Guild Wars 2

I have seen this, and have been seeing this for a very long time.

Not sure if it just shoddy coding for some of the servers, but having a player in spectator mode, capping a server capacity at 10, will prevent new players from being able to join a server via “play now”

If a player sits in Spectator mode, the match will simply be a 4v5, unless someone force enters the server, or the player in spectator joins the game.

For example (just now) on Server 100, 3/4 of a match was 4v5, checking the spectators in the server window revealed a single player in spectator mode. Once this player had left the server, a new player was able to join, and was put onto a team (not sitting in spectator)

tl;dr Servers shown as 10/20, are soft capped for “play now” and players in Spectator mode count towards the 10 player cap