Guild Wars 2

A thousand pardons if it’s been asked and answered, but will there ever be an increase in party size? Party, that is, as in the group that uses the blue chat, not party as in, “Party on, Garth.”

Just out of curiosity, why was the party limit set at five?

Because that’s a pretty standard size for MMO partys. Dungeons are balanced around 5-person groups. sPvP is “balanced” around 5-person groups.

It probably won’t ever change unless they add some sort of raid content.

For whatever reason, 5-man parties are a staple feature of RPG’s. Most games that trace their ancestry back to D&D (ie, pretty much all non-asian RPGs) have party sizes of 4 to 6. MMOs in particular seem to be fond of 5 and multiples thereof.

In GW, party size was either 4, 6, 8 or 12 depending on where in the game you were. For GW2 they decided to use an odd number for a change.

For RP purposes, it would be wonderful to have one large group. When we are travelling through Tyria, it would be a tremendous help to be able to see where all 12-15 of us are and if lower levels are struggling to keep up.

Just a pipe dream though, as game mechanics are designed for 5 person groups.

While I understand that dungeons and whatnot are balanced for 5 people… It’s a shame you can’t have more people than that in parties say… Outside of dungeons in the field? I say this, because I’m playing GW2 with a group of 5 friends (that makes 6 of us me included), and it’s always a drag to have to consider “leaving someone out” because there can’t be more than 5 people in a party.

Of course there is the option to divide into 2 parties of 3 people… But that would make some things a bit of a hassle.