remove premading in ranked games
nuff said, it will remove account boosting as well
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@RevMainPls I watch a lot of streamers....nicewigg, rogue, jankz, shiv etc. And their ranked queue times stretch 10+ minutes a lot. It happens more when they lose early on because now they have to wait for others to lose to get back in the queue. This is one of the reasons they made masters and diamond easier to reach and increased the number of preds.
'Team Based Game'
Sure, by marketing, but when playing with the public, it's mostly a play alone game. People SAY they want 'team play' but they MEAN, 'Do what I want you to do when I want you and tell you to do it!"
If you removed premades, then you would literally have none team play at all. You can look to Overwatch to see what kind of disaster that turned out to be, with forced character roles and other stupid mechanics to try to force people to 'work as a team' rather than simply giving them incentives enough to.
Apex Legends does not incentivize public team play. In fact, it favors ignoring your public team mates. Only premade teams act like teams, mostly also and not always. Sure, I get there's a difference between a server with premades and servers without, the premades have a big advantage.
Still, you'd have a massive population drop if you forced only premades, so the best option is to make sure you have different server games. One with only premade teams, and the other with only public teams. I'm not sure that's feasible, but then at least you'd have a team marketed game with premade teams facing premade teams, and then a bunch of people running around no longer buying into a marketing illusion and understanding what it is really all about when you are playing in public.
@KelRiever I hear you, but do not agree.
Do you play as a team player, when playing with Randoms?
Do you have people you 3 stack with and play as a team?
Do you solo Q and just forget about the other two Players?
Or do you solo Q with the no fill option?
The discussion is/was not about public games but rather Ranked games.
No one suggested forced premade teams however for a team based game if you are going to play with Randoms one would have to find a middle ground to play as a team.
I have had some of my most fun games (not necessarily the best games) playing as a team with 2 Randoms quite often.
If premade teams (playing with friends) was no longer possible the game would no longer be worth it in my opinion.
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