GOD AWFUL QUEUE TIMES

[DividedSky]

Never drop the GC Restrictions. The hell I'm going into battle with any treehuggers and sandmerchants by my side. Till Sea Swallows All!

Just wait a month when mael is the best team and everyone transfers to failstrom and your queues start hitting 1+ hours long. You'll be saying fuccckkkk this I'll play with anyone! For faster queues.

[Red_Wolf]

Just wait a month when mael is the best team and everyone transfers to failstrom and your queues start hitting 1+ hours long. You'll be saying fuccckkkk this I'll play with anyone! For faster queues.

Hard to say for sure but it looks like all the terribad Primal Maelstrom players switched to Adders. They don't follow instructions. The melee never retreat when focused. The healers... well they make decent decoys I guess. They're not doing any healing anyway. Hopefully 30 days will go by quickly. I went from a 60+ winning percentage to having one night this week without a single win. Yet another reason to remove the GC restriction.

[Buff_Archer]

Never drop the GC Restrictions. The hell I'm going into battle with any treehuggers and sandmerchants by my side. Till Sea Swallows All!

Yes, you've totally changed my mind there, waiting 10x as long for a game vs. being able to start when the minimum number of players has queued is SO WORTH IT to be able to queue only alongside a) others who arbitrarily chose the same GC as me when they were lvl 20, and b) players who swapped to my GC hoping for a carry.

An absolutely horrible player who only wants tomes and doesn't care about the battle can swap to your Maelstrom and then you're stuck with them. Would you really prefer queueing with people like that because they're now in the same GC (even if they were a 'tree-hugger' or the other one a week ago), vs. having some really skilled players on your team who are in a different GC?

[Evangela]

people finally realized how terrible Slaughter is so they started queuing for Secure, thus make both modes have less players.

[Bokas]

Has any of the Dev team posted to address our "concerns"?

It is clearly an issue and the queue times are terrible at all hours of the day. Averaging about 50min for myself.
I do like the idea of dropping the GC restrictions.

[Red_Wolf]

Has any of the Dev team posted to address our "concerns"?

It is clearly an issue and the queue times are terrible at all hours of the day. Averaging about 50min for myself.
I do like the idea of dropping the GC restrictions.

It's breaking PvP. People like PvP because it's a much faster pace than PvE. Waiting 30 minutes for the weak GC to fill up or a spot in your overcrowded GC is killing all the fun.

[DividedSky]

Lol no they have not in the Japanese forums either.

[Stormrider]

At the fan fests and live letters there has been nothing concrete discussed. It has all been fluff/misdirection. While I enjoy the team atmosphere of GC I think most of us are at the point of just que.

Aether Flames win more then 50% of matches when premades aren't running for other factions. We have had alot of ship jumpers. It is a little weird Flame rank 45s are going to the other teams for better ques and we are getting the win chasers and bad ques. We used to have a window of about 5ish est to 8est where que was never longer then 15 mins. But 2.5 and the split has made it only lucky people see less then 30.

I have never seen this discussed. But would it be possible for all North American Data centers to que together? I know we only que with the same servers. Since I see some of the regular pvpers in low level roulette and WoD.

[Blubbers]

But would it be possible for all North American Data centers to que together?.

I've mentioned this idea before, I completely agree here. This would literally double the pvp population and I know all these servers are physically located in the same place anyway. Technically this would probably be difficult for them to do to set up, but it should definitely be possible.

This combined with some way of reforming the GC situation... They could do any of the following

- Remove GC entirely
- You pick which GC to queue as
- You take the party leader's GC (allowing you to play with friends in other GC's)

This completely solves the issue of one GC winning all the time and people switching, making queues worse.

As others have said, adding some transparency into the queues would help a lot as well.

[Atreus]

- Remove GC entirely

WHY CAN'T WE BE TEAMMATES