Disable Observer Mode

I think that the leaders of top 100 guilds should have a check box somewhere in the guild menu about observer mode. Its lame that every time you play everyone in gw gets to watch. Im sick of having people msg me about matches that I was just messing around and builds that arn't mine. It also made the tourny 10 times as hard because we werent able to practice any builds because teams would know exactly what we're running unless we find an unrated match...

This has been brought up before (by DeeR as well...). Use the search button.

Isn't this a little late to bring up?

Considering obersver mode was given to us a looong time ago..

wanna test a build, scrimmage or unrated gvg..
meh u wont gain rank from it, but u can garuntee it works before unleashing it on the ladders.

and if u have unleashed it on the ladders a trick we have found is to not play for 4-5hrs of teh same build, coz people will see the 1 guild constantly gvging and watch them.

Deal with it.

/signed

I dont think its too late to add this.

perhaps they could just hide the names of the people/teams playing? if the teams did not want that information out. --killing observer mode seems a bid drastic...

Whether or not you disable observer mode, your build will get out there. As for messages, just set yourself to away for a while and rely upon guild, team, alliance chat.

If they was implemented then all the guild on observer mode would be flamed for 'showing off'. Besides, its a great way to check whos playing, because of the frozen ladder we are testing out some builds and we wanna try them against some heavy compeition, so normally when the list is full of top 100 players, we know we have a chance of getting someone good, rather than steamrolling rank 4k's.

Besides, wathinc obsever mode is a great way of learning how good players do things, ive become a better player watching obsever matches.

also if u get wisp spammed, turn stats to offline, simple as that

I think my team, the detroit tigers, should be able to turn off observer mode when playing a game. I'm tired of all these "people" watching my team in the world series, figuring out our tactics and such. So unfair.

Doesn't anyone remember the suggestion from community's to have observer mode installed?


Get over it, your build will be revield one way or another . Down with elite-ism!


/notsigned

Next thing we know, there will be no spectators allowed on Soccer stadiums, and the matches won't be shown on television.

Observer mode is here to stay, deal with it.

But then how will the rest of us know how to run a gimmick build correctly?

I'll acknowledge there's a problem once the top 1-10 guilds are concerned with something.

/not signed

deal with it

i dont agree at all with disabling observer mode...
one of the most important things in GW is that you can se what your enemy is doing, and even observe matches, that way new players can learn faster.
deal with it

All of the top guilds are in the same situation. Everyone can observe each other.

Plenty of crappier guilds you can join if you don't want to be watched.

I agree that is annoying, but just set yourself as offline for a while if it bothers you.

Theres such a thing as a smurf guild (a fake guild with no or little rank). And even so, you have the very same luxury as they do, you can see exactly what the 99 other guilds are using unless they are smurfing.

Observer mode is for the majority of the playerbase to get excited and motivated to get involved with GvG. So ArenaNet really isn't going to care (and shouldn't) if the tiny minority of players actually in the top 100 don't like that they are on display.

/notsigned

who cares what spike you are going to run next?

In this response, dont expect for me to give anyone here any respect, considering the totally ignorant responses.

First of all, for everyone who said "go on offline"
So now i cant recieve any whispers at all because people want to watch my matches??? Thats complete bullshit whoever thinks I should go offline mode because of something that I cant even control.

For everyone who says "deal with it"
I'm sorry, but not all of us here are in noobshit rank 1000 guilds who dont care about gvg for shit. Some guilds have to win 10 matches every time they lose 1 match becuase "look deer is on obs mode lets run a complete counter to them on a smurf guild and -25 tank them". All of you noobs who tell me to "deal with it" are in no similar position to what I am in and cannot relate at all.

For everyone who didnt even take the 3 damn minutes it took to read my post
I said i wanted guilds to have the ability to turn off observer mode. I said nothing about disabling it (although i actually wouldnt mind) completely, I just want to be able to turn it off when people dont need to be watching. (People dont need to know exactly what build we're running and exactly when we're playing, it makes it that much harder for guilds like us as opposed to guilds like Te or iGi who get free wins given to them when they play smurfs).

Arenanet doesn't care what the top 100 guilds would think, but they display all of their matches in complete detail to everyone who plays gw? Your opinion of arenanet is pretty shallow. I honestly think they would be better then that and actually take into account what top 100 guilds think.

Honestly a completely worthless post. You could argue the same about ANYTHING in the game. If there was a skill that automatically killed the enemy guild lord in one shot(hmm...) would they leave it in saying "all of the guilds are in the same balanced situation"? No, its an unfair advantage to teams running certain kinds of builds and promotes "skillbars" over "skill".

LOL? Sports have nothing to do with gw at all. Considering sports teams consist of only players, and players dont have any different combination of magical abilities then others i dont think observing a team will give u any more an advantage then observing tactics, which i have no problem with. However, seeing how observer mode can be abused makes the downside definately not worth the benefits in certain situations.

And of course ill add some of my favorite posts of the thread
Postcount FTW!!! gogogo contributing to other peoples ideas and suggestions. Honestly, before u post that kind of shit, imagine if i just searched your name right now and posted "deal with it" on the first thread I see you created. Pretty lame huh?


YEA OMG!!!11 TEHY ARE HTTING THE BALL WITH THE BAT THEY USE STRAT SO I WILL PLAY NEXT GAME WITH THEM HIDE TEH BALL SO TEHY CANT HIT IT AND THEY LOSE 25 RATING LOOLOLOL. I'm from Michigan too, and this is just so horrible of an analogy that it barely deserves this response. It has nothing to do with gw at all. You can't(or to a very small extent can) alter your baseball "strats" and people who play professional baseball are very different from the 12 year old idiots that play guild wars in their mom's basement.

Wow pigdestroyer ur right, your good at the game. Nobody cares wtf spike im gonna run considering every single one of my builds this season were copied horribly and then everyone started bringing counters hurting our record. Then, everyone and their mother whos ever ran an obs spike before said we stole it from them. I'm sorry that nobody steals your w/mo mending + mage hench split build but some people actually give two shits about a guild that matters.

Thats the best solution ever. Dont play alot!!! Dont even gvg with your build at all, just use your rating hacks and gain rating magically without actually winning. Uh.. sorry man but we cant always gvg, and we try to get the most of our time when we have a good solid block together. I shouldnt have to skew my schedule and scatter out my time just because people think its cute to run a 2 pd build when deer is playing.