Guild Wars 2

Dear developers, please give squad leaders the option whether their squads are allowed to be merged by other groups through LFG.

It has been seen sometimes, that when two or more LFG hosts are competing for limited amount of interested players to join their maps, often during off-peak for world bosses or meta-events, one would merge other smaller groups to effectively take down their advertisement and re-organize to benefit his or her own.

This is just terrible experience for players, particularly for those not living in NA/EU region or those who do not play during NA/EU prime. Larger guilds could just dominate the LFG, drawing most interested people into their map, often hard-capped already, while there could have been two maps with workable amount of people in each, if smaller groups on LFG had not been merged and manpower had been distributed evenly.

Such issue could grow worse with the arrival of the new expansion, with even more end-game open world contents available and the player base potentially spread even thinner(or in another word, the competition for players growing ever harsher). I believe this problem needs to be addressed.

I’m not sure I’ve specifically encountered the reasons you mention, but agree the merge groups needs options to prevent it. As too many times some random will merge groups from different map metas no reason (no idea if people do it troll or just by accident), which gets really messy & disruptive for the comm who then has to sort his/her squad back out, and kick those who are doing the meta in the other map that merged, to free up squad space again.

I have no idea why it’s been designed so any random in a squad can merge groups. It should be limited to comms only, and even then it should send a request to the comm of the other group who would then have the option of agreeing weather to accept the merge or not.

Your idea of also an option for the comm to set the group to un-mergeable would also be good.