Guild Wars 2

Trevor Boyer.6524:

Low population being responsible for bad match making is a myth and it’s not the issue at all. Even if only 10 people were playing Guild Wars 2, only 10. If those people were standing in que as: plat plat plat plat gold gold silver silver silver silver, it should que the match as: plat plat gold silver silver vs. plat plat gold silver silver. It should not que it as plat plat plat plat gold vs. gold silver silver silver silver. That is in no way balanced or competitive and that is what people are talking about in this thread, matches like that when there is no reason for the algorithm to be doing it other than to feed a team of low ranks to higher ranks.

The system does this often. It chooses when players go on win streaks or lose streaks to the point that the win/lose switch flip is reliable and dependable like clockwork. It is excruciatingly obnoxious for a player to “know” that he just had a ridiculously bad match 500 to 40 or some kitten and that it’s going to continue for another 8 to 10 games or so, for the purpose of resetting his rating gain.

I think the Glicko needs the game to do this for it to function, which is absolute garbage. If that is the case, they need to figure something else out or even remove the algorithm entirely and leave que’ing up to true randomness like GW1 RA. Honestly the match making couldn’t get worse than predictable win streaks and lose streaks.

Absolutely with you in this.
A change in this broken system urges!

Kir Sakar.3647:

Akilles.4320:

This and removing the class stacking is the way to go, something has to be done, can’t be worse than what already is in ranked. Make better rewards to unranked, don’t know, something, the lack of action by the dev’s it’s unbeliavable.

Not sure if it has been mentioned somewhere, but I do have the strong impression that the devs did something to reduce the class stacking in season 7. A vast majority of my ranked matches have been exact mirror match-ups class wise since then. No way this is cooincidence.

My point is that it’s not enough and they need to do more than that.
There’s alot of complains to the PvP, just look at the forums, it’s not just 1 or 2 rants but many people complaining about the match making, I get better, fun, fair, engaging fights at unranked, than in ranked because I must carry my team hard? Say what?
It’s not working, kitten it look at the numbers, give a word to your PvP player base (season after season smaller) change things, why do we need hot join and unranked? Change one of them, the game mode should atract more people to it, not push people away from the game.
What you did to WvW and the auto tournaments in SPvP it’s a start, but not enough, so don’t stop!

This and removing the class stacking is the way to go, something has to be done, can’t be worse than what already is in ranked. Make better rewards to unranked, don’t know, something, the lack of action by the dev’s it’s unbeliavable.

You’ve done a good work MonMalthias.4763, you expressed what many players think, that for one reason or another don’t write it here at the forum and for that I salute you.

I play mmo’s for over a decade, there’s not such think as a perfect game or a perfect manage from the game companies, but the ones that listen to their player base prevail.
I hope Anet act before their magnificent game falls in a limbo.

I have the same annoying problem, I hope Anet could do something about this.