Please Take A Moment . . .

[Guesswhat]

That's not necessarily true.

No it don't have to be true. I'm only making guesses around the fact that they have not removed GC restrictions yet (as their reasoning don't make sense, and not assuming they simply ignore us). Concerning SE's work-schedule and time budget, I have no idea what is actually true. But anyone who has worked for a big company knows that even the simplest of things can be extremely hard to push through. Even if it as simple as removing 1 line of code. When it comes to the actual GC stuff it may be nested within several other modules. Thus it's not justifiable to put "remove GC restrictions" on their schedule considering the PvP population. Making new maps without GC restrictions may be their escape route here. Again, I have no idea, but to me this seems like the best explanation if they are not flat-out ignoring our requests. Which may be true too; no idea.

[Geologo]

I agree with ANY change to those queue time,
mercenary, remove restriction, solo-queue only for mercenary etc...

Let me play please, there is no reason why I have towait in queue even in a game,
because it should be Game = Fun.

[Februs]

I'm only making guesses around the fact that they have not removed GC restrictions yet (as their reasoning don't make sense, and not assuming they simply ignore us). Concerning SE's work-schedule and time budget, I have no idea what is actually true.

When it comes to SE's inner workings, we can only speculate. I can agree with that, and I'd be more willing to show SE some sympathy ... if they hadn't already told us, several times, that they were taking this into consideration.

We don't have to speculate on this. Yoshi-P has already gone on record addressed GC restrictions in numerous interviews as far back as the Secure days, but nothing happened. In his earliest interviews, they were reluctant to even consider removing GC's and said, instead, that they would explore other options to improve queue times. No changes were made. More recently (about a month ago), Yoshi-P outright said that they would, finally, consider removing GC restrictions from the game mode; yet, 3.4 is right around the corner and ... you guessed it. Nothing. There's been no mention of it at all.

No matter how sympathetic you want to look at SE for this, the fact is that they stood up and told us to our faces that they knew this was an issue and would address it, and then they didn't. At best, that makes them liars.

It should also be noted that SE already makes frequent changes and adjustments on regular basis, and that changes are typically made to reflect the bottom line. The goal is to keep people playing and subscribed. The PvP community is small, sure, but that community is small largely in part to how poorly SE has managed their content. No one wants to wait an hour for a 10 minute match. That fact alone should put this as a priority, but SE continues to refuse to do anything, despite repeatedly telling us that they would do something. Even considering the absolute worst case scenario of office politics, SE ran out of leash on this a long time ago.

[RedHerb]

I agree. Drop GC Restrictions.

[Guesswhat]

...At best, that makes them liars...

The comments from Yoshi are probably "truths with a twist". The whole situation smells like cooperate BS to me, thus my "educated" guesses.

[PrincessNuri]

Wanted to try out PvP but the wait was crazy so I only did bit twice and got booted from for being new in 6 months. Also, when i found out that I need to learn new skills just for PvP I couldn't imagine the extra key binds I would have to make and memorize so it turned me off.

[ArturVernon]

I agree, drop PVP entirely. Then the 5 blokes who care about it will stop crying about it

[a_man_has_no_name]

Is this the thread where we complain about Grand Company restrictions this week? Or is it generally anywhere on this forum at this point? Because I was just passing by and I was totally going to complain about Grand Company restrictions in Frontlines.

It’s not so much that I despise the concept of Grand Companies, Grand Companies are alright in my books, it’s the added time spent in queue that they are causing. If lore is so precious, surely it is possible to implement some sort of mercenary option?

A girl asks Yoshi-P during a fan fest Q&A panel where the hell is the Spriggan hat that she saw in some concept art, Yoshi-P ponies up and tells his team to add it into the game like within a month or so. Every day it seems like 6 billion PVP players ask about GCs to go away or, at least, to be able to queue – and to finally get into a match – as a free agent.

So add mercenaries please, maybe even drop language preferences (is there someone who absolutely can not play PVP in this game without certain language selected? vs. the dead queues they are causing). What would be amazing if devs could manage a PVP lobby with a rollout of all the modes they have added – not just the most recent one.

tl;dr q’ing ain’t fun

[kensatsu]

I totaly agree, We are totaly ignored for 2 years, we asked this since Secure.

[P4X0R10N]

They did take steps to improve queue times. Namely, they reduced the number of players needed to start a game. As for their reasoning for nor removing gcs, Yoshida said it was because it would make it easier to rmt-random match trading.

Don't call people liars. It's kinda rude and they didn't really lie.

If the choice was between the current state of the game and a situation where rmt was rampant, I'd like things to stay as they as they are now.