While I know this isn’t what most of you wanted to hear, I also want all of you to know that we are still investigating numerous other options we can take to help resolve some of these ongoing queue issues and we’ve been discussing them internally every day to see what would provide everyone with the best long term solution, but we wont have anything ready on that front for quite a while.
Ideally, we would see some people move from worlds with extreme queue times to worlds that need additional people and start building up active wvw communities there as well. Having more worlds with heavily active populations in WvW will be a very good thing for the long term health of the game, and spreading out the population will help reduce the queue times on the worlds with the longest queues.
While queues do indeed suck, the fact that they are this bad is because so many of you are trying to play and that is actually one of the best possible problems we can have at this point. It may sound silly, but it means that there are quite a few of you out there are enjoying the game and we’re thrilled that so many of you are out there trying to fight for your world. We will do our best to make sure you can.
Finally, I would like to ask everyone to post any additional queue comments to this thread only from now on and refrain from creating additional threads about it.
Thank you all for your understanding and patience.
I think GW2 is a pretty great game. I promised myself I wouldn’t play another MMO but you guys actually made one that I wanted to come back to the genre for. Anyway, I’ve been thinking about ways to fix this que problem. I know if you make it so more players can join the maps it would make more lag, esp for people with lower end machines. You could instance the games but I think that would ruin the awesome idea of server vs server matches. Yeah less people queing would fix the problem, if servers were split or people decided to spread out more, that would work, but it’s hard to control that I feel. In the end I think the best way to fix this problem is to make more areas that players can fight for. This would allow players to play wvw and contribute to the same game, lowering the que time for everyone while still maintaining these great wvw matches. I know the work and time it takes to make more areas, but in the end I think that would be the best choice. Anyway, these are just my 2cents.