Balancing?

NAEast is the worst...no wonder we have no players...you're lucky enough to get 16 people and these clowns stomp the lobby dead.

@ToastedSarnieYes, the lobby balancing isn't optimal but I don't know how it would work better despite the possibility to split up  premade groups by force.
@asabaida, @Fiky39, Culverine and I were playing a few rounds in TT yesterday with the difference that we were not able to stomp the other team 🤣 It was fun though and I don't wanna be forced to split up due to lobby balance

I know a lot of us want to play with friends but groups like this can ruin things as it has in other games like this. They're going to have to enforce splitting groups like this up during matches or the community is only going to shrink (or stick to the free roam zones and Ops where they can avoid this stuff).

@GormeyI 100% agree. If having fun means to ruin everybody elses fun it's nothing more than being toxic. As @Iron_Guard8 mentions groups should be forced to split up if match results are that lopsided especially when it happens every round.
Another option would be to only verse premade groups in special lobbies. But it's unrealistic due to the lack of players in general.

@ippig agreed. If they had a larger playerbase I'd suggest the thing that World of Tanks did where they at least tried to split platoons (essentially groups of friends) among the 2 sides as evenly as possible. This still backfired at times as a platoon of a top clan would be against a team of noobs but at least they tried to do this.

We did get split sometimes in GW1 and 2 when a couple of us played together, but it was pretty rare. I'm not a huge fan of forcing people to split their groups but if it helps the game in the long run then it needs to be done.

Edit: I read my post and it may not be 100% clear. WoT would take the players currently looking for game (and based on vehicle tiers) and try to put an equal number of platooned players on both sides. For example if a bunch were playing tier5 and they had 2 platoons of 3 and 3 of 2, they would likely put the 2 big teams on one side and the 3 smaller ones on the other side. It didn't guarantee balance of course as player skills could vary wildly here, but it was an attempt to avoid pub stomps, but they certainly still happened.

@Gormey  a few days ago, BfN wouldn't let me login (for a few hours; it remedied itself later) and I wanted to check another EA/PvZ server so I turned on GW1.  I came into a lobby with 7 kids on one team and 3 on the other.  It was BRUTAL.

I found the few guys on the other team that were being server bullies and every time I had them dead, they'd respawn and (collectively) regroup/attack/target me.  It was insane.  I finally got the best of them (23 -28 frags during losing matches with their tops hitting 10 - 15) but it was brutal, nonetheless.

This post reminded me of how long team stacking/balancing has been an issue in the series:

a few seconds later (literally):