Premades vs Pugs!?
This is why Ranked/Leagues should be 5 man premade only (encouraging a lively PUG scene, as well as helping to bridge the immense gap between actual teams and everyone else), and there should be a soloqueue (literally, SOLO) with some rewards that are a step up above Unranked, but below Ranked in terms of prestige and rewards.
But obviously this can’t happen, because too much of the PvP playerbase feels entitled to play a team game all by themselves, and play team content in an MMO without having to group up.
This is why Ranked/Leagues should be 5 man premade only (encouraging a lively PUG scene, as well as helping to bridge the immense gap between actual teams and everyone else), and there should be a soloqueue (literally, SOLO) with some rewards that are a step up above Unranked, but below Ranked in terms of prestige and rewards.
But obviously this can’t happen, because too much of the PvP playerbase feels entitled to play a team game all by themselves, and play team content in an MMO without having to group up.
I don’t think that would be a good idea. While it is obviously a team game, sometimes I just want to jump into ranked and do with whatever teammates I get. This doesn’t mean there’s not going to be any communication/teamwork.
Forcing ranked to be 5man premade only would turn away even more players of the already extremely small (ranked) pvp playerbase, which is also the reason they removed SoloQ in the first place. They can’t afford splitting gamemodes further than this or even think about adding restrictions such as one per class in each team because the queue times would be even more horrendous than they already are.
if its difficult for you to even form a 5 man dependable team urself, then you probably shouldnt promote a 5v5 only mode. No one wants weak/downer players on their team so the weaker playerbase will find it difficult to form a team with stronger players.
When weak random players form a premade it might as well be a solo que ending up with bad players on their team if they dont know what to do after they form a party.