Getting tired of ''Please leave, duels''

#1 - April 16, 2013, 9:29 a.m.

I do hotjoins from time to time, and I usually press the ‘’Play Now’’ button, but I always seem to be placed in some kind of ’’duel’’ match.

If you enter and start taking points, or starting to attack someone you get a kittenstorm coming at you.

I’m getting really, really, really tired of entering a match where I get ‘’Leave, we are having duels’’

Of course, when they ask me to leave., I leave. It was just in the start I didn’t check the amount of players it was in that match. Now, every time I enter a match I always check how many there are, and if I only see one on the red team, and one of the blue team, I write if they are having duels, and the answer seems to always be yes, and I always seem to be placed in such matches.

Just do something about it, I just can’t be kitten having a kittenstorm coming at me if I start capturing points or killing another player.

Evan Lesh

#13 - April 16, 2013, 1:15 p.m.

With custom arenas, the play-now functionality will be revamped to better place you in servers.

Evan Lesh

#33 - April 17, 2013, 10:54 a.m.

Jax.5261:
It’s like saying “sometime in the future when we balance the game balance won’t be a problem so don’t worry about it now”

…well ok…
I respect you as a dev because I know you’ve personally handled some important quickfixes (really quickly too) but your solution is just silly.
Your game is dying right now, you have to do something right now.

We have been working on things However, we’re nearing the end of a development cycle, so there is literally nothing more I can do right now to help with the dueling “problem” for this patch. When custom arenas are out, you’ll have a much easier time finding the kind of server you like to play on.

Evan Lesh

#37 - April 17, 2013, 1:53 p.m.

Oni Link.4621:
You should put ALL SPvP matters as top priority, because if you want GW2 to have a feature, you must do it. Otherwise it will die very soon. Everyone is saying that, because it is sooooo obvious.
I do not doubt you’re working, but you are working slow with wrong priorities. Wake up.

Working on every PvP feature we want concurrently is obviously not feasible. Everything must have a different priority. Dueling is a feature that could happen anywhere in the game, and could be picked up by a team other than the sPvP team. As far as our team’s priorities go, dueling is certainly not above custom arenas, spectators, shout casting, split queues, etc. I know everyone may want a specific feature first like dueling, and it sucks we can’t please everybody at once, but that’s the priority we’re working with.

Evan Lesh

#53 - April 18, 2013, 10:10 a.m.

Torgal.8345:
Dear customer,
we are not working on the requested feature. We know what you actually want and will decide for you what is important and what is not…

Don’t take me too serious, but that’s the feeling I get while reading red posts in the forum ;-)

I’m sure it can feel like that sometimes, and that’s no fun. You should believe us that we really do listen to player feedback. If we aren’t prioritizing a feature, its because there simply isn’t enough demand, or there is some, but we’re really confident it would not help the game as much as another feature.

JonathanSharp

#54 - April 18, 2013, 10:13 a.m.

Bluxgore speaks the truth. Also keep in mind – there are MANY opinions on the forums about what we should be working on. It’s hard to say “the players want X”, because normally, there’s very little consensus on what players actually want. We try to make as many people happy as we can with each update, but it’s nearly impossible to please everyone all the time. This is true in life as well.

Evan Lesh

#65 - April 19, 2013, 9:33 a.m.

evilapprentice.6379:
Evan Lesh.3295:
Oni Link.4621:
You should put ALL SPvP matters as top priority, because if you want GW2 to have a feature, you must do it. Otherwise it will die very soon. Everyone is saying that, because it is sooooo obvious.
I do not doubt you’re working, but you are working slow with wrong priorities. Wake up.

Working on every PvP feature we want concurrently is obviously not feasible. Everything must have a different priority. Dueling is a feature that could happen anywhere in the game, and could be picked up by a team other than the sPvP team. As far as our team’s priorities go, dueling is certainly not above custom arenas, spectators, shout casting, split queues, etc. I know everyone may want a specific feature first like dueling, and it sucks we can’t please everybody at once, but that’s the priority we’re working with.

How is that list of (mostly) basic features still so long when this game launched at the end of august 2012?

I wouldn’t call those features basic, but I can fully understand that they’re expected from the community after seeing other games like Smite or LoL. Those companies were dedicated to those games from the start though, while we at ANet were, and still are, making a massive MMO.

Evan Lesh

#79 - April 19, 2013, 11:31 a.m.

evilapprentice.6379:
Custom arenas are a perfect example – why these weren’t fast-tracked and out in January, I’ll never know.

Because nearly all players wanted match making, and we agreed it would be better for the game at the time. So we re-prioritized. Perfect example of us switching gears based on player feedback.

Evan Lesh

#83 - April 19, 2013, 12:06 p.m.

Chaos Archangel.5071:
As both a PvPer and PvEer, I can’t help but fear..

Do Custom Arenas eliminate the chance of a Duel option in the PvE world? Cuz that’d really suck. I can’t even recreate my PvE build in the Mists.

No, this is not the case.