Japan Adrealine TV 3.4 PvP Update

[Dimitrii]

The Feast rated times actually does sound pretty good on paper. Not only would it quicken queues but it would also better the players to the same field as opposed to be selectively queuing at certain times when they know they can avoid the better players. It would also serve to revive Frontlines somewhat outside the window of Feast being open since we clearly don't have the population to sustain both with decent queue times. That being said however I can also for see problems with this. Everyone playing at the same time also means your chances of being matched with new inexperienced players goes up as well. And with matchmaking having a tendency of grouping up the same ppl over and over after matches if they all queue immediately after match ends you can be stuck with the same ppl all night. Not to mention the feast window may not fall within some people's time of availability.

[Februs]

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This is definitely a tricky issue. In one way, I do agree with the concept. I like the idea of faster queues for sure. I also would love to get some real PvP'ers into my matches. My off-hour matches have dropped my rank like a rock recently (gold qualifiers down to flirting with the bronze line), because I've been shafted with nothing but fresh players or people with questionable commitment to winning. Having a broader pool of teammates would definitely be an improvement, because I wouldn't get stuck riding a losing streak with the same four people all night ...

That said, I know that the combination of my odd log hours and my time zone would mean that a restriction like this would result in the worst possible matches for me. I already have very limited time to play. Community organized events like Friday Night Fights and Secure Sundays/Saturdays were next to impossible for me to join because I only catch, maybe, the last hour of 'peak times.' The matches I do get into could be even worse than they are now, assuming I get into any at all.

There's also a problem with balancing PvE with PvP. We all have weekly caps, dungeon/raid/primal drops, challenges, etc, to deal with each week. Restricting PvP queue times to specific hours of the day could result in days in which NO ONE queues at all, because they have to deal with their PvE responsibilities first. This would especially be the case early in the week, after reset, or late in the week when people are scrambling to finish things that they didn't do earlier. Not to mention when new content comes out. Anyone with a static raid or primal group would run into scheduling problems ...

I dunno. Maybe it won't be as bad as I'm imagining, but I can see more going wrong with this than right.