Considering the amount of outrage that happens when an Anet tag claims a keep, I can imagine that the whole planet would spontaneously stop spinning and all of us be flung out into space if an Anet server where to ever win a matchup.
That would be incentive to play, and make the servers alive again.
This idea isn’t for Anet employee benefits. It’s to make WvW alive again by having a server they can fight against. But since Anet created this game, they should be very good players. I would say their skill level is 1 Anet employee = 5 pugs.
Gf might leave them because of the ladderbordsz.
Better win match or all is vain.
Are you saying there are girls who will only date the God of PvP title holder? That is serious incentive to win matches then! But Anet should ban people who cheat for that title.
I posted in other thread, but I think this idea should be discussed. In order to make WvW alive again, Anet should have all employees placed on their own server, and enter a random week matchup as Red boarderland! Then each week, one of the matchups would be 2 player server vs Anet server!
Example -
Blackgate, Jade Quarry, Anet : April 24 – 30
Maguuma, Tarnish Coast, Anet: May 1 – 7
Fort Aspendwood, Sea of Sorrows, Anet: May 8 – 14
This idea would keep fights fresh, and make people want to play. Then empty games will be full of players who want to fight Anet!
If we want villain, then maybe all Anet employees should make their own server, and randomly place them as Red BL in a weekly matchup. I think WvW would grow again if this happens.
And if you get caught out you get killed and lose your caps too. Like I said, I don’t know who you are, but people with years of experience tell me CLOSE-MID is the only viable strat, so I will trust them.
On top of that, I have won by 200 points each time when people actually stayed CLOSE-MID, and I have not lost a single game.
You know what, I aleady know ArenaNet won’t fix this, or teach people how to PvP in a week. I’m uninstalling and this is my last post, I won’t bother with a bad PvP system. BB
The other day on Foefire, team split 2/2/1, and we cap all 3 points. This was Gold/Platinum team. Maybe you need to reconsider your strategy of mid/home only? Or are things done different in Silver?
Do you feel like sometimes your team is so bad, you want to PvP them IRL? It’s worse when you have someone dancing in spawn all match in Ranked, everyone reports him, but he’s still playing in the next round. Then matchmaking put 1800 rated player on other team, and 1200 rated player on your team, and that’s called balance.
Is there any way to stop this feeling of sadness? I feel like Anet is my daddy, and he left my family when I was young, then I see him again when I grown up, and he still disappoint me.
Today, I watch as players in top 100 fought on Ranked map. Some decisions make me wonder how these players are rank so high. Why do you 4 v 2 off point on stairs for 2 minutes, and enemy rotate and capture all? Then team argue in chat with each other, and this Guardian said he’s good because he has top kills award, but his team lost.
Last season, I was tier 3 Gold as Ranger with no HoT. I’m not pro, but I know how to play. And I know that getting awards in this season means nothing. Is there some hidden achievement for getting most kills, even if you lose a Ranked match? Or does this mean players can be carried into top ranks, but have no business being there?
My cousin plays SMB and bought Bayonetta. I watched how fun it is, and then thought about GW2. With PvP in a sorry state because both players and employees abandoned the game, maybe DLCs can revive population? Here are some ideas:
Play as Angry Tribulation Cloud – 2000 Gems. His attacks act like a Lightning Ele.
Play as Tybalt – 2000 Gems. Like in Stronghold. He attacks with apples and rifle.
Play as Dhuum – 2000 Gems. Acts like permanent Necro shroud.
Play as Alpha Golem – 2000 Gems. Like in WvW, slow but hits hard.
Play as Colin – 2000 Gems. Hypes match before timer starts, but leaves before game finish.
Show me what other class can take 0 damage from both physical and condition, hold point, and hit hard with chain stun lock. If only counter to this is to ignore Warrior and do something else, then class is broken. It worse when you trying to hold a point against an enemy Warrior.
So you’re saying that the April Fools joke is that we thought Anet would do fun thing in game, but jokes on us? That’s like a market saying you get free item with $50 purchase, but then free item is a travel size Snickers bar.
With all the 0 physical and condition damage buffs, with attacks that can go through block, why are Warriors allowed in Ranked PvP? In Magic the Gathering tournaments, they ban OP cards like my Black Lotus. If Warrior can avoid damage and contest point, make Guadian and Engineer do the same with their invulnerability skill. It too strong in competition. Time to balance.
I think because most players doing SAB instead of PvP, game server think it doesn’t need the resources. Now PvP server resource is diverted to PvE, like in Star Trek when shield is low.
Then you’re having same problem with others. You get matched up with bad players, and the enemy team get matched with equal skilled. Because the game is dying, a lot of people left, including Gold and Platinum. So only few good players, and lots of bad players. Bad players outnumber good, so you unlucky to get teamed with the Silver ones. Pro leaguer say he stopped playing PvP because the game is bad now.
That dev is an artist. I would like to see the details more close so I can appreciate the quality. Maybe icon can grow larger the longer you spent time in WvW? The bigger it gets, that means you winning!
ArenaNet already has players to play game modes/content and report back to them. I’m unsure if all are volunteers (PlayTesters), or some are on the payroll.
No need to ‘crowdsource’.
Then why are so many people more angry about this season than last? If PlayTesters doing their job, then they can confirm what everyone is complaining about.
Or maybe they lower level PvP, so they don’t understand why 500+ MMR difference on matchmaking is problem.
Players who play for rewards are bad players, because they don’t play for the competition. If more players like that were in PvP population, then match quality goes down more.
I feel that i had better match quality in season 5.
Are you Bronze or Silver? If so, that means you had more players on your team with same skill level, fighting a team with same skill level. If you are losing a lot this season, that means you match with same level players, but enemy is much stronger levels like Gold or Platinum.
Players who play for rewards are bad players, because they don’t play for the competition. If more players like that were in PvP population, then match quality goes down more.
There are many forum posts of complaints. I think Anet does read them, and try to fix, but still doesn’t work well. That’s why some of us feel they don’t play the game, because if they did, they would see first hand the problem. Then fix the problem.
Idea was to give Anet money to hire people to play game and find problem like bugs and other issues in PvP and WvW. These would be professional game players, and not just us players.
Right now, some of us think Anet employees don’t play PvP and WvW, so Anet doesn’t know about big problems. So I think of way to get community to help Anet! What if we did a Crowdfunding to collect monies to give to Anet, so they can hire people to play PvP and WvW for them? Once Anet know about all the issues, then maybe they can assign developer to make fix?
We talk on Discord voice com about Thief nerf, and people want to try Ghost Druid now. Longbow/Staff avatar with Trapper Rune and 3 traps. Will this work? If it does, I go buy HoT!
Bronze players are bad. They have no purpose on team against Platinum, only to give 5 points to enemy. They don’t wear armor, and don’t know how blast finish fields. I saw Mesmer rush solo into mid with 4 enemy. He disappear in less than a second, then call us bad. PvP is a joke.
Something I notice while watching popular guy PhatSeal on stream. With matchmaking, you can have 1800+MMR players on one team, and 1300 MMR on the other. Is this balance? If Anet no care about proper balance, why do we have MMR anyway?
Update to this messed up situation. Hotjoin and Unranked have no lag what so ever. Seems only Ranked PvP servers get routed differently. Not sure if game breaking since not all players have lag, but this show that Anet/NCSoft need to check their connection.
2 days in a row I hit extreme lag in Rank PvP. My main account function fine during countdown. But once the timer hits 1 second and game about to start, I can’t exit spawn, and everything slows to a crawl. I know not all have this issue, but tracking program and my ISP shows the connection problems are on Anet/NCSoft’s end. This isn’t fair to my team, because they lose MMR if I don’t DC for longer than 2 minutes. This isn’t fair to me, because I lose MMR no matter what. Won 7 games in a row 3 days ago near Platinum 1, then lose back to back games yesterday and today because PvP servers connect through a potato in Colorado.
Do the 61% to ncsoft.com mean that I can no longer play Ranked PvP until Anet fixes server? I’m not a server scientist, but I was thinking that it means I have a 61% chance of disconnecting from the game. In PvE maps, I get big skill lag like I’m in WvW EBG Stonemist fight. Then I get kicked to the login screen.
Oh, don’t worry. Maguuma had plenty of fun wiping you guys tonight.
A for effort, though – BG has been avoiding fighting us for months.
Says the server that just ran from BG. Must be fun to make up your own version of reality. These guys started losing again had a tantrum and took their ball and went home so they could farm lower servers, just sad.
Maguuma take break because BG hide. Not fun when server won’t play. But when Maguuma take break, BG come back and fight, then say they good.
Maguuma overstacked and gets to be matched with BG. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes and all that. Now that you’ve tanked and bamboozled Anet into lowering your glicko, you’ll just steamroll t2 and t3 for a month and end up matched with BG again. Congrats I guess?
When Maguuma is in tier 1 again, BG will run and hide, and cycle continues.
When Maguuma is in tier 1 again BG will continue to dominate like always causing lesser servers to tank thier rating and make excuses on the forums.
I think you use word dominate wrong. When Maguuma is #1, BG cry and hide. BG was dominated, like in 50 Shade movie.
I play Rainbow 6 Siege, and in that game, you can only pick a class that isn’t already taken. Anet should do same. If someone pick Thief, then that class is gray out and unselectable. If you only have Thief, and it taken, you can opt out of match.
Team game means you play as team. Be nice to others and swap so you can win! Otherwise, people will yell in map chat at each other, and make game not fun.
Why did they remove 100 points from Maguuma? That dropped us to tier 3. I’m not math doctor, so I think it’s unfair to force us into low Gecko rating because we take a break from WvW.
If you matchmaking in Ranked and get 2 Thief players, and they won’t swap, what can you do? Can Anet put in voting system to force the to swap? That way team majority can make one of them change. It is fair because PvP is a team game!
Why would they go AFK? This is Ranked. If they lose, points go down. If you in the top 20, or even the top 100, that means you drop. Fighting the other team by yelling at them in map chat only gives them the win. What is the point then?
