Guild Wars 2

BeepBoopBop.5403:

James Rustler.7860:

BeepBoopBop.5403:

James Rustler.7860:

BeepBoopBop.5403:

James Rustler.7860:

Aquachills.9013:

As soon as we got into our map on reset everyone was wondering where the ET guys were and was very excited to finally play with new people.

ET we hope you guys will come out to play and hopefully we can build some strong friendships. I know the ques suck but its only really that bad on reset nights.
Please try and get in contact with us so we can communicate the problems we may have and get them sorted out.

For the record, we weren’t being intentionally antisocial. We tried to get in, queued for one of the BLs as soon as it opened, but I only know of one person that actually made it. I think most of us gave up around midnight.

Needless to say, everyone (that was talking on TS) is pretty mad at Anet for essentially robbing us of a reset night. That’s the best night down in T8, IMO. No queues at all, but plenty of people to kill. Think they need to go back to the drawing board and come up with a plan that accounts for population spikes without shutting people out.

Is that what you all were worried about? That in T8 reset night is the only alive night? Trust me bro, you’ll have people to kill all week. T1 weekdays will be better than your T8 reset.

I think you’ve misunderstood. Just trying to provide context into what we’re used to in T8 (and why a lot of us are there). We’re used to being able to move freely between maps, even at peak population. What worries me is that I don’t think we’ll ever have that level of freedom under these beta matchups—EB, at least, will always be queued, and I’m not okay with that. The guild I’m in spent some time on a T4 server before moving back to ET, with constant EB queues being a major factor in the decision. And now here we are, forced into T1, unable to even play on what’s usually the guild’s best night of the week. (To be clear, I don’t blame BG for this, and I don’t think anyone on ET does. I blame Anet’s implementation of world linking.)

I mean, EB queue is 11 in the middle of Saturday afternoon. If that’s really unbearable idk what to tell you. This is what WvW SHOULD look like when its not dead.

It was more than 150 when the guild wanted to get in. If it’s still queued when it isn’t even prime time, I don’t foresee us ever getting to play there, which is sad.

I don’t see how queues could ever be construed as a good thing. Queues mean people that want to play aren’t getting to play. That’s just going to drive them away.

And I and many others have said: last night was an anomaly.

An 11 queue and you can’t see yourselves playing there?? Dude that’s like 5 minutes get a grip. It is 6 right now.

Queues mean people are playing the game and the borderlands are actually inhabited.

If it’s 6 now, it’s going to be a lot more during prime time. I had some guildies go an hour without moving up that far last night—it’s only five minutes if 6 people leave in five minutes, and it’s usually a squad of 15-20 we’re trying to get in, so if there’s a queue at all at the start of the night, we’re probably not going to wait.

Queues mean people that want to play can’t. They’ll get frustrated and quit. The queues will eventually go away as a result, but that won’t necessarily make them come back, and we’ll end up with underpopulated servers again. They need to find a way to fix this without driving people away with queues.

BeepBoopBop.5403:

James Rustler.7860:

BeepBoopBop.5403:

James Rustler.7860:

Aquachills.9013:

As soon as we got into our map on reset everyone was wondering where the ET guys were and was very excited to finally play with new people.

ET we hope you guys will come out to play and hopefully we can build some strong friendships. I know the ques suck but its only really that bad on reset nights.
Please try and get in contact with us so we can communicate the problems we may have and get them sorted out.

For the record, we weren’t being intentionally antisocial. We tried to get in, queued for one of the BLs as soon as it opened, but I only know of one person that actually made it. I think most of us gave up around midnight.

Needless to say, everyone (that was talking on TS) is pretty mad at Anet for essentially robbing us of a reset night. That’s the best night down in T8, IMO. No queues at all, but plenty of people to kill. Think they need to go back to the drawing board and come up with a plan that accounts for population spikes without shutting people out.

Is that what you all were worried about? That in T8 reset night is the only alive night? Trust me bro, you’ll have people to kill all week. T1 weekdays will be better than your T8 reset.

I think you’ve misunderstood. Just trying to provide context into what we’re used to in T8 (and why a lot of us are there). We’re used to being able to move freely between maps, even at peak population. What worries me is that I don’t think we’ll ever have that level of freedom under these beta matchups—EB, at least, will always be queued, and I’m not okay with that. The guild I’m in spent some time on a T4 server before moving back to ET, with constant EB queues being a major factor in the decision. And now here we are, forced into T1, unable to even play on what’s usually the guild’s best night of the week. (To be clear, I don’t blame BG for this, and I don’t think anyone on ET does. I blame Anet’s implementation of world linking.)

I mean, EB queue is 11 in the middle of Saturday afternoon. If that’s really unbearable idk what to tell you. This is what WvW SHOULD look like when its not dead.

It was more than 150 when the guild wanted to get in. If it’s still queued when it isn’t even prime time, I don’t foresee us ever getting to play there, which is sad.

I don’t see how queues could ever be construed as a good thing. Queues mean people that want to play aren’t getting to play. That’s just going to drive them away.

BeepBoopBop.5403:

James Rustler.7860:

Aquachills.9013:

As soon as we got into our map on reset everyone was wondering where the ET guys were and was very excited to finally play with new people.

ET we hope you guys will come out to play and hopefully we can build some strong friendships. I know the ques suck but its only really that bad on reset nights.
Please try and get in contact with us so we can communicate the problems we may have and get them sorted out.

For the record, we weren’t being intentionally antisocial. We tried to get in, queued for one of the BLs as soon as it opened, but I only know of one person that actually made it. I think most of us gave up around midnight.

Needless to say, everyone (that was talking on TS) is pretty mad at Anet for essentially robbing us of a reset night. That’s the best night down in T8, IMO. No queues at all, but plenty of people to kill. Think they need to go back to the drawing board and come up with a plan that accounts for population spikes without shutting people out.

Is that what you all were worried about? That in T8 reset night is the only alive night? Trust me bro, you’ll have people to kill all week. T1 weekdays will be better than your T8 reset.

I think you’ve misunderstood. Just trying to provide context into what we’re used to in T8 (and why a lot of us are there). We’re used to being able to move freely between maps, even at peak population. What worries me is that I don’t think we’ll ever have that level of freedom under these beta matchups—EB, at least, will always be queued, and I’m not okay with that. The guild I’m in spent some time on a T4 server before moving back to ET, with constant EB queues being a major factor in the decision. And now here we are, forced into T1, unable to even play on what’s usually the guild’s best night of the week. (To be clear, I don’t blame BG for this, and I don’t think anyone on ET does. I blame Anet’s implementation of world linking.)

Aquachills.9013:

As soon as we got into our map on reset everyone was wondering where the ET guys were and was very excited to finally play with new people.

ET we hope you guys will come out to play and hopefully we can build some strong friendships. I know the ques suck but its only really that bad on reset nights.
Please try and get in contact with us so we can communicate the problems we may have and get them sorted out.

For the record, we weren’t being intentionally antisocial. We tried to get in, queued for one of the BLs as soon as it opened, but I only know of one person that actually made it. I think most of us gave up around midnight.

Needless to say, everyone (that was talking on TS) is pretty mad at Anet for essentially robbing us of a reset night. That’s the best night down in T8, IMO. No queues at all, but plenty of people to kill. Think they need to go back to the drawing board and come up with a plan that accounts for population spikes without shutting people out.

No one from my guild was even able to play last night, despite being ready and watching for the maps to open at reset. I know of one person from the server that actually got in to one of the BLs by midnight.

This is NOT a good thing. It’s a severe overcorrection which, in my eyes, is much worse than the original problem.

Teon.5168:

joneirikb.7506:

(1) Just to be clear, this RESET is pretty special. Everyone is coming out of the woodwork, flooding all the servers. New wvw updates, new rewards, new beta server mergings etc. Obviously there is a lot more people than usual.

As such I do recommend everyone to be patient, and test this out over a couple of weeks, and see how the numbers goes.

(2) The low population play style is destroyed with this merger. And many of us will miss it. (My note of partial possibility to restore with Dynamic Map Adjustment)

(3) I agree with the idea that the top servers probably doesn’t need an “Ally” server, and perhaps make the lower tier servers Ally with each others instead. But we should still let this Beta run for a while to see how it turns out. (Todays metrics are way off)

@ lil devils x.6071

Again we come to similar conclusion through different directions :p

@ robotempire.2451

XTD is one of the few people on this forum that discusses things from a mostly un-biased perspective.

Good points. And yes, XTD makes some very good points in some of his/her posts. But XTD also overreacts, as is being done on this thread.

If in 2-3 weeks time, if there are still issues and problems with ques, then I will be the first one to agree with XTD. But not this early.

If this is still going on in 2-3 weeks, half of the people in my guild will have given up on the game. They mostly play for WvW, and reset is the night the majority of them are on. None of us even got in last night. By the time we normally call it a night, we were all still 15th+ in queue—for a BL. We’ve effectively been blocked from playing by this beta.

TheHeretic.3529:

James Rustler.7860:

Instant ridiculous queues on every map. Way to go, guys. 150+ on EB, 40-60 on the BLs. You should just revert this right now.

Jita.6291:

Who is going to play this anymore with queues of 150+…BAD MOVE

This was NORMAL for reset night just a couple of years ago. Get used to it. You will realize that having a queue is far better than risking no queue with imbalance.

Not being able to play is not better than being able to play.

Supernatural Dawn.3194:

Should just open alpine borderlands up with desert and have 7 maps. This que is ridiculous. Good luck getting all your guild together to play. Thanks Maguuma for their hospitality but I’d rather roam on an near empty map.

No one on ET even got in tonight, let alone an entire guild. This is beyond ridiculous.

Why did you think combining T8 with T1 would be a good idea? T1 already had queues, and most of the people on the lower tiers are there because they want to avoid the T1 crap. To my knowledge, no one from ET even got in tonight. You want us to find another game to play? Because you’re not letting us play this one.

Instant ridiculous queues on every map. Way to go, guys. 150+ on EB, 40-60 on the BLs. You should just revert this right now.

Coldtart.4785:

Daily reminder that neither the players that complete the event nor the players that fail the event are at fault for the rage.

100% of the blame falls on Anet’s content designers for being unforgivably bad at their jobs.

Anet feeds on the tears of their players. Not sure how this works for them from a business standpoint, but they certainly aren’t going hungry.

I don’t know about guild-wide, but it certainly shouldn’t take an entire guild donating materials to support leveling one scribe. The costs are beyond ridiculous.

The thing that really kittenes me off is that I never finished upgrading my bank guild’s bank before HoT dropped—and now I never can. Thanks, Anet.

Not too happy about all the things my actual guild used to have unlocked that are now locked behind ridiculous material requirements, either.

I frequently load into maps only to have the “this map is closing” popup appear literally seconds later. They really do seem to have a bug in whatever code is choosing instances to put us in. Guild halls, especially—twice tonight we all ported to the guild hall at the same time, only to end up in two different instances, neither of which gave the option to move to the other.

LFG rarely works for me—usually when a listing for what I want shows up, it disappears again before I can do anything. Or it just never shows up at all, because no one wants to do the event, because it’s completely ridiculous (TD meta).

Ayrilana.1396:

Just because something has a high cost does not mean that they’re trying to push players to purchase gems. The high cost of guild items is likely because of the high demand and the intent of it being a joint venture for the entire guild rather than a few individuals.

Have you seen the costs of guild hall upgrades? They’re crazy, even for a guild of ~30 active players. It’ll be months before the one I’m in even gets back the upgrades that we already had before the expansion, which Anet so kindly decided we should have to unlock a second time.

Yes, demand for desirable items is high—and supply is very, very low, which is entirely in Anet’s control. Drop rates have been terrible for as long as I’ve been playing, yet they seem to have gotten significantly worse since HoT launched—but sure, it’s -clearly- just a coincidence that they’re now featuring an advertisement for gem-to-gold conversion on the trading post.

Oblivion.9032:

And another thing, pushing for players to buy gems to convert to gold? I’ve seen the advertisement in the gem store for this, it’s disgusting.

Completely agree. My impression of Anet as a company over the past few months went from “eh, they make some mistakes” to “wow, these guys genuinely hate their players.” Their push to force gem-to-gold conversion with outrageous guild upgrade costs and abysmal drop rates is so transparent that it’s pretty clear they think we’re all stupid, too.

Certainly doesn’t put me in the mood to give them any money.

They should be phasing out the entire notion of “soulbound” items. It’s a stupid restriction in general, but this change in particular is beyond ridiculous. Whoever made this decision should be slapped in the face—hard—and it should be livestreamed.

This week they wanted us to find five bounties. We’re not a big enough guild for that. We got three of them, and no one got any personal rewards—we used to get one after the first kill. The in-world chest at the end of the rush is still missing too. Why do you hate your players getting loot, Anet? That’s no way to keep people playing, and it certainly isn’t making me want to purchase any gems.

Guild missions are unplayable at this point. Most of us get no rewards at all, and even the in-world chests are gone (for example, the cheese chest at the end of the proxemics lab). Why do you hate your players, Anet? How did you even manage to screw this up so badly?