SIGN if you Hate PVP GC Restriction & Want Change

[Buff_Archer]

People who think it's not a problem probably come from the GC with the best queue times on their data center. With my GC however, even several months ago when Slaughter was pretty active, those of us in my Adders LS realized it was pointless to queue up as a group and have a hope of getting into a match. Can't tell you how much time was wasted waiting an hour with a full party, or close to that, on a match that never started and with an unknown continued wait time. 5 min? 50? Who the hell knows? And eventually someone has to go and that unqueues the whole party. 8 people sitting in queue a full hour (adds up to a full workday between everybody) unable to do other things that could progress their character and unable to risk content on another class where it's so easy to fail a commencement due to aggro locking you from a class change because the ability to do that via teleport was taken out good job there. Sprint from a fate and pick up aggro after aggro.

[Zabuza]

I like pvp, currently at max rank with over 600 frontlines and over 500 wolves dens. I do not agree with removing the GC restriction. I like my team spirit, fighting for the Flame and Flames only. I do not want restrictions.
A 15-20 minute queue is not going to kill you.

15-20 minutes? If only it was that short. Try over an hour. This is not good design, just stop.

[Arkenne]

*bump* I can't let this topic go past page 1 :/

[T2teddy]

I'd cheerfully gove pvp a go in this game IF I COULD PARTY UP WITH MY FRIENDS! But noooo we're all in diff GCs. So, since the venue for the pvp is in Cartenau Flats which is the whole issue. MOVE it to a place that has nothing to do with any GC. Mordhona or one of the HW zones.

[Kojikensei]

Super signed.

[Zabuza]

I'd cheerfully gove pvp a go in this game IF I COULD PARTY UP WITH MY FRIENDS! But noooo we're all in diff GCs. So, since the venue for the pvp is in Cartenau Flats which is the whole issue. MOVE it to a place that has nothing to do with any GC. Mordhona or one of the HW zones.

Even simpler than that, they could just explain it as all being a training exercise(FFXI did something like this.) You're just getting defeated, not killed, when your character falls to the ground. And with an easy explanation like that, PvP without a GC is easily doable. The training exercises are done to keep combat skills sharp. The current lore explanation already feels contrived anyway, so what does it matter?

[Riastrad]

Signed, but it would also be nice if we could get away from the whole node nonsense in the current pvp arenas. Upcoming King of the Hill/Domination type is fine... Slaughter was less about killing people and more about timers and node spawns...

[PotatoTree]

I'm not going to read through 12 pages to see where we're at, but I hope the sentiment is to remove GC restrictions. The queue times will be ok the first few days of PvP after this weeks update, but the second one of the 3 GCs starts getting a win advantage (causing people to transfer over) or if PvP starts getting stale, then the queue times will be impossibly long just like right before 3.0.

TLDR: Remove GC restrictions, solves queue times and GC imbalance.

[Vandril]

I'm not going to read through 12 pages to see where we're at, but I hope the sentiment is to remove GC restrictions.

I've read the 12 pages worth of posts and...it is. Only a few have spoken in defense of the GC restriction, where as the rest speak out against it.

I even see some here that I vaguely recall having defended the GC restriction in earlier threads. People are just getting tired of this useless restriction.

[Jandor]

Surely the GC stuff can be client side or whatever, no idea on the technical aspect of it's got to be possible for me to see Immortal Flames flags while the guy next to me on my team sees Maelstrom flags.

If they don't want to do that because it might be weird if people spoke to each other in character (that seems a peculiar consideration but stranger things have happened) just making it so ticking 'queue in progress' switches GC allegiance off. A sort of 'I don't care about lore I just want in' button.