After returning to the game and doing a complete run through all expansions etc we decided to go into pvp get our level up and play ranked to work towards armor/weapons/legendary armor etc aswell as do open world grinding.
Me and my 2 mates get to 20 and are ready to play ranked only to be told we cannot play together as the party size is max of 2. Why would this even be a thing. In my opinion if you want to queue solo that is your choice (meaning no offence to anyone doing so) so why is ANet allowing solo players to dictate how the game should be played. It has always been since day 1 a multiplayer game however they are in some terms removing multiplayer. Defeats the point of structured pvp, defeats the point of the game entirely where it encourages you to play with friends and guild members alike.
I understand the frustration with a full team of 5 coming in and completely destroying your team but likewise you can go into a game and completely destroy theirs. That is the game in my opinion you take the good with the bad, but to remove playing with your friends is beyond me and frankly is a complete waste of the game mode. Unranked is where it should be restricted as people are jumping into unranked for casual playing and not caring win or lose (obviously everyone wants to win but you get what im saying). There is nothing more frustrating than playing with an uncoordinated team in ranked as this is having a massive impacted on your leveling and pips for the chest.
Put a ticket in about this to only get a response from the customer support team to tell me that they are only customer support and they have no influence over this and that the only way to get this across is through the forum. Now from what I can see, the question was asked on the forum when they implemented the party max to 2 and yet no answer was given by the dev team as it seems a lot of the questions asked in the forum don't get answered. So lets see if this gets answer.
And as for the players go easy on the post I know you will all have your opinions on the matter, good and bad. All I ask before responding is to remember that it is a multiplayer game and yet the game mode prevents multiplayer. Regardless of feelings around balancing for solo queueing players, its still a multiplayer game.
Happy gaming to all :D
