Request: Priority queue for ESO+ members

Legedric · April 2015

Yes, I am serious.

I know there has to be another long term solution to our current queue problems but as the ESO+ membership (which I just cancelled today) is not providing a huge benefit for me I started thinking of "What would make me sub again?" and this came to my mind.

Of course this won't be a one-shot-solution for the problem itself but if I would be able to reduce the current queue length of ~150 on EU Thornblade down to like ~50 I would pay for it. If Tamriel Unlimited is one of the reasons for the current queue times as many old buyers of the game came back and new players came into the game, I am pretty confident a prioirity queue for ESO+ members would reduce the queue for everyone willing to pay for it.

No doubt this will get some haters on the plan shouting "UNFAIR!" but well, feel free to make your own proposals to reduce queue length.

Aminals · April 2015

I think higher rank characters should skip the line XP

Knootewoot · April 2015

I agree. Many mmo's have this when long queue. Payers will be prio-players.

IxSTALKERxI · April 2015

This is slightly off topic but still relevant:

Those 150 players in queue in thornblade could go to a different campaign. This game needs a consistent and somewhat balanced population on all campaigns to make pvp a more enjoyable experience for everyone. So please, if you normally play on thornblade, try to mix it up a bit and try a different campaign and see how you go. You'll be doing the community a favour.

iseko · April 2015

IxSTALKERxI wrote: »

This is slightly off topic but still relevant:

Those 150 players in queue in thornblade could go to a different campaign. This game needs a consistent and somewhat balanced population on all campaigns to make pvp a more enjoyable experience for everyone. So please, if you normally play on thornblade, try to mix it up a bit and try a different campaign and see how you go. You'll be doing the community a favour.

A lot of playerd are guild affiliated. Guild dictates the pvp server.

IxSTALKERxI · April 2015

iseko wrote: »

A lot of playerd are guild affiliated. Guild dictates the pvp server.

I agree. Some GM's should consider taking their guild to other campaigns to try them out.
Some well known guilds already left thornblade for chillrend. I feel as though chillrend has a very healthy balanced population at the moment because of it. It'd be great if Azura's and Haderus balanced out to.

Seth_Black · April 2015

Agree

In the end WE'RE the ones who support game development the MOST.
We should have instant access to Cyrodiil by default.

Let F2P stand in lines!

Honfold · April 2015

I don't think that it would be appropriate. However, I expect it to happen since the devs could only profit from it.

The queues encourage players to join other campaigns, and I think that is the solution. By charging a subscription fee for priority status the devs would not only fracture an alliance as a whole but possibly bar guild members from playing with one another as well.

Hopefully zos can come up with a solution that isn't exclusive but at the same time, they can't fix stubborn.

Berbecca · April 2015

Yesterday on Thornblade EU, at prime time, the queue started at 350. After 1h I was still at 200+. This really needs to be addressed.

Priority queue is a must - for all ESO+ members or purchasable with crowns.

Legedric · April 2015

Switching campaign is bull****, sorry. On EU we have Chillrend where DC is pretty much dead (so we would just feed AD and EP some AP), Azura or whatever it is called is pretty much the other way round with DC dominating and turning it completely blue as is Haderus.

So what are the options for us to enjoy half-balanced PvP? Exactly, staying on Thornblade and enjoying queue games...

bertenburnyb16_ESO · April 2015

Thorn EU pact side peaked around 360 Q position yesterday evening I heard from a guild member
hard to have guild raids when half your guild is in Q....

Honfold · April 2015

Legedric wrote: »

Switching campaign is bull****, sorry. On EU we have Chillrend where DC is pretty much dead (so we would just feed AD and EP some AP), Azura or whatever it is called is pretty much the other way round with DC dominating and turning it completely blue as is Haderus.

So what are the options for us to enjoy half-balanced PvP? Exactly, staying on Thornblade and enjoying queue games...

I play on the NA server so I am not familiar with the conditions on the EU campaigns. However we had a similar issue with unfortunate population imbalance. Long story short, for a few campaign cycles AD seemed to have a lot more Oceanic players than the other factions combined.

It is really unfortunate zos didn't implement any way to prevent this type of situation. A possible solution is a re roll but that isn't a very practical one. Maybe a paid or unpaid alliance transfer can happen one day.

If you guys really have 300 player queue consistantly there aren't many options available to you.

Legedric · April 2015

Honfold wrote: »

If you guys really have 300 player queue consistantly there aren't many options available to you.

Yes it's as simple as that and that's the reason why I made this request/proposal here.

rsciw · April 2015

TBH I don't understand why the priority queue has not been implemented from the beginning with ESO+. It should have been there and it should be added asap.

CMG138 · April 2015

Agreed, ESO+ members should get extra things because they are willingly giving their money to play this game while others are not. People who continue to pay should be rewarded.

cozmon3c_ESO · April 2015

Legedric wrote: »

Switching campaign is bull****, sorry. On EU we have Chillrend where DC is pretty much dead (so we would just feed AD and EP some AP), Azura or whatever it is called is pretty much the other way round with DC dominating and turning it completely blue as is Haderus.

So what are the options for us to enjoy half-balanced PvP? Exactly, staying on Thornblade and enjoying queue games...

NA pvp servers were like this from Nov - the start of 1.6. Now many players have spread out from Thorn NA, and we have 3 full campaigns every night, the only one that is still lacking players is haderus i think. but you guys on EU should consider spreading out a bit, go to the server where you are out manned and start a revolution. its happened on the NA servers why not the EU ones as well.

asneakybanana · April 2015

No. You shouldnt have to pay to skip the queues. As someone who plans on continuing to be an ESO+ member it would make it so the only way you could be competitive on a PVP leaderboard was if you were an ESO+ member and no one wants to see that. What i think should be done is a priority queue to the players who dedicate themselves to the campaign day in and day out and make it a goal to keep pushing in PVP to get into that priority queue zone. my suggestion is either the top 2% of the campaign like the gold rewards at the end of the campaign or the top 50 of the campaign. It takes a lot of work to get that high on the leaderboard and it gets annoying when youre trying to compete w/ the others around you and you have to wait in a 2hr. Q. It wouldnt be a skip the line type of thing more like a fast pass where one regular Q gets in and one priority Q gets in and since theres only like 50-75 players that are going to have the priority Q the players sitting in the normal Q shouldnt notice too much of a difference.

xDOVAHKIINx · April 2015

As it is right now, PvP players have no incentive to pay Zenimax for poor PvP servers and lack of content (etc etc). But i do not think Que times alone are worth 15 dollars. Maybe if ESO+ members, have easier access to gear from PVE, that PvP players normally would have a harder time in attaining then sure (thats one step in the right direction at least). And also with new servers coming out, que times will not be a problem so canceling your sub will be imminent. I would Propose ESO plus members could duel in PVE zones. Or ESO+ members can get 1 or 2 toons leveled to v14 instantly.

Legedric · April 2015

Well, of course a prioirity queue alone isn't worth 15 bucks but it would at least add something for PvP players to ESO+ while they think about adding some other, even more usefull stuff to it.

Ackwalan · April 2015

Careful, some accountant at ZOS might get the idea to put Q skip potions on the crown store.

gw2only1b14_ESO · April 2015

Am I the only one that will pvp on the other servers till I get in to the zergy one? I bite my tongue on the Ts channel and guild chat when I see the QQ on it But I think people like the attention of "im still 120 in que"
Yes to those that don't know you have your guest server and you have the "travel to a player server" I sit in no que I just wait for a Ping notification to Port me to the Zerg

Legedric · April 2015

gw2only1b14_ESO wrote: »

Am I the only one that will pvp on the other servers till I get in to the zergy one? I bite my tongue on the Ts channel and guild chat when I see the QQ on it But I think people like the attention of "im still 120 in que"
Yes to those that don't know you have your guest server and you have the "travel to a player server" I sit in no que I just wait for a Ping notification to Port me to the Zerg

As already stated by some others: This is no option for many EU players because Thornblade is the only campaign to have something like competative PvP. All the other campaigns are pretty much one sided buff campaigns (sad enough, I know). At least this was the status during the last couple of weeks.

So of course I always go to another campaign while waiting for Thirnblade to open up for me but this basicaly means I am waiting on an enemy spawn for someone to come out or the opposite way, run out of the door and get friendly greetings from 30+ opponents...

Well, you see this is more or less an option in theory but not in practice. During the last two days you could have some fun on Haderus, too due to many EU countries having holidays and Thornblade being locked from roughly 10am to 4am for most factions. But only time will tell if this scenario keeps up after everyone is back to school/work/whatever.

Kupoking · April 2015

+1 with op

bugmom · April 2015

IxSTALKERxI wrote: »

iseko wrote: »

A lot of playerd are guild affiliated. Guild dictates the pvp server.

I agree. Some GM's should consider taking their guild to other campaigns to try them out.
Some well known guilds already left thornblade for chillrend. I feel as though chillrend has a very healthy balanced population at the moment because of it. It'd be great if Azura's and Haderus balanced out to.

One of my guilds tried this and what we found on the new campaign was a very nasty unwelcome from our own faction there. Instead of being happy to have increased population for our faction and an opportunity to work together, they sabotaged our actions, and have been rather nasty to some of our members for invading their turf. Sad because together we could have done well for our faction in a campaign that has historically been dominated by the other factions.

I think the current scoring and bonus system are encouraging this behavior because if you are positioned well in the leader boards you do not want to change campaigns on a given night just because yours is pop locked. And in the case I mention above, the entrenched members of our faction aren't even trying to play the game, take keeps, etc. and they don't care about taking over the map - they are just getting as much AP as they can.

Skafsgaard · April 2015

No *** way im paying money to get into cyrodiil. The game is sooo laggy and bugged out and adding a priority queue to payers would probably be the end of ESO on my part. I have a feeling a lot feels the same way.

As it is now ESO doesnt deserve a dime from PvP'ers

Legedric · April 2015

Of course a prioirity queue shouldn't be the one and only reason for you to pay for ESO+. On the long term they have to add more benefits to it.

Cyantific87 · April 2015

asneakybanana wrote: »

No. You shouldnt have to pay to skip the queues. As someone who plans on continuing to be an ESO+ member it would make it so the only way you could be competitive on a PVP leaderboard was if you were an ESO+ member and no one wants to see that. What i think should be done is a priority queue to the players who dedicate themselves to the campaign day in and day out and make it a goal to keep pushing in PVP to get into that priority queue zone. my suggestion is either the top 2% of the campaign like the gold rewards at the end of the campaign or the top 50 of the campaign. It takes a lot of work to get that high on the leaderboard and it gets annoying when youre trying to compete w/ the others around you and you have to wait in a 2hr. Q. It wouldnt be a skip the line type of thing more like a fast pass where one regular Q gets in and one priority Q gets in and since theres only like 50-75 players that are going to have the priority Q the players sitting in the normal Q shouldnt notice too much of a difference.

The top 2% don't have to worry about queues anyway. There are no queues when they log in at 8am... :-)

timidobserver · April 2015

IxSTALKERxI wrote: »

iseko wrote: »

A lot of playerd are guild affiliated. Guild dictates the pvp server.

I agree. Some GM's should consider taking their guild to other campaigns to try them out.
Some well known guilds already left thornblade for chillrend. I feel as though chillrend has a very healthy balanced population at the moment because of it. It'd be great if Azura's and Haderus balanced out to.

Chillrend is horrible and nobody should go there. Thornblade is much better.

IxSTALKERxI · April 2015

timidobserver wrote: »

IxSTALKERxI wrote: »

iseko wrote: »

A lot of playerd are guild affiliated. Guild dictates the pvp server.

I agree. Some GM's should consider taking their guild to other campaigns to try them out.
Some well known guilds already left thornblade for chillrend. I feel as though chillrend has a very healthy balanced population at the moment because of it. It'd be great if Azura's and Haderus balanced out to.

Chillrend is horrible and nobody should go there. Thornblade is much better.

Chillrend wasn't bad last week.

RedTalon · April 2015

Never an issue for me but then I'm a DC player and is a good idea given the way EP has grown

Docmandu · April 2015

IxSTALKERxI wrote: »

This is slightly off topic but still relevant:

Those 150 players in queue in thornblade could go to a different campaign. This game needs a consistent and somewhat balanced population on all campaigns to make pvp a more enjoyable experience for everyone. So please, if you normally play on thornblade, try to mix it up a bit and try a different campaign and see how you go. You'll be doing the community a favour.

Would be nice if changing to a less populated campaign would be "free". As it is today, you pay a sizeable chunk of AP for it, which might hold some people back in doing so (that, and the fact that their guild / buddies are in thorn)