Please abolish match making SE

[kisada]

Also, something I'd like to add: from a conversation I had yesterday, apparently players on JP datacenters have instant queues in prime time, and the worst it gets is a few minutes long. If this is true, how maddening is this? Why are NA/EU datacenters not merged for PVP instances where the population is deathly scarce? There is just nothing fun about this entire process at all and to know that other servers have it so much better is quite awful.

And yet another: I've been waiting 95+ minutes for this current queue. Twice so far (once at 30 minutes in, another time at 50 minutes in) I've gotten to 7/8, had the last person not accept and been kicked back to the start. If it does pop I'm half-tempted to cancel the queue out because at this point I don't really even care about playing this match. I just want to see how long MM can keep someone in queue with one person constantly withdrawing and forcing us to start all over.

It shouldn't be like this.

[DustySlippers]

As a result, SE won't prioritize fixing the big issue (MM) because people don't want to do den.

Thats why the post is entitled abolish match making. I understand that its not worth fixing the matchmaking, however there doesn't need to be any MM with recent changes....

I80 sync Ques --- gear balancing, check
All base pvp abilities at rank 1 ---- semi rank balance, check
Frontlines ---- powerleveling your rank / marks, check

match making provides very very little that isn't in the game

[Sessurea]

I made a suggestion before that some of the datacenre queues be combined, but the forum white knights always disagree....on everything xc

they also need to ditch the whole gc vs gc vs gc on FL. Just make it 24 vs 24 vs 24. Nobody cares of the crappy lore surrounding this, and in all honesty, on Odin, everyone just moves to "Maelstronk" anyways for autowin = everyone has crappy queue coz all on same GC.

[kisada]

yes, i agree. i think anyone with a bit of common sense should agree.

also i want to relay my experiences today and from now on in the hopes of getting the devs to see just how bad the issues are with MM.


today i queued for everything den. at 30 minutes in i hit 7/8 and someone skipped the queue. at 50 minutes in 7/8 happened again. i left queue up, made some posts on here, and at 178 minutes lost queue at 7/8 again. i gave up after that.

without matchmaking queues wouldn't take this long to find 8, and if someone did drop out we should be able to instantly find an 8th.

to put it in a bit more perspective, that was 3 hours for a 2 minute match i didn't even get to play. and this was on a weekend when queue times tend to be the best since everyone's off of work.

[Blubbers]

Completely agree with everything here, I loved doing wolves den before frontlines but the queues are just not worth it now so I don't even bother. Most people don't even know that i80 wolves den is even a thing, and there's no "!" quest indicator to even show you how to unlock it, you just have to know you talk to that guy to unlock it.

With all pvp skills unlocked and well as the i80 sync, seems like a no brainer match making should be overhauled to make 4v4 arenas a better experience.

Also Dusty, good to see someone else from Aether here. I think I've seen you in one of my frontlines matches fighting for the adders with me.

[Atreus]

Would be super to see match making lifted. Would love to have more Wolves' Den matches again.

[DustySlippers]

I made a suggestion before that some of the datacenre queues be combined, but the forum white knights always disagree....on everything xc

The problem with merging data centers is latency. Altho it would decrease Q times, pvp would be nearly unplayable

[Gor]

The problem with merging data centers is latency. Altho it would decrease Q times, pvp would be nearly unplayable

dont see why that would matter. other games have pulled off coast to coast servers flawlessly.

[DustySlippers]

other games have pulled off coast to coast servers flawlessly.

I am not sure you mean by coast to coast servers.

[Gor]

I am not sure you mean by coast to coast servers.

meaning that they were able to have players from no matter their location in NA/Canada, east coast, west coast, central or mountain, get into the same pvp matches with little to no lag. this would help Aether and Primal data centers. still wouldn't do anything for EU servers since they are such a small area and only one data center and of course JP servers wouldn't need it since they apparently are getting godlike pops.