8v8 Discussion Thread

I know I am late to the party but still i would like to share my opinion on this topic. First of all I would like to say that I am not a fan of this change. In my opinion the gamemode itself became less chaotic witch is a bad thing. Since there are less players you wont be able to earn as much xp as before. The thing with pvz gw or bnf is that the more players you have in the game the more thrilling it gets because there is just more going on the map. More Vanquishes, assits etc. If I wanted to play something less chaotic I would jump into Mix mode or Battle Arena. This change takes the fun out of it. The gameode is still ok but nowhere near the original. However the biggest and most annoying problem that only grew stronger with this update is the matchmaking system. And by that I mean after most of my games I have to go back to the Giddy park and search for another game because like half of my lobby  left and no new players are being put into my lobby. I also love when we play like 3 vs 6 and no players are joining in so I leave to find fuller lobby but I get put into the same lobby. So I think to myself ok when I was put in here again it means that it is going to put more players in but no it almost never does. The matchmaking was not great even in 12v12 but now it is garbage. And the thing is in 12v12 when you have like 10v8 and no more players are joining in there is at least chance that you can do something about it but when you have dead lobby in 8v8 lets say 6v4 there is very little you cen do. And the reality is that even in 12v12 you never really get full lobby of 24 people. On average i would say that those games are always missing at least 4 people. Of course the longer the game is the more players join in assuming the lobby is not dead. The same goes for 8v8 only that you feel the missing players even more. Also someone mentioned that the skill levels of the Teams are more imbalanced now. I find that there are much more of those games when our team is spawn camping the other or vice versa. The last thing I want to mention is that those short inbetween breaks between games when you can look at your score or whatever are really short which is a good thing but it creates this problem when people are not quick enough to leave the game before the new one starts. So they leave the new game that just started which creates these scenarios of 6v2 etc. I would much rather wait 30 seconds how it was in GW2 then to only find out that the other team has no players.

PS: Also the leaderboard and rank plates look really cheap in comparison to GW and GW2 just saying :D