I'm seeing a lot of people complaining that they only want to play capture games, but if that's the case - given the last two weeks of playing BGs with a premade where we've ONLY got capture games and not a single deathmatch, why are the queues still so long if apparently everyone just wants to play capture games?

That's basically all there is at the moment unless on the off chance you get a single deathmatch (wouldn't know, we've never got one in two weeks). Unless it's a chaosball, that's almost as rare as deathmatch.

I see people complaining that all modes end up deathmatches but maybe if that mode actually came up like ever, instead of a game of capture the relic - which I will give it, is genuinely a lot more enjoyable with a coordinated group than it's ever been solo - alternating with a flag capture game, seasoned with a tiny pinch of chaosball, then people might actually not just turn everything into deathmatch out of frustration.

We all queue PvP to kill other players instead of prescripted AI

Rugby_hook wrote: »

I would be all for it if it was an appropriate way to test this, but it is a horrible design for a study to test if people want dm battleground as separate queue.

QFT

What do you think "RANDOM" means ? If I can get just DM, it is not a random BG.
IMHO this choice favors children who just like to play kill-all war ...
Personally, I prefer Domination and King Matches.
Best is: a real random.

jedtb16_ESO wrote: »

i don't care...

You cared enough to post here however..?

This poll is a little to open to interpretation.

A better question would be:

Which do you prefer?

-The temporary implementation of death match only proposed by ZOS.

-No change to the battleground queue

The responses to this poll would give a better sense of the community's specific reaction to this change.

How can you get proper feedback when you are still limiting options? If anything you are triggering a negative response, while the others will enjoy the pvp mode they like.

Araneae6537 wrote: »

If it’s only a test for needed data, that’s fine.

For clarification, is team deathmatch the only queue choice period or the only team choice?

Speaking of BG changes, I would like to see Solo Queue made the default if you’re queuing by yourself. I think most people either don’t know or don’t bother to change it. I try it every so often and after waiting ten minutes, I switch over to the regular queue to get a match.

Deathmatch is the only game available, period.

...I get a feeling no one on this thread truly knows exactly what they are trying to test here.....just saying...

I don’t like this change so far. I prefer playing different modes and not to mention the matchmaking seems really poor right now.

Well I don't normally post to forums - yet here I am, and I've created an account to post this which I guess means I; a) care about a change on computer a game and b) need to get out more

From what I've read and from guild chat, folk have been complaining for a while re bgs. I'm a lousy pvp'er but I've played them solo and in groups. Solo tends to be hard if you find yourself against a well organised group and this is a complaint that some have - v one sided matches.

Other complaints include the lack of death match or <insert your favourite mode> rounds and I have had times where I get 4 chaos ball matches in a row which is random but also frustrating if you fancy a capture the relic.

Then there are times when you just can't get a match at all - so long queue waits - which does depend on the time of day and if there are any events happening, as these tend to occupy folk. While I suspect splitting the queues would increase the wait, causing more complaints, well see below.

Now I play Tf2 a lot and perhaps one of the things Zos could take from it is something like its queue management system. There you can select the type of match say; king of the hill, attack/defence etc and drill down into individual maps – like capture the flag but not a particular map, just deselect it. Just want a payload match – select that and nothing else. While this can lead to a long wait if you just want to play a particular map the option's there for those who want it. The thing is you don’t have to. You can just queue and you’ll get a game, want something specific, well you can select it.

For ESO bgs this could be;

1. queue for groups
2. queue for solo

Inside these you’d have simple tick boxes for each mode. Happy with anything – leave them ticked. Hate death match or whatever, deselect it. Your choice. Same for if you want all your cp powers or not. It’d just be a check box.

As for queuing time – well there already is a queue count in Cyrodiil/ imp city at busy times so why not say how many folk are queuing for a particular mode? That way you’d get an idea of how long you might have to wait.

I believe that Zos are now implementing a less than random drop system for items in maelstrom – something along the lines of ‘have it in your collection you’ll get something else’. So why not add this to the battleground queue. Just had a capture the relic – well the next won’t be. Don’t want that – ohh look there’s a check box for you.

Too many check boxes? Add a way to save what you like as a default.

On the subject of 4v4v4, which some don’t like, does it have to be? The teams are not the alliances they are just teams so 4v4 should be possible as could 2v2, 3v3 etc – after all you are randomly placed in a team anyway so why do battlegrounds have to have 3 teams?

For me I just want the option to play different modes, to have the opting to choose where I get my face smashed into the dirt. Right now I don’t and that’s no fun.

It is interesting that the poll still only shows barely a third agree with this change and the poll has been available for 11 days now.