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Maybe this thread isn’t for me, but I can tell you my experiences in trying to learn PVP have been pretty bad in this game. My wife and I started playing casually at release due to having too much going on in life to devote as much time as we would like to playing GW2. Around Christmas time we decided we wanted to get into sPVP and found out that when we join the normal games we cannot be on the same team. It gets even worse when my brother and his wife log in and the four of us want to play on the same team. While it is fun to play against each other from time to time, we would much rather play on the same team. The only way we can do this is to play in the tournaments.
In joining the tournaments we seem to be against teams of rank 25-45 with 3-5 players with the same guild tag. These teams tend to stomp on us big time. Some of these teams troll us in /map chat, /say, or in emotes each time we are stomped upon because our guild must horribly suck at PVP to have 2-4 of us on a team and not be able to take these guys down. To be honest, we are not very good, and we are not getting much better. To play on the same team as my wife, we tend to play tournaments about 1/2 to 2/3 of the time. My win ratio is around 35% and I would guess about half of the wins are from tournaments and half from the standard PVP. We have never once gotten into a PVP match where we were so dominant that we won by a large margin, but we have been in many, many matches where we have lost by 300+ points and 1 where we were completely skunked losing 500 to 0.
Over the weekend we talked about it and we are all fed up with PVP because we very rarely find a close match up. We are on the verge of quitting PVP entirely. Now maybe you say, “No big loss, they are terrible anyway.” But I say, I doubt we are a singularity. I bet there are quite a few people in my boat. In my opinion matchmaking in free tournaments is the single most important thing the developers could add to improve the experience new players can have in PVP. To accomplish this maybe they need to change free tournaments to 1 or 2 rounds. Maybe the wait time on free tournaments increases slightly. Or maybe they make it “smart” to where there is some sort of algorithm that factors in time waited for a tournament to start and how many players have signed up and sets it up to go 1, 2, or 3 rounds so that no one is waiting too long and the rewards vary upon how many teams enter. Personally I don’t care how it is accomplished; it’s not my job to solve this problem. As a consumer of this product who wishes it to be a better product, it is simply my job to voice my discontent with it.
I would also like to note that paid tournaments feedback should be taken from the very good teams. The paid tournaments, in my opinion, are for those who are skilled (or think they are skilled) at this game and want to compete at the next level. I wouldn’t think matchmaking should be a part of paid tournaments.
TL;DR: Add matchmaking to free tournaments to allow small groups of friends a way to PVP on the same team against similarly skilled teams. Add an algorithm that factors in time waited for a free tournament to start and how many players have signed up and sets it up to go 1, 2, or 3 rounds so that no one is waiting too long and the rewards vary upon how many teams enter.
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Only reason I logged into SWTOR
This a bug or is it intended to be difficult to earn influence in sPvP due to not being able to stay on the same team as your guild or earning zero in tPvP?
My guild runs in tPVP (the free ones) for fun. We are not awesome at it, in fact we have not won the 3rd match yet. I have noticed that we do not earn any influence when we are in tPVP but we do when we are in the other sPVP games. Is this a bug?
We play in tPVP because it is the only way we can play as a team, when we go into the other sPVP games it splits us up. If this is a bug, could someone fix it? If it is not a bug, could someone explain why playing with my guild is punished in sPVP by splitting us up and gaining less influence because of it or by giving us none when we go into tournaments?
The guild is small, we need influence, please help us out.