Guild Wars 2

Hello, i’m a player from Portugal, currently playing on the european region. I work during the day and since Portugal is on the far western edge of europe we share the same timezone as the UK.

I played guildwars 1, and one of the things that i enjoyed the most about it was the fact that we could find people to play at any time. In fact, i actually made some friends from the US and Canada playing GW1, mainly due to my after-hours playing schedule.

Right now, in Guildwars 2, the Structured PvP (i’m specifically talking about Tournaments) have an issue related to this subject. After a certain time, it’s really hard to find opponents. For Paid tournaments i would risk saying it’s impossible to get the ball rolling after 23:30 GMT. If this was GW1, this situation wouldn’t arise, since we would be matched up against American teams and sometimes even Korean / Japanese teams.

So my question is: have you guys planned something related to this? My suggestion would be to implement a system similar to Dota2 and HoN, where you can opt-in or opt-out of “Global matchmaking”, being aware if you do so that you may suffer from increased latency in order to be able to play in a bigger player pool with hopefully much diminished wait times.

Also this would be a “necessary” feature for future world championships ?

I understand there are many things that need to be done in order to make Guildwars 2 e-sport PvP into a real thing. Lots of missing features that (i hope) are taking all of your (developers) time, just wanted to know/remind you guys about this particular one since it affects not only me, but all late night gamers all over the world.

LegendaryLukeee.1462:

Not a good move from a-net, this just prevents a higher skill cap and makes the game more boring. Without switching weapons and utilities you stuck playing one build and if someone counters it, there’s nothing you can do about during the game but take it. Feel like this game is just gonna turn into a rock-paper-scissors game where best comp wins and skill is not that important.

The skill cap is even higher now, since now you actually need to talk with your teammates to figure out how their builds will overlap with yours and ultimately cover the holes your personal build has.

And that’s good.

Zodian.6597:

soul.5368:

Big props for this… and a bigger Lol at the win button cries for those that can’t play the abilities their spec provides

#top 20 EU

#eu = pubstomping qp treadmill

I actually played on #na for a while and #eu has the better teams and better PvP environment and players overall

I hope this is intended. i always thought that swapping items and gear out of combat was ridiculous. Also i hope this also prevents people from logging out and back in with a different character during a tournament!

Great job arenanet, now all you need to keep being great is to keep on implementing the good features GW1 had (this being one of them)