Tiy0s, on 17 August 2024 - 06:12 AM, said:
So that was a lot of words. I guess the question is where we go from here?
It is my belief that, when properly tuned, 8v8 will be better for MWO than 12v12. To put some conspiracy theories to rest, this was not some test to see how much the community likes 8v8. It was just a fun little event on a whim. Both 8v8 and 12v12 have their drawbacks, but I believe 8v8 would lead to a net benefit for the game if done properly.
Don’t sound the trumpet yet Gabriel, apocalypse isn’t here. I’m just listing my thoughts aloud.
Group and solo queues being merged(colloquially known as soup queue) is here to stay, that’s not changing. If we go to 8v8 groups would have to be limited to 3, but that’s not going away.
As it is now, a 4-man premade is 33% of a 12-man team and they often have a decisive influence over the result of a match.
A 3-man premade in a 8-man team would be 37%, i.e. the premades would be actually even stronger than they are now and casual solo players would be even more irrelevant than they are now.
Tiy0s, on 17 August 2024 - 06:12 AM, said:
Maybe we’ll see more 8v8 down the road, maybe we won’t. If we do, I’m confident that we can get it right with more experimentation. If 8v8 one day becomes the norm, I will personally make sure there are plenty of 12v12 event queues with massive groups enabled. Something like max groups of 6 or 8.
So the casual solo players would have the choice of either being farmed in your 8v8 Quick Play, where the premades will be even stronger than they are now, or the casual solo players could play a 12v12 Event queue once a month, where 8-man premade would be 66% of a team. Casual solo players would be just a hapless cannon fodder in such games.
Tiy0s, on 17 August 2024 - 06:12 AM, said:
Like almost everything in a live service game, not everything is known at the start. A lot of it comes from testing and listening to feedback. So thanks everyone for giving your feedback here and elsewhere, I am reading it all.
MWO players gave PGI their feedback in the PGI's official poll. The result of that voting was that MWO players
refused the switch to 8v8.