Guild Wars 2

How is it fair to take someone, who’s fought all much and helped a team win, to get switched over and lose because some douchbags quit? I mean shouldn’t they get penalized, not someone else? Because its not fun, its not fair, nothing about it is a good idea. Yes its unfair that one team has more people, but its less fair to make someone fight all game, winning, then give them a loss

You could play free tournaments and get a fair match-up (5v5, if everyone connects) and not get team switched and receive additional bonuses and more rank/glory.

I agree; it was a really stupid idea to add forced team switching and that it’s worse than having imbalanced teams. What they should do is stick in people who click “play now” (or whatever the button is called when you don’t select a server) and use them to balance teams.

I agree. I’m honestly surprised this wasn’t fixed in beta. Team balancing is a bunch of bs. Take out team balancing, put in penalties for leaving games. Simple as that.

lirrink.6904:

How is it fair to take someone, who’s fought all much and helped a team win, to get switched over and lose because some douchbags quit? I mean shouldn’t they get penalized, not someone else? Because its not fun, its not fair, nothing about it is a good idea. Yes its unfair that one team has more people, but its less fair to make someone fight all game, winning, then give them a loss

Ok, then how is it fair if the losing team is trying their hardest to win as well and it was uneven to begin with and some dirtbag leaves and the 3 people against 5… How is it fair to keep teams uneven? Yes lets just roll the other team that stood somewhat of a fighting chance to pretty much no chance now at all. I understand if the team is trying to win and a switch will give that team a chance, but if their entire team is a bunch of scumbags then I could care less. It’s only trying to make the teams even.

Team balancing is important for enjoyable gameplay. Being down a single player can be very frustrating. Being down 2 or more makes the game essentially unplayable and will clear out a server very quickly.

I think they should leave in team balancing, but it should automatically disable after a team has reached 400 points. That way you don’t lose your investment in helping a team win for the majority of the game by being auto-switched at the very end, but the teams stay balanced for the majority of the game’s duration.

mouse.1689:

I think they should leave in team balancing, but it should automatically disable after a team has reached 400 points.

That’s a good solution. Either that or move the ppl who have the least amount of points to the other team.

It’s either that, or no more instant matches in pug 8v8. I prefer getting in there to play and test out builds rather than wait for even matches sides, and leaving when I want without penalty.

It’s really only there I think to build you up for tournament play, which is where the real strategy comes in, or for casuals to come in a no pressure environment to play and learn.

aydenunited.5729:

It’s really only there I think to build you up for tournament play, which is where the real strategy comes in, or for casuals to come in a no pressure environment to play and learn.

The thing is..8v8 does absolutely nothing to prepare you for 5v5.