oldradagast, on 29 December 2015 - 07:35 AM, said:
For the billionth time: complaints about 12-mans in CW are NOT about the teams themselves (though some of them act like arrogant jerks, but that is a different topic), but about the idiocy of a game mode that pits full, practiced teams against piles of randomly selected PUG's, casuals, and occasional small teams. That laughably stupid lack of any real match-making is the problem. Everyone with the slightest understanding of what makes a game fun (other than "stomping stupid noobs") understands this problem, and yet every time it is brought up, we get a bunch of people playing intentionally stupid while trying to rephrase the valid complaints into "you just don't like teams."
I'm sick of this idiocy - imagine if the NFL consisted of totally random team selection and creation, where one week's big game might be a pair of practiced teams facing each other, while the next week we'd get to watch a pro-team stomp a few dozen people picked from the stands at random. It would be laughable and the game wouldn't last a season with that level of stupid match-making. And yet we have people standing around here, all herp-a-derping while defending the same type of crap in CW with moron-level match-making. Unreal... but if this problem were fixed, the seal-clubbing stomps would end, and then the ego-junkies wouldn't get their worthless "a winner is you!" trophies.
Illogical argument at best.
You're missing one big glaring factor for your football comparison: Each football team signs up on an official sign-up sheet that states that they may be matched against professional teams.
I joined Kurita to do solo CW, and hoooo boy what a mistake that was. Why? Because Kurita pugs almost NEVER go on the attack. A few 12mans in Kurita might be on the attack, but if I join one of the attack planets, I'm almost guaranteed to NEVER get a game. I'll use faction chat to try and get more players to join me, yet none come.
Where are all the Kurita pugs you may ask? Well, they're all hopping on the defense against Jade Falcon, stacking the defend teams 3-4 deep with nothing but solo players, against the one faction that is swarming with competent premades like KCom, Lord, and EmP.
It's either complete ignorance, or masochism, but regardless of which one it is, solo pugs in CW don't seem to be doing a whole lot to help themselves. They ignore the warning about faction play, they ignore the faction chat asking for more players to go on the attack, they ignore the advice on the forums for how to minimize the chances of running into a premade, etc. They ignore literally EVERYTHING that would help them find more balanced matches, choosing instead to mindlessly continue defending a planet that has the largest number of competent premades attacking them. Then they come here, and complain about premade vs. pug matches.
It's completely idiotic, and the very definition of insanity.