My hard drive died on me and I’ve been busy with work stuff (couldn’t do home office ). After about 2 weeks of not logging in, I tried a few bgs thse last 2 days and it’s almost always the same thing, horde premade vs completely random alliance players.
It’s probably a symptom of faction population imbalance, too many alliance players for the system to always be able to start games w/o it being horde premades.
Ironically enough, even as a casual player, the Premades are driving me to queue Rated just for more fair games.
Last night I queued for a couple of EBGs, just tryin’ to get my daily win in. Every game was a Horde PuG vs. Alliance Premade. Every game.
Eventually, I put on some shades, lit one up, and said, “F it.” Queued Shuffle. At least if I lose in Shuffle, it’s because I played poorly and not because I was jumped by 10 sweaty, emote-spamming nerds who - even in a 1v2 - wouldn’t be able to fight their way out of a wet paper bag.
IF Premades were taken out of the game… The SOLO bracket High end players, some would still be up there in rating if not higher, others however, they may be joining casual land… Gallywix Platinum card ratings club lol. Dont worry, there is always ole 2s n 3s lol.
Who would suffer are the .01% (Cabal) and their websites who sell the ratings, gold, and in game goods. Kinda like the Stonks market situation in NA right now, Boomers mad they losing money, when most young people say WAA! they dont care. They been getting done over for decades now trying to get ahead while Boomers say just work harder lol.
EU just banned Microtransaction in gaming, all over the gaming news atm, times are a changing!
I think it’s sad for people to join communities when they’re not genuine about playing epic BGs and just want to spy.
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Also, people use the word “dodge” a lot and everyone’s used to seeing it, but the actual dodgers are the ones that play during off hours against the faction that has no premades running, therefore they run their premades vs. pugs. Typically alliance are those dodgers.