Guys, I love the game but you need to change the options because only turf is played today except in Europe. So please take turf out of mixed mode and then make only two modes, turf and mixed mode and allow the game to start with only two people. This is stupid, I can still play GW1 and play full games of team vanquish but unless it's 9am-5pm I can't play team vanquish unless I play the Europe server. It's ruining your game.
It is a bit odd that GW2 is the later of the two games and yet you see people playing games regularly in practically all the games modes in GW1 still and only Turf Takeover gets any real serious playtime in GW2. Something really needs to be done to promote more play in the other game modes in GW2.
It's because in GW1 you couldn't pick which server you played, you just clicked the game you want to play and it finds the match...not sure what it does but lag is definitely worse in GW1 but at least you can find people...that and games can start with 2 people. In GW2, each continent has it's own server well North America has east and west...but you can switch to whichever server you want. Lag is almost zero on GW2 but it's impossible to find a game other then Turf except on the Europe server. My default server is North America east, but I play Europe through the day because you can play mixed mode and team vanquish with full games...my ping is listed as 115-120 but gameplay is still perfect lag wise. So either they need to combine some servers, or dump most of the game modes and allow games to start with two people.
If I sit in a game of team vanquish for 30 minutes, at peak time on North America east I might be lucky enough to have 3 others wait around and start a game but most likely you get 2 or 3 and they won't wait for a 4th to join. If you are lucky enough to start a mixed mode game then you have to be punished with 2 games of turf right off the bat even though that game mode is always full if you care to join it. We need to face facts in GW2, 90% want to play turf but for those of us that want to play anything else I think we need to settle for mixed mode.
I defy anyone to try and have a game of anything besides Turf Takeover on any server besides Europe...have fun because it's impossible. This is on PC by the way. And Europe is only busy between 9am-4pm AST.
Also, I think we should be see available games with the number of people in them...instead having to join every game type only to find out nobody's in it. 90% of games never get started because most people who want to play join, see nobody or only 1 person, and leave again. If you could see which games had people you wouldn't waste your time and you could right to a game that's in progress or has people waiting to start. It's insane how poorly multiplayer is designed for simply joining a game considering how well everything else in the game is designed.
EXACTLY!!! I can never find a game of anything but TURF. Nowhere else...maybe one European game out of 100 searches. It is ridiculous to have all this other game content but not be able to join a game. And now that there is a new non-Turf map that we want to play and check out we are wanting to bang our heads on our desks because NO ONE is playing anything but TURF. We can't play the new map because we can not find a game to join. PLEASE FIX THIS!!! (PC by the way.)
I think that there should be an "any" option in server area. That way, if you choose any in the server area section, it will find the fullest game in any available server.
In all honesty GW2 is less approachable than its predecessor for many reasons.
I recently took a gamertag ban (family sharing violation) and had to suffer the indignity of starting my achievements all over again - which in a lot of respects isn't really a bad thing because I can now dig out my old games and actually play them with a new sense of purpose. The weird thing is, on restarting GW1 I have had no issues whatsoever accumulating all those achievements again and if the truth be told i'm probably enjoying the whole experience as much as the first time around. On the other hand, although I've long since sold my copy of GW2 I do have an EA Access subscription with the option to install and revisit the game but I have absolutely no desire to want to do so.
So for me personally price point is not really a telling factor - my decision is influenced purely on previous experience of the game.
