Guild Wars 2

XScott.1940:

- I would like to be able to join games with a friend on my side. I understand the aversion to premades, but there has to be a way to make this work.

I agree with you on other points, but this is what has kept away me from casual sPvP. I have two good friends I used to play wow’s BG and arena with and would like to play sPvP now, because I think that guild wars 2 has superior gameplay.

Right now we have the choice between 5p tournaments or casual solo hot join, there is no middle ground, and I think that is a mistake. 8v8 could easily support 2-3 players team without throwing team balance out of the window.

You should never segregate casual players from more competitive ones too much (if you want to make it in eSport), or casuals will loose interest and won’t watch tournaments.
For anyone not convinced, just take a look at Blizzard, and see how ladder anxiety is becoming a threat to Starcraft’s eSport, hence the new training mode in Heart of the Swarm.

Hi,

Could you consider adding an handy way to hot join a sPvP match in small groups (2-3 players) so that there is an alternative to either play alone casually or in a 5 player team competitively ?

I don’t think groups of 2 to 3 people will destroy the balance of the 8 players matches. (As a matter of fact, it’s not the case for lots of pvp games, even SMITE for example, that uses a 5v5 format) If you disagree, can you specify why ?

Thank you.