Guild Wars 2

The below picture is frequently typical on hotjoin matches. When one side starts to get a gap in score, people switch teams so they’re not on the losing side. There should be a penalty or substantial debuff time for this. To be frank, the autobalance doesn’t catch up very quick.

This has been brought up for awhile now. Can a dev comment?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Team-Switching-s-got-to-go

lol…before choosing a side i normaly choose the loosing side, because it provides more action and usually alot more difficult…but that’s what you get for Hot joins…. .
I think ANet could implement something like locking the switch sides, tier battles 0-10; 11-20 and so on…players rank1 fighting rank 40 are no fun…
Let’s hope it will get better

The reason why there is no auto-balance there is because the match is almost over. It isn’t fair for a player in the winning side to go to the losing side just because some losing players ragequit.

the teams are always balanced.
well, somewhat.

in the above case, some of red team players decided to leave the game.
some of blue team’s players will be balanced over.

That’s why I run tournaments only lol.