Guild Wars 2

So atm the maximum group size is 5 players.

Has Anet ever stated if they would make that number bigger? I can understand there is a concern of zergs to ruin PVE world experience by just rolling over everything.

It’s just when you if you want to do some stuff with your guild and you are more then 5 players it get annoying to keep track of everybody. It would be very helpful to see all your guildies on the map for example (without being grouped). I think it would be helpful towards the community spirit aswell (players will group up more easely, etc).

There is something like Squads but that just adds a squadchat people hardly would use. Voice comms work alot better for that.

They’re stated that they didn’t want it to be any more than 5.
In Guild Wars 1 the maximum party size was 8, so they obviously thought about it a lot when deciding on 5 for GW2.

I think one of the biggest concerns is screen space. If you had more than 5 people in a party it would start to take up a lot of screen space, it’s already relatively hard to figure out who is who in the party UI, adding more people would make it even harder.

Also you have to consider that the dungeons are all made for 5 people so they’re unlikely to increase the party size even just in PvE because it would produce inconsistencies and balance issues.

I’m not a big WvWer so I don’t know how squads work and can’t really comment on wether or not that would be viable for PvE. If Squads just creates sort of a new chat channel without adding anything to the UI then I could see it working, but then you can just use Guild Chat.