Guild Wars 2

Why not add a queue to enforce balanced teams. This would be for both rated and unrated matches. And of course optional for custom arenas.

Basically for a 4v5 for example, add a queue for the last player until the other side has their 5th ready to play.

The team with 5 would get to pick who sits out so there’s no possibility to exploit team comp or anything.

I don’t understand why 4v5s are still allowed in a competitive game mode for rated. And for unrated matches it’s over half the games which is just an unsatisfying waste of time for both sides. Easy fix for broken game mode.

For solo queue, I agree completely.

For hot join, there will always be unbalanced teams due to the nature of the game mode. Some people play it will waiting for a queue to pop. Some play it to finish a daily. The change here is that it should be impossible to join the winning team when the numbers are even. In other words, if it is a 3v3 and red has 200 and blue has 150, the next player can either sit and spectate or can join blue. Joining red would not be an option.