Guild Wars 2

I can confirm that the lack of matchmaking system and ladder is leading to people leaving the game. This is the very reason that all my friends quit playing; once they did, so did I. We’re all back to playing WoW.

It’s disappointing since I think GW2 is an amazing pvp game (it is far superior to WoW in my opinion). However, all my friends enjoy competition, and of course to enjoy competition, opposing teams need to be of similar skill.

We’re all Gladiator level players in WoW, and we were looking to compete at a high level in GW2. But instead we usually just ended up with extremely lop-sided victories against the opposing teams we played. Then we would play one of the best teams in GW2 like PZ, and we would get utterly dominated. It isn’t really possible to practice and get better when you’re playing teams that are so far below or above your skill level.

Unfortunately, I think that even if a mmr system was implemented now, they wouldn’t get players to come back to the game. I believe they simply have missed their chance to establish GW2 as a popular e-sports game. I hope I’m wrong about this though, because the class design/balance and overall gameplay in GW2 is amazing. But having an amazing game doesn’t mean anything if no one is playing it.

I came to the game with about 6-7 friends who all played WoW at a high level (all Gladiators). We were all looking for something new to play in place of WoW, which we felt suffered from poor balance issues. GW2 seemed to be the answer.

When we started playing the game, we were extremely pleased with the 5v5 gameplay. The professions were very well balanced for a game that had just launched (certain classes were obviously better than others, but no class was completely nonviable), and the node based gameplay was surprisingly fun.

However, none of us is currently playing GW2, and I think the biggest reason is a lack of a matchmaking system. As many others have outlined, without a matchmaking system in place, the games are often very lopsided in terms of skill. In many games, my group of friends and I would dominate the opposing team, and then we would play one of the more renowned teams and we would get destroyed. Neither scenario was very entertaining. The rare game where our match was close was extremely fun though.

I think that the lack of a matchmaking system caused many people that were interested in competition to quit the game. And after this number of people quit the game, there simply aren’t enough teams queuing anymore to provide good competition across different skill levels. All of the paid tournaments seem to end in fighting one of the best teams still left playing, which ultimately ends in a lopsided defeat.

I think the chance for GW2 to be established as a popular e-sports game has been missed. Unfortunately, I think that even if a matchmaking system was implemented at this time, there wouldn’t be enough players that would return to have an active ladder. I hope I’m wrong though, because I think GW2 is amazingly well done. However, I’ll continue to play WoW in the meantime (despite its terrible game balance), simply because I can play against people of my level at a consistent rate.

Sorry if all this has already been said previously, I didn’t have time to read the entire thread.

Myself and a group of friends are looking to either join an established spvp group or add a couple members to our group in order to continue queuing 5v5 games.

We have all achieved gladiator titles in WoW, and when we play with a full group in GW2, we have an extremely high win ratio. There are 5-6 of us all together, however due to real life responsibilities, we are rarely able to be on at the same time.

You can contact me in game at chazzwozzer.5982