ZOS Please bring back other BG modes

zharkovian · November 2021

I heard that ZOS was having an experiment for a short time to check BG activity, it's been over a month has it not? - time to bring the other BG modes back.

Dragonlord573 · November 2021

Even tho I'm messing people up in deathmatch I'm tired of it. I miss Chaosball and Crazy King. It felt insulting to get the Chaosball Victory Dance emote yesterday despite Chaosball not being available.

trackdemon5512 · November 2021

zharkovian wrote: »

I heard that ZOS was having an experiment for a short time to check BG activity, it's been over a month has it not? - time to bring the other BG modes back.

So ZOS technically brought back the other modes. Unfortunately they made it so that if 12 people get grouped for a random battleground and 1 put in specifically for Deathmatch Only, all 12 will then always get Deathmatch.

It doesn’t help that most of the currently actively playing BGers are super into Deathmatch. That’s the result of 2 months of players who wanting anything but Deathmatch leaving the mode completely.

Basically the majority of players currently left in BGs are queuing for DM only. It’s virtually ensuring you’ll never get anything but a DM unless you happen to get 12 players putting in for just random battlegrounds at one time.

wheresbes · November 2021

Oh no

I miss BGs too. DMs are boring, I already spend enough time in Cyrodiil. Domination, Crazy Kings and the others were so fun instead!

Sarannah · November 2021

Even though I hardly ever run BG's, I do miss queueing up every once in a while for a fun game(objectives). I really can't believe this was ZOS's brilliant solution, I feel terrible for those players who actively loved objective based BG games.

PS: The way ZOS handled BG's does not give me much confidence in them, including on how they might fix any future issues. As I am probably not the only one thinking this, they better fix this right and fast.

LordRukia · November 2021

Sarannah wrote: »

Even though I hardly ever run BG's, I do miss queueing up every once in a while for a fun game(objectives). I really can't believe this was ZOS's brilliant solution, I feel terrible for those players who actively loved objective based BG games.

PS: The way ZOS handled BG's does not give me much confidence in them, including on how they might fix any future issues. As I am probably not the only one thinking this, they better fix this right and fast.

It is indeed a clown fiesta. I'm losing my will to pvp and in turn my reason for playing , but they don't seem to care. I can only pve for so long. At least let us make a [snip] raid group of 12 players to all queue random so we can actually play the bg modes that exist in the game despite zos obvious intention to remove anything objective based. It's complete [snip] and it's pissing people off. Wake the [snip] up. Don't make me go back to gw2 I hate 24/7 conquest but it's less [snip] than death match bro

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ShinyBacon · November 2021

i have to admit, I havent played battle grounds very often, im generally not a PVP person, but i did enjoy the handful of games i have played, which i think was the one with the ball (which is quite hilarious) and something with 3 flags.

If i do PVP i ALWAYS choose objective based game modes because i feel even if i am bad at the PVP thing, i still can somehow contribute. So I totally understand the frustrating that now every game turns into a DM. And if i were to queue for an objective based mode and still would get pulled into DM, why would i even queue again? I dont want to get tricked into doing something i dont want to, i rather have a clear choice.

I also understand that it is very hard to cater to all tastes and splitting people into to many qeues is conterproductive, but i have seen other games solve the issue with having weekly or daily featured game modes.
So instead of having
Random solo
random group
DM solo
DM group

it could look like:
Weekly/daily solo
Weekly/daily group
DM solo
DM group

or maybe even something like
random solo
Weekly/daily group (as its objective mode it probably works with a coordinated group better)
DM solo
DM group

at least people who do like objective based modes dont get tricked into a DM. and if i really really dont like the game mode with the ball then i know i can wait a week or day until the game mode with the flags come back and play to my hearts content

Not sure if that is a solution, but definetly something to think about?
also disclaimer i have no clue how many game modes there actually are besides DM, so not sure how long it would take for a game mode to come back into rotation.

old_scopie1945 · November 2021

I haven't played BGs since ZOS started their so called experiment. I would rather make a trip to the dentist than play BGs as it is now.

Coatmagic · November 2021

Would just like to finish the few collections started before this fiasco.
Now my choice is not to or go in to DM and play hide-n-seek and prob get (rightfully) flamed for that,
but not really being left much of a choice here.

vesselwiththepestle · November 2021

Please let me queue for objective based BG (no DM).

Also please disable proc sets in BG's, so I can play the same setup in Ravenwatch and BG -_-.

EF321 · November 2021

I queued once every day for daily xp, always all modes. Got non-DM once, this was enough to get me on leaderboards and receive golden mail.