Seriously haven't anyone noticed how players have changed with the "PUG" System in the last 2 years?
The skill level has gone down drastically, no one wants competition. Everything is determined by "LUCK" You can be the greatest player in the world, but the system will randomly put you on a bad team and you can do NOTHING about it. Its all LUCK based.
Havent you people had enough of this PUG mini? It isn't helping ANYONE but the "lucky" ones who get on good team.
Just to list out few things PUG has brought us.
You have players that are Pure "flag bots" or "objective bots" Who tunnel vision to purely just flags and objective. This player usually will run off by themselves and avoid pvp much as possible just for the sake of flags. Usually this the type of player causing the rest of the team to be down 1.
Then you have the "KD whore" These are the players who sits in stealth entire match, never stick with group and would only come out stealth to get a kill. "Talir, Kozak, rangers etc" They'd instantly leave mini before their death. (Heads up this is the definition of KD whore, chasing kills is NOT it)
Follow up by the player that Quits the match or sits in stealth because he/she is not satisfied or sees no hope of winning. Usually this happens after opponent team Captures 1 flag. This player(s) will cry and moan about no team work and sit out entire match because he/she cannot get a mini game token.
After all of that,
The rest of the team, you have ZERO communication and absolutely ZERO team play. No Focus targets, No CC for teammates, No basic concept of group pvp. WHY? None of these people have ever played in organized pvp or competitively. There is no reason to communicate, to get better, to focus targets, to cc for teammates. There is no MOTIVE, All they had to do is "Sit in stealth, leave match and wait for the Luck of the draw that puts them In the winning team"
Honestly majority of players signing up to mini game did not do it for "PVP" they are doing it for the tokens, the gear. It is understandable that a fresh pvp 1 wants to focus on objective so he/she can get geared up to compete ( This is purely funcom's fault) But what about the pvp 5+ players who PURELY focus on flags/objectives? They leave their teammates out in the dust and just being completely uselsss, most of the time these are the players that gets a team farmed on the pad.
Funcom Let us Sign up with friends. PUG mini is actually killing the pvp. IT is NOT working at all. Everything is luck based. It makes no god damn sense to not be allowed to pvp with your friends. THis is the ONLY multiplayer game that does not allow you to paly with your friends.
(OH BUT YOU HAVE OPEN WORLD PVP)
Open world pvp you say? Look how that turned out for Wildlands. Majority of players stands by the guards, lowbies trying their best to give you murder points. And 90% the time is a lag fest why? Because funcom down graded their server so bad it no longer can handle even the slightest surge in mass pvp.
Open world is nearly out of the question, you'd need an absolutely beast machine just to run open world at a stable frame.
I remember back in 2008, I had an 8800gt and a dual core, I was able to run the game at medium-high setting and pvp FINE with 40+ latency IN MASS pvp.
Why 6 years later Im now with GTX 770, 4770 3.5Ghz i7 cpu And im getting 20fps in LOW settings in wildlands when there are more than 5 players...
Come on FC you can do better than that.
But in the end, let us sign up with friends. I am sure majority of pvpers would want this too.